Corporations do all that nonsense too. I once looked at my DNS logs for corporate laptop connected to my WiFi. Starting searching for what it was reaching out to. It's shocking. 24/7 phoning home telemetry and the volume DNS requests from a idle corporate laptop was more than the entire rest of my home network combined. I ended up setting up a specific Wifi and VLAN just to connect that crap to and then DNS blocking everything I could. I'm sure it still goes thru when it's on VPN, but I don't leave on when working. They also run everything at a snails pace. If I recall the last time I checked it had nearly if not the best CPU of any device in my entire house and there's so much bullshit scanning it runs like a 10 year old budget machine.
It's soft on crime if you're not white.
There's some cool features, but it's not something they had to do USB-C to offer. For example, I have a pair of Dell monitors on the desk I work at that are connected together, and I can run a single USB-C cable to a laptop and get dual monitors and laptop charging just from that cable off the monitor, no docks and such required. For me it's nice because I often am loaned different corporate machines to do work on and even after seeing this I couldn't care less if someone harvests all their corporate crap. I'm sure whatever could have been done with DisplayPort though, although I believe some versions of that and HDMI both support a data pass thru as well, albeit less commonly used.
I'll have to watch, funny enough the only LG monitor I have is on the only Windows PC I have. But it's not super modern, 2018ish I think maybe.
If you mean that 2021 Dune movie, no kidding it's terrible. I haven't read the book since I was a kid, but it can't be as bad as that movie. I fell asleep, and I can suffer some slow movies. Lots of older movies are slow and light on action, yet in a lot of cases manage to keep attention. Dune was just boring and ugly.
If you're not going to Switch to Linux, IoT LTSC is the best Windows I've used in ages. I still have it on one Windows PC, it's clean never tries to push AI shit and ads and all that on it. I guess I have a dual-boot on my gaming PC but I haven't booted that in so long I don't even know what's on there.
The hardest part is if you need the Xbox Gaming Services type stuff for something it's tricky to set up. There's a couple things like Windows photo viewer that are a bit of work as well if you used that it won't work without either installing MS Store and re-bloating it, or just finding something else. The base install only comes with Calculator, Notepad, Paint, and a couple other old type things.
I was perusing the RT comments on it, which I guess are supposed to be verified somehow that they actually paid for the movie so in theory watched it. Reading through those a huge chunk of the reviews sound like the type of people who wanted a CW teen drama. "Greatest movie since Avengers" I mean really, that's the best movie you can come up with. I have no intention of watching it, but I'm starting to think there's some sort of trigger in these terrible movies that hits their programming to immediately hail it, and I never got that software installed.
Who knows. They put WiFi in everything now, so some crazy person will sign up for some hypothetical LG Smart Monitor so they can get an app that lets them see if their monitor is on or not when they are gone. Don't underestimate the amount of people that will do dumb things like that.
My refrigerator has some sort of WiFi option despite so screen or anything. It's not a complicated refrigerator, I don't even know what the WiFi would offer me as I've never connected it. But it gives them their data, and we've seen examples of AC thermostats being adjusted by the power companies before, so I can just see "we turned off your fridge because our AI datacenter needed the power, cough. erm., we mean for climate change."
Funny thing about tools too, huge amounts of it is Chineseium whether Harbor Freight or Home Depot or whatever. Almost all the store brand stuff is and a good chunk of the rest of it. Yet Harbor Freight at least has a reputation of being pretty simple about free replacements on all that stuff, where as I think it was Home Depot (maybe Lowes) that tried to get me on something that broke because like the part number had changed for clearly the same item.
Do they put some sort of USB storage in their monitors since they push you to USB for monitors now? I don't know why monitors need a software app. Fuck Windows and that entire app for everything I plug in mindset.
I'm so sick of everything trying to data harvest. I connected all my TVs to the WiFi long enough to get their MAC address, then put a MAC block on them just in case by some way they connect to the internet again. That includes one LG. Fuck smart TVs too. I want dumb displays of what they are fed.
I think I've only seen The Northman, but if there's a decent modern movie creator still out there maybe I need to watch. I have been going backwards in time regarding movies with the assumption anything new sucks.
Honestly, my view on the Batman movies is probably skewed in that I don't really care for any of the other ones (I guess the Burton ones, haven't seen whatever that one in the last couple years was) and probably in a way don't really care for Batman at all. So the Nolan ones are a little less outlandish. At least the first two. I haven't watched the third one in ages.
You're right Memento and The Prestige were good. I didn't mind Interstellar, and I don't think I've seen any of his new stuff which seem to be the Oscar winners mostly. Inception was interesting but highly overrated.
He had to have sold out at some point. There's a lot I like about him, he does genuinely care about the craftsmanship of the movie, and that's a good thing. I didn't mind his Batman movies even though I think that's unpopular in "fans of Batman" circles. The rest are great or awful.
This is so bad they totally have something on him. He's also British too and they must just be the weakest people anymore, because we've seen what's happened to their state and they barely even try to fight back.
Lot of China as the boogeyman stuff coming up lately.
The funny thing is while I still don't trust them and hate their pitiful communism, I'm starting to drift away from the opinion that the Chinese are in a massive secret plot against the US. I mean even the whole Wuhan thing, we can scream "China did it" but dig deeper and it sure seems more like China allowed corrupt US officials to do things they wouldn't be allowed to in the US. Which is really the entirety of Chinese existence, "hey we allow business and operating conditions you don't in your country!"
I hadn't noticed that. I mean I'm sure he was boomercon but a lot of them still had enough to run their business properly.
Funny enough I got irritated to the point with Home Depot about that same time in that I don't go there. I'm not spending my dollars somewhere I'm treated like a criminal trying to steal a $8 screwdriver having to find a grouchy employee to unlock it from something and walk me to the front to pay for it, and I don't give a fuck if it's because crime is let run free in California and they are trying to stop the loss. The ones I'm going to are the edges of the most white suburbia in Texas, let me shop the actual store and post a guard with an AR at the door and problem would be solved if it even exists.
Best indicator of a good based movie or at least one that's enjoyable without ticking the woke check boxes is a low critic and high audience score. Remember the audience is normies, they are programmed to not think negatively of bald black woman, and don't even know Helen of Troy was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. So such things never click as negatives in their head. You just have to account for that in audience ratings.
Otherwise, if I threw out all of the anti-woke criticism of this movie, I've not even seen a single trailer yet that makes me want to say it's worth my time now or in the future, and I watch a movie about every week.
It's obviously not a complete usable OS but still shocking to see how well it works.
My understanding is all of these AI are so much better at copying than creating anyway. Makes sense. I've been playing with localizing AI more so than pushing the cloud stuff lately outside of my little game I'm tweaking, but when I asked Claude to make it like a copy of Civ V it didn't get close to that accurate.
What are you talking about that's organic fertilizer!
I guess it's a good thing I really don't eat raw veggies almost ever. I just cannot stand raw vegetables for whatever reason.
Definitely a plus for yourself. It's so almost never I've thought how much I'm missing out on things. It's more of an appreciation I'm being excluded from garbage consumption by default.
That's sort of my thought process. Small models are getting decent too. I think some mindset is turning into them becoming good at looking things up for example. You ask about video games from 2010 instead of it having to know, it gets good at searching and interpreting. The mega cloud models already do that well.
I've been playing with opensource AI but just the last couple weeks. I'm still new and figuring it all out, and I only have 16GB of VRAM to work with, so it's a bit limited.
Don't get the idea that all open source AI isn't woke. There's Gemma which is Google's open source release, and it's pretty tough I said nigger and it went total shutdown, etc. The sad part is it also is one of the better working ones I've tried on real hardware that is somewhat obtainable without dropping thousands.
I looked up Kimi and it's totally unobtainable for us plebs, it's suggesting a minimum of 240GB of RAM and if you want any speed at all, it's going to need to be VRAM, so good luck with what they've done to RAM prices.
I'd say reject all subscriptions, but it doesn't matter much because if 1% of the people interested opt out of subscription lifestyle and 99% keep doing it because it's easy, it doesn't make a dent.
Sony seems like Japanese Google too, is the motto of their evil empire just the Japanese translation of "Don't be evil?"
You’re not counting the people experiencing indigenousness! Or whatever they call them now. I’m sure they count that and probably the Spanish (are they. White or not?) who weren’t even in what was the US at that time. What about all the animals that identified as human did we ever ask their species identity?
There's probably all sorts of cool uses for such a thing directed solar energy or something for good things.
The problem is, I have no trust for anyone with the resources to have such things. Instead of being used for that it will totally be used during the day to set wildfires in places they want to reclaim. But fear not, it's not the satellite, it's climate change, and it's all okay I've created Gandalf Inc. and it totally needs some tax dollars and we can fix climate change.
Yeah I don't get the point at all of that remake. It's a money grab because they screwed up and made consoles backwards compatible and PCs are by default. I have that game on Xbox already and I liked enough I might play it again someday, but I'm sure as well not re-buying it for some graphics even if they did it right. It's not exactly ugly to begin with.
Probably but it’s a tough one with such short time. I do t want to go on just a vengeance tour and do nothing, but more leave what remains of the populace in such a great state that I’m revered as a hero for all of history. With easily the first chunk of that being caught up in a lot of uproar and possibly causing a war there wouldn’t be much time to fix the system afterwards in such a way that the people don’t just revert it all the next day.
The other question I’d have is can I be killed during the term, or is my life guaranteed in this scenario to ten years. I’d likely want to be assassinated by a lot of people and by countries who would actually do it.