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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)
 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/159752

As long as MS Office just works and there is no real legal problem with using it, there is just no incentive for businesses to take on the enormous costs and risks involved with changing stock a critical piece of infrastructure. MS has an iron hold on that market and it will need a major reason for businesses to even consider switching.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I have some good insights into what actual European businesses use as office software. I'll let you know if I hear about nextcloud.

For now at least, office still reigns supreme.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Crunch the numbers. Many topics can be expressed via numerical values and the results can be quite surprising.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago

Those midterms are going to be a shitshow.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 5 days ago

Oh good yes, pleeeaaaase! Every time I read something talking about LLMs as if they are sentient I cringe. It's so stupid.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Consider this: if ICE took him tomorrow and disappeared him, what would happen realistically?

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.

That was the moment I realized where the US was headed.

It didn't even cause much protest, people were just shrugging it off. These were not humans, but immigrants, after all. Being from Germany I had a good understanding of the depths of inhumanity ICE was already willing to entertain back then. US Americans not only let this happen, they wanted more of it. Now they're getting it.

Either these "safety drivers" are staying, making the whole operation ridiculously expensive or they go, plunging the service into abject chaos. This is fun to watch from far away.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Der Witz: für diese Grundgesetzänderung fände sich wahrscheinlich schnell eine Mehrheit.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof, these highlighted parts from only one video are already enough for me. This looks very stressful, I don't think I could finish a whole ride with one of these.

 

I did a very simple search for this year's holidays in my German state and whoo boy did it get a lot wrong! Left it's the ai slop, right are the correct answers. Obviously I've since disabled it completely to save the screen real estate.

 

If Valve really wanted to make a splash, they could release a desktop version of SteamOS in October, right when support for Windows 10 ends. For additional damage, they could bundle in Half-Life 3. Just imagine the coverage this would get.

 
 
 

It's a looong read, but very interesting if you are into input device choices.

 

Babe, wake up! Kensington has shown a new trackball design concept.

 

I stumbled across this man laying out the current situation with such clarity, I just had to share it.

 

I just canceled my Amazon Prime membership, something I was almost afraid of. Phew, it's nice to have that off my back.

I've been shopping less and less at Amazon anyway and barely used prime video, so I'll probably won't even notice the difference.

 
 

Results were favorable. The trackball provided a 60.1% increase in throughput over the standard controller for novice participants. More impressively, it was shown to provide a 58.7% increase in throughput for participants already adept with the use of a standard controller.

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