At least the fusion guys are making actual progress and can point to being wildly underfunded – and they predicted this pace of development with respect to funding back in the late 70s.
Meanwhile, the AI guys have all the funding in the world, keep telling about how everything will change in the next few months, actually trigger layoffs with that rhetoric, and deliver very little.
I fully agree. LLMs create situations that our laws aren't prepared for and we can't reasonably get them into a compliant state on account of how the technology works. We can't guarantee that an LLM won't lose coherence to the point of ignoring its rules as the context grows longer. The technology inherently can't make that kind of guarantee.
We can try to add patches like a rules-based system that scans chats and flags them for manual review if certain terms show up but whether those patches suffice will have to be seen.
Of course most of the tech industry will instead clamor for an exception because "AI" (read: LLMs and image generation) is far too important to let petty rules hold back progress. Why, if we try to enforce those rules, China will inevitably develop Star Trek-level technology within five years and life as we know it will be doomed. Doomed I say! Or something.
They are being commonly used in functions where a human performing the same task would be a mandated reporter. This is a scenario the current regulations weren't designed for and a future iteration will have to address it. Lawsuits like this one are the first step towards that.
Of course it's more normie. As more people from more diverse communities join, the average becomes more, well, average.
For instance, not everyone who moved over from Reddit is a communist trans furry cybersecurity expert in a chastity belt – some people even somehow manage to be none of those things.
I think there is room for them and there's even room for them thinking the original crowd is weird. We need to maintain that "weird" is good, though, and that people can just look away if a topic makes then uncomfortable.
It works with .ml and friends – they can spend all day living their understanding of communism and everyone who doesn't share that understanding can just block them and move on with their lives.
Well, your scenario is about as likely as Cybertrucks becoming the standard platform for technicals...
(My weaksauce scenario is unrealistic but still the best explanation for why the army would need to train shooting at Cybertrucks. Other than, you know, obvious grift.)
Of course realistically this serves no purpose other than transferring some money from the DOD to Musk. But we can try to make up some slightly less depressing explanation...
What if a civil war breaks out and the army isn't on the side of the fascists?
I run Garuda because it's a more convenient Arch with most relevant things preinstalled. I wanted a rolling release distro because in my experience traditional distros are stable until you have to do a version upgrade, at which point everything breaks and you're better off just nuking the root partition and reinstalling from scratch. Rolling release distros have minor breakage all the time but don't have those situations where you have to fix everything at the same time with a barely working emergency shell.
The AUR is kinda nice as well. It certainly beats having to manually configure/make obscure software myself.
For the desktop I use KDE. I like the traditional desktop approach and I like being able to customize my environment. Also, I disagree with just about every decision the Gnome team has made since GTK3 so sticking to Qt programs where possible suits me fine. I prefer Wayland over X11; it works perfectly fine for me and has shiny new features X11 will never have.
I also have to admit I'm happy with systemd as an init system. I do have hangups over the massive scope creep of the project but the init component is pleasant to work with.
Given that after a long spell of using almost exclusively Windows I came back to desktop Linux only after windows 11 was announced, I'm quite happy with how well everything works. Sure, it's not without issues but neither is Windows (or macOS for that matter).
I also have Linux running on my home server but that's just a fire-and-forget CoreNAS installation that I tell to self-update every couple months. It does what it has to with no hassle.
And that's the thing: If you only go to the gym to pick up women because your horrible personality won't cut it, you'll go home disappointed.
That's a pattern I generally see with these self-loathing greentexts: The posters have "ambitions" (read: feel entitled to success, money, and/or women) but don't want to put in consistent effort or figure out why things are going wrong for them. Instead they project all the blame onto the rest of the world and spiral into depression.
When they do decide to put in the effort you usually get something along these lines:
> be me
> ugly and everyone hates me
> go to the gym to get a bod I can pick up females with bc they're all shallow
> actually get into working out
> become friends with the gym bros
> now I feel great, have a sixpack and real friends
> itsthateasy.tif
I played Arknights for a bit because there's actually a pretty solid tower defense game in there. There's not a big selection of good games for Android and I wanted something I could play when I have no laptop with me.
Unfortunately the good gameplay is buried under tons of attention hogging gacha bullshit.
I stopped playing once I realized that I was spending more time doing chores than actually playing through interesting content. Also, while the BGM is nothing short of lavish, the presentation of the story is like a very cheap VN, which basically killed any hope of getting engaged in the story or the characters.
I didn't spend much more than maybe twenty bucks on it so it's not too bad given the partially solid gameplay. But yeah, I'm done with live service bullshit games.
In addition to what Wolf told you, here's a few little extra tidbits:
Some games have native Linux versions. If they don't, you typically play them through Proton, a gaming-ready version of the Wine compatibility layer. Steam directly supports this through compatibility settings (Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility for default settings or Game properties -> Compatibility for per-game settings). Sometimes specific Proton versions will be better for specific games but usually you don't need to worry about it much.
Proton is damn good. Expect performance for most games to be within ± 5% of the performance you'd get on Windows. Yes, some games run better on Proton than on native DirectX.
Valve recently decided to enable Proton by default for games that don't have a Linux version. You can enable it yourself in the settings if it isn't enabled yet.
You can even force games with a native Linux version to use Proton by setting it in the game's compatibility settings. In that case Steam will download the Windows version.
Yeah, and in the 70s they estimated they'd need about twice that to make significant progress in a reasonable timeframe. Fusion research is underfunded – especially when you look at how the USA dump money into places like the NIF, which research inertial confinement fusion.
Inertial confinement fusion is great for developing better thermonuclear weapons but an unlikely candidate for practical power generation. So from that one billion bucks a year, a significant amount is pissed away on weapons research instead of power generation candidates like tokamaks and stellarators.
I'm glad that China is funding fusion research, especially since they're in a consortium with many Western nations. When they make progress, so do we (and vice versa).