same, and its even worse when it completely breaks you out of hyperfocus, which is why I especially dislike Discord’s notification sound.

I have always disabled them because they’re annoying as fuck, but I didn’t realise there were also privacy implications too, interesting.

Pricing for surfaces was already illogically high, why not add more fuel to the fire?

I’ll take that as a sign you’ve never written a single line of code in your life, since if you actually did so, you’d soon realise it’s like having a fast typing, cocaine fuelled intern as a sidekick, who only saw a couple stack overflow code snippets in your language of choice and ran with it.

What I was describing was more an actual PDA, with very low power needs while still being very useful, and being very easy to back up the entire OS and its data, maybe even with some sort of minimal linux distro.

However, I might actually flash a pixel with grapheneOS, since it does fulfill many of those needs, so I’ll consider it. Good suggestion.

This is why I’ve wanted a PDA for a while now. But nobody makes them anymore because everyone pivoted to making smartphones, so DIY would probably be one of the only options unless I want to buy used tech from I believe 2 decades ago.

On top of that, so many people forget it’s April 1st, and actually believe it

Probably be a recreational pilot, like one of my friends did training for. Like sure, I love my deep interests in tech, psychology and gaming, but damn I wanna fly a light aircraft.

Actually, I agree. And so far, small local models are really solid, and can punch above its weight even when compared to frontier models.

I believe what I meant when I said I doubted it was since these AI corpos seemingly give no indication that local is an option, so most people would think they can only access an LLM through the web. This would bolster the SaaS ecosystem dominating over local AI, although local will keep increasingly growing as a more favourable option.

Although I do agree that the industry will shift from being server based to PC based inference as well, I don’t see that shift being large enough to make these companies change their training paradigms to include telemetry from local AI, but I’m sure some will.

I doubt it, but honesty, many systems can do inference pretty well, like how I ran the MLX version of Qwen 3 4b with a DuckDuckGo search RAG, and used it to ask quick questions and verify some simple things, running on a MacBook Air m2 16gb, and barely made a dent in the RAM utilisation or SoC, and this also goes for my much less powerful machines, like even a galaxy a20, with 3gb of memory and a low spec octacore exynos, can run small models really well, although the quantisation needs to be a bit strict.

Lemmyflation is real

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Yeah, we’ll have to wait until 2032 for that AI toggle lmao

Windows is like that one artistic shit painting on a public stall door, you first think it looks alright, then realise it’s shit. Microsoft never changed from painting with shit to painting with acrylic, they just decided to change a small few visual features of that painting thinking we’d like it.

I’d love this to work, but unfortunately it seems the nature of war is more to act as a collective burden/punishment instead of actual dispute resolution. I guess it’s just a shitty way to have a temper tantrum that coincidentally involves countless millions of citizens who never wanted war in the first place on all sides.

Hate the inconsistent autocorrect but aside from that, I use it on every phone I have and it’s really damn good

They could have easily made the RAM and Storage user serviceable/upgradeable

Nope, they couldn’t have, since the A18 pro chipset doesn’t support modular memory at all, of expanding it past 8gb. It’s a phone chip after all. There’s also the fact that Apple has equipped all their devices with unified memory, which, if they even managed to make it upgradable, all chips would need to support massive memory bus widths to have the same or similar bandwidth (requiring more modules), would need proprietary modules or at least rare modules like SOCAMM, and would reduce the space inside the chassis for anything else, like battery, modular ports, etc.

Sure, I hate Apple’s antics in terms of lack of right to repair, but frankly they produce arm based computers, where have you ever seen an arm based laptop or mini pc with modular RAM? I’m sure some exist but they’re likely too obscure for me to have heard of (although I have heard of System76’s Thelio Astra, although again they are a bit obscure outside Linux circles.)

Edit: forgot to add, but yeah soldered storage is really inexcusable.

First of all, I couldn’t find where you specified “outside work”, so maybe you imagined it and accidentally believed you did.

Second of all, phones can be efficient at some tasks, but PCs can be for others. Phones aren’t always the most efficient thing ever at every task. Programming for example is much more streamlined on desktop, since you can simply install an IDE, program what you need and test it pretty easily unless you’re really shit at coding. On mobile, it’s different, on iOS you’d be hard pressed to find an IDE at all that isn’t some completely unheard of one with at most 3 stars if people actually used it, or 5 stars from the creator of it. On android it’s a little better, although I genuinely haven’t heard of official or even recommended options for IDEs either.

Thirdly, people aren’t downvoting out of elitism, it’s out of logic, PCs are amazing at most things, maybe apart from endless short form video scrolling. Phones are just portable PCs built to be more energy efficient, do mostly the same tasks, but also lack most of the input methods apart from a digitiser, and a miniaturised display. None are bad, and frankly I’m typing this on an iPad right now, but that’s because I’m away from my desk and just wanna do some simple browsing. On my laptops I can genuinely do what I’d like that isn’t just browsing, I can have a game open that’s not compatible with iPadOS or android, and even within browsing, I can have 30 or more YouTube or other tabs open without the browser grinding to a halt, which I can’t say the same for safari on the iPad or chromium on my android phones.

People aren’t “just old and set in their ways” because they like the tactility, openness and forms of ease of use PCs bring. Sure, your workflow may have never touched PCs at all currently, but other people have different workflows. Other people aren’t stupid for not being you.

Naturally

Hybrid and electric drivers during the petrol price rise: