I just don’t get why they haven’t put AI in the already established ‘assistants’ yet.

Why isn’t siri or google home not integrated? Why make new things instead of improving the tech you already have?

If I had to guess, its either because of branding, or because they know it doesn’t work that well yet. Probably both.

Good article, does bring up concerns. But I don’t like this argument.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case.

It assumes that non-fediverse sites don’t have this problem. But the few articles I read about this news, Facebook is usually the way they share this disgusting content. So while yes we need to do something to stop it, it is not like traditional social media has solved it either.

Why… the two chess websites? That seems really random. I know chess has boomed within the past 5 years, but really? Both of them?

Religion, in my honest opinion, did help humanity progress way back in the day. But has been outdated and overstayed it’s welcome.

Take the story of Moses (assuming the general story is true of him freeing slaves). He freed slaves, how? Through religion. Was there another way to do this? Not really. Slaves didn’t know how to read or write, so communicating privately was difficult. Besides, they were stupid by design, they couldn’t even think of a way to escape together. They couldn’t organize together to free themselves. But religion bypassed all of that. And that, is powerful.

And then once they were free, it evolved into a moral/judicial system to once again help them organize and able to live with each other. We simply don’t need it anymore. And since it is essentially a “vibes based” law system, it gets in the way of actual progress now. Also kind of the point of the New Testament, “forgot the old testament, that’s bad now”. We need a ‘modern testament’ that basically says, “good job, you all made it out of the shithole together, you don’t need me (God) anymore.”

AI is useless for most people because it does not solve any problems for day to day people. The most common use is to make their emails sound less angry and frustrated.

AI is useful for tech people, makes reading documentation or learning anything new a million times better. And when the AI does get something wrong, you’ll know eventually because what you learned from the AI won’t work in real life, which is part of the normal learning process anyways.

It is great as a custom tutor, but other than that it really doesn’t make anything of substance by itself.

Definitely lucky.

The city I currently live in is making a HUGE push for public transportation. Fixing roads, adding a ton of bike lanes, lighting up paved trails thought the city, adding train station stops, free parking garages, and MAKING ALL BUSES FREE FOR EVERYONE. You can even call a bus to come pick you up. Its actually insane what they have done in the last year or two.

Not moving anytime soon thats for sure.

I am completely honest, this is an open question, why do we care what his opinion is? Does he hold any real power in this?

I am American.

I have moved to a place that has a grocery store within 5 minutes of walking and is a GAME CHANGER for me.

The last place I lived at, 30 min drive to the grocery store in the other town. Yes, there were not grocery stores in the town I lived in.

In college, I had to walk an hour (one way) to get to the grocery store. Which was technically about the same time as busses, since every stop was an hour wait.

When I was traveling, stopped in Bakersfield because its the only place in that God forsaken area. I was eating a burger and saw a book store across the street. But it was a very busy street, and I didn’t see any crosswalks. So I pulled up google maps, and low behold, 15 min walk to get to the bookstore that was literally across the street from me. 5 min drive.

Yes US’s infrastructure is just that bad. You are lucky if you get sidewalks in rural areas.

The most important part of the day really.

Fun little project. Sure it is probably impractical, but you decided to try out an idea you had.

Honestly that’s exactly what I come to the internet for, to see little personal projects. Who cares if they work or not.

I am sure you were at least entertained through the cold, and that is something a heater would not of done.

I’ll have to give it a try.

Off topic, but WHY THE FUCK in the 10 years of VR gaming there is ZERO Tron games? Like???

I don’t play skater games, but like whats so wrong with all the old ones? Didn’t they just remake Tony Hawk? How can these games be so different? I get playing ‘new’ games in your favorite genre, but I feel like you can only do so much with this formula, kind of like guitar hero.

Interesting, never thought about using python as an excel replacement. Definitely wouldn’t work in my current work setting. But I just started taking a python class and I’ll have to keep this in mind.

ain’t falling for that

No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.

My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.

Hello, I am also new at self hosting semi recently. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once your over the hump, it gets a lot better.

First, 100% use docker desktop if your using windows. Most github projects have a docker file you can use. This will take out 90% of the setup required and you don’t have to worry about applications not working on your computer. Thats the point of docker, to remove the “doesn’t work on my computer” problem.

Here are some independent github projects that I found useful for me and were simple to setup.

• excalidraw - digital whiteboard. You don’t need to self host this, but its a fun little project. You can just go to excalidraw.com and have 100% of the same features (it is all saved in your browser’s cache).
• mealie - I cook a lot so this is a nice ‘permanent’ cook book to have.
• warracker - I always forget what I have warranties on, so this will be helpful for me.
• Arr projects like sonarr, radarr, Jellyfin - sonarr and radarr is a good project to sink your teeth into (do not recommend using docker for this, I had issues with my docker container connecting to my external drives because I have Windows Home edition). This ecosystem is usually everyone’s first project along with pihole since its so useful. Sonarr and radarr will probably take you a week or weekend, Jellyfin will take like 5 min.

Reddit told me Anonymous is taking credit for it. Wonder if it is true or not. Either way, I do hope this is an attack on him.

I’ve just described to you a person that really wanted to learn something, and did it. Put in hours of mental and physical effort. And your response is that nobody wants to learn, and that people only learn what they want to learn? Which is self-evident and vacuous.

No need to be rude man. You also described the same person as unwilling to learn something. And I didn’t say that person wanted to learn or not, I generalized and said people don’t want to learn.

I believe we are both trying to say the same thing with different emphasis.

You are emphasizing that people do like to learn, but there are external forces that encourage/convince them not to.

I am emphasizing that people don’t like to learn, unless they want to overcome the external forces. I just don’t buy the excuse of external factors stopping people from learning, that’s part of the learning process.

Your example talks about a person building a pc. Yes it takes time, energy, money, and learning. But it also has A TON of resources to help with that on the internet, definitely makes it easier. It is now a famously recommended project for anybody, even kids. It was also something that is ‘new’ to them, I assume.

Typing this out made me realize a distinction I failed to bring up. People do like to learn, but people HATE to UN-learn ideas. The person in your example wanted to learn something new, but did not want to unlearn the iphone walled garden.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15587446

I used https://kiwix.org/en/ to download wikipedia originally.

Then I saw in the desktop app that you can download a lot more “wikis” other than wikipedia. This is their library. https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

https://library.kiwix.org/viewer#ifixit_en_all_2024-12/home/home

It includes computers, phones, game consoles, appliances, vehicles, tools, even medical devices and apparel.