And it’s working! It’s so funny to see companies like McDonalds advertise with: “Your burger is produced in Europe” or the like. At least they seem to acknowledge that they are biting off one of the hands that feed them, good.

Not just that, even as a company I would be seriously anxious when I know my business can be fully run by AI. That means that others can replicate your business very easily, which generates lots of competition, resulting in a race to the bottom. Which might even be good for consumers somehow.

I still don’t see how getting 5G is seen as a bad thing. Of all the side effects they could come up with, they picked one that is genuinely useful? Come on… They can do better.

Obviously it’s irrelevant, because he is in there and we all know it.

As much as I would like to believe that, I doubt it though. Trump isn’t the mastermind behind these plans, he is merely a puppet. Puppets are easily replaceable.

For me personally, it’s about balance. Working from home full time during COVID was hell, felt like trapped in my cell really. Going to the office every day feels exhausting due to traffic and open space office design can be very noisy. But meeting in the middle, going to the office once or twice a week is perfect for me. Enough time to work from home, stay focused. But also enough time to connect with colleagues.

There are only three certainties in life (US edition):

• Taxes
• Filing your taxes
• Death

The more I learn about our modern age, the more I start to feel that the premise of the Matrix isn’t such a bad deal at all. Normally, we should be there by now, the machine war ended decades ago.

Writing prompts is definitely a thing users must learn to do properly, to get the right results.

But anyways, any company that fires people in favor of AI is only digging their own grave anyways. I personally believe AI (of which LLM is only a small part) can definitely serve as an automation tool that can increase output. Great companies will use this tech to give their employees more time to work on things that are meaningful to the company, that the AI cannot do. For instance, a company could free up some time of highly skilled engineers to help a couple hours a week on the most complicated service desk issues to increase customer satisfaction. Or the LLM can create more time for sales to have meetings with customers, instead of doing admin they already hate, etc… Use it to grow, not to shrink.

Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won’t anyone be able to replicate that quickly?

Honestly, in that case, don’t expect mass adoption. Simple as that.

If the idea is to keep Linux as a niche, then that’s fine. But if you/the community want Linux to rival Windows/Mac, than these are the exact bullet points that must change.

How does that help anything? The channel is trying it out, a channel that is objectively more technically skilled than the average PC gamer. So if they can’t make it work, or can’t make it work seamlessly enough, then there is an issue. It reinforces the image that gaming on Linux is difficult, which frankly, it is.

Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why can’t a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? It’s like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.

The answer is in your last sentences, employers should just pay a livable wage (mandated by the government really). In your first paragraph, all the things you explain to me are just part of the job. Nobody is going above and beyond to give me a better service/experience, it’s literally just people doing their jobs. In non hospitality services, people don’t get tipped for doing their job either, right? I’ve never seen anyone tip a nurse, teacher, police officer, etc.

The whole tipping culture in the US is such a wild concept. In that aspect, I’m glad that we here in The Netherlands don’t have that culture (yet), that we are not expected to tip and that we only tip great hospitality. But meanwhile the times are changing, we also see a “leave tip” prompt more often and it is really starting to annoy me. I’ll decide if I want to tip, no need to shove it in my face, especially not considering people make a living wage without tips anyways.

Client side verification, that only shares the verification/proof thumbs up to the requestor, could work in such scenario. Very similar to digital payment cards such as seen in Apple Pay. You verify with your biometrics, anyone can only use it in that brief moment of time, but you cannot share that card. When paying, the device will only quickly check key details of that card to execute payment.

A digital ID, by itself, isn’t much of an issue and can be very convenient for the user as well. Even better, it can be setup in a more privacy conserving way. For instance, when you have to provide your ID today, you often have to give companies a copy of your ID, which isn’t really favorable to the owner of that ID. With digital ID, it’s easier to give/revoke access to your ID or mask certain information the other party doesn’t need to know. Most ID scans are mainly done to verify the person has a legitimate ID anyways and presented it, making this digital can be an improvement.

Where it does get black mirror-ey is when you have to use that digital identity to basically log in to the internet and all your internet activity is logged to your ID. The shit the government can pull with such information is mindbogglingly bad.

“We cut our healthcare!” - seems more appropriate, given they voted for this mess.

I don’t tip for take out I have to pick up myself. But tipping culture here in The Netherlands is vastly different than the US. We basically only tip in restaurants, and only if the service was really good. Most people don’t tip for bad or average service.

Is there an option to pick up my own food at the counter? I’d gladly do it.

Clearly he still has plenty support, otherwise he would’ve been dethroned already. Let’s not pretend that he doesn’t have any support anymore.

Not too bad really, considering that software developer has milked that cow for way longer than anyone would’ve thought. Those last 5 years will be challenging though, but maybe the software developer can sprinkle some AI over their resume and magically land some weird role that nobody can explain why we need it in the first place.