Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
We use AWS at work, and the “cutting costs” thing seems largely a way to further lock-in customers. They want you to build around their tools so the switching cost is high enough to not be worthwhile. Then again, I don’t work directly with billing (I’m a SWE, not in OPs), but what I’ve seen looks a lot higher than I would’ve guessed.
Idk, maybe it’s reasonable at scale, but it seems to get really expensive really fast.
I got an ASRock x370 board and it had fewer problems than other first gen Ryzen boards, was one of the first to support 5000 series CPUs, and it’s still working well in my NAS with no dead ports or anything.
They used to be one of the lowest quality boards, but they’ve earned my respect. My current motherboard (b550) is also ASRock and the only problem I had was the WiFi chip sucking on Linux (known issue, I replaced just the WiFi module and everything is golden). My wife has a Gigabyte board and it had some minor issues.
So yeah, ASRock is on my good list for now.
It’s a great article, actually click through and read it if you haven’t already.
My favorite example of truly effortless communication is a memory I have of my grandparents. At the breakfast table, my grandmother never had to ask for the butter – my grandfather always seemed to pass it to her automatically, because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating telepathically.
That is the type of relationship I want to have with my computer!
The author’s point is that natural language is a slow way to communicate, and it’s not even our preferred way, so why are we pushing so hard for it?
One of the best productivity tools for me is my CLI shell, which predicts what I’m about to type based on what I’ve done in the past. There’s no AI here, just simple history search. It turns out i do the same thing a lot.
None of this is to say that LLMs aren’t great. I love LLMs. I use them all the time. In fact, I wrote this very essay with the help of an LLM.
The author argues that LLMs are an augmentation to existing tools, not a replacement. Just like the mouse didn’t replace the keyboard (my example), LLMs won’t replace existing workflows, it’ll merely help in the knowledge retrieval stage.
For this future to become an actual reality, AI needs to work at the OS level. It’s not meant to be an interface for a single tool, but an interface across tools.
This is where I partially disagree.
Yes, I think some level of AI makes sense at the OS layer, but its function should be to find the right tool, not to be a tool. For example, “open my budget” would know from context which file that is (family, company, client, etc), which program (GNUCash, Excel, or a URL in a browser), and then pass on context to the app-specific AI, which would know which part to open and be ready for context-relevant questions (is it payday? Was I just looking at concert tickets? Is someone’s birthday coming up?).
But even then, the usefulness of a system-wide AI is pretty limited. Most people can efficiently navigate to what they want. Indexes work well to find files (and full text search is feasible), file extensions work well to open the right application, and applications remembering what they were last doing is usually sufficient.
So I see it as more of an accessibility feature at the system level instead of an actual, useful system in itself. However, I really like the idea of different models passing context in some standard way to each other so I can seamlessly move between apps.
But I absolutely agree with the main point here: AI should be seen as an add-on, not a replacement.
Also depends on the storage medium (SD? SSD?), assuming there’s no transcoding.
rectal mucosa… stronger smell
Someone get that man an enema, for science.
Same. I still have my previous phone, but I don’t use it anymore because it’s insecure, not because it’s broken. I’m still using a laptop that’s even older precisely because it gets security updates since it runs Linux.
I’d absolutely lay a premium for longer support and it’s a large part of why I got a Pixel this time around, they advertise 7 years of support and I hope to hold them to that.
The thing is, I don’t really care about Android apps, and honestly supporting them probably adds a bunch of limitations since they have a lot of expectations on the system.
I just want an immutable base system w/ flatpaks, a basic dialer, a robust SMS/MMS app, Firefox, and good enough battery life (15 hours w/ moderate screen on time). Basically, openSUSE Aeon or Fedora Silverblue with phone-specific apps.
I’m happy to help port the various software I want to use, but I need the phone to work as a phone first.
Absolutely! The controls might suck and regular phone features might be iffy, but you could totally run the Java version of Minecraft if you wanted. No guarantees about performance though.
And we’ll keep saying it until we get there.
Precisely.
I’m no fan of random billionaires, but I’m a huge fan of privacy.
And you could probably get it with a subpeona or FOIA request if you really need it. This just stops random people from snooping.
It’s also less interesting.
Using regular Linux means you can do a ton of stuff you currently can’t on Android:
Android is already FOSS, and you can get phones with minimal stuff on top of the FOSS core. That’s cool I guess, and I use one such distro (GrapheneOS), but it’s still Android at the end of the day. I want something different, but I still want basic phone stuff to work (calls, SMS, MMS, camera, etc).
I’m okay with an older phone, I just want basic features to work consistently and well. Maybe support a newer phone every 5 years or so to provide an upgrade path.
Basically, I’m okay with the GrapheneOS strategy of sticking to one product line.
Hmm, I seem to recall Trump being a pedophile.
Yeah, I want smart switches w/ manual override, not smart bulbs. I can maybe see those smart bulbs for accent lighting or something, but definitely not for the majority of the lights.
I just let it cool and then double-bag it. I get a ton of extra plastic bags from stores, so I hold on to them to reuse as garbage bags.
Or put it in another container you’re going to throw out anyway.
It’s not legal, they are required to take a report, but not required to prioritize investigating it. If they ever do that again, ask for their name and badge number (ideally on a business card so you can keep it), and file a complaint with the police department along with your criminal report.
Thanks for the motivation to make sure my backups (which are totally configured properly) are working. :)
Just make a different API prefix that’s secure and subject to change, and once the official clients are updated, deprecate the insecure API (off by default).
That way you preserve backwards compatibility without forcing everyone to be insecure.
Just try mounting it, if you get bucked, try again.