I love linux (longtime debian user here) but it definitely kinda sucks sometimes and I understand why there isn’t mass adoption. I feel odd talking to other linux users sometimes.

Canteens, animal skin water carriers, maybe water barrels for people with wagons. They had to plan routes with available water from springs and rivers frequently enough that they could carry enough with them in between sources.

The caramel is what makes them Milky! This is asinine!

If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.

I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.

The acceptable inaccurate result rate is 0%. I think that’s unachievable by LLM tech.

Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?

Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…

You’re talking about the generation that was literally in charge when American society was desegregated, when women were first allowed to have bank accounts, and when homosexuality was legalized, but go off.

We need a dating app that matches people based on their favorite/least favorite domestic chores

Depends, I think if they’re compostable it might be OK. Plastic or styrofoam would be horrific

My issue is that people have been saying “yeah, it’s a bit iffy, but it’ll get better” since 2022. It’s been four years. When is it actually gonna get better… enough?

Based on my understanding of the underlying tech, it will always have some level of making shit up. That, combined with the fact that all of these companies are spending more money running data centers than they have coming in, implies to me that this tech (at least in the current form of cloud-based chatbots) isn’t staying around long-term. No one is actually making money off of it except the hardware vendors. None of these AI companies are what my grandpa would’ve called a “going concern.” So I haven’t felt much desire to get into it.

I typically like new technology as it comes out, but I haven’t found LLM’s to be very impressive or inspiring.

I think this was my favorite scene in Barry Lyndon.

So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.

This would hold up better if I could get a non-shitty car made in the USA. Alas…

Truly, it would be difficult for the Chinese to do a worse job of making cars than the planned obsolescence crap we’ve come up with.

Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students

IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

Not particularly, but I imagine it was just weird as hell haha

Cheaper than a large popcorn at the theater 😂

Right? Imagine if all of the money spent “building out” the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life…

Imagine like four or five of us sitting in the front row of a crowded theater, chowing down on rotisserie chickens with our bare hands.

In retrospect I feel so bad for the people sitting near us 😂