ohwhatfollyisman

you are correct for now. but one can foresee the day when ai is mandatorily baked into the computing experience. and this is something that isn't too far into the future, either.

the hope is that having limited hardware makes it difficult to have such mandatory "value adding services" forced upon you.

the roots of your response may lie in derision, but it is--in essence--accurate.

i did have a chromebook immediately before the mac mini but i switched for two reasons: (1) the androidification of it really slowed things down and (2) i just gave up on chrome as a browser around then.

some of us have such simple needs that a low-powered machine is actually viable. one can understand how that may seem worthy of scorn to other users, but it works for me and i wouldn't change that behaviour even if it means that i have lost the respect of random internet users.

what were those popular artists searching for, though?

i've had an 8gb m1 mac mini since the days of the pandemic and it runs just fine for my use. i've not had any issues whatsoever with it.

if 8gb ram is a barrier to ai services running in the background, then personally for me those are machines to use exclusively.

(aside, if ai is so intelligent and all, why can't it figure out how to run itself on lesser memory?)

fucking humans!

no, concrete wall.

Dont know why this reflex to downplay his atrocities is always there.

i don't think that's the thrust of the OP? they aren't saying, "hey, c'mon mate, hitler wasn't all that bad!"

they're saying a lot of men did evil deeds, but only one of them is called out for it and their conjecture for why the others escaped scorn and scrutiny is because the skins of their victims had additional levels of pigmentation.

personally, as an indian, more of my countryfolk were killed by churchill than by hitler, but i still don't see the austrian psycopath as a good person; i still don't see him as better than churchill. all it means is that i have enough hatred in my heart for them both. and for the others of their kind.

yes, hitler may be the worst of them all by orders of magnitude, but that doesn't mean the others are saints -- and that's the narrative which shouldn't be lost.

inquiry: i'm just catching up with the boxing day matches highlights, and there's a heavy smoky cloud visible in multiple grounds.

what is it? just condensate? a fog? mist? or were those matches played in new delhi?

wow, premium in the usa is expensive. it's a little under $3 per month here in india for the family plan and even that's after a recent 16% hike. the individual plan is even cheaper.

i guess these rates are in store for us as well in the future?

why, though? the choice of the year ending on the 31st of december is wholly made by man--nothing in nature dictates that choice.

if anything, the original calendar had february mopping up after all the other months (which is why the fewer days as well as the tacking on of the leap day there). we've already advanced the end of the year by an arbitrary amount of two months. what's one more week?

unless, of course, you're saying that the year in review does not take into account the last week of 2023. in which case, yes, you're right.

well obviously you were supposed to akready be on a paid tier with a higher range of storage capacity!

it's not a bug. it's a feature.

i hear what you're saying but that doesn't seem to be the (ahem) case.

if that were so, one would have chosen "she/ her" or "they/ them" -- pairing each nominative with its accusative partner and still fitting well within this perceived word limit. one wouldn't use two separate nominative case words in its place.

there has to be something deeper in this choice. not that it should be treated as sinister or anything; this choice should be just as deeply respected. i'm just curious as to the reasons behind it.