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Honestly, I’ve kind of always wondered why they didn’t just do this. It’s always seemed like the obvious thing to me.

I mean, I hope it doesn’t work, because screw Google, but I’m still surprised it took them this long to try it.

I tried out Gentoo for a while, and just using binaries for the web browser and office suite made the compile times a complete non-issue. The problem I had that made me give it up was that when there is software you want that isn’t in the official repos there are a thousand different ways of getting it, and all of them suck. Overlays are supposed to be the solution for that, but man that experience was just awful.

I tried all kinds of things, but in the end all the options basically boiled down to risking breakage, maintaining my own packages, or not using emerge at all, which just feels like it’s defeating the whole purpose of being on Gentoo in the first place.

Nobody here is saying that ads are good. We’re saying this disingenuous fascist is only saying these things because he can’t make any money from ads. If he was making ad money he’d be saying exactly the opposite of all this. Fascists don’t have any morals but power for power’s sake. That’s what fascism IS.

Look, if you love declarative systems that’s cool. I’m genuinely happy for you that you have much better options now. That can only be good.

That being said, they only solve problems that I don’t have. I do not care even the tiniest amount about whether a system is declarative or not, and I’m definitely not going to go out of my way to seek them out. If you want to call that “out of touch” then so be it.

At this point I’m starting to think that if you want to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in the US the Global Foundries might be a better investment. At least they’ve already hit rock bottom.

Uh, yeah, that was the point I was making.

Would you rather they had used AI?

Authoritarianism is all about concentrating power around fewer people. That what authoritarianism IS. Giving more power to the least powerful people is always anti-authoritarian. Yes, there are always trade-offs, no they’re not always as obvious as this one, but more power to more people is never authoritarian.

Until someone figures out a better way of doing it that’s not a real answer. I’m not going to pay for every website that gets shared on every website I regularly visit. Even if I wanted to, I just don’t have that kind of money.

I don’t know how to fix this, but it is fundamentally broken.

Seriously? The old core i7 870 (not a typo) I have in my closet meets the requirements? Adding the watermark for CPUs older than that just seems mean-spirited.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like you once. Lemmy here is my nice little hole. If you think anything happening here is going to change the world you are delusional. Go somewhere with people who can and will do things.

They won’t. I fought for decades, and all I got for my troubles was a heart attack and a world that’s worse than when I started.

I’ve heard that one before. I’m rooting for you and all, but it ain’t really happening that way.

Well if the CEO of clouds says it, it must be true!

It literally does though. Stable doesn’t mean bug free. It means unchanging. That’s what the term “stable distro” actually means. That the software isn’t being updated except for security patches. When people say stable distro, that is what they are trying to communicate. That means the software will be old. That’s what stable actually means.

Uhh? Good for you?

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has it. The Fedora 40 beta has it. Its just a result of being bleeding edge. Arch doesn’t have exclusive rights to that.

Meanwhile I’m over here dual booting Mint and Artix. I like fun, bleeding edge hobby distros and reliable boring ones that do everything I really need completely reliably.

I know ad rates and metrics are heavily based around click through, but does it even actually matter? I mean, TV ads are big money expensive, and nobody has ever clicked on those. I guess if you’re advertising a shitty mobile game or something then it matters, but does McDonalds or whatever even want you to buy a hamburger before you watch a YouTube video? That doesn’t really make a lot of sense.

This just fundamentally doesn’t understand what artificial general intelligence means. It’s not a fancy way of saying “human but smarter”. That’s just wrong. It’s an artificial intelligence that’s good at a lot of different things. You know. General. Someday, if we live long enough, we will create an AI capable of figuring things out that it wasn’t designed for and we didn’t teach it. Maybe that will be tomorrow. Maybe it’s still centuries away. It’s actually really hard to figure out how long it will take us. Making a really good text generation algorithm doesn’t make the concept of learning more than one thing obsolete though. And predicting what text goes in a bar exam after being given a massive sample of bar exams isn’t the same thing as learning to be a lawyer.

Tech bros with more money than sense suing each other over terms they don’t understand is not a rational system to base research off of, and we should ignore them.