It would help all of their competitors. A non zero number of people would move from windows to each of the others.

Whether or not the number moving away from windows and on to each of the others is significant or not is a different matter.

The biggest thing helping Linux right now is Valve's work improving the gaming experience, IMO.

My favourite way to teach how averages aren't always the perfect metric is:

Most people have higher than the average number of arms.

It's not because of commercial real estate that offices are forcing people back.

It's simply because managers who are in charge of making that decision prefer to be in the office.

They like everyone in the office, so they're forcing it on everyone. Either because it makes them feel more powerful to look at all their underlings, because they enjoy working face-to-face (probably how they got high up in the company), or because they suck at their jobs and can only micro-manage by looking over people's shoulders

Ok that's frustrating but why would anyone make expensive changes to a place they don't own?

Also for security cameras, connect them to something like a Synology NAS so you have the recordings locally and then configure a firewall to block the cameras from any internet access.

Viewing the cams remotely just means using a VPN to connect to your network and then connecting to the NAS.

It's possible to maintain privacy/control and still use modern tech.

Isn't it focused on negative news about musk? Which I enjoy, not gonna lie.

For people who value reading: if they have no books on their shelves. They might be avid readers of ebooks, or just use the library.

But this should clear itself up with a rather simple discussion started by mentioning a book you read recently.

Your fundamental premise is wrong. We do have knowledge about it because it's supposed to be the same app it was before. But lemmy instead of reddit.

And we're not talking a AAA game here where it'll cost 60 dollars and there's no reason to prepurchase. Apps are usually cheaper than a coffee.

I just don't understand how people find accounts they like to follow.

But the good news is that it'll be the coolest year for the foreseeable future 🙂

I feel like most people who get their news primarily through Facebook, are horribly misinformed.

So maybe this is a good thing?

Things like weather will be fine unless you have an unreasonable boss/job.

But people should only use work computers the way they would if they knew the entire company was watching a live stream of their desktop.

Even for working from home, I put my work laptop on the isolated guest wifi because I don't trust them the same way they don't trust me.

Because it's clearly the best for numerous reasons.

• when the 4 digit year is first, it's obvious month is second. So 2024-01-02, for example, is definitely jan second and not Feb first (unless you're insane)
• you can name things with the date first and an alphabetical sort will automatically sort the files by date (you can't always sort by date and sometimes you actually want a mixed sort like this

He's successful in spite of himself. He makes terrible decisions constantly.

My favourite one I've done so far: I put a motion sensor near where my cat goes every morning when she wants to look outside. This then opens the blinds enough for her to see.

This works better than a simple timer because the blinds are loud enough to wake us up sometimes and she doesn't want to necessarily look outside every day.

Well no one can prove they have a mind to anyone other than themselves.

And to extend that, there's obviously a way for electrical information processing to give rise to consciousness. And no one knows how that could be possible.

Meaning something like a true, alien AI would probably conclude that we are not conscious and instead are just very intelligent meat computers.

So, while there's no reason to believe that current AI models could result in consciousness, no one can prove the opposite either.

I think the argument currently boils down to, "we understand how AI models work, but we don't understand how our minds work. Therefore, ???, and so no consciousness for AI"

Before he revealed himself to be one

AWS is perfect for large operations that value stability and elasticity over anything else.

It's very easy to just spin up a thousand extra servers for momentary demand or some new exciting project. It's also easy to locate multiple instances all over the world for low latency with your users.

If you know you're going to need a couple servers for years and have the hardware knowhow, then it's cheaper to do it yourself for sure.

It's also possible to use aws more efficiently if you know all of their services. I ran a small utils website for my friends and I on it a while ago and it was essentially free since the static files were tiny and on s3 and the backend was lambda which gives you quite a few free calls before charging.

Also, a lazy worker at home will be lazy in an office too.

If someone likes to procrastinate, you can't really change that via environment alone.

Could have been the mind worms all along, "No it's perfectly safe. Please bring your delicious brains to our land"