If it remained open source I`d see no reason to panic yet, that is the single most important part. Though having read through so many posts I’m still not sure if that is the practical case for the FF addon I care about.

I have to look at the alternatives again. I would be fine using Proton for this, but ProtonPass has a couple of issues still. I’m guessing there is no usable free password manager outside of these two, that has a FOSS client doing client side encryption paired with free cloud storage for the passwords. I’m not completely against self hosting, but it would be inconvenient, I’m not going to keep a PC online just for this when I’m not home.

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Bitwarden continues development of open source code under GPLv3. Code under the commercial license is just as viewable and transparent on GitHub. This licensing model provides additional legal protection for select features.

I suppose I can ride this out for a while longer then.

That would be better.

So I suppose not even DDR4 prices will normalize in the next 3 years, thank you Intel.

I don’t know about other normal people, but I’m certainly actively maintaining my own vibecoded apps as long as it’s affordable to do so. By that I mean they give me the niche functionality I want & new features are not added anymore, but if a pillow or pyqt update breaks my app, I may figure out how to fix it even on my own.

more like the 70s the 0070s.

That amount is in the ballpark of 20 hours of diesel consumption in the US, that will surely do it!

Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.

It wouldn’t be very useful without it also stopping not only cognitive decline, but also all our accumulated mental baggage.

Most of these are very modular, so should be very easy to maintain. I guess we’ll just have to see.

Software that was forever, “almost working properly.”

That describes how I feel about MS Word quite well.

Looking at the PR’s & git activity & the interest in this whole project, I doubt LLM powered humans couldn’t keep this running if nothing unexpected -like a lawsuit- happens.

My personal experience with LLMs is that they are very good for adapting existing code to newer libraries & various other changes.

What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.

I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …

Gimp is useful software for certain cases, but it’s not really a Photoshop competitor or alternative. Maybe it could be if someone added the missing features, but I don’t see that happen anytime soon.

It’s defo not a decomp. The footprint wouldn’t be anywhere so tiny & the code so tidy.

Anyway this: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/115 makes it suddenly very interesting, because this one thing could propel the usefulness beyond LR, given it actually works well.

It’s a sub for AI actions, not sure if that bit is all that relevant.

Gilmore Girls is probably the best feminist television ever made, even if it’s not explicitly and consistently feminist.

-Capon O’Beass

Matrix 4. It’s not a good movie, but the pacing & the electronic music are first class.

I can somewhat see this becoming popular among normal sighted women too for that reason, assuming it’s not cost prohibitive.

The reality is that Xiaomi fold 18 is doing the same as the very first folding phone. Meaning you have over-tempered glass that scratches from a fart & you have the mandatory plastic screen protector that is guaranteed to peel off within 3 years on a foldable. There are no material science breakthroughs here, they are just a bit ahead in hinge engineering & such.

Sure maybe people that are good at babying them or are very lucky can keep them in a working condition for a couple of years, but the concept itself is not great. At least i’m not a fan of plastic touch surfaces nor thick phones. I acknowledge that they are probably quite good for women who want to fit a full-size tablet in their ever so tiny tote bags, but that’s it.

Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form. In that hypothetical world could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.

I actually asked ChatGPT out of curiosity about James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton & it cherry picked things that were really said by KP, but are bullshit from a republican. Then again looking at Talarico’s side makes me waver if there is intentional bias at all, but overall it still feels like both candidates are shown in a relatively good light, with KP obviously gaining more.

Just the fact that ChatGPT and other LLMs are resistant to say bad things about politicians in general makes the results inherently biased & potentially very damaging.

There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix’s comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don’t need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.

I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.

If you care about Linux it’s worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough)
If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you’ll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you’ll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.

*If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it’s unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.