I had two fitbit trackers before getting Sense, and honestly, I keep it on life support, buying replacement 3rd party straps and charging cables.

When it inevitably dies, I’d move on. I never found a use for Google assistant, it can’t even set my google maps navigation properly, can’t set a reminder.

The only thing it ever did of value to me is 5 minutes of asking it for a joke.

The alligators were very accomodating.

it’s possible it would run under wine. And it’s C, so unless it relies on something specific to windows I bet it’ll get forked and ported.

You zap the metal until it liquid.

TIL Sonnet 3.7 is worse than 3.5. How come?

Any Firefox-based browser can use “Tree style tabs” it’s vertical tabs from the time before they were cool. Very customizable.

I just don’t ascribe philosophical reasoning and mythical powers to models, just as I don’t ascribe physical prowess to train models, because they emulate real trains.

Half of the reason LLMs are the menace they are is the whole “whoa ChatGPT is so smart” common mentality. They are not, they model based on statistics, there is no reasoning, just a bunch of if statements. Very expensive and, yes, mathematically interesting if statements.

I also think it stiffles actual progress, having everyone jump on the LLM bandwagon and draining resources when we need them most to survive. In my opinion, it’s a dead end and wont result in AGI, or anything effectively productive.

If I could think I’d be so mad right now.

Statistical models are not intelligence, Artificial or otherwise, and should have no rights.

FYI all ubiquity aps I ever bought broke within 5 years. Ymmv

This is so vague it could mean any behavour. God, I hate facists.

All of them at once!

One thing that keeps me really calm about obsidian is the plaintext database. I can live with a proprietary db if the code is foss and I can fudge my data out if I need to. If code and db are proprietary, I’m not putting my data there if I can help it.

I used my kindle for 10 years now, and I never bought one. I did buy ebooks 3rd party plenty.

I work with windows for over 10 years, and use Linux daily for private stuff, including being a nerd and a gamer, and some side gigs for at least 8.

If something is weird, doesn’t work or breaks in Linux, I can usually find the culprit and help fast. It’s out there or it’s so obscure I need to puzzle it myself.

If something like that happens on windows, pray someone already had that issue or Microsoft decided to write an article about it, because nobody will help, and most search results point to bot responses about scf scannow, dism at best, and straight up reseting your system to factory defaults.

Point being, I like figuring out stuff in Linux, and I dread opaque bullshit Microsoft gets away with.

Even your network drive example, in my experience is a coin toss. So many variables, hidden settings, weird registry keys with no documentation. Yeah.

Most commands are the same. They recommend just aliasing docker to podman so you can keep using your old commands.

I keep mine in a closet with other things I’m too attached to throw out.

And there’s people that drive as fast as they think they can no matter the limit.

The geopolitical “press alt+f4 for free cs money”

Oh hey that’s awesome, maybe I’ll put my RX460 back into the jellyfin VM for transcoding. I need to migrate that box anyway.