The source for the information in this article is a translated interview with a representative from Anatel, our local brazilian telecommunications regulator. Being brazilian, I can confidently say this means absolutely nothing, you can safely ignore this article, and the representative himself probably does not understand half of the words he used.
It’s hard to even mention an entity as completely inadequate at their own job than Anatel.
If we are so extremely focused on making sure money gets used, could we first deal with the people hoarding most of it?
I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.
My brother have you been in a deep slumber for the past two years? Windows is filled with AI, so is Microsoft Office, Google search results, Gmail and Docs, the Android assistant was replaced by Gemini, Canva is filled with AI, all Adobe products have AI image generation, Samsung’s S24 line is exactly the same as the S23 but with AI slapped in, you go to a subway station and half of the ads are made with AI with atrocious teeth, fast food drive thru machines are now AI, pretty much any online customer support is an embedded version of ChatGPT. Entire news sites and blogs have the posts generated by AI - things got so bad YouTube videos with millions of views in the true crime genre were telling fake stories created by AI, with images and narration generated by AI, and the comments were mostly AI. LinkedIn is also pretty much entirely ran by ChatGPT, even the profile pictures are using these “pay 5 bucks and upload a picture from your webcam and we’ll generate a photo of you wearing a suit in a corporate background” services.
And don’t get me started on Reddit, if you mention ANY software now you get about 10 immediate replies from bots that say some generic thing like “That’s a great question, I like using insert website AI for this as it works really well and is super affordable!”.
You’re either extremely bad at noticing AI usage - in which case god bless your soul but for the love of all that’s holy please start trying to recognize it - or you haven’t been online in a long time.
You’re correct, and that’s why sometimes they work really well and sometimes they make the problem much worse and profoundly annoy the plumber you’ll eventually call to fix the issue.
A strong base + lipids stuck together in a pipe means a solid block of soap after a while, sometimes too big and clogged to be effectively rinsed with water, meaning you just made the blockage worse.
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Yep! Okular is amazing, and it’s available on Windows too. Install it for someone and they’ll never bother you again about PDFs or EPUB documents, it’s performant and everything works: printing, resizing, selecting text, searching, signing, adding comments. Never worry about paid PDF software or shady slow apps that keep trying to gatekeep features.
Honestly, there isn’t much to it when setting up Linux for elderly people - in fact, I find it less troublesome than setting it up for a teenager.
Most often the issues regular users face with Linux are related to installing packages from external sources or broken updates. Elderly people tend to not do that.
Set up a stable distro like Debian, Linux Mint or Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma or Cinnamon, install LibreOffice, Okular and a browser with strong ad blocking, and any other applications you think they might need. Enable a simple firewall, hide the root / folder from the file browser’s sidebar, and you’re done. Perhaps set up scaling to make everything bigger on their monitors, disable mouse acceleration and set the speed slightly slower than usual.
I wouldn’t bother with immutable distros, Flatpaks are nice and all until permissions turn using a simple app a confusing chore with broken interactions.
The Coca-Cola thing is just a widespread myth. Red was already used for Santa and Christmas in general before Coca-Cola’s ads.
Usually the Redditors wear the fedora without knowing how to pair it correctly with the rest of their outfits, so don’t worry, if you wear a nice attire and a fedora people won’t get you confused with the guy wearing an ahegao t-shirt two sizes too small and cargo shorts.
Even though the myth is quite prevalent, the red and white color scheme for Santa is not related to Coca-Cola.
A massive amount of this world’s plastic waste is related to Coca-Cola, though.
I don’t disagree, but it’s pretty weird that Americans always try shifting the blame or motivation around rather than admitting their own questionable behavior.
US being authoritarian? “Must be related to them Russians!”
Cats and kidney disease is a combination that unfortunately is way too common. I’m happy to hear he had a loving caring owner and lived many years, sorry to hear about his passing but I’m sure he had a great life.
I like sharing this little nugget recipe around just because it’s very cheap, and healthy for children, pets and to be fair us adults too, I like nuggets haha.
I don’t think the US threatening to take over other countries is somehow related to Russian imperialism.
It’s quite literally the same old US imperialism that has always existed, only less sugar coated.
Cooked chicken breasts with a little bit of egg whites on a food processor or blender (use water if needed) will result in a paste that can be nugget-shaped and cooked.
Muuuuuch healthier for your cats, and for you too. For the cat, include some source of fat to make it more appealing.
There’s a difference between tech geeks and tech bros.
The tech bro is selling you NFT web 3.0 AR experiences, the tech geek might be learning Docker to self host a Lemmy instance, not because he needs to, but because it’s fun.
Both have always existed: one was selling you some horrendous domain during the .com bubble, a plot of land on Second Life or even a perfect marriage based on a secret algorithm running on his Commodore 64, the other was busy playing muds and learning how to make free calls by ringing weird tones into a public telephone.
You’re very optimist if you expect ketchup to have any hint of tomatoes if regulations didn’t exist.
It would be tap water, sugar and red food colouring.
We know they do, actually.
All US companies provide the NSA with backdoors. All modern AMD and Intel CPUs have the ability to run remote code signed by their manufacturer and snoop into memory.
Put the two things together and now you know.
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Apart from all the other benefits, one underrated feature of SteamOS over Windows for a handheld is how GameScope handles windows:
On Microsoft Windows, if a game from 2008 boots a menu for configuration before the game itself, it’s usually this tiny Windows 98 square that you need pinpoint precision to maneuver. Worse still, if a launcher or firewall or whatever decides to pop up a window on top of your fullscreen game, the screen flashes three times, the mouse focus can attach itself to the wrong panel, and it can be super annoying.
On SteamOS, any window will scale to your full screen size - including those ancient ones. There will be no firewall or defender or whatever prompts, but if a game launcher does decide to spawn a new window, focus is not lost and changing between windows using the Steam button is simple, fast and the input will always work on the correct window.
It’s the absolute best way to turn PC software into a console experience. Windows solution to this same “how to make a PC feel like a console?” is adding yet another layer on top of everything with the GameBar, then make it inconsistent by changing the UI on gamepads, then make it even more inconsistent by changing your saved layout after every update. The GameBar fixes zero issues.