Wasn’t that the obvious deal from the beginning? You buy the subsidized hardware and ignore Facebook’s gravity as long as you can. That’s the catch for the low price.

Anyone who thought otherwise is, well, thinking wishfully.

Maybe I missed the joke, but street corn is so delicious it’s unreal.

Try some if you’re in Texas. It’s a staple here.

Is the joke that its AI slop b/c the recipe is so wonky?

TBH anyone who buys Samsung appliances/electronics has done this to themselves. They’ve been notorious for this, for years.

They’re unreliable anyway.

I guess if you get a deal you can neuter them, and sometimes you’re just stuck with it if it comes with the place, but still.

…Isn’t it the same thing?

It’s obviously AI, so it pokes fun at Trump’s shameless embrace of AI misinformation in the same way it pokes at his homophobia. It’s crude, like he is; that’s the point.

That’s actually cool.

There’s a point where modifications get so outrageous and unique that they can get away with this. There’s nothing special about a lifted dodge, but this. One doesn’t just casually acquire/maintain something like this.

I see what looks like nice double wishbones on the front too, and an okay height for its stance. It isn’t one of those crumby lifts that ruins the suspension.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/oil

Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.

Oh my god. This explains so much about US politics.

You don’t need LLMs for that. An iPhone is plenty powerful enough for image recognition and text classification.

That’s sorta the funny thing about AI. There’s tons of potential, but it’s just unimplemented. Even on PC, you pretty much have to have some Nvidia GPU and fight pip setting up python repos to get anything working.

The last feature is the mildly interesting one, but in my experience just not useful enough to do much, even on specific browsing finetunes or augmented APIs.

I guess shake to summarize is mildly interesting, but not really? I simply can’t trust it. And I can just paste the (much more concise) relevant text into a chat window and get a much better answer.

To be fair, those older BMW Zs are tiny and super cute.

…I want one.

Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?

Could I, liked recolor webpages? Automate ublock filters? Detect SEO/AI slop? Create a price/feature table out of a shopping page?

See, this would all be neat like auto translate is neat.

But I’m not really interested in the 7 millionth barebones chatbot UI. I’m not interested in loading a whole freaking LLM to auto name my tabs, or in some cutsie auto navigation agent experiment that still only works like 20% of the time with a 600B LLM, or a shopping chatbot that doesn’t do anything like Amazon/Perplexity.

That’s the weird thing about all this. I’m not against neat features, but “AI!” is not a feature, and everyone is right to assume it will be some spam because that’s what 99% of everything AI is. But it’s like every CEO on Earth has caught the same virus and think a product with “AI” in the name is like a holy grail, regardless of functionality.

Twitter/YouTube isn’t free speech. It’s not open discourse. It is an algorithm that decides what to show people based on how engaging it is, individually.

I can’t emphasize this enough; there is nothing fair about it, and it’s not a “debate” because it sycophantic by design. Any right to free speech shouldn’t be equated with that.

I meant “Linux User Groups” and “volunteer project.”

That’s a sort of perplexing way of saying there are free operating systems with good online support. And paid operating systems with paid support, if that’s what you prefer.

The above is using a lot of technical jargon that might be misleading.

You can get plenty of support for linux just fine. Including here on lemmy. Plenty of computer repair people should know how to do it, you honestly you’re better just talking to people on the internet instead of taking your whole computer to a repair shop. In other words… you’re kinda going in with the wrong mindset.

You can, indeed, pay for support for some linux operating systems. It will be over the internet though.

OP is right, though abrasive.

Engagement is engagement. The more people talk about Tate and Paul, even if it’s negative, the bigger their mansions get.

You don’t really need a computer repair person for a Framework. It’s designed to be trivially repairable: if something breaks, buy the part from their website, unplug it, and change it yourself.

If your operating system breaks, here’s what you do:

• Put anything important on a USB drive. You should always do this anyway.

• Hit “refresh my PC” in Windows. This will reinstall Windows for you.

I’m not directly answering your question because it’s kind of unanswerable. We have no idea if there are local “computer repair people” that can work on Linux (which is what you are talking about); only you would know that based on phoning up people around you where you live. Ask them “do you guys fix Linux stuff?”

You can install Linux yourself easily, and get a system that’s basically not going to get a virus on it anyway. You can even do it and keep windows: it’s not either/or.

Again, they’re tools. Some of the most useful applications for LLMs I’ve worked on are never even seen by human eyes, like ranking, then ingesting documents and filling out json in pipelines. Or as automated testers.

Another is augmented diffusion. You can do crazy things with depth maps, areas, segmentation, mixed with hand sketching to “prompt” diffusion models without a single typed word. Or you can use them for touching up something hand painted, spot by spot.

You just need to put everything you’ve ever seen with ChatGPT and copilot and the NotebookLM YouTube spam out of your head. Banging text into a box and “prompt engineering” is not AI. Chat tuned decoder-only LLMs are just one tiny slice that a few Tech Bros turned into a pyramid scheme.

An OpenAI subscription does not count.

Otherwise, yeah… but it helps them less, proportionally. AAAs still have the fundamental Issue of targeting huge audiences with bland games. Making them even more gigantic isn’t going to help much.

AAs and below can get closer to that “AAA” feel with their more focused project.

Then most just won’t go on the Game Awards, and devs will go on using Cursor or whatever they feel comfortable with in their IDE setup.

I’m all against AI slop, but you’re setting an unreasonably absolute standard. It’s like saying “I will never use any game that was developed in proximity to any closed source software.” That is possible, technically, but most people aren’t gonna do that. It’s basically impossible on a larger team. Give them some slack with the requirement; it’s okay to develop on Windows or on Steam, just open the game’s source.

Similarly, let devs use basic tools. Ban slop from the end product.

Now my blood boils like everyone else’s when it comes to being forced to use AI at work, or when I hear the AI Voice on Youtube, or the forced AI updates to Windows and VS Code

You don’t hate AI. You hate Big Tech Evangelism. You hate corporate enshittification, AI oligarchs, and the death of the internet being shoved down your throat.

…I think people get way too focused on the tool, and not these awful entries wielding them while conning everyone. They’re the responsible party.

You’re using “AI” as a synonym for OpenAI, basically, but that’s not Joel Haver’s rotoscope filter at all. That’s niche machine learning.

As for the exponential cost, that’s another con. Sam Altman just wants people to give him money.

Look up what it takes to train (say) Z Image or GLM 4.6. It’s peanuts, and gets cheaper every month. And eventually everyone will realize this is all a race to the bottom, not the top… but it’s talking a little while :/

Yeah.

Maybe a technicality too. The rule said “no AI,” and E33 used AI.

I get their intent: keep AI slop games out. But in hindsight, making the restriction so absolute was probably unwise.