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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I’ma push back on that and say that our laziness in shortcutting our explanations is only muddying the general public’s understanding of generative models, and it only serves the interests of the venture capitalists hoping to pump up the AI hype bubble and cash out before it pops.

    So while I agree that we have been doing that as a species since forever, it’s not a particularly good trait we possess, and it’s led to some gross misunderstandings and even bad actors weaponizing that trait to equivocate and push an agenda.





  • Until Apple makes a device that’s as capable as the Vision but as unobtrusive as a pair of glasses, it’s going to remain a niche item. The Apple Watch, as you mentioned, has the benefit of being the same general form factor as a watch. iPads are just fancy notebooks.

    As much as he wishes it was true, Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive.

    (For reference, both devices you mentioned, as well as all of Apple’s successful devices since the first iPod, were products of their marketing genius.)


  • I use Bazzite on a laptop, and it is permanently attached to a TV as its primary video output. You should not have to do anything with whitelisting; video out should just work as expected, besides maybe needing to manually select the audio output.

    My suspicion is that there’s some kind of extra data being pushed over the HDMI, since the Smart Board is more than just a monitor (mouse data, smart pens, etc.). The video driver is probably shitting itself after the “monitor” detection. I don’t know for certain, but that’s my guess.

    I would start by asking in the ublue Discord. There may be an easy fix, or they may direct you to the project where you should file a bug report.








  • BlueZ has/had some problematic issues with connectivity. Bazzite and other distros had problems a few months ago that sound awfully similar to what you’re experiencing. I’m not as familiar with how Mint handles packages (like if they have their own repos with specific package versions), but it might be that your specific version is behind the fixes.




  • Cost is also a big thing. With tariffs on Chinese tech goods coming into effect and the fact that everything has gone up in price, like necessary things like groceries (plus the very high likelihood of inflation/greedflation continuing to strangle non-rich people), it’s a recipe for people to hang onto their money, not feel safe to spend it.

    Unless they say somehow heavily subsidize it with ads and/or some kind of government fund hackery, I think we’re all safe from sock-mouth.