Ian BetteridgeCan we just get the greasy fingers of these scumbags out of our public services, please?
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Jon AndersonIf George Floyd was the catalyzing event that finally radicalized me against police, AI is the event that has truly radicalized me against capitalism.
Before: "yeah it's bad and sucks and hurts us, but like...idk"
Me now: "jesus christ burn it to the ground, it is simply a parasite on even the ECONOMY let alone the people."
AI truly feels like a pinnacle of extraction of workers and environment. To turn the world into a theme park for the wealthy. It makes me think of a...post somewhere online that's like "If you want to live in a walkable city but all the people working at restaurants and coffee shops can't afford to live there, you're living in a theme park." It's what they want. Because service industry jobs WILL still exist, but everything that makes us human will be extracted and sold. I might feel differently if that money were, i don't know, given back to us. But it never would be, never could be.
And it is ever more painful because I nearly feel like I *must* use it or be fired in short time if it comes to light I haven't been. If I don't, I will be unable to pay rent and they will hire someone else (IF ANYBODY?) to extract more from. And it'll be me and many people (so many more qualified than me, at that) competing for the scraps of not-all-in-on AI companies of which there will be increasingly few. Where are my morals except given away to the dollar for survival. Or competing for trade schools or whatever husks remain.
@jonmsterling my wife has separate users for her work and personal stuff on her MacBook. There are so, so many odd and broken things that you wouldnāt think could possibly be related, but are somehow fixed by fully logging out of one of the users.
Menu bar collapsing up into the top of the screen, dialogs flashing up for a moment then vanishing, etc
Menu bar collapsing up into the top of the screen, dialogs flashing up for a moment then vanishing, etc
Cassandra is only carbon now"It writes boilerplate faster."
Is that all we aspire to now? Not abstraction or templating or better language design, just... output boilerplate faster.
It's depressing.
@thaddeus you could probably get one from a physical Apple Store if you have one nearby? Itās the same category of silly as not being able to buy anything at all from the online store on the morning of an iPhone launch
I wonder if the MacBook Neo will be able to do virtualisation? iirc prior to the M1, Apple Silicon had no hardware virtualisation supportāunsure if that's still the case for newer A-series chips. If it can...why can't I virtualise other OSes on my iPad? š
Bought a third drive for my Synology so I can keep ripping Blu-rays. Same make and model as the other two, but ended up having to open a return because this one makes a horrid high pitched buzz like a piezoelectric speaker when idling.
Found a 1-star review with a video on Amazon US with the exact same sound, which apparently Seagate consider ānormalā. Good thing Amazon is quite lax about returns, no way could I deal with this.
@tuomas_h I find screenshots of macOS ~15 years ago quite startling now. Itās easy to forget just how good it was.
I got some water pump pliers and fixed the it pretty easily in the end.
These things are gonna be a game changer, I don't often lose my temper but trying to unscrew stuck things in tight spaces is one of the fastest ways to make me shout obscenities at inanimate objects. Now I feel like I have infinite torque.