If it works for you, that’s great, for me it sits exactly where it makes zero sense to get. My PC is slightly more powerful so for gaming, it would be inferior. But it’s too expensive just for a HTPC. Something either much more powerful (that could also run local LLMs), or significantly cheaper, would make more sense for me. I’m now eyeing used miniPCs, but I’ll have to see if some of the cheap ones can handle 4k decoding.

Yeah, so the terminology used by the US right-wing media is so fucked that essentially liberal=communist= anyone to the left of Reagan, but ALSO, for fearmongering purposes, they’re all actually super left-wing extremists.

The only part of it that has taken hold outside of conservative bullshit circles is that the word “liberal” no longer means someone who loves the free market and now has more to do with social justice and even supporting universal healthcare is a “liberal” thing in the US because the socialism word is evil or whatever.

Parts of it have carried over to some EU countries too because at least here in Estonia, the far right looks to Trump and Fox News for their talking points these days (weird in a country with <30% religious people) and our liberals (actual liberals, the kind who want to cut services and reduce taxation) have been called socialists lmao

I’ve been terminally online for almost as long, but tbh the TV is good for background noise, or to watch something while you work, shitpost or play on your PC, situated so you can see the TV

I have a cheapo Samsung 4K TV from 2019 and it does have one in the mic for sure, not sure about the TV itself. I don’t let the TV connect to the internet though. I did initially because convenience, but now I have an Android TV thingy. Which itself is not perfect, but I don’t live alone, having an HTPC with a mouse and keyboard would be a hassle. Aaaand upon writing this I realized HDMI-CEC is a thing and googled it and Plasma Bigscreen can support it and… shit I need a miniPC now

I agree. Making unsubstantiated claims is the best way to get your real concerns dismissed as conspiracy theories.

Welllllll, bike lanes ARE DEI! They’re inclusive of people who don’t have cars.

I don’t think you could explain the ideas behind DEI to a conservative though.

Roundabouts suck ass at peak traffic times because you can get stuck behind an endless convoy if you’re coming from the wrong direction.

Green waves mean the people on the main road don’t all have to slow down and waste a bunch of fuel (and cause more emissions), but the people on adjoining streets still have a chance to get onto the road they need to get on.

And of course if you don’t do proper green wave planning, people get the choice of speeding or waiting at every red. The worst possible option. But if you already have the lights, it’s much cheaper to adjust the cycles properly than it is to install tons of roundabouts.

Glass boxes at that. They’re in a freaking greenhouse

Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.

And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.

Yeah still not going to happen tbh, everyone’s gonna chicken out when it comes to nuking a country that has its own nukes

You may have it cached or they might be blocking it regionally

It’s something that has been said for years now about smart TVs in general not just LG, but I haven’t been able to find any conclusive evidence that it’s happening… And obviously it can’t be proven that it’s NOT happening.

I suspect the Spetznaz have either been found not as capable as once thought, or largely used up as a resource already

Something something potato joke that everyone’s heard a million times

Heavy disagree on that. Much bigger issue is trucks whose headlights are too high (in north america anyway, we don’t have many of those in Europe except for lorries that don’t drive at night that much). LEDs and HIDs, by law, are installed inside projectors that cut off the beam and low beams are pointed down… from the factory, anyway. There’s quite literally no reason they should blind you except for being installed too high (trucks) or pointed too high (idiots or people whose headlight leveling systems are not calibrated, but stuff like that actually gets checked at annual inspection where I come from).

Old headlights with no projectors are worse than correctly aimed factory HIDs or LEDs because the light is all scattered (and they’re so shit that the driver’s more tempted to just keep the high beams on as long as possible)

Oh for sure, Trump would love to nuke Iran. I hope it doesn’t happen, but there’s no guarantees with him.

I’m just saying that the potential for fallback on Americans on US soil is… minimal.

9/11: never forget… that Trump’s building got bumped up in the height ranking, yay!

I’m a man and I don’t find it all that sexist.

It’s a fairly lighthearted stab at how young men often lack basic life skills. In a patriarchal society, we’ve perhaps grown too accustomed to the women in our lives doing a lot of things for us because “men bring home the bacon, women keep things in order at home”. Moms when we’re young, then girlfriends, wives.

Yes, your version would work too, but not as well IMO.

Well the part of the article that quotes the actual job listing:

Part of that role, compensated at between $180,000 and $230,000, will be to “identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends, including deep-dive research and OSINT collection on specific threats, actors, and events” (emphasis added).

But yeah, not a good look especially if you consider who decides what “terrorism” and “crime” mean in the US right now.

And now for a tangent I wrote that you can just skip if you’re not interested:

The part about specifically tracking AI activists was that they watch for anti-AI protests anywhere where their executives go so they know to stay out of the way, but… How do they not realize that they’ve brought this upon themselves? Market AI as “doing everyone’s job” and “super dangerous” and of course people will be pissed at you. Dario himself is the one constantly parroting how the next Claude model is so dangerous it needs to be kept in adamantium chains and whatnot. Like your industry is already pissing people off with the data centers and the cost of computer parts, why you gotta tell everyone you’re working to put us all out of jobs?

Jfc I’m a software engineer with no marketing or PR experience and I think even I could do better PR than all these companies supposedly worth billions. If OpenAI is already farming outrage, just position yourself as the more responsible alternative and you’ll still get sales without your execs needing to fear for your lives… Occasionally release a smaller, less capable version of Claude as open weight to win mindshare among developers, the people actually burning tons of tokens right now. Like Alibaba does with Qwen, just don’t release the full size model like Alibaba does if you’re afraid people are going to run it in competition with you.

Know someone who had that from a psychiatrist regarding depression. That psychiatrist did not receive a second visit lol

(okay it was less about fertility and more “well you’re a woman so actually you need to fulfill your true purpose of having children to be happy”)