These endless “AI bad” articles are annoying. It’s just click bait at this point.

Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.

AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.

Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire “oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for” is backwards.

His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn’t like AI because he doesn’t like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it’s bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV’s too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.

The outsiders are still VC owners. Andressen’s company might be put out of business by another VC firm that uses LLM, but that happened all the time long before AI.

Well of course owners aren’t going to replace themselves. They’re the owners, not the lowly workers. It’s like how owners exempt themselves from return to office mandates or how employees are fired if they find out you have another full time job yet owners “run” multiple businesses.

Yeah I want to completely switch off of Plex but neither is a good solution for my non tech family members. Mother in law is in a retirement center where they use wifi provided for the condos so I can’t access her router. And I would expect her ip to occasionally change on reboots etc. I might try IP ranges or narrow geo blocking.

I thought there was some way to use Jelly on the backend with a Plex client!

Jellyfin over Plex?

How does that work with Roku/smart TVs?

Microsoft is in it for the money. I think they’d rather get $30 a year every year than get $30 one time from a PC manufacturer who bundled Windows.

They’re still supporting regular Win 10 but will start charging $30 a year for patches.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates

There are 2x as many Blacks in prison in the US as Uyghurs in China. But we don’t call it genocide just like we call our rich Billionaires instead of oligarchs. At least for now we can make fun of Trump without being arrested. But I don’t know how much longer that will last.

Tell it to the American Blacks in prison. Glass houses. We’re all bad.

America has a greater percentage of Americans locked up than China has Uyghurs locked up and we don’t have a Thorium reactor either.

Ha! I have mechanical keyboards subbed and split keyboards subbed. Didn’t know of ergomechkeyboards. Thanks!

Yeah, you can swap more on a framework laptop than the mini PC he’s using.

However glasses, a mini PC, keyboard and battery is smaller than a laptop. Using whatever keyboard you want instead of what came with the laptop for forever is also nice.

It’s not only a picture. It’s a picture with a description. It’s the starting point. You don’t start a painting by going from blank canvas to finished product. You start with a sketch.

Now imagine if ip laws were removed. Any company could take open source work and sell it as their own while ignoring any GPL that requires the source code to be distributed.

Mass production started long before cars. The industrial revolution began in the 17th century. Interchangeable parts was invented by Eli Whitney. He showed a flint lock that could be assembled by anyone, instead of a skilled metal worker that needed to customize each part so they fit together perfectly.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/eli-whitney-interchangeable-parts-overview-history-importance.html#%3A~%3Atext=While+historians+do+not+credit%2Cparts+replaced+by+unskilled+workers.

Outside of art, machine made parts are far more perfect than hand crafted.

That was fine before mass production made perfect copies possible on an industrial scale.

You don’t need the person when you can copy the object and produce it at volume and scale because you already own the factories.

They run Linux but you don’t need to know anything. They work out of the box. Guides are for upgrading to different user interfaces. You do need to learn how to make a copy of a micro SD card because the ones that ship with the devices are extremely low quality and will quickly fail. I use the one from Raspberry Pi. It’s for installing pi OS but it does anything. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

Installing a different OS on a hand held is only picking a different image file like Knulli or GarlicOS when copying onto an SD card.

Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.