All the other brands went along

(My 2020 G14 has 3 A ports and ethernet, but still…)

Yes blocking major backers is bad, I agree with that. The mod behind this kind of sounds unpleasant too.

What does being on Lemmy matter?

Discord is like the antithesis of Lemmy, a siloed off, inefficient, unscrapable, private, proprietary and dangerously monopolistic echo chamber. I’ve seen it swallow too many of my niches, and from my experience, it turns people into jerks.

Hence what I’m getting at is that this may not have happened without all that nonsense in the unoffiical discord.

You mean a few github accounts and a bunch of jerks on Discord, which you are bringing up on Lemmy?

If anything this is just another repudiation of Discord as a whole. I hate how its eating the internet like mad cow disease.

This is the last antitrust win we’ll get for years, isn’t it?

I know Trump doesn’t like Big Tech, but I doubt his admin will punish them meaningfully, but just rail about censorship.

I fear this is exactly who they’re courting.

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

I feel like they are dropping the ball in the GPU space though, both on desktop and in servers.

They’renot really leveraging it. They killed the steam deck line of “small core count, GPU heavy APUs” which is why Valve hasn’t updated it and competitors seem so power hungry. They all but killed server APUs, making them mega expensive and HPC only. They’re finally coming out with a M-Pro like consumer APU, but it took until 2025, and pricing will probably be a joke just like their Radeon Pro GPUs…

And I don’t even wanna get into the AI space. They get like 99% there and then go “nah, we don’t really care about this market, let Nvidia have their monopoly and screw everyone over.” It makes me want to pull my hair out.

Unless you have an Nvidia card.

I’ve been on linux for years, I work the Nvidia libraries all the time, I alternate booting wayland and X… I even use my AMD IGP as output these days, instead of the Nvidia card.

And I STILL hold my breath wondering if I’m going to get a blackscreen, and have to go into tty mode or boot from a usb stick to investigate and fix it.

Honestly, hardly anyone I know IRL knows specifics about Israel and Palestine.

I never liked Musk, even when he was “In.” Even the Mars colonization meme rubbed me the wrong way, as the science does not line up with that.

It felt like a cult of personality to me. He was always a fickle jerk, a mixed bag.

You have a point though, people’s opinions were largely political, I think. Or just based on pure hope/cultism

+1

They should discourage institutions from using it (and use government Mastadon instances of course). This is honestly long overdue.

Don’t jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

You should submit this as a post. Or I might just repost it. It’s insightful!

I really dig the explanation of how the two parties have kind of worked for so long, in spite of everything, and now that balance is disrupted since the “cranks” moved to one party.

Except Russia is not the military power Nazi Germany was.

Lets say he takes over Ukraine. Horrific… but that’s not some huge economic windfall. If Russia tries to invade a NATO country in the next few decades, even with America totally out of the pictue, they’d get theit butts handed to them.

Only way it works is if China backs the heck out of Russia. Which is theoretically plausible if America is “defeated” I guess.

Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That’s actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.

Problem is I don’t really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he’s just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.

He’s hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?

I’d posit the algorithm has turned it into a monster.

Attention should be dictated more by chronological order and what others retweet, not what some black box thinks will keep you glued to the screen, and it felt like more of the former in the old days. This is a subtle, but also very significant change.

On the other hand, the track record of old social networks is not great.

And it’s reasonable to posit Twitter is deep into the enshitifiication cycle.

Still perfectly runnable in kobold.cpp. There was a whole community built up around with Pygmalion.

It is as dumb as dirt though. IMO that is going back too far.

No, because Dems are stuck on a high horse and burned 1 billion campaigning like its the 1950s. Fff, they could have won the election spending a tenth of that on bots and paying off influencers.

We absolutely need money for a shameless ‘oppositional’ propaganda apparatus.

And social media feeds.

How much you wanna bet this guy scrolls facebook a ton? Or listens to railing radio/podcasts on drives? This opinion didn’t spawn from a vacuum.

They should be following up and asking him where he got those ideas.