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Comment Re:Bullying... (Score 1) 78

They didn't get anything in exchange for this action in addition to what they already had. All they got was americans agreeing that they will continue negotiations Trump stopped two days ago in response to this law. And Americans likely added a few more points to the agenda limiting taxation capabilities of Canadian state.

So all that happened is that Trump just called another bluff. This was a Canadian mistake similar to one Trump made when he stated memeing about annexing Canada, getting a much less friendly government elected there.

Some things you need to actually hold back on until ink is on the paper.

Comment Re:I see more and more products marketed as AI-fre (Score 1) 37

Porn industry embraced it wholeheartedly.

What you found is a one of a tiny handful of accounts that is trying to differentiate by saying "look I'm not doing what everyone else is doing". This is why it emphasizes "this creator". The entire selling point is that everyone has already gone for AI.

Comment Not halve (Score 1) 33

Not halve the budget per unit of work. Cut it down at least 90%. And increase work load by about 3-4 times. Where before you could ask for two samples to choose from, now you can ask for six to ten to choose from in a shorter time frame.

There's zero argument for "quality" in relation to AI in advertisement/image maintenance commercial art. Commercial art is safe, averaged out stuff. Exactly what AI is so good for. There's a reason we call the current corporate art style "corpo art". It's deisgned in that specific soulless, average out way on purpose and it all looks the same.

The argument being made in the OP is for more personalized art that isn't commercial on that scale, and that's irrelevant if you're a designer who works making corpo art. You're not just expendable. You've already large been replaced, because the entire purpose of corpo art is to be averaged out soulless and inoffensive slop.

Comment Re: Soon (Score 1) 94

There are custom ISOs with pre-stripped out spyware. There are also instructions how to do it if you want to do it yourself. Finally, in enterprise versions spyware can be turned off via group policy. It's only forced in consumer versions.

Ultimately all system services are linked to files and libraries. That you can just remove before installing. Spyware in windows isn't some fileless malware, or integrated into kernel. It's a separate service.

Comment Another Load of Bullshit (Score -1, Flamebait) 165

Mr. Zuckerberg, tariffs don't raise prices unless you insist on buying from overseas. Buy American. Then there is no tariff.

Every revoked immigrant work permit frees up a job for an American. It also very likely increases quality and reduces cost because Americans make higher quality products instead of cheap crap. We also have a superior work ethic.

And for the record, we've lost patience with your constant harping about technology labor shortages while you torment "working class families" with promises to destroy their jobs with AI.

The reason wages have been stagnant for 52 years is because of people like you. The people are fixing it, and we're going to fix it whether you like it or not.

Comment Re:Toyota Hybrids (Score 1) 363

What on earth are you going on about? Some random marketing wank?

Toyota hybrids (and basically ALL hybrids by all companies today) are ALL built on the same patent from 1980s (or early 1990s, IIRC). The patent features an AC-DC converter, two motor generators and and ICE engine with a planetary gearbox acting as a differential between the three. MG1 is on the sun of a planetary gear set, planets spin freely around their axes while they are connected to ICE, and MG2 is connected to outer orbit. Outer orbit is also connected to the wheels.

Literally every hybrid on the market is built off this patent (exception being range extended BEVs sometimes called hybrids, in those you have a gasoline/diesel generator completely disconnected from the drive train simply spinning an inverter to charge the battery).

Primary changes between Toyota's implementation's generations usually involved incremental minor improvements. Things like specifics of the connection from orbit to wheels, extra planetary reduction gear between MG2 and wheels, etc. For example even the gen 5 (IIRC) PHEV variants just increase the power of MG2 so you can reasonably drive in EV mode at higher speeds. They may also have added a clutch between MG2/wheels and orbital output for marginally more efficient EV mode. Never looked into it in more detail, but I can see this being another step if you want long term EV mode, which is what PHEVs are built around.

For all wheel drive, the patent mentions fully drive train disconnected MGR (motor generator rear), which is ran off the battery only. Still works this way in most hybrids, though this is one point of differentiation as some European hybrids have added weird drive shaft implementations for this. Some of them resulted in hilarious lack of reliability.

Comment Re: Toyota Hybrids (Score 1) 363

Total ignorance of hybrid market and auto market in general.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Total ignorance of EV sales. Part of initial ignorance.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

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Total ignorance of situation in Europe in general when it comes to automotive sector, and politics surrounding it.

At some point normal person would stop and think: "I thought I knew everything relevant to make sweeping arguments. Turned out I was completely wrong. I think it's time I shut up and read up so I'm no longer on the peak of Mount Stupid of Dunning-Kruger effect".

You never did. You just kept making new statements from the same peak. This is why I don't think this will go anywhere, because you're not willing to go down that peak.

Comment Re: Soon (Score 1) 94

Nowadays? Basically never. It's hilariously stable.

Removing advertisements and telemetry requires zero "retraining", because users aren't trained to interact with those elements in any meaningful way in the first place. Telemetry is basically fully hidden unless you're an admin in enterprise. Ads are, well banners and links.

Comment Re: Toyota Hybrids (Score 1) 363

>That's not 'murdering European car manufacturers'.

This is hilarious considering that European manufacturers have been begging and pleading with commission to slow the fuck down because they're dying as a result of its actions for about half a decade at this point.

When you are this fundamentally ignorant of basic situation on the market, and your entire narrative is "BEV are good because they are great and excellent and wonderful and they're making everyone rich, even those flirting with bankruptcy and shutting down factories because of them", I don't think there's a discussion to be had. You have so far engaged in everything from "I don't know how to read statistics, I don't know how to use chatGPT, have some marketing word salad that agrees with you but sounds like it agrees with me", to just plain old moving goalposts.

I don't think we will be able to come to an understanding, because I'm not BEV-religious and generally find technology worship to be cringe-worthy at best. Technology is a tool, not a deity.

Comment Re:Soon (Score 0) 94

They literally did that years into win11 release, after years of reports that same games ran much worse in 11 than on 10. And that literally still doesn't work properly, because that "separate mode" doesn't shut down most of the background processes, it just sorta kinda suspends them and they will still randomly unsuspend at times.

Which is why linux+proton runs windows games better than native 11. But you can in fact get a stripped down version of 11 where all those background processes are actually removed.

Guess what happens when you run games on it?

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