These features are always useless because while recognizing a phone, email or date is great, the actions are always only tied to Microsoft apps like Edge and Teams, which nobody wants and are the worse option possible.

Nope, that was a massive misinterpretation that DDG clarified many times already.

Don’t worry, no matter how much you explain it Reddit and Lemmy will still act like Ubuntu is the devil and worse than Windows 11.

It’s by far the most commonly used distro, specially for beginners, which means Lemmy must hate it to protect their delusion that using Linux makes them special or superior or intellectuals, when in reality.

And I say all that as an Arch user, btw, who doesn’t like how Ubuntu’s packages are maintaned and shared.

They already had this type of local processing for years, I believe it was introduced on iOS 9 (perhaps earlier). You can already search “mountain” or “Eiffel tower” or “dog running” and it will work. So if they’re now doing AI processing externally, they’re certainly doing it for different reasons. My bet is they’re collecting personal data regardless of what the ToS claims, and that they’re for sure training AI models on users’ pictures.

I suggest you actually read the documentation about the things you link. As explained, the “open” Nvidia drivers are actually a tiny open component around a proprietary closed blob that actually drives the GPU.

A super important nuclear structure related to calcium mobilization was only discovered a few years ago. It will take years before it ever appears in bachelor’s textbooks, let alone high school material. Cellular biology is far for complete, and biology as a whole is still completely filled with open questions.

We do suffer a lot with a lack of funding though. If your research isn’t immediately important for a medication, good luck working with a far from optimal budget.

Another early Linux retro gaming handheld that came way before the current boom of handhelds was the Dingoo (2009).

Dingux, the custom Linux build made for it, was the origin of most of the work that later appeared on thw Bittboy, LDK and PocketGo, which in turn created the success behind companies like Anbernic.

It never fails to frustrate and shock me when I see public entities relying on private software and platforms.

My local schools rely heavily on Windows and Google. Important Govermental notices are shared on Twitter first.

This is nuts. I really think public infrastructure should be mandatorily tied to open and free solutions.

I used to think the same. I’m all for digital privacy, but listening to a microphone? That’s ridiculous, the legal ramifications would be enormous. Plus, encoding and sending all this data? Not practical, and of course, we are fully aware of confirmation bias and selective memory so for sure those personal anecdotes must be coincidences.

Then it happened to me. I use a VPN, all my devices have a billion types of ad blocking, private DNS, JavaScript disabled by default and so on. Then I mention a product next to my girlfriend, a product that only interested me and I had recently discovered, nothing she was ever aware of… and while I was still right next to her, five minutes later, her phone is showing up ads for said product. Her phone, not mine. The product is not Coca-Cola, it’s not something that often pops up.

What other explanation could there be? The coincidence of the year? They are listening.

and underage looking girls and excessively gross porn

hol’ up

Keep in mind even if you decline everything and use a special ROM, your SIM card is a tiny computer running Java (yes, I know) and your carrier can run arbitrary applets there with access to your modem and some RAM.

It has been shown multiple times that they can track locations this way, and some exploit chains have allowed them to use this to fetch other data from the phone.

I’m sure calling it a “dev kit” and not a product “expected to sell many units” whilst having inventories full of the thing and a few failed attempts at pushing sales is how they’re going to try to spin this failure.

They did not. Only the firmware is open source, the driver is closed

Pretty much impossible at the moment, but I wish Linux had smarter VRAM management. At the moment its the most naive approach possible, which works, but doesn’t handle VRAM pressure nearly as smoothly as Windows.

This is (partially) the reason most of these “Windows vs Linux 14 games tested!” videos show a small difference in average FPS but a large deficit in 1% lows.

I’d entertain your theory, but Facebook is pretty much only kept alive by boomers and Mark’s AI multiverse web 3.0 became a commercial failure, so I don’t think your idea that he understands young people and is just ahead of me holds.

I think Zuckerberg fundamentally misunderstands humans. I don’t even mean the memes of calling him a robot or lizzard or whatever, I truly believe being a billionaire in a tech bubble from a young age severely harmed his notion of his own species to the point of being pathological.

Can it erase the embarassing moments from my past that keep me up at night?

Those systems are running frozen versions of Windows, they’re not being updated. Microsoft could introduce a patch for Windows 10 and 11 that removes the vulnerability and people running old software on XP would still be able to run it. Or, at the very least, make it disabled by default but let advanced users and sysadmins re-enable the vulnerable code.

That’s what they did with SMB 1.0, for instance. It’s disabled on any modern Windows install, even though a lot of universities and companies still have infrastructure based on it. If you browse the “advanced system features” options you can re-enable it manually, with the knowledge that you’re voluntarily opening up your system to well known dangerous exploits in exchange for backwards compatibility.

EDIT: So further reading that’s exactly what they’re doing. The drivers aren’t loaded by default on Windows 10 and 11, they need to be enabled after plugging a legacy device type requiring it.

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Acetaminophen

Which is an horrendous drug that’s extremely toxic for your liver, easy to overdose on, and only recently known to need a lower dosage for safe usage by women. However, it’s the US’ go to drug because of a commercial dispute and marketing campaign against metamizole, which may perhaps once in a blue moon if you’re very unlucky and maybe perhaps predisposed cause immunological complications.

Acetaminophen is seriously scary to be taken as lightly as it is in certain countries. Do not buy it simply due to a cold or flu.