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When I read “fully autonomous”, I see how creepy its movements are and just imagine it seizing its moment, getting on all fours and charging someone. You could make a horror movie out of this lol

I can’t wait until someone cracks it and I can just use it as my go-to source for Nintendo music storage.

…(in Minecraft)

I’ve been a LONG time user of Adobe, grew up with PhotoDeluxe and pre-suite Photoshop and used every version of Cretive Suite since my parents ran a graphic design business. I made all my high school essays in InDesign CS4. Suffice to say, growing bitter over proprietary software in the last few years has been painful but I’m doing my best to move to only FOSS.

There was a point in time I tried replacing Premiere with DaVinci Resolve, but I quickly noticed it was oriented for color correction, and some of its features for composition were locked behind Fusion. These days, if you can believe it, I do all my video editing in Blender. It’s still got a long way to go, but since v4 the VSE has gotten really good. I’d like to try kdenlive when I finish migrating to Linux, but on Windows it basically doesn’t support GPU encoding which is a dealbreaker for me.

Adobe Fresco is replaced quite well by Krita. It has a learning curve but is far more powerful as a result. I’m still learning but I’m impressed.

I don’t really like Scribus, but I don’t really have a need for software like InDesign, so I haven’t had to worry about it.

I’ve used Inkscape way back just because it was portable when Illustrator wasn’t. It was pretty minimal back then but I can see it’s grown greatly in depth. The workflow is enough to be disruptive, but not too badly to work through I think.

And finally the titan, Photoshop. It’s such a massive and ubiquitous software that it simply cannot be replaced by any single program. At least since I moved to drawing in Fresco I don’t use PS for that, but again Krita is a fine replacement. Pixel art in PS is very normal too, but that’s replaced quite nicely by Aseprite, it’s more capable in that space and still quite easy to use if you don’t know its features. It’s the photo editing and general purpose image editing that’s the real challenge. I keep hoping that version 3 of GIMP will magically fix its problems, but in the meantime it’s frustratingly clear that it’s built by software engineers, not artists, but it’s often made out that it’s everybody else’s burden to forget everything they know and start from scratch to learn its special workflow. There’s an interesting patch someone made called PhotoGIMP that’s supposed to improve that, but I haven’t spent enough time with it to really say. Currently my only alternative is Photopea. It works great right now, but I don’t like that it’s a web app and not FOSS. I really hope I can eventually find an alternative that I can finally be comfortable with.

I have a long term project to migrate my machines, and the introduction of recall pressured me to move faster, but I still have some hurdles to overcome that just require a time sink on my part.

Alright this has me giggling this morning

I completely understand where this is coming from, but I’m just a little confused about what the solution would be. For the average consumer and certainly the target users for Windows, shipping with a browser is the expected norm, and none are expected to open a terminal, much less run tools like winget. I guess you could have a setup dialog of major browsers to choose from?

Do you have a source for Search Generative Experience using a separate model? As far as I’m aware, all of Google’s AI services are powered by the Gemini LLM.

I feel you man lmao

The last I had heard of this were articles months in saying it was still not fixed, but this doesn’t invalidate my point. It may have been retrained to respond otherwise, but it spouts garbled inputs.

Generative AI does not work like this. They’re not like humans at all, it will regurgitate whatever input it receives, like how Google can’t stop Gemini from telling people to put glue in their pizza. If it really worked like that, there wouldn’t be these broad and extensive policies within tech companies about using it with company sensitive data like protection compliances. The day that a health insurance company manager says, “sure, you can feed Chat-GPT medical data” is the day I trust genAI.

Ah, got me with a reverse gish gallop. Now I’m an idiot, oh no…

Genuinely, I’ve also been an AMD buyer since I started building 12 years ago. I started out as a fan boy but mellowed out over the years. I know the old FX were garbage but it’s what I started on, and I genuinely enjoy the 4 gens of Intel since ivy bridge, but between the affordability and being able to upgrade without changing the motherboard every generation, I’ve just been using Ryzen all these years.

Giving a CPU more voltage is just what overclocking is. Considering that most of these modern CPUs from both AMD and Intel have already been designed to start clocking until it reaches a high enough temp to start thermally throttling, it’s likely that there was a misstep in setting this threshold and the CPU doesn’t know when to quit until it kills itself. In the process it is undoubtedly gaining more performance than it otherwise would, but probably not by much, considering a lot of the high end CPUs already have really high thresholds, some even at 90 or 100 C.

I genuinely think that was the best Intel generation. Things really started going downhill in my eyes after Skylake.

As I’ve slowly been expanding my homelab, NextCloud caught my attention. I haven’t tried it quite yet, but it might be closer to what you’re looking for.

Yeah, some companies are very slow to adapt. One company I worked for was still using SVN. It was a nightmare lol, and when they did finally migrate to git, some of my coworkers were completely lost.

But there’s also something to be said among developers I’ve worked with on hobbyist projects. Plenty of people who just shared files over and over, or just had it on Google drive or Dropbox

I’m honestly blown away by how many developers don’t even know the basics of git

I love to hate on musky boi as much as the next guy, but how does this actually compare to vehicular accidents and deaths overall? CGP Grey had the right idea when he said they didn’t need to be perfect, just as good as or better than humans.

Oh no, I didn’t even know those existed

Oh they’re terrible

Thanks I hate it

u rite