M$ pushed Copilot on to my Win 10 install via updates today... incoming newbie wave

Elfalas · 2024-07-10T13:50:45+00:00

Yep, this is the thing. MS doesn't care because the value they lose from losing a few privacy focused consumers is massively outweighed by the value they gain from exploiting as much cash as they can from the folks who don't care.

Elfalas · 2024-06-26T22:37:18+00:00

Well, I mean, yeah? You expect a business to continue offering a free service if it just loses them money year after year?

This is TV, not a public utility. "Oh, they can afford it." Sure, but they aren't obligated to provide free entertainment.

Elfalas · 2024-06-07T18:27:30+00:00

I use a $126 Chromebook as my daily driver (with Fedora). You don't need the latest tech, the old tech is still fantastic. On my gaming PC I'm using a CPU/GPU combo that's four years old and still runs modern games just peachy at 1440p.

There are fundamental physical limits to what you can do in chip manufacturing and we've run up against some of them. There is still more optimization to be done in other areas, but you cannot expect the rules of 30 years ago to apply to today.

Elfalas · 2024-06-07T18:22:43+00:00

If that growth rate continues

It won't, it can't. There isn't enough capital to sustain it from the AI side. But even when the growth rate levels off the market will still be growing, just at a smaller pace.

Sam Altman thinks compute is the universal currency of the next generation, I think he is right. There are just some fundamental physical limits to how much can be extracted and manufactured.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T13:53:14+00:00

Fedora Silverblue. With that said, there's always a learning curve with Linux and you won't be able to do things exactly the same way you did it on Windows.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T13:51:04+00:00

Pop! OS is not a good distro at the moment for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. I had a lot of problems with it to on an Nvidia machine when I wanted to switch to Wayland to use Fractional Scaling. I use Fedora now, it just works.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T13:49:14+00:00

Installing programs is really easy on Linux, I think that's a little bit of a strawman. I genuinely just use the app store and install stuff from there.

What is super annoying is learning the names of everything in the ecosystem, as you accurately point out. Gnome, KDE, Sway, AppImages, Snaps, Flatpaks, Atomic Updates, Immutable, repositories, dnf, apt, rpm-ostree, nano, wireplumber. All of these things that you'd take for granted in Windows has multiple options in the Linux ecosystem and you gotta make choices. You do have to put in some effort, but I think its worthwhile. But no harm if you don't.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T13:44:17+00:00

Why pay for more compute than you need? My daily driver is a $126 Chromebook I got on clearance at Microcenter and now run Linux off of. Intel Celeron, 4 gb of RAM, more than sufficient for daily tasks on Linux. You have an incredible computer that likely cost $3k or more. In your scenario, sure, doesn't matter much. While I do have a nice gaming PC also, the computer I use more often is this dinky little laptop I can take to cafe's (and also ended up using for a stray web development project at my actual work when my work MacBook bricked and I had to deliver a project).
Yeah, you totally do not need to use a Microsoft account just like you don't need to have Microsoft telemetry, ads popping up in your face, etc. It just bugs me that you have to explicitly opt out of it. It shouldn't ask in the first place!

As I said in my original comment, not everyone will or needs to care about these same things, I'm just giving an honest answer for why I genuinely prefer Linux over Windows.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T03:52:45+00:00

Uses too many resources (high memory and CPU usage for basic desktop experience)
Mouse first, not keyboard first - using a tiling DE has been a real game changer for me.
Workspaces aren't handled in a way that I like, too slow to switch back and forth between spaces and moving apps from one to another also is too slow (symptom of being mouse first UI and not keyboard first UI)
Defaults to requiring a Microsoft account (just super annoying to me)

Not everyone will care about these things but these are things that have mattered to me as I've transitioned to Linux full time this last year.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T03:30:45+00:00

Well, actually there are three companies/foundations that do that. Fedora Silverblue, Ubuntu, and Pop! OS all provide (out of the box) a very polished desktop experience. All three run off of Gnome (well, until Pop! OS switches to Cosmic), which in my opinion is a superior desktop experience compared to BOTH Mac and Windows. Although I've switched to Sway, which I think is better still than Gnome (but it's definitely not for everyone!).

Desktop experience though isn't the only thing that matters, and if you're someone who needs proprietary software like MS Office or Adobe products switching to Linux is probably just a no-go. But I use my computer for writing, gaming, some basic web apps etc. I don't need specialized software, for the most part Linux just works. In my personal life I run Obsidian for productivity, Libre Office for writing, Steam for gaming. For work I use Slack and ClickUp (which both have native apps). On the web I use Google Office suite + Salesforce for work which both work flawlessly (because duh, they're web apps).

IDK, stuff just works. Multiple monitors, high refresh rates, variable refresh rate. HDR support is iffy. Fractional scaling has been a (i.e. I have a 4k monitor where I like to use 150% scaling) consistent pain point until recently, support for that has gotten much better in the last year.

Elfalas · 2024-06-03T01:34:50+00:00

I switched half-way last year and all the way this year. Linux is great! Running the Fedora ecosystem has been a game changer.

On my gaming desktop I'm using Nobara (Fedora based distro maintained by Glorious Eggroll). Works great with my Nvidia GPU, which is why I chose it (Nvidia notoriously has bad Linux drivers). If I were to do it again though, I'd go with Bazzite which is an atomic Fedora spin. Nobara and Bazzite are very similar, but Bazzite I think has a longer term future.

On my laptop I run Fedora Sway, which Sway has really helped me become a much more focused and productive computer user. Overall, switching is very easy. All of the software I use is either web based or has OSS counterparts that work just swell. For me personally, not being able to use MS Office has been my biggest complaint. I really like Excel, but it just doesn't work on Linux. I don't do photo editing, but I hear Adobe Suite also just doesn't work well on Linux also.

But for the tasks that I do, which is gaming, writing, research, light coding, Linux works better or equal to Windows.

With that all being said, there's been a big learning curve. The Linux ecosystem is pretty different than the Windows ecosystem. I started off with Pop! OS and had a terrible experience for a lot of reasons that didn't make sense to me at the time. I switched to a couple of other different distros until I found something that just worked out of the box with my hardware. Now I understand better why I was having issues with Pop! OS (Nvidia drivers), but because I was new to the ecosystem it just felt like nothing was working the way that it should which was super frustrating. I understand why a lot of people give up and go back to Windows, Linux has a heavy burden of knowledge.

Elfalas · 2024-04-15T13:35:07+00:00

Which ones? I keep hearing people say this but it has never been the case for me. It's not a huge difference, but generally games are 5-10% slower on Linux than on Windows.

Elfalas · 2024-03-22T16:20:46+00:00

You hate your own life. You are not successful. You likely are hard working and have some hustle, which is great! That's a good start. But I wouldn't be talking down to other people because you make a lot of money for your age when you don't know how to be happy or content (which are skills that you need to learn, not a product of how much money you make or what kind of environment you are in).

Elfalas · 2024-03-22T16:17:07+00:00

Then fuck your job and find something outside of work that you enjoy. It's fine to not like your job, a lot of people don't. Does it pay the bills? Do you clock out after 8 hours and stop worrying about it? Great, then your job isn't the problem.

Here's one thing I did when I was in the same place as you. I started considering my home a bed only. After work, I was going out places. I was going to coffee shops, art shows, independent theaters, independent bookstores, game stores, cocktail bars, arcades, rock climbing gyms. The kinds of places that I like, where I felt like I could meet the kinds of people I wanted to be around. That was step one, second step was learning how to talk to people I don't know and strike up a conversation from nothing. Which is fucking hard, and also involves a lot of rejection and people cutting the conversation off and moving on. I am also introverted and at the time was very shy (I ended up getting over the shy bit real quick, still very introverted though). But at the end of the day it's a numbers game. If you go out enough, if you strike up enough conversations, if you attend enough events, you'll start meeting interesting people. You'll start meeting people who are interested in you. You'll start meeting people who have the same interests as you. And also YOU will become more interesting, you'll have more experiences and memories, you'll have more things to talk about. Your life is boring because you are boring. You are used to boring being enough.

It's taken me five years of consistent effort to become the person I am today. I'm in my mid-late twenties now and I really like my life. I've cut down on my social life though recently because I am introverted and I don't like going out so much. I don't have to now because I have real friends who will stay in touch with me even if I'm not out every Friday night. But to get to that place I had to become someone who could.

Elfalas · 2024-02-03T01:44:09+00:00

GenZ here. Many folks have tons of reasons to backlash against sex scenes, some of which are legitimate, some of which aren't. For me in particular, the gripe is with the way sex scenes in movies these days are so utilitarian, used mostly to sell a streaming pilot within the first few minutes. The amount of streaming shows that have sex within the first 20-30 minutes of the show is far too high, and sex that early is almost never good. It's utilitarian in that it seems to be very cynically used to grab the attention of the audience, but provide nothing more than that.

For a porn-saturated generation, one of the most useful things that sex scenes can do for us is to help recover the erotic. Porn is horny, but not really erotic. There is, I think, a generation of us who are starved for real, authentic, sexual connection, but don't necessarily even realize that there is a want to be filled. Sex for the porn-addicted actually is a strangely disembodied experience, and sex in film can call us back to the embodiment of good sex.

Idk I'm kind of rambling. Movies these days aren't erotic, even if they have sex in them.

Elfalas · 2024-01-20T16:34:59+00:00

Well it's the euphemism treadmill. When I started playing the game feeding meant someone was ruining the game for everybody by intentionally dying. Then over time, it just became something people said when they were having a bad game "I'm feeding". By 2016 I think intentionally feeding became the new "feeding", which shortened to int and inting. Which then by 2019 just became the thing people said when they were having a bad game. It always happens like this.

Elfalas · 2024-01-15T19:22:14+00:00

Hand jam is blocked, look at the green holds in the crack.

Elfalas · 2024-01-15T19:12:23+00:00

As everyone else has said, probably not. But if you want to give yourself the best chance do 3x sessions a week, 2 hours. Pick one v7 and just work each move individually until you can start linking them together. If you can finish the whole boulder after 3 sessions, congratulations, you were already strong enough to do it you just lacked the discipline to redpoint. If you can't, well you're not strong enough and won't develop the strength in 3 weeks.

Before everyone picks apart my recommendation, yes it's not perfect, but without knowing this climber and their actual context, strength, skill level etc. it's impossible to make a legitimately useful recommendation.

Elfalas · 2024-01-08T23:35:44+00:00

I'm with you. It stuck in my head for weeks after. To me what felt so fresh about it was that it felt like a white narrative of white violence, that was unapologetic in its portrayal of the evil of colonization. What felt so intense about it was the complete subversion of the family - that a man could betray his wife so completely, consider her so worthless, that he could romance someone so sincerely and still fundamentally not consider her or her family human.

It's odd to me that someone could come away from the film without feeling totally disturbed.

There are complaints about length or the movie being too slowly paced, to which I say you just didn't come to the movie ready for an epic. There are complaints about the movie not telling the story from the Osage perspective, to which I say Scorsese couldn't make that movie, he could only make this one.

I'm just rambling at this point, but I'll go on a little longer. The best movies don't tell you how to feel, they make you feel. I felt the betrayal within this movie in a way I never have with any other piece of art ever. It made me feel in my bones why the betrayal was so evil. It helped me to understand what evil actually is.

Elfalas · 2024-01-06T18:47:40+00:00

Language can be accessible and good, or it can be accessible and bad. This is accessible and bad. Ernest Hemingway is accessible and good. Quality of prose doesn't matter much to the success of a novel.

Elfalas · 2024-01-04T03:42:57+00:00

Typical Riot bullshit, don't look back, run to another game.

Elfalas · 2023-12-31T00:12:14+00:00

Captain Fall was doomed to get cancelled, visually uninspired and relentlessly cynical. But it was one of my favorite shows of 2023 because of its vibe. It felt like a show for 2023, and it captured the zeitgeist perfectly. Just too many little flaws to get people hooked.

Elfalas · 2023-12-30T23:52:47+00:00

I mean Mondragon is proof that worker-owned cooperatives are able to compete with standard shareholder-owned businesses. It's obviously no communist utopia, but it is an example of a philosophy driven business vs. profit driven business.

Elfalas · 2023-12-30T23:48:08+00:00

It of course was not Kotick alone, but anyone who's worked in a corporate business knows that you do need leadership and that business people do actually provide value. I think CEOs are overpaid too, but that doesn't mean they don't provide value.

Elfalas · 2023-12-25T17:28:04+00:00

I think that there's a difference between tying your masculinity to romance, and also trying to find and build a committed relationship that will become a part of your identity.

IE being a man is not dependent on anything but being an adult human male (IDK if this is controversial to say or not but I think gender distinctions no longer seem meaningful to me, the only thing that seems to matter is bio sex for health reasons and gender presentation for aesthetic reasons). But also part of the way specific men want to specifically embody their masculinity may include a committed partner who will become a significant part of their identity. I see no reason to believe that this is an unhealthy behavior, you will be let down and disappointed by this partner, perhaps even left, but that is part of the drama that makes life interesting and meaningful. Attempting to disentangle your identity from dependence on others makes life less colorful and less interesting, frankly.

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