he’s got nothing to worry about. when they crash down to $1, trump will call it a “matter of national security” or some shit, and then bail them out, courtesy of your tax dollars and my tax dollars. because they actually want the AIs for their police state surveillance
it took me forever to work up the gumption to ditch the thing i’d been using for decades too-- as someone who knew zero about linux (and still don’t know much more than zero), seeing other people in similar situations make that switch definitely helped me to take the leap of faith. now windows is gone and i’m never looking back
i’m not understanding what you’re saying. “Still doable and not a loss”??
sounds like something AI would say
i don’t think it’s emphasized enough that AI isn’t just making up bogus citations with nonexistent books and articles, but increasingly actual articles and other sources are completely AI generated too. so a reference to a source might be “real,” but the source itself is complete AI slop bullshit
the actual danger of it all should be apparent, especially in any field related to health science research
and of course these fake papers are then used to further train AI, causing factually wrong information to spread even more
you can pretty much just read the headlines:
https://www.npr.org/2006/10/12/6252448/hp-spying-scandal-offers-window-into-board-battles
https://www.pcmag.com/news/hp-accused-of-quietly-installing-spyware-on-windows-pcs
https://www.cio.com/article/260587/hp-spying-scandal-a-timeline.html
this is all ignoring their bricking of their own printers when you try to use 3rd party ink, though widespread enshittification is making that particular bullshit more common among different brands
i’m deeply skeptical of someone having done that much “research” and concluding that HP has to be the best option for any kind of hardware
given M$'s heinous bullshit tactics lately, i wouldn’t put it past them to pay some tech writer to take a linux build to some big public event, deliberately fuck it up, windows to the rescue, and then write an article about why linux isn’t just unstable, but downright hazardous to your job
for my own part, everything i’ve had to put up with as a linuxnoob has been 100% worth the result of flushing windows down the shitter where it belongs.
i was just saying you can pay $X now, or $X+whoknowshowmuch later.
it is true that the price of tech has historically gone down as technology advances, however, right now AI demands all the supply, which providers are only too happy to provide for. supply down = demand up = price up
at the end of the day it makes absolute zero difference to me whether you buy anything or not. do you
the best time to buy anything tech was 12 months ago. the second best time is right now, before prices get even worse, which they 100% will
now i just need a 300TB hard drive…
you exist. and i can’t help but notice that you don’t feel bad enough about that
philosophers at the top kinda makes sense
sounds like something a philosopher would say
all jokes aside, the whole argument crumbles to dust when you consider that there’s a “philosopher” who can defend pretty much anything, because it all basically goes back to things that can only be matter of opinion, e.g. dualism vs. non-dualism. neither of those polar opposites are proven “right or wrong,” and neither one can be. in the end, whoever uses their rhetoric most effectively comes out on top. “philosopher” or not. case in point: fucking lying moron convicted felon rapist con man trump
power is always about people, and who’s able to control them.
how do i block every post from a .ml user?
+1
also can’t go wrong with spaceballs
robocop, OG 80’s version
yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me
sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve
edit: lemmy helps too
don’t look at that before, during, or after eating thanksgiving
yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash
garbage in, garbage out and back in again