Ronno

joined 7 months ago
[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

There are only three certainties in life (US edition):

  • Taxes
  • Filing your taxes
  • Death
[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

The more I learn about our modern age, the more I start to feel that the premise of the Matrix isn't such a bad deal at all. Normally, we should be there by now, the machine war ended decades ago.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Writing prompts is definitely a thing users must learn to do properly, to get the right results.

But anyways, any company that fires people in favor of AI is only digging their own grave anyways. I personally believe AI (of which LLM is only a small part) can definitely serve as an automation tool that can increase output. Great companies will use this tech to give their employees more time to work on things that are meaningful to the company, that the AI cannot do. For instance, a company could free up some time of highly skilled engineers to help a couple hours a week on the most complicated service desk issues to increase customer satisfaction. Or the LLM can create more time for sales to have meetings with customers, instead of doing admin they already hate, etc... Use it to grow, not to shrink.

Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won't anyone be able to replicate that quickly?

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Honestly, in that case, don't expect mass adoption. Simple as that.

If the idea is to keep Linux as a niche, then that's fine. But if you/the community want Linux to rival Windows/Mac, than these are the exact bullet points that must change.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How does that help anything? The channel is trying it out, a channel that is objectively more technically skilled than the average PC gamer. So if they can't make it work, or can't make it work seamlessly enough, then there is an issue. It reinforces the image that gaming on Linux is difficult, which frankly, it is.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Why would they go back to warn in the first place? It's already clear people willingly voted for this, what do you think you can do differently? The warnings were already on the wall, everyone with half a brain tried to warn the other ones without a brain not to vote for this, yet they did. There is nothing more that can be done really.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assuming you're American; did I just read an American claim that they don't have weapons to protest?

For starters, you have plenty of guns in the US. But really, why would you need them? Look at for example France, they don't have guns either, but they manage to oppose the government when they oppose government policy. You don't need guns to mount a protest.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why can't a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? It's like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

The answer is in your last sentences, employers should just pay a livable wage (mandated by the government really). In your first paragraph, all the things you explain to me are just part of the job. Nobody is going above and beyond to give me a better service/experience, it's literally just people doing their jobs. In non hospitality services, people don't get tipped for doing their job either, right? I've never seen anyone tip a nurse, teacher, police officer, etc.

The whole tipping culture in the US is such a wild concept. In that aspect, I'm glad that we here in The Netherlands don't have that culture (yet), that we are not expected to tip and that we only tip great hospitality. But meanwhile the times are changing, we also see a "leave tip" prompt more often and it is really starting to annoy me. I'll decide if I want to tip, no need to shove it in my face, especially not considering people make a living wage without tips anyways.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Client side verification, that only shares the verification/proof thumbs up to the requestor, could work in such scenario. Very similar to digital payment cards such as seen in Apple Pay. You verify with your biometrics, anyone can only use it in that brief moment of time, but you cannot share that card. When paying, the device will only quickly check key details of that card to execute payment.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago

A digital ID, by itself, isn't much of an issue and can be very convenient for the user as well. Even better, it can be setup in a more privacy conserving way. For instance, when you have to provide your ID today, you often have to give companies a copy of your ID, which isn't really favorable to the owner of that ID. With digital ID, it's easier to give/revoke access to your ID or mask certain information the other party doesn't need to know. Most ID scans are mainly done to verify the person has a legitimate ID anyways and presented it, making this digital can be an improvement.

Where it does get black mirror-ey is when you have to use that digital identity to basically log in to the internet and all your internet activity is logged to your ID. The shit the government can pull with such information is mindbogglingly bad.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 16 points 2 weeks ago

"We cut our healthcare!" - seems more appropriate, given they voted for this mess.

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