Honestly, I’m worried. Current Linux options are expensive and or shitty. IDK if Sailfish is still a thing. I can’t use Apple. If I keep taking good care of my not-so-shitty Xiaomi phone, maybe I have a couple more years until I’m pwned.

PostmarketOS seems promising, though.

Do it again!

Lol. Your second sentence should be the headline of this news.

Have you seen LLMs trying to play chess? They can move some pieces alright, but at some point it’s like they just decide to put their cat in the middle of the board. Now, true chess engines are playing at their own level, not even grandmasters can follow.

Yeah, adding all the surveillance technology developed in the last 40 years, so you dont dare to take your eyes out of the display, for example.

Well, that’s a target market right now. Intel GPUs are doing better than expected, I think, thanks to all the big corporations abandoning “normal consumers”.

At least in Linux, you can do this with any image using something like jp2a which is usually packaged into any distro repo.

Yes, that’s advertising allright.

Are they stupid as fuck? On the knowledge of whom does he think their models are trained? Idiotic thieves.

What?! To pay Africa’s debt for sure.

No, they don’t. They just take whatever they get served. The only ones wanting are the ones not wanting it, the others will just use whatever they get. This move won’t get them users, if anything, they will loose and fragment their userbase even more.

Not necessarily. Data suggests that most people that feels that way have average sized penises. It’s not reality what fails to them, it’s their ego.

So, basically we are wasting energy and natural resources on things that in turn will waste energy and natural resources while climate change is accelerating and human population is still growing? Are we stupid?

All meanwhile they help to kill humanities education.

Based. Those things will only get pricier.

Yes, there are several other ways to interpret the 1000 streams number. One very plausible way is Spotify’s not trying hard enough with new, unknown artists, as if they just want cheap money. I agree Spotify doesn’t value new artists. I wouldn’t upload music to that shit platform, there are multiple reasons why not to, but that’s another discussion.

No, they aren’t. Yes for hosting, but that’s cheaper than the music itself if it’s quality music and not AI slob. The algorithms are heavily influenced by popularity, which is kind of a trap for new artists. It’s only perhaps a possibility for a very popular artist like Taylor Swift, to really access that amount of users. I get what you say, it’s a for-profit, that’s fine, but they are not helping new artists at all, from my POV, they don’t get to brag about that.

Because you worked to make the music happen, took the time to upload it to their servers, and they have it available in their for-profit platform?

Same, but not a flagship, not at all.

Jeremy “Iks” Hunter IX

Edit: IX. Iks. I think we got it right now.