Personally it’s because my fingers are already on “s” and “u”.

Really appreciate their takeaway from this. It’s unfortunate that AI is so popular right at the moment that a lot of people are trying to switch to Linux. They’re also still solidly within the honeymoon period so we’ll see how they feel in a month or two.

I was looking at point #3 from the article, which is more misleading in this area than point #5.

ZFS doesn’t require more RAM (or at least not meaningfully more), it just uses it if you have it. The RAM/ARC can be turned down in the configuration if you don’t want it to do that. I think on Linux other filesystems just use the native Linux RAM cache instead(?), so it’s basically the same thing as ARC, just less prominent? Also, doesn’t ZFS have RAIDZ expansion now? Actually a lot of this article smells funny… probably because they just happen to know more about BTRFS. Doesn’t BTRFS still have the RAID5/6 write hole? I wonder what sort of setup they’re using if they’re running it on a NAS.

After a certain point I think the more likely scenario is not that right-wingers keep “falling for it”, it’s that they have a singular motivation that they need to hide with other more socially acceptable excuses. When those excuses are cast aside whenever convenient, they get to appear outraged and tricked, all while their real goal continues chugging along. This also sets up a sock dummy for leftists to laugh at and pretend that progress is being made, while in fact nothing has changed. IDK, maybe there are people genuinely being convinced otherwise, but we’re about a decade into this nonsense and if someone didn’t exit the train about… a decade ago, it says almost everything we need to know about them.

I don’t think they’re all that separable. In the worst case, using a corporation’s LLM, as Linus is doing, is in essence voicing support for any negative effects in the strongest way possible. LLMs as a technology are fueled by stolen and scraped content, which is in turn fueled by other myriad issues, like datamining and privacy erosion. LLMs as a technology are also extremely inefficient and resource intensive; by writing yourself off as “just one person” doing it we’re ignoring the global effect of many “one persons” all consuming resources by using this technology.

I guess my point is that by using and helping to normalize LLM usage it’s playing right into the hands of all the previously mentioned consequences. Big tech doesn’t need you to use their specific brand of LLM, they just need you to become dependent on the idea of LLM assistance itself. Their endgoal is total adoption and mindshare, and they’re spending vast amounts of money in order to reach it. By refusing to support the technology no matter how “useful” it might be, we can prevent many of the inherent problems from getting worse, and prevent big tech from gaining even more leverage over slightly important things like “is the news real”.

Given his flogging of LLMs with respect to the kernel, I’m guessing Linus is of the opinion that vibe coding is okay to play around with for yourself and for your personal tools, but to use it professionally or to force others to interact with your own vibe coded junk is where the fault lies. This is a fairly mature take on the surface, but also I’m someone who really can’t get past the part where the inherent existence of LLMs is carving ruin through the world through their content theft, resource depletion, and class warfare… so like… I hope he pulls a little harder on those threads sometime instead of judging it purely based on its utility.

(Sorry I saw this cross the lemmy timeline and I found it interesting). I’m a gay guy, but I feel that the sentiment that “literally” everyone is bisexual is an obvious nonstarter and dumb. My bi friends that have said stuff like that before are surely shorthanding that they think that many “straight” people are bi to some degree, and while I think that’s closer to true, I also still think it’s dumb and reductive. Sexuality is complicated and not beholden to labels, yet I feel I’m 100% gay, no leeway, same as you probably feel about being lesbian - I have to imagine most straight people are the same.

It seems paradoxical that in the land of infinite sexuality permutations, these rigid labels are accurate, but maybe it would only seem unintuitive on the surface. Who’s to say that all these permutations are evenly distributed, or that they don’t clump up around the extremes, and so on. We’ll probably eventually know the actual statistics and maybe the science on how all this stuff works (maybe we already do - I’m dumb please forgive), but in the meantime people are just making some smudgy extrapolations based on their own experiences and the experiences of having many of their “straight” friends come out as bi when they’re like 40+ years old. Many “straight” people probably didn’t even know it was an option until they saw others doing so. I expect such extrapolations will die down pretty quickly after enough time has passed to make it clear the numbers aren’t continuing to grow. My guess is people are just genuinely excited about the prospect that many people can potentially join them in being LGBTQ+, and aren’t really thinking through the rest of the consequences.

Your last paragraph makes me think that the implication is that if you’re even 1% attracted to men then you’re being told you might as well date a man because that’s the “normal” or “easy” thing to do which is super messed up also. Above all, no one should be dictating anyone else’s sexuality, and if they do then you’ve learned a free lesson in who you can ignore.

Oh my god this is a food item that you can get in the game Small Saga (which I highly recommend to all you leftists/queers/others). I assumed it was real and some sort of well-known weird food but actually it’s real and bad on purpose? What a rollercoaster.

No no, surely there are just inherently bad people monsters out there and the only thing you can do is stamp them out without considering their circumstances or how you can help them. Also the people from six decades ago disagree about what the monsters look like but that’s probably unimportant.

Are you referring to Ghost QxR? They release all of their stuff on public trackers (e.g. 1337x). If you’re interested in x265 micro-encodes in general I’d recommend getting into at least HUNO and TL. There are other trackers that specialize in this area, but I’m not as familiar with them so can’t vouch as much.

On the surface yeah it sucks, but remember that they can charge any price they want at any time. The only reason they don’t is because it would hurt sales to price something higher than what people will pay. This scheme can only work if a substantial amount of people buy into the scheme, i.e. the sales they lose from regular people unwilling to pay abnormally-high prices is worth the secondary value of those that give up their data or get sucked in to the loyalty programs/etc.

I did say VTWAX (i.e total “world”), which diversifies out of a lot of problems like the Nikkei 225 and the potential collapse of America, but yes the math is not 100% gospel because at the end of the day anything can happen. Oftentimes, when calculating for a decades-long downfall of the entire world economy, the real answer is that if that happens everything is super fucked no matter what you planned for. All we can do is run simulations on historical data and get statistical significance for numbers we’re pretty comfortable with. If someone is actually pulling the trigger (i.e. retiring) for real on these numbers, I’d strongly suggest they get more familiar with why these numbers are what they are and are prepared to spend less when needed in a rare edge case scenario.

And as you said, for this thread in particular it’s just an estimation to ballpark how much capital realistically translates into what sort of wealth for someone’s life. IMO it’s very useful to be able to estimate how a layman’s capital generation/retirement works because most people just give up on finances immediately and have no concept of what wealth even means. Does someone ever really need 20 million dollars? I’d wager most people just aren’t sure. Now we know which people we can eat.

A simple estimation based on investing that amount of money into a total world stock market index fund (e.g. VTWAX) would be your yearly expenses divided by 3.25% (pretty conservative rate). The idea is that you withdraw 3.25% of your wealth from the stock market every year, and you’ll be able to withdraw that much purchasing power every year forever due to compound interest pushing the number up as you withdraw. Realistically if you’re not withdrawing the full amount blindly during market downturns you can kick that number up to 4% or even more, but 3.25-3.5% is basically impossible to go broke with, and most likely will quickly increase your nest egg to double/triple/etc in most universes.

So, if my expenses were 50k/year in post-tax money, I would need to invest ~1.5 million in order to withdraw 50k of “free” money per year forever, inflation-adjusted. You can do the rest of the math on how many post-tax expenses a normal person/family has and will quickly reach the conclusion that hey, a billion dollars is kinda fucking crazy.

I don’t think it’s that unwarranted to calculate that there’s a certain amount of money that you could realistically spend in a lifetime, and anything after that might as well be passed on to taxes and other charities/community initiatives to help everyone else.

It’s probably not something us common folk think about, but I’m certain that these people have thought about it at least once before, and their decision to keep the money for themselves is what makes them evil. There are no good billionaires because to reach that level you need to have made that decision long ago; the “good billionaires” are still millionaires.

I’m guessing this is more about preserving culture and art. I find it unlikely that this post would be someone’s first clue that they could listen to music for free, and listening to music out of this dump would be way harder than any other method.

I would only stream if it’s something you will enjoy doing regardless of success. I have some friends who have treated streaming like a job for years and their viewercounts are still pretty low (~20-50). Something like a youtube channel would be a helpful addition/alternative as well, so at least your content doesn’t continuously disappear into the void.

They’re even wearing a 100 gecs - Frog on the Floor shirt in their Rainbow Frogs talk. (better view here)

I would say the bare minimum is supporting their game client on Linux. They don’t need to be supporting project developments like Valve, but at least giving a token gesture that they recognize and are doing their part for this issue would be a nice gesture to the gamers who feel that anti-DRM/game preservation and a future with Linux are very correlated - regardless of Linux’s present-day state. By not having their game client available on Linux they have actively hindered the growth of Linux, and only through Valve’s support are we getting closer to that future (as well as the Linux community who have eventually made their own GOG clients due to the lack of official support).

They have been making a willful choice to not use any of their money to support Linux, which has been clear for many years by the GOG users overwhelmingly asking for Linux support to no avail. Their Linux game installers are the bare minimum of using someone else’s setup installer. I’m saying that if I’m going to be giving money to somebody, I’d rather give it to a company that’s doing more with it and seems to have a stronger belief in actually making the effort to achieve this future instead of waiting for it to happen by someone else’s hand.

I wish they’d align more at least on the Linux issue. What’s the use of preserving games for an OS that’s not going to last? It seems antithetical to their goals. Meanwhile, Wine and the rest of the Linux emulation components are also doing real work for preserving games by just making their original releases continue to work on modern operating systems through translation layers. My guess is GOG is waiting for gaming on Linux to be “worth it” before devoting their time and effort into it, which is basically just being a fair-weather friend and not actually helping.