southsamurai

Ngl, I would rock that on a backup device.

But a PowerpuffOS? Now that is a daily driver steeped in chemical X

Not sure how well it fits, but I tried astra based on a lemmy thread, and it’s pretty good so far

https://github.com/Boof2015/astra

WHY ARE PEOPLE SHOUTING AT YOU?!!

Originally because fuck windows 10

Since then it’s the sheer joy of it all. It’s just fucking cool that a bunch of people just get together and make something that benefits everyone, with dozens of forks that allow for freedom of choice.

Eh, when it comes down to it, my concern isn’t country of origin, per se.

Since my concern is about the company making an item, and how shitty they are, you’d have to dig up some serious numbers to show me that a given Chinese company is significantly worse than a company from elsewhere, or that there’s a proven issue where the hardware had known vulnerabilities introduced by virtue of being Chinese in origin.

Both of which are entirely possible. But until I’m actually shopping for the hardware, I have way too many other things that I have to pay attention to to give a flying fuck, so this hypothetical is a zero fucks given for me. China isn’t inherently worse than any other country. It’s got flaws and virtues as they all do. Buying shit from any given country is picking exactly what flaws you prefer.

It was my understanding that despite it being preorders, the devices were already under production. If that’s not the case, I tend to agree that it would have been damn nice to have an option, even if it came with limits on exactly what kind of hardware you could use in it. I can still understand why they wouldn’t, but I would also love to see the option if it isn’t going tp disrupt production the way I was talking.

That being said, I’m still not sure the market would be there in enough capacity to make it worth the small extra effort. I don’t mind cracking open a brand new device and fiddling with it, and I know plenty of fellow lemmizens that are equally (our even more) enthusiastic about technology that would as well. I’m just not confident that the kind of folks both willing and able to do it without fucking up would be worth even designing a second option on the website lol.

I dunno, maybe I’m not guesstimating the value of the option. My thinking is that for it to be useful, you’d have to already have the parts, or you wouldn’t be saving much money, which means you’re just doing it for fun, or to customize the exact specs of the ram and sdd. Not that that isn’t great! It is! I just didn’t (and don’t) see it as something that’s on the radar for this kind of device. Looking at prices, I didn’t find anything that would represent a reduced price tag new, unless I fucked up reading the specs (and I am dyslexic, so I do fuck up sometimes).

So, yeah, if my base assumptions are wrong, it could well be that it would be a net benefit to valve and users.

I disagree, though only in specific rather than in principle.

The point of a “box” like this is an out-the-door experience that anyone can jump into. Picking the hardware allows for tight integration with the planned power consumption, life span, etc.

So, just on that basis, it’s an iffy proposition.

But, user freedom and choice is always good, so I could see it being a good long term option.

Thing is, it would also require different stocks of boxes. You’d need to shift manufacturing lines to accommodate it, have different storage and shipping infrastructure in-house, and that runs into artificial scarcity issues where you run out of one or the other and can’t fulfill orders of that option, and they already knew they’d have trouble keeping up with demand even at the higher price points.

Kinda defeats the purpose

Nah, it isn’t. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.

It doesn’t have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I’m aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure

Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the “bubble” shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.

This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it’s the same concept.

This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that’s vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.

But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.

I hate to agree with a billionaire, but he’s right. Currently steam is not a monopoly at all, and hasn’t yet gotten so dominant that it amounts to one.

But they are the single most dominant outlet, and are in the first stages of having an ability to control the entire market in unfair ways to the point of crushing competition. It won’t be long before they do have that ability completely. And we can’t just trust the billionaire because he’s shown an unusual degree of user focused choices overall. Even if he’s perfect, he ain’t immortal, and as soon as he’s not in control, there will be fuckery

Dammit, now I’m at full chub

What really sucks is that the ps5 edge controller I have is maybe half as awesome, but damn near twice as expensive.

I don’t even play at my PC much any more, but I think ima shell out for one of these anyway

My dick; I fuck Linux so hard

It’s his dick, obviously

Yeah, that’s not how conversation works, my lemmite acquaintance. One isn’t required to slavishly pound away at the initial focus of a comment. It’s not only acceptable to work tangents and expand on sub-topics, it’s expected to some degree or another.

People seem to think that every interaction online is a debate. It isn’t. Me? I’m just drifting along, chilling, shooting the shit with other human beings.

In that spirit, why do you think “goodness” is either a singular thing that is the totality of a person, or that there aren’t gradations of it? Not all saints are of equal goodness, nor are all villains purely evil. In terms of the human condition, nobody is so completely single faceted that it’s useful to apply good/bad paradigms to the entirely of the person unless the entirety of their actions so heavily skew things that good or evil is such a large percentage that it’s moot that other aspects exist.

I think we can agree that there’s difference between someone like Trump and someone like bezos. Both absolutely horrible people overall, but the degree of horror is not the same.

As such, when you look at the bad of a given person, it has to be taken along with the good.

Now, I think we’d also agree that billionaires as a thing is a net evil so horrid as to need abolishment. But it doesn’t preclude individuals from being the same kind of mix that you and I are. See, I know I have the capacity for darkness and evil. I also know that I choose, even when darkness is lapping at the shores of my true self, to do the most good I can. I hope that the opposite is true for you, that your inner goodness is so great that only puddles of evil reside which are easily relegated to meaninglessness.

But people are never so purely good that they’re incapable of bad things. The same is true of even the most vile examples of humanity from history. In the worst cases, any good may have been accidental, but still.

The ruling class of the ultra wealthy should indeed be abolished. But it’s just silly to pretend that they aren’t human, and thus a spectrum of good and bad

Not really though

When you’re talking about hoarding wealth, the problem isn’t just different from hoarding money, it’s a deeper and more complicated problem.

Assets in the case of these assholes is ownership. If they just held onto cash, all they could do is buy shit, which isn’t really a problem.

What they own is vast amounts of the economy, land, and the labor of people.

They think they own the people as well as the labor and products of that labor. They do to a large extent.

When you start whittling down a tier list of which billionaires are worse than others, and there are layers of shittiness there; it’s about their impact and how they wield that wealth as power.

I’m not sure billionaires actually have billions of dollars just sitting in a bank account.

It’s usually assets that contribute to net worth, not actual cash

How the fuck did steam invent gambling for kids? That shit started back in Facebook games.

Familiar

So, mint with cinnamon

When I bought a laptop after self publishing my first book, I went with a thinkpad specifically because they handle linux so well. t480

That’s been a few years now, and it’s still running smooth, no issues at all, even with mint having been upgraded a few times.