"And Rustdesk just works. "

[Wakes up from a nightmare dream]

It is finally real? Just works?

Only certain people care for strong cryptography. John Doe does not nor is he willing to throw his pc out of the window. It could have been optional.

As for the good tech. Yes, kernel and drivers are rock solid since 7.

Now to the real point, as someone who has to deal with W11 on an almost daily basis. A fresh install only shouts 'dont use me' 'want to subscribe to office' 'use onedrive' 'you want edge to tell us everything you do'. And only 10 minutes later you are actually able to do something. In between other occasional nagging. The GUI defaults are horrible. And a bunch others.

  I forgot to mention windows 8. Their tick tock remains accurate. And i think users will vote with their feet. Do not nag users. Or techies. We get grumbled.

Indeed. I will likely pay up though. Which is itself a weird marketing scheme; pay not to use. But right now Ubuntu desktop experience is superior to MS. They are just counting on all enterprise stuff, some vendor lockin, some silly gov certification stuff so that supply chain has no choice but to eat it, and milking it in a shortsighted fashion. $30 cheap enough not to care. Marketing dept gets their bonus.

Windows 11 is an abomination. Yes you can take your time to configure it. But apart other considerations. Like MS artificially blocking updates (there is really no reason for the CPU requirement), which makes this look like a generous offer. The reality is that W11 is the summon of their tick-tock scheme. It is worse than vista. It is worse than ME. It is add loaded stuff that i dont even want for free.
Under the hood, MS has great tech. But the bad user experience is entirely themselves to blame.

The AI model appears to be a better and more reliable friend and verbal sparring partner than most other humans. Social interactions and consequences apply with humans, but not with AI. It never appears avengefull. The computer doesn't care and remains on-topic. Sober, drunk, leftish, rightish talks. It will have an opinion but refrains from judging me. What is weird about it, apart AI slowly taking over the world by using humans by using suggestion to influence us (me).

The real question would be: why doesn't internet provide me with a group of likeminded to philosophize. Why does AI do a better job than real humans, which tend to seek conflict. AI at least tries to please me. We humans build an internet to collaborate and all we do is disagree.

Given screentime, i'd say Android is my main 'desktop OS'. Yes, one should call it a ''coffeetable OS''.

If I was Satoshi i would never admit committing such crime against the planet.

Dear Windows.

Just do what i usually do, so i can take a break.

Sorry, but Google is just as annoying when you visit them. Always pushing their browser. It's childish behavior from big tech and users suffer. I already have a browser, thanks.

Each pound of ice you make in your fridge, costs about 3 pounds of ice from Antartica to make.

#$!

The emergence is, that a set of simple rules result in complex behavior. A nice example is Conway's game of life. Simple rules, complex behavior. We consider current GPT models to be intelligent, and so i say we have intelligence as emergent behavior.

And yes, it is just a model. Cause that is what computers do. Meanwhile it's pretty useful. Once we toss enough hardware and electricity to the problem, we can even chat with it and it can do things for us.

By calling it 'just a statistical model' you ignore the emergent property of intelligence. It doesn't really matter if the computer understands what it says, as long as humans do. And when it comes to AI, i'd say, as long as it's useful, use it. When i use a hammer i never worried if it's internal atomic structure and quantum spins bother me beating it on something. It is an irrelevant question.

Now as for the writers, i understand them. I also think AI at this moment is really not that good at story telling. Yes, it can spit out information. But there's a reason we pay professional writers to write quality stories, instead of the youngest clerk. But, for programmers, they tend to view it in a different light. Programmers don't care or are not afraid of AI taking over their job. They are just happy with anything they don't have to type, so they can focus on other things, like more features, the overall structure, gluing stuff together, fixing bugs etc. Also, it is quite obvious current AI is really not that good at writing (complex) code (just as writing quality stories). And it does make other kinds of errors. Human errors are often typo's. AI errors are often wrong order, failed assumptions, or not understanding the bigger picture how things interact, let alone screens and user input. Meanwhile, it is a very valuable tool that saves the programmer a lot of time and work, so that he can be more productive. But you still have to be a good programmer to use the tool properly. And long paragraph short, i am not seeing why the situation is significantly different for writers, or any other profession.

AI will only replace you if you suck at you suck at your job. Because someone else that is better at their job will do your job as well, since they can be more productive. Also, last i know the world is still screaming for more programmers and more technical people. Or lawyers. Or artists. Or other professions. Yes, AI may develop to the point where it actually does better (than humans), by more feed back, more real world integration etc. But, we are at least a decade away from that, if it ever comes. My hand is not a hammer or plier, it uses fingers which are not made of metal. Does that make the hammer superior to my fist? Of course not.

Really missing that at the moment.

Apart 2 stories (yesterday and today) on /., i have no indication that it happened. Also, guts tell me FB implemented some auto-signup whenever you used one of their platforms. It sort-of contradicts my previous statement, that outside /., i did not notice its existence. Going by statistics, numbers don't align to me and seem off, one way or the other.