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Comment Re:The Good News (Score 1) 158

The only reason I still have a windows machine is for the exceedingly rare game that doesn't work on proton/steam, and more importantly, Fusion 360, although browser-based OnShape apparently is pretty good if you have a computer/GPU that can make it run smoothly (they both use the same licensed "kernel" that almost all CAD software uses)

Comment Re:Safety testing? (Score 1) 49

China really does not want an AI model that is developed in China, that if you ask it how to over throw the Chinese government, it will give you step by step instructions to do that. Microsoft doesn't want a model that can do that, because china might ask microsoft to leave.
 
Furthermore AI models that spit out unfavorable things make headlines and hurt shareholder value, once you release the model people will try to get it to say all kinds of inflammatory things, and the creator may be held at fault

Comment Re:What about gaming online? (Score 1) 185

I haven't had any issues with steam on linux, but I don't play a lot of online games these days, especially fortnite. Dad gaming is all about the roguelikes these days where I can play the entire game end to end in the hour of personal time I have left before bed.

Comment I have a legal copy of windows 10 but (Score 1) 185

My copy I lost the key that came with my disc ~15 years ago so it thinks it's a pirated copy. Thanks microsoft. I only have windows installed to play steam games.
 
Luckily Valve has their own branch of Wine, Proton:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
 
And apparently many/most games support running on Proton these days. I'm sorely tempted to just yeet windows once and for all.
 
I will upgrade my computer when I feel like it, thanks. On my "gaming pc" I visit like, 6 websites (gmail, steam, slashdot and a handful of others) and use Steam, security updates are nice but I'm not at enormous risk, and if anything happens to the PC I'll just wipe it and reinstall anyways. This is my only windows PC at this point, there's nothing to back up.

Comment Re:The problem is Alexa sucks (Score 2) 28

Home assistants to do things like, set a timer, set an alarm, check the weather, turn "smart" lights on/off, adjust "smart" thermostat can be handled by an open source LLM running on a raspberry pi class device. I suspect offline "home assistants" will start hitting shelves soon enough. Weather or news API is the only tricky thing as there's some cost associated with it; the device might come with a 1 or 2 year free subscription to those services.
 
As soon as those devices become available/reliable, I plan on ditching our google home setup.

Comment Re:unwise (Score 1) 49

Not even GNU C, the kernel is written in kernel C and C compilers have to be adapted to be able to compile it correctly.

GCC and Clang are the only compilers that work. There used to be support for icc as well, but compiler-specific tweaks are required for every compiler, and it was not worth the effort.

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