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This was on my work computer.

Oh god. The IT department must hate them.

I wonder if they would do that with their personal machines as well…

What would happen if that AI clone fired or promoted someone?

If it’s plausible enough based on the dataset it was trained on it exists. Hallucinations are basically just the LLM trying to stay current by inference, I think.

Edit: Guess I used the wrong words, oh well

Sold.

Yay

Where can I sell my 43 subscriber YTP channel to him?

The media is quite allergic to calling him a nazi. Remember when he did his “gesture reminiscent of a hitler salute”?

This shouldn’t sound so great. What is wrong with the world…

Look, if the revenue goes straight into maintaining the restroom and keep it from looking like, well, a public restroom I honestly don’t mind.

Something tells me that’s just wishful thinking, though…

For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.

They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me).

Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.

Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS.

Fair enough. Although Asus sells at least one laptop with 8 GB of soldered RAM, too.

Granted, it’s “only” a Chromebook, but still.

Soldered RAM is almost always a bad thing, no matter the size. Maybe when it’s the most the mainboard can support it’s not too bad but even then you’re out of luck if it ends up dying.

As far as I understand Apple is partly doing it because of the higher memory bandwidth, which is necessary for the way macOS manages memory. I still don’t like it but at least they’re doing it for a reason.

He pointed to the laptop’s 8GB of “unified memory,” or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can’t upgrade it.

Yes, because Asus laptops all have non-soldered RAM…

A few do have non-soldered RAM, the most expensive workstation laptop and a couple of gaming laptops; all of which are >$2000.

So a forced upgrade again? I don’t understand why people put up with this still, apart from shitty Windows only software and even then, maybe it’s time to try something new.

Kinda unrelated but I do have a PinePhone a mate gave me a while back; no matter what OS you use on it it’s sooo slow. Weirdly, the Android port actually seemed the most usable…

Now, I realise that the PinePhone isn’t exactly a phone you’re meant to daily drive, but even then the performance is terrrible.

Good.

Properly manufactured Audio CDs are actually quite resilient, obviously not so much to scratches, but out of all my 100+ CDs (I’d say half of which are older than 25 years) only one has disc rot and that one is a pressing made by PDO who’re known for their bad pressings that are prone to disc rot.

I don’t really store my CDs in a special way either.

I wonder why specifically DVDs… It’s not like with audio formats where the experience is almost as or even more important than the quality; Blu-Ray delivers far better quality with the same experience. If they were into Laserdisc I’d understand, but DVD?

They’re not even that much more expensive. Maybe the initial cost of getting a player is higher?

Gemini 3 (Fast) got it right for me; it said that unless I wanna carry my car there it’s better to drive, and it suggested that I could use the car to carry cleaning supplies, too.

Edit: A locally run instance of Gemma 2 9B fails spectacularly; it completely disregards the first sentece and recommends that I walk.

I mean yeah, thought this was common knowledge by now tbh…