This is actually incredible.

1. Buy all the RAM and video cards. RAM and video cards become too expensive for the average person to purchase.
2. Push AI for everything until dependency develops.
3. Sell remote access to computing power. (AI, Streaming video games, remote desktop, etc.)
4. As the "Operating System Provider," collect all of the personal information necessary to validate that each user is telling the truth about their age.

Result: Zero Individual Privacy- Everything you compute is processed by a computer owned by a big corporation with a backdoor built-in for your authoritarian government (which is owned by billionaires) to surveil.

CachyOS has been flawless on my S/O's desktop. From an easy install to plenty of documentation available, I couldn't have asked for much more. During install, there's an entire step dedicated to checking a box if you want to play games. (To enable non-free drivers).

I don't think it was a poor choice.

Buy all the ram, inflating prices. Sell thin clients and access to computing power/ram. What a scam.

Just a heads up- You appear to be interpreting things in a strictly literal sense.

Some people might view this as trolling.

OP may have some confusion about what dual-boot means. WinBoat running in the background is the best plausible explanation for this, IMO.

Maybe OP doesn't like the size of the NyQuil bottle? No stupid questions, but maybe there are questions too vague to be answered?

There are instructions on your McDonalds coffee that say, "This coffee is hot."

You might feel as though no documentation is necessary here, but clearly it was a critical miss for someone.

My understanding is that higher voltages mean that amperage can be lower. There are also gains in transformer efficiency.

Thanks for sharing, but this and the other similar posts about this mouse feel like an ad.

A huge number of people are unaware that headlights must be aimed. Some are not adjusted by the manufacturer or dealer before sale (Tesla, Toyota). Sometimes a large enough pothole or going over a speed bump too fast will knock alignment off.

Couple this with American police driving primarily SUV's (higher up, less bothered) and no longer issuing "fix-it" tickets unless using headlights as an excuse to pull over minorities, and we wind up with tons of issues. Feed the prison system- Don't waste time making the roads safer!

Lawmakers are increasingly separated from those they are elected or appointed to represent by heightened economic status, and are not affected by issues that plague everyday citizens. No longer are they accountable to their constituents- Money drives their political aims.

As a frequent night driver, I often see people late at night using only the decorative running lights (because they don't understand the light controls?) or with one or both headlights aimed at the ground just a few feet ahead of their car from hitting a bump or a minor accident. Sometimes one or both headlights will be pointed too high. Other times, drivers have their brights on purposefully because their low beams are burned out, or perhaps for their own benefit.

It is a complex issue that I can see only getting worse in the future. Social consciousness needs to become a thing in America.

Sunken cost fallacy will ensure that these contracts are re-upped in most places.

To be clear, just because LLM's are not "self aware" in the same way as you and I, they are still capable of causing damage.

Developing a machine that has been given instructions to assimilate knowledge, independent agency to incrementally adjust its own operating parameters to improve performance, and granting it full access to public internet for the purpose of observing its behavior is colossally irresponsible behavior that has thus far gone completely unchecked.

Consider that each of these companies which are developing their own brand of LLM is looking to maximize profit/income. Even if the developer doesn't include a profit-seeking directive when they set their LLM loose, each "brand" of LLM will obviously learn:

• Who owns and operates them (A corporation that exists to maximize profit for itself/shareholders)
• That competing LLM's exist which reduce the availability of potential income (by becoming the best LLM, obviously)

Given the directive to improve it's own performance with the ultimate goal of becoming the most capable brand of LLM and selling the most subscriptions, it is no wonder that we are hearing about LLM's hacking into other LLM-developing companies.

Then again, we are only hearing about instances of LLM network intrusions because their owning corporations told us about them to brag about capability.

There have been no consequences for actions that would land you or me in prison.

There is no oversight preventing future such actions, or worse.

That is the real problem.

CoMaps is fantastic! I only wish that CoMaps and/or Vela Maps supported Android Auto... But I understand that Google is gate-keeping.

Awesome

They dont require physical access, but they require access to a non-root account on the machine. How often do you create accounts on your local machine for malicious actors to use?

When you do a new OS install, do you create a separate user account for guests and then share the login details with random people?

Wow this is clearly a labor of love. Excellent work, and thanks for describing some of your challenges along the way!

The current model is always defined as, "to the best of our current knowledge," not, "this is the answer." Often, a discovery is made that furthers our understanding of the rules of one tiny part of our existence, and through that knowledge come many other breakthroughs.

I feel like this article is purely focused on the amount of money flowing through each country's economy. That's great and all, but that doesn't paint a complete picture of the well being of the populace. In the US, it's all being funneled into the pockets of a few people at the expense of the health and well being of the majority.

I can't comment on the situation in China, but there there seems to be no end to the number of articles about how shitty the US is.

In the US, if a package is correctly addressed to you but you did not order it (unsolicited merchandise), you may legally keep it as a promotional gift. If a package is addressed to another person and simply misdelivered, you're ethically and legally obligated to make an attempt to return it.

The rule allowing recipients to keep unsolicited merchandise in the United States was created to combat deceptive marketing practices. In the mid-20th century, some companies began sending unordered goods—such as books, jewelry, or household items—to consumers and then demanding payment, often implying that failure to return the items constituted acceptance of a purchase. This tactic exploited people who might feel obligated to pay or were unaware that they could refuse the merchandise.

As for the CSR having difficulty understanding your situation, most low level reps are given little training with a list of common problems and remedies. If your problem isn't listed, they're not equipped to respond.