Sckharshantallas

In this time and age, do you still doubt that Linux might be outlawed for consumers? To prevent criminal activity, of course /s.

Apple’s market share in the U.S. fell from 56% to 49%, while Samsung’s share surged from 23% to 31%

As much as they come up with reasons of why this happened, the reasons given don’t make sense to me. It’s not like there’s anything new to Samsung having a wide range of devices (from cheap to expensive) and iPhones changing little from one version to the next.

I’d guess the reason is something else, like an unusual deal or promo going on etc.

For example, the main reason iPhones got a huge market share in Japan is because in the old times they used to be cheap because of a deal between Apple and a carrier there (SoftBank).

It doesn’t work because the car’s front is shaped to minimize drag, and a turbine would add drag — forcing the motor to work harder to maintain speed. Turbines generate energy by resisting airflow, not letting it slide past. So you’re not harvesting free energy; you’re paying for it with more fuel or battery.

This cracked me up.

They’re made to be inoffensive and generic, in a way that shelters companies from being sued.

In case the website wouldn’t let you save it. I don’t think the Instagram app allows you to save posted photos, for example.

That’s actually quite common in large companies, just recently I read this story:

Back then, there was close to zero collaboration between divisions at Microsoft […] In late 2013, my team was building Skype for Web, which we positioned as a competitor to Google Hangouts. We had a problem, though: in order to start a video or voice call, users needed to download a plugin which contained the required video codecs. We noticed Google Hangouts did the same on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not on Chrome because the plugin was bundled with the browser for a frictionless experience. […] My team decided we had to offer the same frictionless experience on Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, which was in development at the time. […] the team politely and firmly rejected bundling our plugin into the new Microsoft browser. The reason? Their KPI was to minimize the download size of the browser, and helping us would not help them reach that goal.

You’re allowed to support Ukraine, except a… smaller version of it.

Wouldn’t be surprised if all this crap is being written by ChatGPT nowadays with no input from a real person.

Now thinking about it, LunaticdIn seems like the most fertile ground for AI to take over with this sort of bullshit.

This kind of logic never made sense to me, like: if an AI could build something like Netflix (even if it needed the assistance of a mid software engineer), then it means every indie dev will be able to build a Netflix competitor, bringing the value of Netflix down. Open source tools would quickly reach a level where they’d surpass any closed source software, and would be very user-friendly without much effort.

We’d see LLMs being used to create and improve rapidly infrastructure like compilers, IDEs and build systems that are currently complex and slow, rewrite any slow software into faster languages etc. So many projects that are stalled today for lack of manpower would be flourishing and flooding us with new apps and features in an incredible pace.

I’m yet to see it happen. And that’s because for LLMs to produce anything with enough quality, they need someone who understands what they’re outputting, someone who can add the necessary context in each prompt, who can test it, integrate it into the bigger scheme without causing regressions etc. It’s no simple work and it requires even understanding LLMs’ processing limitations.

When you have nothing to actually write about that’s the time you start to write about speculation.

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What would be the advantage of ChromeOS over Android anyway? Does it have better memory management when it comes to tabs open or something like that?

Difficult to predict how this will go, I think these companies already offer such small prices for the base minimum stuff that’s hard to compete.

It’s probably good to have more competition, but very hard to break into and actually be good.

Begun has the LLM Wars.

He/she is onto something though. An example of it is games made by people who care and love the field being bold and pushing for new cool and interesting stuff vs. games made by companies just wanting money with 0 effort and using the same boring formula.

It can if it’s using something like RAG.

This is true, it’s like other platforms that value content creation rather than value, so people keep repeating the same thing. I haven’t worked as a moderator ever so I don’t know what’s possible or impossible, but I think many of these problems are a result of poor moderation though.

Sometimes moderation needs to be a bit unpopular to have the community work in some way.

I don’t know, Reddit also has more niche communities that just don’t have enough people in platforms like Lemmy.

I don’t have experience with it, but I’m sure it’s possible to pass the GPU control to the VM, I don’t know how well this sort of thing works.

I think in general, VMWare is the best at working for Windows images.