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You missed the other key detail: “and raised the price regardless of whether we use AI”.
I finally migrated my work email from Google workspace specifically because they jacked the subscription price and justified it due to Gemini, a tool I never used.
I've been having a heated discussion with meta ai on and off now.
Everytime there's an update on VS Code
The trick is to not play games with a rootkit
I only still have a windows install (that hasn't been booted for months at this point) just for my VR headset. Just can't get good performance out of Linux using it.
Just wanted to mention there are a few other reasons beside rootkits to still use windows, unfortunately.
I was able to play HL Alyx with an Index, on... I think it was an AMD 5950X CPU and an AMD 6900 XT GPU... on PopOS!... back in... 2022.
Not saying you are any kind of 'wrong', just saying it is possible now, and was even possible back in 22, to get very good VR performance out of a linux system... full res, maxxed out settings, 90hz/fps good.
You could replicate my old build now for roughly .. 65% the cost as I paid for the same parts back then. 5950x current sale price is less than half what it once was, 6900XT current sale price is a bit more than half, though you have to look a bit harder... GPU market is just generally insane right now.
EDIT: For a long while, generally speaking... AMD stuff is better supoorted and more performant on Linux... because many of the drivers are much much more open source.
Also... AMD CPUs and GPUs synergize and perform better when paired with each other, then pairing an Nvidia GPU with an AMD CPU, or Intel CPU with AMD GPU.
If Intel can pump up its GPU game, it may be able to achieve a similar result, but so far their GPUs... while honestly pretty good for the performance/price range they're in... they just don't come as close to the high end of GPU performance yet.
You don't have to enable any of those things, though. I don't even have W11 signed into a MS account. I use W11 mostly for C++ development these days though.
Don't you understand that being constantly nagged to use their products so they can monotise you is disrespectful? Would you keep a friend who started every conversation with a pitch for their MLM? I mean you're not obligated!
I understand that it's just business, but to me that's just capitalist Nirenberg defense. So please don't respond with some version of "it is what it is", because I view that as learned helplessness.
EDIT: what Windows users might not get is that booting into Windows occasionally means that it's going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who's logging in every day might not appreciate.
Sure you can silence most of that, until the next necessary security update.
it's going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who's logging in every day might not appreciate
I'm not sure what you're talking about because I just don't get any of those.
And I never get popups for them. I main Xubuntu but probably spend half my time in Windows 11 for software development and W11 is basically just a visual studio machine for me. I upgraded my CPU recently and it's pretty snappy now, too!
I'm not saying your view is wrong, I'm just saying that your experience has been completely different from mine apparently
The overwhelming majority of the nags can be disabled permanently with the right configuration, in a way that isn't trampled on by updates.
The main issue is that because Microsoft doesn't have anywhere close to sane defaults, many people believe it isn't possible to configure sanely.
It also doesn't help that Microsoft has crossed the threshold where there's too many people using it who think they know what they're doing well enough to speak authoritatively about its "issues" when they don't. Lots of Dunning Kreuger going on.
And that MS torched a ton of their learning resources for desktop config and admin stuff when they went all in on the cloud and are only now recreating some of them.
And people try to use it outside of the intended use case then get frustrated that things get weird. It's configired to be a daily driver or at least powered on once a week for updates, of course if you only use it every few months things are going to suck. You'd get laughed at if you were using a hammer to drive screws, but Windows is supposed to just work anyway with no rough edges?
An operating system isn't a car or a machine that needs to maintain running hours for optimal performance. If I have an operating system that I only need for one specific function, and only use it for that function, once or twice a month, there is no reason that that operating system should fail to do the one thing I need it to do every time I turn it on.
One should never need to hack their own computer to disable nags. Full fucking stop.
Me: Hey bank AI, how much money is in my account?
Bank AI: (long pause) It looks like there are five banks in your area.
“I found a PayDay Loan office near you.”
Whenever a chatbot is added to a product I use, the first and only thing I ask is how to disable it
Unless you want to disable Gemini which tells you to go to the settings to find a hallucinated feature. Thanks Google, but you're drunk!
When they forced that shit this week the first and only thing I asked gemini for was directions on how to disable gemini and it did provide incorrect names for the settings to disable itself. Close enough to find the right ones, but just a great example that it doesn't even have the right answers for their own products.
AI being forced into everything is such a shitshow.
I saw a comment from a store owner having to defend himself against a potential customer who was convinced he sold something AI said he did. She would not believe him when he said he did not sell such thing. Kept quoting the AI to him lmao
I don't understand why Gemini is such a disaster. DeepMind Gemma works better and that's a 27B model. It's like there are two separate companies inside Google fucking off and doing their own thing (which is probably true)
I don't mind AI now that I've vastly lowered my expectations of what it can do, and am aware that "AI" isn't actually real. An LLM might be useful in some situations where you can reasonably expect it to give a decent answer and where your task isn't particularly important.
Problem is, most of it is forced on you and is not privacy friendly.
I use as an advanced rubber duck for coding.
I know the answer is wrong but it gets my brain going into finding the right answer.
Like: "This is a ridiculous approach to make this. It would be much easier to just..."
Getting the wrong answer sometimes speed up the process, like some kind of dialectics.
After dabbling with AI for years, I think it should be called out for what it is; machine learning. We're not in the ballpark of intelligence and barely close to mimicking (artificial) intelligence.
Though ML has a lot of things going for it, my most successful results are with voice synthesizing. Almost flawless and pretty amazing considered the yield.
could be useful if it wasn't for capitalism smh
There are uses for AI in scientific and other things where using it for pattern matching to help find areas to focus on and then thoroughly doing the real work where accuracy is important are where the current AI really excels.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/05/24/ai-reveals-unsuspected-math-underlying-search-for-exoplanets/
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new exploding stars, identify new types of galaxies and detect the mergers of massive stars, accelerating the rate of new discovery in the world’s oldest science.
It didn't just spit out answers they treated as correct, it did stuff they looked into and found ways to improve their methods. That is the real benefit of AI.
Fuck, just tried to log into office.com to email a coworker that my stupid windows updates were going to make me late to a meeting and apparently I must use the copilot app instead of the web browser.
Fuck no, guess they will find out when I get there.
