I know that they are fine - but i haven’t had the need for color prints for ages now outside of 2 occasions where i needed like 5 copies each. For myself i prefer digital only either way. Just in case i really need something like return tickets a b&w printer is enough.

The B&W one costs under 100€, the cheapest brother color laser 300€; the 200€ difference should last decades in the print shop, and the toner cartridges are a lot cheaper for b&w only.

I must argue back, sadly. For someone like me who knows how to search the web for exactly the wording that is relevant for my issue, because i know how PCs in general work, how to scour through log files and how to formulate my search terms, Linux is fine, even if it has (still) some rough edges. (why the hell is there no graphical service manager installed on fedora per default for example? I know how to use the command line for this, others might not.)

If someone just want to use their PC for gaming with no issues at all, don’t want to research workarounds if you run into hitches or want to play current multiplayer titles, windows still has an edge (even if it’s a bit of an artificial one regarding anticheats). If you leave the safe environment of Steam, Epic, GoG and Amazon (with Heroic), and want to just install a game with an downloaded installer, the learning curve gets steep pretty fast for someone who doesn’t know shit about computers. Under Windows it’s a doubleclick (or a singleclick in your browsers download manager) and clicking next/finish. Flatpak has helped here in some circumstances, but comes with it’s own limitations if you don’t know why your downloaded program can’t access anything outside your home directory for example.

For someone who has used only windows in the last 20 years and is used to a specific workflow for whatever they wanna do (like people who digitize VHS tapes or similar “legacy” tasks), it will most likely be hard to switch over too - and why should they? (We both know why they SHOULD, but it will not be obvious or easy for those people)

Then there is another aspect: if you can’t speak english most good sources for troubleshooting are out of your reach. I’m in a german language country - if i had to limit myself to only german language sources everytime i run into some issue, i would have given up pretty soon. Baby boomers in this country have atrocious english language skills in general.

So you see: Everyone should consider Linux, but if you are old, don’t have technical knowledge, don’t speak english, do some task you have done the same way the last decade ,… the difficulty of switching might be too much without someone who helps them and is available when something breaks.

If you take away the polemics, the reality of majority opinions here is:

At the current moment in time only terrible or completely uninformed people vote republican, and everyone should consider linux, but i can understand if someone wants to use windows for ease of use.

and those are well reflected, humanistic viewpoints. There are other viewpoints too, but i would say they are not well reflected or accusatory out of their own failings. Reality HAS a left wing bias after all.

But it would make a good law outlawing corporate assholery as a whole and might make a difference. Imagine a world in which corpos are not allowed to fuck over anyone, not their supplier, their partners or the customer… the world would be different.

Me too - the print shop can deal with the issues, i have no problem paying a little extra for not having the headache of troubleshooting printer crap. Although I might get myself a B/W Brother printer for the everyday stuff - my ex sadly got my old one.

Yeah, the colors will always be off in a random direction in the RGB spectrum, this is easy to blame on the cartridge manufacturer

They are marketed this way? Holy fraudulent ads Batman, I would never want to work at technical support for an OEM who does this, the phone lines will start glowing a bright orange after a year!

That was actually accounted for by the study. The study was looking for differences in reporting between Germany and the US and if/how they are relevant

I am not a religious person (but was raised catholic) - I wouldn’t have issues voting for him based on that article - he seems far better informed regarding the word of christ than any of those screeching republican harpies, and seems to have the best in mind for the citizens of his state.

Of course, i was just fixated on the GenAI-Aspect of the question. Climate modeling, Medicine (especially diagnostic and neurosciences), physics, chemistry and even social sciences can benefit a lot. In the manufacturing process it can be used for control of industrial processes (e.g. balancing of a chemical process; i know it’s used in QC in production of electronics). This IS the next big thing, but not in the way the corpos try to sell it to us.

Yeah, for the moment, this is it. We will need more research in how to actually read the data inside of a neural network to be able to a) reroute pathways that are problematic and b) enable a process to hook inside of control points to modify it on the fly.

I would take that with a grain of salt, since the study here says it only deals with death inside of the hospital (which is what is expected of a system encouraging the individual to flee the expensive place as soon as possible):

Considering the markedly lower length of stay in U.S. hospitals, it seems likely that more deaths following AMI occur after hospital discharge in the U.S., compared to Germany. This assumption is supported by recent OECD publications, which also report U.S. 30-day AMI mortality based on linked data. This figure was at 9.3% in the year 2020, compared to 4.9% when based on unlinked data. For Germany, national 30-day AMI mortality figures based on linked data are not available to date. In other industrialized countries reporting both figures, the difference between mortality based on unlinked data and mortality based on linked data was not as pronounced as in the U.S. (e.g., 5.6% vs. 7.2% in France, 6.5% vs. 7.1% in Spain)

In addition, the median age of patients is quite a lot higher, and as we all know, we all die at some time. If i am in my 50s and have a heart attack, sign me up for a German hospital 100% of the time, at least i am not bankrupted afterwards if i survive.

Me too - it looks like real fun. Hell, they would have to take a break for an hour or so, to make sure i have enough time driving around the DuckMobile. Only way to get me to stop would be to offer the BatMobile as a replacement (until the DuckBatteries are charged again, then it is Quacking Time again!)

I believe i heard of a case where there was a children’s song used as a torture method somewhere in the us, which might be a similar experience…

Found it, it was Baby Shark and in Oklahoma: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/05/oklahoma-county-jail-baby-shark-torture-tactics-lawsuit

Machine learning by itself is already paying off. LLMs the way normal people use it are fine, but not the way bosses want to use it - you can’t rationalize away employees with this, you can only give them them a tool that empowers them; there will be a lot of heads rolling in management in the corporations where this hasn’t been realized yet.

Code Generation might get better over the next years, but looking at the current trajectory i would say with current tech there will never be a point reached where you can simply replace a dev with an agentic AI without the generated code being full of inefficiencies, bugs and security issues.

It also might open up the first therapeutic LLM (without the current fuckups) if there is a focus in development - THIS would be something that is labor intensive, priced so that exactly the people that need it can’t afford it on a regular basis, and definitely possible to attain without much of a technological limit.

ImageGen can also pay off in some areas - creating tons of “stony wall” textures isn’t fun, but implementing a tiny model that creates as many “stony walls” as you want in your game with differing amounts of stones or dirt as a variable might be worth the effort.

Prototyping is also a big thing in both of those areas (Code Gen/ImageGen), but i think that’s no secret anymore.

Videogen in the current way is a waste of energy. The models need something that anchors them, to make sure that the Coke truck in one camera angle stays the same Coke truck in the next angle; currently it’s just ImageGen *25/second, which causes those issues - and the massive energy consumption. This is the only area where the generation process itself chews through more electrons than the global energy bill allows for. Someone smart will probably crack that nut too - i believe that the solution to those 2 issues (energy consumption and missing object permanence) might be linked.

Edit: The missing permanence might also be a reason for many of the issues of LLM’s, some kind of “self” with a sense of the passage of time to return to. I’m pretty sure i’m not the first one who thought of that, and there are probably a lot of people with even more PhDs at work here.

And to add to that, it worsens mental health issues - at least for me it does. The subconscious “you are not good enough” doesn’t do anything good for anyone.

I do not do ad-supported, ever - they are aggravating, i start grinding my teeth and would rather listen to a construction site than to ads.

Wanted to say something similar - that they would probably get interrogated and spend eternities in custody before getting dropped somewhere in central Africa

The shipwrecks of the uncool tankers which didnt get enough air will be the scientific basis for the christian theory of the great flood and Noahs Ark - it even has traces of liquefied animals

There are 2 options here.

• Creating a community for likeminded people, kicking out badly behaved individuals. Noone objects this.
• Peddling the mindset of christofascists like Mike Johnson, soliciting the point in other communities. Get dunked on, because you deserve it.

It’s the “I piss rainbow colored pee on burning cop cars”- gender! It has the effect of creating gay clouds after a while.

No sex without condom before we both get tested. If the person doesn’t want to use a condom, I know this isn’t the first time they had unprotected sex, and even if sex is fun, it’s not worth getting sick from it.