ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.
The reason I say this is that I've been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven't made any perceptible progress in that time. They're at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.
It gets me how every single comment is the same three tired old jokes about AI. Between "It's only good for imagining up stuff that has no right answer", "And so the downward spiral begins as LLM's are trained on the output of previous LLM's." and "But somehow it still can’t remember what I said one minute ago " we've covered every single anti-LLM talking point.
For one, it looks like the actual training data hasn't changed, even if the model has changed and it's been able to access the internet for a while, this is non-news. For another, a lot of people haven't tried GPT v4 and are just complaining about the free version sucking, well, things you get for free often suck.
And so the downward spiral begins as LLM's are trained on the output of previous LLM's
I think we can be fairly confident that the people in charge of training the LLMs have heard this too and are probably on top of it.
Agreed. I've been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I'm reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it's so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it's time to make the jump.
Excellent point. If stealing is what keeps people fed, then the taxes that keep that store open are worth it. But also I think the reported rates of theft are wildly overstated, here in Australia we had our two largest stores basically admit they made up the whole "epidemic" so they'd have an excuse to raise prices.
This is the answer. In a hotel things like pool / sauna / games room / etc.. are always a dice roll. It'll either be the cheapest thing the owners can put together without actually being sued or incredible.
I've never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably, so "better than bluetooth" is not hard.
Absolutely. The security argument is used so often I'm surprised people aren't more cynical about it.
They're not offsetting anything, they still charge money for the boxed copy sold in stores. This is pure profit for them.
I think they'll go even harder, making Windows only run stuff purchased through the Windows Store so they can completely lock in the market.
I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I'll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.
I always run with hardware acceleration off on all my Firefox machines, it seems to cause a lot of issues and the videos play just fine without it.
This actually sounds like a really cool feature.