Really hoping that this is the beginning of even more apps moving away from Electron. Especially since so many modern apps (Electron or not) just love to default to running at startup, without even having the option to turn it off in settings. Defaulting to telling people to turn it off in Task Manager is lame, and isn't a real option. It is already bad enough that via a built-in setting or via Task Manager, they still love to run processes anyway. It is wild how much better PCs I work on for people run after I purge the fuck out of all the chat/gaming/creative apps from launching. Every little bit matters so much right now.

Windows itself enables this shit with Webview and by defaulting to hiding the damn icons of the running apps from the notification area. Leads to people not even noticing just how many of them are always there. But no, they want to "de-clutter" by just pretending shit isn't there (while pushing all the search bar art, widgets that users don't use, but just assume is just a non-removable thing). Sorry for that rant, just a daily frustration between enshittification from the companies, and growing tech illiteracy of users.

Would love a car decal version of this!

OpenAI’s Sam Altman recently blamed memory supply chain issues on selfish users buying up RAM to run open-source AI models locally, saying it’s “quite terrible”1 for people to have “a bunch of the world’s limited supply of [DRAM] sitting in their own computer”.

That thing that happened to that UHC CEO probably should start happening to more CEOs like Sam. Saying something like what he said should be beyond "mask-off" for anyone that has been in any way a supporter of his and OpenAI. Also fuck Jensen Huang, Samsung, Micron, SK-Hynix, and any of the other hardware companies that allowed global supplies to be made as expensive as having a car suddenly need hundreds/thousands of dollar work done.

I work on peoples' PCs and telling them that their drive or RAM has failed, and explain so many times the reason those parts cost 1/3 or more of what their entire PC cost them originally. And have to try saving any RAM I can from recycled PCs (never storage because super obvious data privacy stuff) so I can maybe help out (give to) folks that for sure aren't in a place money-wise to afford replacing it or getting a new PC. Mostly 4GB sticks here and there for DDR4 (DDR5 is still too new), and run diags to make sure they are good. But going to get harder and harder to do it if companies that will take the PCs to be handed-off to recycling start locking up those PCs to prevent helping folks out that just need their PC to last a little bit longer until they can upgrade. If I happen to be the one taking their PC to put in our recycle bin. I try to ask permission from people that are already getting a new PC or the reason for recycle is due to actual physical damage or some major failure of the motherboard. And even just ask them if they want to have the RAM out of their previous PC for later (if it is usable for whatever they get).

Considering what he said, I am a bit pissed that the AI stuff is basically the only thing that matters. Like he (and the first image) mentions that he spoke to an employee badly, but it is almost forgotten about with the larger part pleading that people don't think they use AI for everything. But if he can express so many repetitive things about AI, then he could address the actual human that wasn't "using AI more". I know the part that people are mad about is the idea of speed-running security with too much potential AI involved causing some profit drops from current and potential customers. Just kind of weirds me out how even in this plea he is using the topic of AI more than the fucked human behavior.

Thanks for your reply, wasn't sure if it was just a new WINE mod or its own thing (just similar in some elements like prefix and dot folder stuff). It is kind of awesome that part of ReactOS is being used while the main OS is still not ready.

Is this similar to Bottles in being a front-end for WINE, a fork of WINE itself, or independent program similar to WINE? No matter which, I will have to keep it in mind for future random needs for Windows programs.

“If there are gonna be killer robots, I’d rather they be our killer robots.”

I kind of think that he and the others will be making that Surprised Pikachu face when "our killer robots" see everyone as targets. Which would be great to see them have that realization right before the robots merc them. Sadly it would already be too late for all of us.

We keep seeing more of those "broke containment" reports while the stakes are comparably much lower. Which are very real reasons that maybe the hyper version of "move fast, break things" with regards to AI shouldn't be how things are treated. Shit needs to slow down dramatically, and efforts to actually deal with containment should be a major focus with the stuff already existing. Having lots of plans with redundancies ready to stop shit if anything happens.

Other focus should be optimizing instead of the sprinting into just adding more and more hardware power (and regular energy power). Really need AI companies stop acting like game companies that can't be bothered to get everything out of hardware without just defaulting to assuming that parts should constantly be upgraded. But I guess that is a different problem than the original issue.

But scammers can just use stolen IDs. So they would be able to get away, while the person who's ID was used now gets cops showing up and lawsuits. I agree that it makes sense sites would want to have something. Just seems like much like other options, really low effort scammers might get stopped here and there, but everyone else has yet another way for their identification to be stolen. It is hard to figure out how to deal with very real problems for sure. Just seems like gov IDs should not be the only option with how bad sites are at data breeches. Though I am not sure what options would be good for the situations where needing to have tax documents tied to sales/income for regular people that don't have like an LLC.

Microsoft has been a major annoyance on me with passkeys. I don't like not knowing for sure that I can get back into an account if any of my devices get fucked (authenticators are nice and I do have some things setup but always worry if my phone is broken or lost out of nowhere). They (Microsoft) have such a dark pattern way of pushing passkeys. When I have to help someone get into their MS account at work (normal consumer PC stuff not IT/corp stuff) which is already hard since the people I try to help already don't tend to realize how important even simple things they don't think about WILL fuck them later. Some examples are stereotypical "boomers" that default to adding their land-line when an account asks for a phone number, or that they were even making an account (another dark pattern from Windows 8 where sooooo many people created @outlook.com accounts without really paying attention).

Obviously I experience a higher than average amount of tech illiterate folks (that also seem to just not care like shit is still the Windows 7 and earlier times). But Microsoft pushes dialog prompts/boxes for physical security keys and passkeys in a way that at first seems like the person has one of those setup. In some cases trying to sign into an account without a passkey/security key it will do what I expect. Give an extra option to not keep using a password or password+text/email code, or setup passkeys to "not have to worry about remembering passwords". Though I still think they don't really clearly explain how crucially important it is to make sure the person's information for the account is correct and making damn sure to know recovery options if anything happens.

But I started seeing just a box pop-up that looks like a system prompt that only gives two options. Enter your PIN/insert security key, or to use the authenticator app. No obvious option for picking that neither are setup. The only way for not using those is to click the X on the top-right of the prompt. In some cases I have seen people click on the options and it just acts like they are setup. Pick the authenticator option and it asks for the code on an app/device that doesn't exist. In the cases that it does start the process of setting up passkeys, I still feel like they are trying to trick people into it rather than the users choosing to do it.

Again I deal with more than average "I'm not a 'techy'!" kinds of people along with older folks. But it really does seem like any level of tech literacy keeps getting worse based on running into more and more people of all ages. Which is what freaks me out about how these things are suddenly seemingly pushed on folks at the worst moments. A lot of people first trying to setup their new device just want to get into it as fast as possible, and really don't understand how they can just lose access to so many things they didn't realize are now tied together. Let alone be aware that they should export those things to something that isn't tied to the OS in the event they for some reason want to get something else (PC to Mac/Mac to PC/Android to iOS/iOS to Android/etc).

I wish I could give more than one upvote for the commitment to the bit on this.

I was excited to quote the sketch when my friend decided to live van life a long time ago. But he was too young to know about it (I made sure to show it to him before he left). Then he ended up taking a job for a rafting/tubing company for the summer. He actually did end-up "living in a van down by the river."

Which sucks since the 20's haven't been "roaring" economically. Though maybe media will still try to make "the roaring 20's" a thing by talking about how mad people have been.