carotte

happy lemmy anniversary, from someone who shares it by pure coincidence!

not really, at the end of the day im just an asshole with an internet connection

i get that products for niche markets will be overpriced because there’s little economies of scale, i just wish the product you’d get out of it was good

the framework laptops are pretty expensive for their specs, but the specs are still good, you’ll end up with a good laptop, and it’s repairable! to many people (including me), that makes it worth the price

but when your phone that’s more expensive than Famously More Of A Luxury Fashion Statement Than Tech Device phone has midrange at best specs and a soon-to-be-obsolete cellular connection, why even bother?

of course, you can run linux on other phones too (and big thanks to all the devs that manage to make that work!)

but most linux-first phones (and tablets) are either like this, super expensive with bad specs, or devkits from Pine64

"budget phone" that’s more expensive than a new flagship iphone

and has ancient hardware

and doesn’t have 5G

i sure wonder why linux phones aren’t taking off!!!

and neither is Greenland, iirc

if the alt text is "They’re The Same", then i see it! it might work differently on some clients yea

for example, i think on the web interface the alt text only shows if you’re using a screen reader, but i may be wrong

for an image in a comment, just put the text in the square brackets at the very beginning!

normally it should look like this:

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you can go back to add alt text in a comment by editing it too!

i think it is, look at the knobs on the top of the washing machine. they’re nonsensical

I think people in the replies acting fake surprised are missing the point.

it is important news, because many people see LLMs as black boxes of superintelligence (almost as if that’s what they’re being marketed as!)

you and i know that’s bullshit, but the students asking chatgpt to solve their math homework instead of using wolfram alpha doesn’t.

so yes, it is important to demonstrate that this "artificial intelligence" is so much not an intelligence that it’s getting beaten by 1979 software on 1977 hardware

they already do! (sorta)

if you buy games through heroic, the heroic devs get a percentage of the sale

Tell me you are a monolinugal English speaker without telling me.

tu penses mon nom d’utilisatrice vient de quelle langue?

of course not every language has the same grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with them, you don’t have to learn the concept, you already get it

when learning Spanish in school, grammatical gender was really not an issue, cause i already speak french (to be fair, french and spanish will often gender the same words the same way, which greatly helps ofc)

to me, it was much harder to grasp the distinction between ser and estar, for example. two fundamental verbs that, in french, get translated to the same thing

i mean, no, the reason english is the default language of the world is due to (british, and then american) imperialism

french and latin were once the default languages of europe for the same reason

and how hard a language is to learn is kinda irrelevant, because it will always depend on what language(s) you already know. for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem