ulterno

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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just make sure the check mark is outside the video.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 16 points 9 months ago

That's what happens when you make an expensive chatbot, designed for chatting and tell it to do thinking.
It's not Machine Learning [Artificial][1] Intelligence that will destroy the world, but the intelligence of humans, that is becoming more and more [artificial][2] that will do so.

[1]: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

[2]: (of a person or their behaviour) insincere or affected.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 9 months ago

What you seem to want is a a PMOS phone with with Plasma Mobile

You got that right. And TIL that the Fairphone 4 support for that is less than what I would require. i.e. GPS, Mobile Data, SMS, Calls ...

Perhaps, if some day I can justify buying a phone with that price tag just for testing purposes, I'll try helping with the support of those features..

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

but they refuse to add wireless charging (even as an add-on) and they also removed the headphone jack

I discounted the headphone jack because your comment included the Pixel, but I feel the same. My current phone has a jack and I tend to use it quite often. Also, I don't see a good reason to require another batteried device that I need to worry about, on top of it potentially not working in high interference environments.
This has been one of the 2 main reasons why I haven't taken one yet. The other being non-availability.

I am still unable to understand how important wireless charging might be.

I really just wish I could get a handheld pocketable computer with a cellular radio and GPS navigation related sensors, with some version of UEFI on which I could install whatever Linux I wanted.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 9 months ago

Well, of course one can't expect someone with 0 exposure to similar stuff in their learnable period to be able to pick up those things. Just one of the limitations of the human brain.
On the other hand, people who tend to be more imaginative would probably be able to do better in that regard.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

One of them main reasons for that, I think, is how the average non-tech computer user perceives UI/UX, when they have been exposed to only a single type of interface for most of their lives (most probably Windows).

And even though they tend to pick up different UIs in mobile phones fairly quickly, that seems to not be the case for computers.

Back that up with earlier versions of middle-school computers studies in being mostly like:

  • How to print a file in Microsoft Word?
  • How to copy a file to USB drive? (with the implicit - using Explorer on Windows XP)
    And you have most of the population thinking that's the only way to do it. That was the case with me until I learned programming.
[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 10 months ago

Hehe, a similar thingy happened in one of my previous companies. The CPU was easily spoofed using qemu but in that case the whole OS was almost immutable with hardcoded bus configs for the video card (some old pre ATI card), which I was unable to pass through, causing the project to be taken out of my hands. I feel like it didn't go forward after that.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd rather not automate convicting random people.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked

Besides, what I said earlier would be more of a concern for preservation of information in case of civilisation level disasters.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Or you can just read it directly. Just need some light.

It's actually better than plain text stored on a Hard Drive/ CD/ Floppy et c., which requires corresponding reading devices, format parsing systems, a display to show it and an appropriate power source, after which you can consider using a human to use the data (or remove the monitor and convert data into other data, in which case, you need another output device/network).

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

either due to technical or cost effective

Mainly due to proprietary hardware+software solutions which cannot be ported now and remaking them with new hardware will require redoing the same processes as before (probably with additional stuff added by later laws) all over again.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 22 points 10 months ago

if the customer does not print enough

Meaning all home users are a bad investment for HP.

That explains the ink cartridges malfunctioning before giving enough prints. That's been engineered into them.

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