They operate in this weird world of endorsing complete freedom, but also being able to exclude some groups of people from enjoying the freedom. It gets easier to understand if you remember that they actually don’t care about integrity of their claims, or even validity of it.

That’s the fun thing: burden of proof isn’t on me. You seem to think that if we throw enough numbers at the wall, the resulting mess will become sentient any time now. There is no indication of that. The hypothesis that you operate on seems to be that complexity inevitably leads to not just any emerged phenomenon, but also to a phenomenon that you predicted would emerge. This hypotheses was started exclusively on idea that emerged phenomena exist. We spent significant amount of time running world-wide experiment on it, and the conclusion so far, if we peel the marketing bullshit away, is that if we spend all the computation power in the world on crunching all the data in the world, the autocomplete will get marginally better in some specific cases. And also that humans are idiots and will anthropomorphize anything, but that’s a given.
It doesn’t mean this emergent leap is impossible, but mainly because you can’t really prove the negative. But we’re no closer to understanding the phenomenon of agency than we were hundred years ago.

Yeah, the brick is enormous. But the keyboard looks too attractive to pass.

That’s the thing with our terminology, we love to anthropomorphize things. It wasn’t a big problem before because most people had enough grasp on reality to understand that when a script makes :-) smile when the result is positive, or :-( smile otherwise, there is no actual mind behind it that can be happy or sad. But now the generator makes convincing enough sequence of words, so people went mad, and this cute terminology doesn’t work anymore.

You’re attributing a lot of agency to the fancy autocomplete, and that’s big part of the overall problem.

I am waiting for my Unihertz Titan 2, it’s supposed to be a spiritual successor to the Key2

- also Jerry’s wife.

There is only one country that gives a flying shit about where your great-grandma allegedly came from, and that’s Israel. For every other country you’re not figuring out any options, you’re cosplaying.

Thank you! Sorry if I was sound harsh, wasn’t my intention

It’s not about snarkiness, I was just rubbed the wrong way by your “os is not everyday user friendly”, which you said because you did something that most everyday users don’t do, and which doesn’t usually happens even if they do.
I am easily triggered by stuff like that because this was the mantra for so many years, and despite not being true for more than a decade, still a very big hurdle in the way of Linux adoption. So, so, so many people would like to try switching to Linux but don’t even try because they heard from someone on the Internet that you need to compile drivers all the time, and since they can’t do that, they believe that Linux isn’t for them

So your point is because when you do obscure stuff you ran into obscure problems that require obscure solutions, the os is not everyday user friendly?

That’s not everyday user usage.

Just ask your favourite slop generator to shit a suggestion for you, it already replaced your ability to draw stick figures, something every person knows hownto do by the age of 7.
Or better yet, google a list of active distros and throw a fucking dice. Same amount of precision and intelligence, less wasted electricity and water.

I work in embedded my whole life so I’m no stranger of fighting over scraps of resources and spending days trying to squeeze in something that doesn’t fit. It made me better at fighting this specific hardware limitations, and now instead of spending 10 times more time on making something that takes no time at all on a capable hardware, I spend only 5 times more.
I don’t know if for creative work it does something, but for programming it’s like chopping wood with one hand behind your back. Sure you can do it, sure you can get better at it, sure it forces you to adjust your ways, but it doesn’t make the wood better chopped, it just makes you slower and more prone to mistakes for no reason

Ahahah, yeah, and you’re also immune to propaganda.

One of the lemmy devs is a huge tankie, like “stalin did nothing wrong but if he did they deserved it” tankie

So we’re just using the word fascism to mean whatever the fuck we want this day, huh?

They still benefit from having volumes of money flowing through them, or at least can bendfit if we allow them to be a for profit business.

It comes to America
A bunch of Americans start using it
The provider sees a growing market and likes money.
Some pastor from Iowa sees tits on the Internet and gets offended.
Religious network of nutnobs pays for boycott ad campaign.
Provider silently or not so silently bans everything that can possibly offend christian pastors from the US.
We still need a sane payment provider

I don’t know if this is the best applicatioon of their genius tbh. If you’re not spending time fighting with tools, you spend it making stuff you want to make.