The enemy pilot will have to get on the radio and talk it to death.

The problem with that reasoning is that it would seem China needs to ban Apple products, Microsoft products including Bing, American movies... But they don't, they just require that anyone doing business there sticks to their laws, which is what most countries do.

The real reason why the US wants to force the sale of TikTok is because it is politically quite left leaning. Lots of stuff about unions and worker's rights, how unfair the real-estate/rental market is, socialism and other left leaning politics... They think it is "radicalizing" young people with what are actually pretty mainstem ideas and views in Europe, but which are to the left of both the major parties in the US.

If a sale is forced to a US company, expect them to screw with the recommendation algo to make it more conservative.

It depends on your threat model.

For most people, a fingerprint is a decent way to unlock their phone. It's fast and good enough for banks to trust it with payments. It can easily be disabled in an emergency situation (press the power button 5 times rapidly). Thieves aren't equipped to lift your print and unlock your device, and will just sell it on or break it down for parts.

For fingerprint unlock to be an issue you would have to consider a threat actor who can get your device before you have a chance to disable it, and then force you to unlock it before the biometrics time out and it defaults to needing your password (Pixel devices do that, not sure about others).

PROTIP for Android users, and I think iPhones have something similar.

Press the power button 5 times rapidly to enable "emergency mode" or whatever they call it. Biometric unlock will be disabled and you will have to enter your password/PIN to access the device again.

You can configure what else it does. I think the default is to call the emergency services, so you might want to disable that. You can have it record video and text people too.

More interesting than the benchmark is the conclusion that Framework's Windows support is poor. If you are thinking of buying one to run Windows, it might be a good idea to wait for them to improve the drivers and firmware.

In most tests there is no advantage for either Linux or Windows when compared on well supported hardware. Which is hardly surprising, since performance depends 99% on the hardware and by extension drivers, and 1% on the OS scheduler and file handling performance. Unless you are looking at some edge case that one happens to be optimized for, there should be no real difference.

I find Reddit is useful about 50% of the time, maybe a little less. Unlike Microsoft and Quora, which are always a complete waste of time.

You have to take what you read on Reddit with a bucket of salt, but sometimes it does at least hint at the right answer and get you on the path to it.

And where else are you going to go? StackExchange? Sorry your question was closed and your account banned, not that there is anyone with half a clue there anyway.

PROTIP: try adding "before:2023" to filter out all the AI generated spam.

I've been a Windows to Linux waffler since I put Slackware 2.0 on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB ATA hdd, using Kernel 1.1.47 (thus dating the start of my Linux saga) with A, N, D, and enough of the X set to run Netscape 2.0. And on that system I played (besides the epic classics like Nethack) Doom and Abuse. I ran Windows 7 for some time because it was a great place to run most games, even most of the vintage ones, and a tolerable place to run other things. I ran Linux occasionally in VMware Player or from USB stick for tasks that Windows couldn't or wouldn't do gracefully.

Now I run Devuan 5, and I am having a fairly excellent experience gaming with a combination of Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam, and Proton-GE. I only have a Pinnacle Ridge (1600AF) and a 4060 16GB, but I only game at 1080p. I got the version with more VRAM for LLM stuff, and so if/when I do get a 4k monitor, the card isn't worthless. I am frequently surprised by how many games I actually can run with this combination. With the exception of games with Windows kernel DRM, by far the vast majority of them can be made to work well.

If I were only gaming, I'd probably be on Windows 10. But Linux now is a very viable place to do a lot of gaming, and thanks to work put in to support the Steam Deck, a lot of games will now run very well indeed. Publishers of older games are also putting in a fair bit of work to make games function on Linux today. The new Fallout 4 patch coming out (I know that game is old AF, but it has an extremely active community) is Steam Deck Verified, but the game has run at least as well on Linux as on Windows for years now.

I do sometimes indeed still use normal Wine, but more commonly I use Proton-GE. Try it out, it's impressive.

You not picking up what I'm putting down doesn't mean I'm not putting it down for you.

Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for decades.

Less than half of them voted for Hamas back in 2006, and half the population of Gaza hadn't even been born when that vote happened. So the number of people who voted for Hamas and alive in Gaza today is some small fraction.

LLMs cannot do it. Hallucination is baked-in.

LLMs alone definitely can't do it. LLMs, however, seem (to me, speaking for myself as an ML developer) to be a very likely component in an actual AI. Which, to be clear, is why I use "ML" instead of "AI", as we don't have AI yet. It's going to take other brainlike mechanisms to supervise the hugely flawed knowledge assembly that LLMs generate before we even have a chance to get there. Again, IMO.

I'd love for someone to prove me wrong. No sign of that, though. :)

I'll be impressed when one of these ML engines is sophisticated enough to be able to say "I don't know" instead of just making up nonsense by stacking probabilistic sequences; also it needs to be able tell fake news from real news. Although there's an entire swath of humans who can't do that, so it'll be a while I guess. That whole "reality has a liberal bias" truism ought to be a prime training area.

While I certainly understand that the Internet and its various social media cesspools are the most readily available training ground(s), it sure leans into the "artificial stupid" thing.

That too, but being physically close and keeping the connections equal length is really important for high speed parallel.

Fox News is less sensational?