Most of mine have been over Discord or Google Hangouts back when that was still a thing, but it's always been with people I've known for years prior to ever rolling up a character.
I'm vaguely aware of WINE, but I've also heard plenty of horror stories with getting it to work properly, same as any other venture with getting Windows based games to run in Linux. The only positive gaming experience I ever had with Linux was Knytt.
Fair enough. I share many of those complaints myself and it's part of why I'm seriously concerned about the long term viability of Microsoft. There's always been some legit grievances to levy against them but in the last 10 years or so it's gone from annoyance to genuine cause for concern.
With Windows being a full fledged gaming platform I fear for the long term preservation of a great many games if Microsoft manages to well and truly shit the bed. That was one of the big strengths of the PC platform over consoles. Yeah you have to fiddle with some config settings but at a base level you can just sort of play old games forever. If the Windows platform straight up dies or changes too drastically...well we could lose practically everything. Yeah you can do a lot with virtual machines, but at some point you're going to hit a wall with drivers and interaction between VM and host platforms that just sort of gums up the works and stalls out your ability to replicate the original experience(CRT monitors notwithstanding). The inevitably death of GOG isn't making me optimistic for the future either.
AI, or LLMs more specifically since that's the most visible variant, are basically just doing a whole bunch of math to predict the next symbol in a sequence of symbols based on probabilistic weights. So when you give it the input:
2+2=?
It takes a whole bunch of training data and sees that numerical symbols bunched together are often paired with operator symbols. This is determined by frequency of symbol patterns occurring in the training data. The vast majority of the time a set of numbers and operators ends with an equals sign(=) followed by another number. But sometimes it's a variable. The model itself has no actual knowledge of the symbols, they're just a pattern determined by frequency of occurrence and a big ol' hunk of math plus a pseudo-random seed used to simulate variance of response. So you can get a response that 2+2=4, or you could get a response of 2+2=5(because that's a symbol sequence that shows up a lot as an example of absurd claims during discourse on the internet which is what makes up most of the training data). However you can also get something like 2+2=x, because that's something that'll show up as a math exercise from some textbook that got fed into the training data. The seed is what will ultimately determine what kind of response comes out.
AI is basically a very advanced RNG-based spellcheck.
It has no knowledge and it cannot reason. It's all just weighted probabilities + some randomized variance.
I just find the Linux ideological possession to be utterly insufferable and its proponents are often willfully blind to the shortcomings of their own platform whilst exaggerating the flaws of Microsoft's and refuse to acknowledge its strengths. There's a bitterness that runs through their rhetoric that belies the fact that they're salty more people don't adopt Linux despite the fact that it's utterly unsuited to the vast majority of use cases of personal computer use.
So I guess my hostility towards it could be summed up as hostility towards the denial of reality.
They've been pushing bird flu for over 20 years at this point.
If you can't handle classics like those then you don't belong in a university or the West more broadly.
Leave.
The problem is AI operates off cold, hard logic.
This is wrong. You don't understand what AI models are doing at all if you believe this to be true.
The number of people who fundamentally misunderstand AI, even on this board, is a source of deep despair.
I've never understood the notion of playing tabletop RPGs with people who you aren't already friends with. It very cleanly circumvents all of this. Who roleplays with random strangers?
Implying windows wasn't always shit? lol
This isn't an offhand comment. This is something only *nix fanboys say. Ever.
It isn't meant to contribute or be a clever quip, it's you being self aggrandizing by making snide remarks about the operating system that outcompeted your preferred platform.
glorified spellcheck
I'm saving that for later. It's a good way to communicate to the idiot masses what LLMs actually are and dispel them of their misconceptions.
As opposed to what? MS-DOS?
Get the fuck out of here you blind zealot.
Stop .jpg posting twitter posts like a subhuman.
Their entire understanding of AI comes from Hollywood movies. The vast majority of the population has absolutely no business interacting with AI in any capacity whatsoever. They are simply too stupid and ignorant to be allowed access to the technology.
It's the latest incarnation of Eternal September, I swear.
I know what Socialism is because that's what's being advocated for.
In your head.
Go be a *nix fanboy somewhere else.
Why hand a good tool to a bad worker instead of handing a good tool to a good worker?
but things are still functioning.
No, the cracks just haven't become obvious to the average normie yet. I can point at Microsoft's horror show over the last ten years and every sysadmin will know of what I speak, but the average consumer hasn't developed any concerns regarding the long term stability of the Windows operating system.
Maybe the mother should have been more attentive to the fact that her son was deeply depressed and unstable and in desperate need of a more healthy social environment.
People who don't understand how this technology works need to be disallowed both from using it and from suing companies over it. This is like someone suing a company because the can-opener they made successfully opened the can of soup they wanted to eat for lunch.
No one involved in the production of that animation has ever needed to shave.
Everything you don't like you simply declare to be "socialism". You don't like the notion that White people can defend their own interests, therefor all you have to do to justify your opposition to it within your own worldview is to declare it to be socialism. It's post hoc rationalization of your opposition to White racial awareness and self defense. Because you're anti-White.
Does this have anything to do with why Windows and every other Microsoft product has been mismanaged into the fucking dirt over the last 10 years?
The most eloquent and well reasoned analyses are coming from the strangest of places lately.