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I could end up stealing that for my own tinkering distro that never ends up releasing because it's awful.

Ultimately, nothing lasts forever and entropy takes all.

Thinking about this problem and extending the average company life seem like worthwhile endeavors while we're trapped on this ball of mud.

I've always admired Nintendo (NCL) for adequately managing their various successions, even in the case of sudden death (Satoru Iwata). I wish there were deep dives into their practices but they're very secretive.

Meta has to release the hardware, then we can get started on alternate OSes.

It's a shame open source hardware isn't a thing in this area, but we've been here before. (Buying locked down devices and installing alt OSes.)

I tried Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, Pitivi and others. It's a personal thing but I just could not get used to their UIs. Well except for Pitivi, but that one is way too buggy.

I even briefly considered using ffmpeg and bash to get the edits I wanted...

Blender has a complicated UI but at least it feels completely consistent and thought-through. And also like it wasn't designed 20 years ago. I just have more confidence using Blender than others because it's so big, respected and known.

My learning process is basically "How do I do this thing I did in Premiere?" and basic Googling/YouTubing. I needed a tutorial video to get started but otherwise if you know NLEs it shouldn't be too hard.

Anecdote time.

I couldn't get Resolve to run on my discrete-GPU-less PC running Fedora. First the lack of RPM or Flatpak were lame, but integrated graphics was the real killer.

I started learning Blender VSE and walked away super impressed. Finally found my editor. (Spent years getting used to Premiere on Mac and PC.) It runs good even though I don't have a dedicated GPU yet, unlike Resolve. (And Blender is a full-on 3D modeller, I should note.)

I'm going to scale up my hardware eventually, but right now my editing needs aren't huge. Just chopping and splicing up stuff for YouTube. Blender's VSE is incredibly good for my use case.

The scruple-to-dollar exchange rate is just the worst. Or the best. Whichever makes more sense in this analogy.

It seems to be just bored, edgy teenagers. Probably "acting out" in one of the few ways they can. (They can't vote but they already have solved every political problem in their head. Ahh youth.)

Still doesn't make it OK, though.

There was a whole episode of Seinfeld about a pilot forcing Jerry off because he just didn't like him. Seems legit.

So, status remains quo, the commons remain tragic, and glory to H.264 forever?

> For coding you always want to go with the best model in the category

Will this always be true? There will never be an event horizon/point of diminishing returns where something not-bleeding-edge is "good enough" for 51%+ of users?

...no OLED screen?

I'm grasping at very few straws here...

> behaving like a human is not the problem. behaving unpredictably is.

Not sure you can have one without the other.

In the extremes I fear this would lead to Dredd-like Mega Cities just taking over the entire continent. At some point, a lot of people want a multi-generational space to stick around in for a long time (where the sun isn't blotted by tall buildings). Tearing up suburbs for skyscrapers every generation can't possibly be "the answer..."

Straight-up, "degraded" should strictly mean "may be slower, or so slow it randomly fails" on these kinds of status pages.

Hmm... 88.8888888%?

Jesus, that's both horrible and seems within reach.

Uh oh. That means there's at least one more like you out there that we don't know about.

God I wish.

Looking at you, DaVinci Resolve.

I'm not sure how AppImage beats Flathub, it's gotten so damn good.

My take-away is kind of the opposite. You literally have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.

I've been mulling over your comment for a few days now.

On the old internet, "know one knows that you're a dog."

On the new internet, "know one knows (for sure) that you're an AI."

In a mixed discussion consisting of both AI and human participants, AI could generate interesting discussions and recite novel-sounding statements for ongoing ones. It doesn't sound plausible to me that an avalanche of profit-driven LLMs would even post -- I would think they'd be the lurkers. My take would be that LLMs actively participating, depending on the content they post, are also labors of love by some nerd out there trying to make the best LLM.

Drain all the profit motives and rent-seeking from the web, and even something like AI joining discussions doesn't sound scary.

D'oh. Thanks.

What's lost when that scene is GIFed or quoted is Michael's double-take before he says anything. Brilliant comedic acting.

Google is talking up a new "Neural AI" design language that seems to just be for their in-house Gemini-related apps. Possibly what the new Antigrav is using?

We don't know if this is Material 4.0, just Google's proprietary design, or really anything.

More like when AI is coding all the apps anyways, a drastic change in direction is only one prompt away.

It took 15 years but they did finally settle on RCS/Google Messages and even got Apple to cowtow.

It could be 15 years before Google's AI strategy fully stabilizes, but there is precedent.

I would categorize most porn sites as sketchier on average than non-porn sites, but the gap is closing and that's an indictment of bloggers and the companies running them.

Early tech finds footing in porn (VHS, internet video, etc.) but that's a separate topic/conversation.

This would have been the proper way to do it, but it would have taken work, and Google really hates migration plans of any kind. Better to drop the 2.0 on users' heads out of nowhere and just move on.

They really just hate doing migration plans, especially longer ones (1+ year). Google seems like an outlier but I don't have real data to prove it.

The announcement of Google Allo really hammered that point home to me back in the day.

I'm sure Google Pics has a long, fulfilling life ahead of it.

I was trying to read some I/O news on some feckless Google news fan-blog.

By the time I got to the middle of the article: three massive banner ads (top, right, and bottom) were taking up more content than the text, there was an auto-playing video ad floating in the bottom right corner (overlapping most of one of the banner ads), and a "dynamic" ad in the middle of the text randomly started expanding/shrinking and glitching out making it impossible to actually read anything.

And this is one of the better experiences reading modern blog-alikes. Things are almost at sketchy porn-site levels.

Sad and pathetic...