“Components” means in this case the phone and the sticker.

Don’t you know, selling phones is an official presidential act, thus he has immunity.

Does this apply to smaller platforms like lemmy?

Except that Windows does it without.

I guess you aren’t wrong. There are a lot of advances but stability and small but really annoying bugs remain a huge pain point.

It’s not all quite as rosy.

Yes, Linux is much more capable now than it was 10 years ago and it’s much more capable of being used as a main system. I myself have been using Linux as my main system for a few years now.

But it’s also a fact that a lot of stuff might not work (even if it works for someone else) and that some things are still more difficult than they should be.

For example, on my laptop cannot wake from sleep since kernel 6.11. I have manually sourced a 6.10 from an older version of my distro and keep holding it back, so that I can use my laptop as a laptop. For someone without technical skill, this would mean that their laptop just can’t sleep any more. Hibernate also doesn’t work.

Another example is that LibreOffice still makes a lot of formatting mistakes when it has to open word documents. And sure, everyone could just switch to odf, but it’s not quite as easy to make everyone else switch to odf. It makes it really hard to use LibreOffice in any kind of professional environment. Wouldn’t want to make a powerpoint presentation that then looks like shit when it’s played on a different PC.

Lastly, Nvidia sucks, but it’s also close to the only option for laptops with dGPUs. When I look for laptops with dGPUs available in my area on a price comparison platform, I find 760 laptops with Nvidia GPUs and only 3 with AMD, all of which are priced at least €500 more than comparable Nvidia devices. So if you want to go for a gaming laptop, Nvidia is pretty much the only option, and under Linux it really sucks. Steam games generally work ok for me, but trying to use Heroic Launcher to play anything from my gigantic library of free Epic/Amazon/GoG games, about 10% of the games I tried actually work. And even with those that work, my laptop sometimes just decides that a slide show with 3 FPS is good enough. That stays even after reboots and resets, and after a few days it returns to normal. Only to go back to slideshow mode a few days later.

If you just use your laptop to run a browser, I can recommend Linux 100%.

If you want to do anything else and don’t have any technical skills and/or don’t want to spend hours fixing things that should just work, I can’t fully recommend it.

It’s a wildly different thing, though.

Married vs. unmarried means you have a companion, but you still got the same demands on your life as before. You might have to arrange schedules, but that’s about it. Your day has just as much free time as before, you can stay out just as long as before and your social opportunities aren’t restricted due to the fact that you are married.

In fact, there’s no difference at all between married vs. unmarried and in a relationship vs single. Getting married changes nothing in that regard.

Having kids, on the other hand, changes everything. Now your social activities are limited by your responsibilities towards the child(ren). Can’t stay out until 2am if you know the kids will be awake at 7am and will wake you up 3 times in between. Can’t take a random day off and do a day trip if the kid needs to be at school that day. Can’t visit friends after work together with your partner if the kid needs to be in bed at 7pm. It’s a massive limiter on social opportunities.

At the same time, spending time with the kids is pretty great in its own right, and that’s what the article touches upon. If you are married but don’t have kids, you might get your fill with your partner after work. If you have 5h or so every day with your partner from getting back from work until going to bed, that’s a ton of quality time.

But if you return from work at 5pm and the kids go to bed at 7pm, then pretty much all the interaction you get is eating and preparing the kids for bed.

As a father, working from home means I can see my kids grow up, especially in their earlier years. It means I was there when they took their first steps. I’m there when they start talking. I can actually spend time with them, get close to them, be part of them growing up. I’m there when they cry, when they say the funniest stuff. You know, be with them when it matters.

With my wife, on the other hand, as much as I love her, I’m not going to miss a ton of really important things if I’m not around her 24/7. On the contrary, she’s happy for any bit of actual alone time she gets.

Even if you copy the Mona Lisa down to the subatomic level, the original would still be seen as a one of a kind thing and would be vastly more valuable than the copy.

Because it’s not about the physical object.

It’s about the hope that it can be, one day, sold for more money than it was bought for. The same thing happens every day with all sorts of things where the price vastly outpaces the utility of the thing.

If you buy milk, you buy it to drink/eat/use it. So you pay for its utility. A litre of milk is worth its nutritional value. There’s no speculation or anything like that going on, and thus, the price is pretty low and pretty stable.

If you buy valueables (art, diamonds, stock, crypto, NFTs, …) the object itself is usually not useful or at least not nearly as useful as its price. Yes, there are some technical applications where you need gold or diamonds, but if that was the only thing they are used for, they’d be much, much cheaper. Art, stock, crypto, NFTs, stamps, and many similar things, on the other hand, have little to no direct utility. Nobody would buy the Mona Lisa because they have an empty bit of wall in their living room that would benefit from a bit of art as decoration.

These things, which are inherently worthless (if they were priced by their utility). The only reason for them to be “worth” a lot is the expectation that someone else will pay more for it in the future, for the sole purpose of finding someone else who’ll do the same.

It’s just a morensocially accepted form of gambling, nothing else.

And for that, it doesn’t matter if the thing being sold is a link to some picture of a bored monkey, a piece of paper with some paint on it, a banana ducttaped to a wall, or some shiny rock.

It’s the same with anything that had a value that goes beyond pure utility.

It’s not hard to make a functionally identical copy of the Mona Lisa, indistinguishable by anyone apart from the most highly skilled forgery experts.

And yet the Mona Lisa is still incredibly valuable and considered a one-of-a-kind, same as diamonds in the OP.

All of that value is based on the greater fool theory: the theory that if I pay a lot of money for it, I think I will find a greater fool later on who will pay even more for it. And that fool believes the same thing until the charade eventually collapses.

Yeah, I’m just baffled that it lasts this long, tbh.

I wonder if it may be some otger hardware issue, e.g. some clock generator degrading and only working at a certain temperature or something like that.

On some devices pretty much all custom roms are built on the same kernel published by the device manufacturer. So if there’s a bug in that (e.g. with power saving options) that could actually lead to symptoms like yours.

That’s longer than I’d expect something like that to work.

I hope you already got all your data off the device. While this might work in the short term, this will very likely fail very soon.

That’s probably the biggest reason why pretty much everyone else uses BSD.

One big problem is that pretty much all of these devices have major downsides. For example, I don’t know a single repairable or rugged phone with an actually really good camera or a flagship SOC.

They also usually have a huge markup and are often produced by small boutique manufacturers with terrible support (like Fairphone) and/or really bad software (like Fairphone).

So if you have the choice to e.g. pay €600 for a Fairphone with its terrible camera, battery life problems, inexistent support, huge amount of bugs and frequent issues with network providers (e.g. VoLTE not working), or you pay €300 for a comparable Samsung with similar software support duration (6 vs 10 years) and it just works without issues.

If there was something like a Samsung A56 or even a Samsung S25 that’s nicely repairable and costs a maximum of €100 more than the regular version, that might be worth it.

But the way it is now, it’s much better to buy a regular phone and spend the €300 you saved on 1-2 professional battery replacements down the line.

BSD would have been a much better fit for many reasons. It was just started with Linux for mostly irrelevant reasons, and then it was too hard to switch away.

What dies that do? Just do noops heating up the CPU? How does it help?

They aren’t a technical bug, but an UX bug. Or would you claim that an LLM that outputs 100% non-factual hallucinations and no factual information at all is just as desirable as one that doesn’t do that?

Btw, LLMs don’t have any traditional code at all.

Yes, your fan art infringed on Blizzards copyright. Blizzard lets it slide, because there’s nothing to gain from it apart from a massive PR desaster.

Now if you sold your Arthas images on a large enough scale then Blizzard will clearly come after you. Copyright is not only about the damages occured by people not buying Blizzards stuff, but also the license fees they didn’t get from you.

That’s the real big difference: if Midjourney was a little hobby project of some guy in his basement that never saw the the light of day, there wouldn’t be a problem. But Midjourney is a for-profit tool with the express purpose of allowing people to make images without paying an artist and the way it does that is by using copyrighted works to do so.

It’s not anthropomorphizing, its how new terms are created.

Pretty much every new term ever draws on already existing terms.

A car is called car, because that term was first used for streetcars before that, and for passenger train cars before that, and before that it was used for cargo train cars and before that it was used for a charriot and originally it was used for a two-wheeled Celtic war chariot. Not a lot of modern cars have two wheels and a horse.

A plane is called a plane, because it’s short for airplane, which derives from aeroplane, which means the wing of an airplane and that term first denoted the shell casings of a beetle’s wings. And not a lot of modern planes are actually made of beetle wing shell casings.

You can do the same for almost all modern terms. Every term derives from a term that denotes something similar, often in another domain.

Same with AI hallucinations. Nobody with half an education would think that the cause, effect and expression of AI hallucinations is the same as for humans. OpenAI doesn’t feed ChatGTP hallucinogenics. It’s just a technical term that means something vaguely related to what the term originally meant for humans, same as “plane” and “beetle wing shell casing”.