What happened to librem anyway? They used to be all the rage, now it’s nothing.

Not to sound confrontational, but you’re way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.

90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don’t quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.

A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they’re a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald’s, Oracle, etc.

It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a medical definition.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

You’re not OCD because you sorted Skittles by color once either.

But trauma, as I understand it, is more like a broken bone

That’s a medical trauma, yes. But the situation described here is a light bruise at best.

Yes, these terms encompass a range of severities, but at some point you have to say “No, Terry, a broken nail is not a trauma, and you can’t go to the emergency room because of it”.

People love the feeling of being super empathetic if they support this language. And others love the feeling of self victimization.

And the actual victims don’t get the attention they need, because Terry cries about having made a bad joke yesterday.

Of course there is. As I wrote above: if everything is a trauma, nothing is.

You can’t just expand the meaning of a well defined word just because you like the vibe of it applying to the victim group of the day.

… And that in turn means the term is practically meaningless - as you can see in the example above.

If everything is a trauma, nothing is.

Not every bad experience is traumatic. Abusing that word devalues the actually traumatizing experiences. Being an outsider in school and being raped by your dad are categorically extremely different experiences. Lumping them into “traumatic” is just not helpful.

What is the battery situation like?

The older, cheaper devices are obviously, well, older and thus the battery degraded a bit. Linux isn’t exactly optimized for these things either. I would expect less than great battery life.

No.

Seriously, many soldering irons don’t have a switch. Fancy soldering stations have switches, temperature dials, etc. But basic ones are just a resistive load wired directly to the plug.

Your comments strengthen my conviction that you read a philosophy book and now try to emulate what you think smart people sound like.

What are you even trying to express here? That’s just childish phrases glued together.

I see. We’re at full blown ad hominem and removed even the pretense of argumentative value.

That’s of course a sure sign of maturity.

Maybe all the juniors around you suck, because the good ones don’t need to waste their time with arrogant, abrasive coworkers.

It’s already fourth tier after L1, L2, L3 caches.

Maybe something like optane will make a comeback. Having 16gb of soldered RAM and 500gb of relatively slow, but inexpensive optane RAM would be great.

I tried cursor, claude, copilot. They’re not good.

Like, they can sometimes generate 10 lines of perfectly reasonable code, but they constantly completely misunderstand my intention or simply produce garbage. But the garbage looks just good enough, that you actually have to read and understand it, which slows me down.

Maybe we’re operating in completely different worlds, but even for the junior devs in my company, typing speed was never an issue. I’m sure, within a few years LLMs can generate much better code, but I don’t see widespread unemployment. They need way too much babysitting and result in worse code.

No, I fully understand your point, I just think it’s shit, and since your first reaction to being challenged is a shitty attempt at belittling, I have to assume you’re about as valuable as your point.

Why would I trust the judgement of someone who can’t even fathom the concept of “someone else might have a valid point”?

You’re right in your analysis, but the prediction is wrong, I’m afraid.

The next “big thing” is taking over the government. See Musk and his gang. He’s not alone and the US isn’t the only country this is happening in. Corporations inject themselves into each and every transaction, every aspect of life and politics. That way they have essentially infinite money at their hands.

That’s exactly what I mean. Condescending, arrogant, and confidently incorrect.

See, acting like a condescending asshole without any substance is a task that AI may never take from us.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/ai-deteriorates-your-brain-according-to-microsoft-study/ar-AA1yQnGA

Searching for AI and Microsoft is an absolute shit show, btw. There was also a study about the code quality, but I can’t find it among all the marketing bullshit.

Edit: just found another one https://futurism.com/openai-researchers-coding-fail

Translation on a level an AI could do is already pretty cheap, nobody’s gonna throw a nuanced legal document at an AI and rely on it.

Junior devs are much smarter than any current AI, because they know what they want to achieve and why. There’s a reason why all the demos are toy examples. Actual code is messy and full of quirks because of weird requirements.