KDE has come a long ways too. I personally had been using Cinnamon for years now, after being a long time Gnome2 and MATE user. I hadn't tried KDE in probably 15-20 years. I recently installed Manjaro on an extra machine and I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. I still kinda prefer Cinnamon in general, but I think that's just because I'm used to it.

This has to have some caveats. I'm sure some version of instant coffee can beat some version of drip coffee, but there's no way that instant Folgers is gonna beat a decent quality drip coffee.

I'm not even a coffee snob - I typically drink something relatively cheap (eg Cafe Bustelo) with plenty of cream and sugar, but instant just doesn't taste right.

Here's the problem - the "increase" in cases led them to start blaming random stuff and throwing out all these bans.

If you change the definition now, you'll have a corresponding decrease that they'll say their actions caused and they'll take credit for.

If they don't have the critical thinking capacity the understand the increase in diagnoses, they also won't properly understand the decrease.

What I've found honestly as an occasional user of them, is the LLM's are great at writing small functions. One, small, discrete, easily describable task with clear inputs and an output. It sucks at doing things more complex than that.

You still need somebody who knows how to actually take all those functions, check them over, and then implement actual program logic to make something useful overall happen.

Samsung still has DEX (Desktiop EXperience) available for its phones. You can either plug it into a computer and use the phone like a program within a computer, or you can connect it to a USBC docking station with HDMI, mouse, and keyboard attached and use the phone in a desktop style.

It works decently well enough. I wouldn't want to use it full time but I've used it occasionally (typically when my home internet is out. My desktop doesn't have a wifi card since I use ethernet, so I can't really pair the phone as a hotspot - I just connect the phone and use DEX).

There is a concept in computing where a certain spec is good NOW, but will not be good in the future. Rather than replace the entire computer many would rather just increase the power of their current one where its lacking.

Also, by preventing outside ram installation, Apple is free to charge whatever premium they want on more RAM. If they're the only way to increase the ram on a machine then if they decide you're going to pay an extra $500 to go from 8gb to 16gb, then you're stuck.

Something isn't over just because it has peaked. While I wish there was more, compared to when I was younger there are a lot more shows available.

What I do kinda dislike though is these mini-abbreviated seasons that have been adopted on new shows. I know its due to expense, but 10 episodes feels kinda short for a season when the shows I grew up with would have 20 to 26 episodes per season. And while I can deal with 10 - a lot of shows have been trying to get away with "seasons" of 6 episodes or less. 6 episodes of TV isn't a season - its a long movie chopped into pieces.

Hell, my parents retired 3 years ago with 200k in savings. They still haven't touched it and are living solely off of their social security.

It all depends on what you want to do. Their house was paid off years ago, they cook all their meals at home, and rarely spend money on anything that isn't necessary. It just doesn't cost much to keep the lights on and food on the table.

I don't have an issue with using natural land for hunting or recreation. Hunting when bag limits are set and laws are guided by biologists isn't harmful to an area.

Humans are a part of nature. Our structures and creations are not. Us going out and walking in the forest or taking a limited amount of game (basically legally limiting humans to an amount of predation that is sustainable) isn't throwing the ecosystem out of whack.

Antarctica I'd say doesn't really count towards the percentage total. You'd need 30% per region, not 30% of all the land on the planet with a large percentage of that being just the land that isn't of human use.

Antarctica is damned near uninhabitable. Very little plant life and the animal life is relegated to coastal semi-aquatic animals. The interior is devoid of complex life.

Of course in global warming keeps up in a few thousand years it might be a great place to live - with everyone claiming to have "set aside" the nearly uninhabitable areas at the equator :).

Why should one have to forfeit it? We pay taxes for a reason. Any land that isn't already publicly owned and set aside for this purpose could be purchased from the current owners willingly (if they don't want to sell, buy equivalent acreage from someone who does).

Taxes are literally the way for all of us to collectively do things that it would be too financially painful to do individually.

It says 30% for "nature" - not 30% that isn't urbanized parking lot. The remaining 70% can be all sorts of utilized stuff that isn't really natural. EG farming takes up a lot of space. Its not natural, but I don't think anyone is too put off by a corn field or a peach orchard visually.

I mean in the US, the government already owns about 28% of all the land - most of that largely undeveloped. Its not really that hard to just say "keep that publicly owned land public and don't build anything on it". Or at least keep building to a minimum (eg hiking trails with an occasional bathroom along the way).

I've tried some of the AI coding tools. It works OK for some really basic stuff. If you need a quick 10 line function that does something very specific and you can describe that fairly accurately, its good. Anything that gets remotely complex though it tends to confidently spit out code full of bugs or even code that won't even compile.

Sometimes it even makes up calls to functions in a library that don't even exist (my only guess is that somewhere it parsed in someone talking about trying to call that function when they assumed it did, and that worked its way into its data as a function call).

Overall, it can be ok for some basic stuff, but its far from ready to just turn it loose on anything of value.

Our local Taco Bell isn't using this, so I can't really speak on accuracy there, but Bojangles is using an AI order taker and while I haven't intentionally tried to trip it up, I will say that as a customer just ordering, its been very, very accurate. Probably MORE accurate than a human order taker for me as it doesn't get complacent or ignore things if its tired and what not.

A lot of times though even at other places I've started ordering through the app, even if I'm already in the drive thru line, I'll pull out my phone and place the order and just tell them I'm picking up a mobile order when I get to the speaker. For this type of monotonous task humans are just very error-prone.