They added in some anti-cheat stuff that doesn’t play well.

We’re close. We just need a couple of vendors to step up and take some responsibility.

Steam already picked up all the hard stuff.

Adobe products, Outlook, and of all fucking things Roblox.

I probably also really wouldn’t hurt if somebody could manage to make Nvidia background removal working OBS Linux.

Antivirus won’t do s*** for you, if a good exploit comes through they don’t need a virus they just do whatever they want. Even the best EDR packages out there have their limits if you don’t keep updates.

Maybe this will be the straw the causes them to port librelec to it

I hope they haven’t disassembled it and sold it on eBay for bribe money

There’s no clear path from getting the computer out of the box just setting it up without internet. If you call the manufacturer and they know what the hell they’re doing they’ll walk you through doing the OOBE no internet fix. It just needs to be an option in the damn operating system. The fact that they’re hiding it from you is unconscionable.

I used to work in a company that was VC adjacent.

Most of the people sitting on piles of money don’t have any knowledge or radar to help them negotiate where to put it. They lean heavily on other people to tell them what to invest in.

When AI first started getting big everybody was guessing where the curve was going to be and where the technology was going to head. The people guiding the venture capitalists were putting their oars in the water early.

To be fair there’s a lot of money to be made in AI assistants if they can manage to run the back end affordably. If you’re asking Google, Siri, and Alexa complicated questions they’re miserably fit for the task. But when we get to the point where you can expect a reasonable answer from something like look up all the places to rent cars near Tucson Arizona give me the cheapest price with the best reviews. Or tutor my kid on basic calculus, test him, and give me a report on where he needs more assistance. That kind of stuff is worth money and something that many people with money will pay for.

This form factor is off-putting and honestly AI at this point is still only mostly right.

The VCs are all over AI and there’s opportunity there. Just not on every product and probably not yet.

Nah, all the original data came from humans. If it was all good and happy and properly tagged correctly there’d be no intervention.

Unfortunately they scraped it from wherever in the hell they could get it from and it’s not all tagged correctly.

I’m sure they use more AI to pre-grade it, but at some point a set of real eyes need to verify that something is what it’s supposed to be.

This is more of a blood diamonds or fair trade coffee thing, US legislation isn’t going to have anything to do with it. You need to expose the places using the data.

Oh my God my wife bought this bean bag once. It was a photography thing so it had to be absolutely packed full. So the skin came folded up in this tiny little plastic bag and then it came with three giant bags of styrofoam balls.

If you stuck your hand in the back and pulled it out it would just be coated. I spent hours just trying to scoop them into the bean bag.

When I got to the second bag to fill I found a long narrow box and taped it up to the side of the bean bag slice the bean bag open and used it to pour them through.

The whole experience was awful. And the cleanup took nearly as long as the fill.

Npm isnt horrible for that.

If the price was even relatively sane I would be okay with that honestly.

But no, they need to keep driving the price up and up. I have to pay my part so that little Jimmy can host 297 hours of white noise on his account that no one wants to watch.

They simply need to change their tactics a little. It cost you some small sane amount to host your videos there. If your videos don’t g gather watches and make money you should be the one paying for them.

I want to pay about nine bucks a month for a family account it’s just b-f rate content. You can pay less to get actual well rated movies from other services.

Also give me the option not to throw in Google music I don’t give a s*** about Google music.

OBS background removal in Linux is bad.

In about half a dozen distros VFL does not work out of the box for OBS.

If you flat pack your OBS and don’t do it exactly right with all the plugins at once, the plugin sandbox causes issues in OBS.

If you’re running an OBS bot camera things get extra spicy.

In most cases high color support is not allowed.

If you’re trying to do stream Deck stuff that can be an issue.

Don’t get me wrong I’m glad it wasn’t a big deal for you but for your average person coming in complaining that terminals are too much, they might be in for a less than stellar experience.

If you just want to browse the web and edit work documents you have nothing to fear.

If you just want a game and don’t want to be too awfully picky about what you’re playing you have nothing to fear

If you want to play anti-cheap games and host docker components you’re going to have to do a little console here and there.

If you want to stream to YouTube and twitch, You’re probably not going to have as much of a good time. You can still do it but there’s work and compromises involved.

Yeah that’s the same conclusion they reached.

Google nearly went through trouble to make sure that takeout is a pain in the ass to import anywhere else.

As a matter of fact anytime I use any company’s product and try to export it from there and import it somewhere else it goes horribly wrong.

I don’t want my text documents in HTML.

ok, I snorted… well played.

I run a catchall account. Every vendor gets [vendor]@myemail

Stops spam, stops data theft, stops phishing stops data brokers. Makes tracking data on me useless.

To be honest, it works so well, I can’t imagine not having it.

I maintain giant playlists for each user. Generally just shuffle whoever’s listening.

Also if note keep an eye on value when selecting sizes. Rice and grains go down in price per weight drastically when you buy larger quantities. I buy extreme bulk for flour and rice. The flower lasts me months the rice lasts me years and I’m paying less than half as much for my rice and flour

Lol didn’t proof read dictation.

Spaghetti-fication. No getting stretched out. Which I realize is just an untested theory