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No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information.

This is why my hope is on Redox OS. I wish it would get a bit more resources.

I’m not arguing about what is technically possible. I’m arguing about what is practically possible: Samsung (biggest market share) supports LC3 for example, but they can also break it and replace it with their custom codecs to lock people into their ecosystem. Making Sony LDAC the only real choice, and there’s no telling when they will break that too. This means that in practice, only SBC and to a lesser extent AAC and SBC-XQ are the only codecs you know for certain will work.

Only if both your device and your earbuds both support aptX Lossless, which in practice means it almost never gets used because Samsung (holder of most of the market) does not pay for the licence or enable it in their phones, and the Chinese brands only do so for specific tiers and processors.

AFAIK there’s an upper limit to how good can they sound anyway because Bluetooth is kinda crap for audio.

A lot of people need to learn to both say no, and not care about what people say after you said no.

People who have 0 interest in respecting your choices are not worth pleasing.

If you get enough people to move to the clone, that stops being true though. The clone gets to decide the direction from that point onwards.

Sadly, they still get hit by sanctions when it comes to banking, software, etc.

If Europe and the rest of the world doesn’t immediately defend it, it might be done for.

This also will probably accelerate the decoupling from US services and software the rest of the world has been working on.

I’ve only remember ever having audio dissappear during the really early Ubuntu days (We are talking like version 7 or 8). Now if you told me Linux has issues with audio crackling due to apps requesting absurd audio parameters, then yeah, that was a more recent and persistent issue that only recently seems to have gone away.

Our bosses sold this “AI analysis system” thing to another company, and for the most part it was a horribly vibecoded but otherwise unremarkable dashboard. But the AI analysis part? It’s a fucking chatbot that all it does is ask you which graph and which data you want and it picks from list of preset graphs in the frontend code, and then makes a call to preset endpoints in the backend to get the data to fill it… All things that could be done without the chatbot in the middle.

Most “AI products” are the same griftware.

The real problem is that only the first part of the wish got granted: everyone has computers, but they don’t know how they work and thus can’t use them responsibly.

Mine has nearly everything other than brand preferences wrong, since I buy both my stuff and other people’s stuff plus gifts through the same account.

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My (soon to be ex) bank recently decided to make everyone use their ID card number which can be obtained from many sources and does not change, a username with symbols and numbers and minimal length requirements which cannot be changed and a 4 digit pin code. No 2FA at all, so its only saving grace is that you get locked out at 3 tries.

I’m guessing they are trying to align everything to their legacy ATM pin code system instead of making the ATM system better.

I have no issue with spiders, but now that a small lizard took residence somewhere in the house there’s almost none left. And also no other insects as well.

All Android devices are Linux, it just happens to be the worst kind of Linux possible: one that entirely depends on proprietary drivers and is controlled by a company hellbent on closing it down through total dependence on their services.

Learning to build both automated and fiber operated 3D printed drones is probably a better use of your time. And learning some fun chemistry and electronics.

You also get the same issue with trans men. We a had a local case where a trans man was convicted of a crime, and the local authorities decided to send him to a male prison, respecting his self-identification. He proceeded to immediatly challenge this through the courts for obvious reasons.

In this situation, it’s impossible to escape the drawbacks of your biology so long as prisons assume a dichotomy. And the vast majority of the population considers any criminal to be subhuman anyway, so asking them to acommodate a sub-percentage of what is already a tiny 0.1% of the population is impossible. They would sooner vote to just execute them to save themselves the hassle and expense.