TheGrandNagus

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's more to cheating than moving quickly.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Indeed.

I have an Immich instance running on my home server that backs up my and my wife's photos. It's like an open source Google Photos.

One of its features is an local AI model that recognises faces and tags names on them, as well as doing stuff like recognising when a picture is of a landscape, food, etc.

Likewise, Firefox has a really good offline translation feature that runs locally and is open source.

AI doesn't have to be bad. Big tech and venture capital is just choosing to make it so.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don't see that being the case, it's relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

Seems to me like they're targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

So do other Linux PCs on the market, but they can't help Netflix's shitty DRM.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Good. Honestly it's staggering they've supported it for this long. It's hard to envisage such an old system browsing the web using Firefox, the modern web is so bloated that any 32-bit system will seriously struggle.

It's much better to have that developer/testing effort spent elsewhere. Mozilla doesn't exactly have the infinite resources that Google has.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NHS England is expected to be brought back into the Department of Health within two years, while the cuts to integrated care boards (ICBs), which plan health services for individual regions, will reduce their headcounts by 50%.

NHS Providers' chief executive Daniel Elkeles said: "This is a pragmatic step that means planned redundancies can now go ahead.

So this appears to be related to bringing NHS England out of being a quango and back into public control. That's a bit of a relief, actually. The headline had me worried.

I think reversing Cameron's move to make NHS England a quango with an extra layer of middlemen is a good one.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

u can shortn txt lk this 2

But, much like the thorn, it's quite jarring.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (6 children)

If you have a problem with it, tell us why.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why would the government bail them out?

The government doesn't bail out retailers. Does Woolworths, Netto, and Wilko not ring a bell?

E: you're American, so they probably genuinely don't ring a bell.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I won't bash Mint, because I think Mint Cinnamon is great (if a little ugly out of the box).

For the past 3-4 years, though, I've been using Fedora and I've been very impressed. Almost as cutting edge as Arch, yet it's well-tested and in my experience rock-solid stable.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Although it's ambiguous how much of this is due to AI data centres and how much is the natural ramp-down of DDR4 production.

DDR3 also increased substantially in price a few years after DDR4 became available.

 
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