Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun. My Steam Deck is blocked from the internet for that reason, but a fair number of games on Steam won’t work without connectivity. I seem to remember hearing about some girl who shares a huge collection of games that don’t require connectivity, though.
99% of the population is either too lazy…
Nudges an unopened box of Zigbee door sensors ordered 2 years ago to the back of the shelf.
Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.
the issue imo is a legislative one
Couldn’t agree more. Feels quite monopolistic that everyone buying mass-produced, commodity hardware is also forced to buy a Windows license.
MafiaSoft is definitely taking their piece of the action, but laptops from smaller companies like System76 end up costing a fair amount more extra for equivalent hardware than the $50-$100 tax you’re otherwise paying for an OS you’re going to promptly replace. I’d say vote with your wallet, but I realize not everyone can afford to do so.
Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC
Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?
I think IPA where every sound has one symbol would be a lot better than our current barely phonetic writing system. Not sure how to broadly effect such a change, though, so guess I’ll just write in the suboptimal way that everyone already understands instead of being an opinionated asshole and having everyone ignore what I write while rolling their eyes.
I’ve distro hopped back to Mint and stayed on Mint over a year now. I think Mint being beginner-friendly kind of makes it a victim of its own success, because as someone who has been using Linux several years, Ubuntu without Snaps and a highly polished UX is pretty ideal. PopOS has the same value proposition, but I like Cinnamon way better than Cosmic, or even KDE.
Nvidia announced that it would invest $100 billion into OpenAI, OpenAI announced that it would pay $300 billion to Oracle for computing power, and Oracle announced it would buy $40 billion worth of chips from Nvidia.
I can’t help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing." “That’s not true”, responded the second economist. “We increased the GDP by $200!”
Except the way it actually works is Larry, Jensen, and Sam keep the money while the rest of us eat shit.
Given how few upvotes this has, it seems people in this thread don’t like Microsoft’s policy, but also have a moral objection to running a script to get the extended updates free.
I just set a static IP in Windows, then block that IP from the internet in my OpenWRT firewall.
Correct, nothing to hide because nobody gets their games from the high seas.
Setting up full-disk encryption on a Steam Deck with an on-screen keyboard should definitely be an option during SteamOS installation, but it’s a pain as it stands. It’s my only Linux device not using LUKS.
Seems a lot of distros put it under an advanced section in the installer, but I think the “advanced” option should be not enabling full-disk encryption, meaning you know what you’re doing and have assessed the risk.
Yeah, I’m used to GPT and Claude for code, so Duck.ai just pales in comparison, as much as I appreciate that it might be more private.
Edit:
Actually, seems you can get access to more advanced models if you give them $10 / month.
In my experience, Duck.ai is practically useless, but their AI Search Assist is pretty spot on a fair amount of the time.
I use Restic and also use Backrest to have a UI to browse my repos. I would use Backrest for everything, but I’d rather have my backup config completely source controlled.
I see where this is going: