I switched to Qobuz recently and started to actual discover new music again after years on Spotify.

I can only applaud people who do that in the US: the cost of education is outrageous.

Here in Germany people prolong their education by years, since it’s almost free, you can work part-time, and there’s no need to rush.

If the US system won’t be robbing young people of hundreds thousands dollars, they wouldn’t feel compelled to try and hack the system.

I won’t use Max under any circumstances and won’t recommend it to my family. Testing out SimpleX for now.

I hate everything that’s being done. A large part of my family lives there, and just getting them on a call is now not an easy task.

(I mean, I hate Putin and his government for many other things too. Restricted Internet perhaps is the least of their crimes, but this least is getting longer and longer and longer…)

Interesting. Same in construction industry!

Everyone was so expecting this, and yet…

It never prompted me. Zen’s my default and I didn’t even open Edge once on my laptop.

On my other computer I’m considering Mint or Ubuntu tho, but want to test first before migrating.

It’s the same as “Google said this”. Before AI, Google could say nothing, it’s a search engine. Same with gpt - it’s a tool to access information from different sources.

Just having information out in the Internet / on a search index / accessed by LLM doesn’t make it relevant or credible…

And what buffles me: it’s pretty easy to set up gpt to cite sources and provide the links, filtering through sources that a user trusts. Why neither of my friends do it? Why “gpt said” is even an argument in a discussion?..

Same on Voyager on Android

Their world is mostly America, so I’m very skeptical about the claim.

I don’t like where it’s going, and I dislike Palantir, but I also strongly disagree with calling manual work “peasant” labour. There’s nothing wrong with working with your hands.

I like LLMs and use them a lot for boring task. It’s a nice tool, but I’d love to see it being marketed as such, and not as a panacea or a catastrophe. And gosh, I’d love people to stop shoving it down people’s throats. No, Adobe, I don’t need a summary, and I see it’s a long document, stop wasting time and resources…

I didn’t try to do the purchase, but very nice to know the company blocked the purchase! I was also very happy with the product too. What a difference from the likes of Adobe.

I almost bought publisher last week, and postponed till Black Friday. Just wow!!!

Yes! The good thing, it’s repayable! My number one game ever.

To the moon! The game was so emotional.

Thanks a lot! I looked into it, and it seems it doesn’t run the last version, but works fine with the old ones. I’ll look more into it!

Not really. To be open, I don’t live in Russia for over a decade. There were minor incidents even before the big war, like people abruptly stopping speaking to me upon hearing my nationality, or asking why I support (I don’t) Putin or why I don’t stop him. One guy explained to me very matter-of-factly that all Russians are intrinsically evil and deserve supervision because of it… Didn’t know how to answer that one. Very rarely I was thrown insults in the streets. But other than a very few incidents, all people I know outside of Russia were always welcoming and supportive. Recently, I received more threats and hate speech from my pro-putin compatriots than I ever received anywhere else in the world.

I’m a Russian, hold my beer.

Thank you for the reply. I need to run Rhino 8, and apparently it doesn’t reliably work through wine. It’s my main software I use professionally, and moving to something like Blender is unfortunately not an option.