My bum, shoulders, and legs hurt in a perfectly real sense after having driven about 14 hours between yesterday and today. Dreams only hurt if you focus on it, and it’s never that detailed or deep.

Take philosophy thought exercises out of imagination and into practical situations, and many cease to look profound.

Given that there are greedy “entrepreneurs” everywhere, I shudder to think what a boob speculator would look like.

To anyone who interacts with it? Would you deny that a program automate mental labor in the same way that a sawmill automates manual labor? Isn’t that some degree of intelligence?

Now, we have very imperfect LLMs who nevertheless can be instructed not with program code, but actual natural language, and they react accordingly. Isn’t that also intelligence? Computers that understood natural language was the realm of science fiction just five years ago.

I get it that people hate LLMs, both because how idiots use them, and how corporations push them everywhere; but not recognizing the intelligence in those programs is naive at best.

It is evident that it has intelligence, it outputs intelligent responses usually adequate to its input, even if it’s badly phrased. What it doesn’t have is sentience, conscience, and a learning loop.

Thank you! I used this weird thought to wipe my brain from other weird thoughts, it needed that.

Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up, and it appears its best chance of maintaining hegemony is bringing China down, not improving itself. Never expected to see this shift in my lifetime.

They do, and I experimented with both, but wasn’t able to get better performance from Jellyfin compared to Plex. Always running on the same hardware. Still run both though, just in case.

Especially on non-GPU systems, Jellyfin is slower at transcoding than Plex. I don’t know the internals, but I have both running in the sam machine, and Plex is always noticeably more responsive. Not by a huge margin, but still it is.

XBMBC (later Kodi) gang present!

You mean you ran Ubuntu Server and found it slow?! That’s amazing, specially back then. Truly a potato.

On a potato you were supposed to use Xubuntu or Lubuntu, not Gnome.

We call them “tlacuaches” in Mexico, from the Nahuatl tlacuatzin. According to their mithology, it stole the god’s fire, and brought it to the humans in its tail, that’s why it stayed furless.

Do you want to French kiss it now?

More like best-iality, amirite?

Its company property, you don’t go putting stickers on company printers or the walls of your office.

And it’s not about resale value, it’s about corporate and professional image. We’re free to destructively mod our personal equipments, but not those of others.

I believe the 3D chatbot will have more emotions.

Recently spent almost four hours waiting for Windows Update on a brand-new PC. It wasn’t even apparent how long it would take, just kept grinding, rebooting, and grinding again.

For a three-decade OS that many bright programmers have worked on, Windows update sucks royally.

My brain made a tiny satisfaction reaction after learning about this.

Oh, we’re a bit bad at spelling. We meant “thongs”, so they won’t get stuck when they breach to breathe or snipe.

That was very, very likely what the parent comment meant. The correction was unnecessary.

That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.