That doesn’t actually sound like they intend on producing usable helium though. That sounds like they intend on doing a really difficult and expensive fusion reaction to produce helium 3, which they will then use in a cheaper and easier to do fusion reaction, and the end result of all of that should be electricity and no net new helium since it’s expensive and rare AF and they need it all to make the whole process remotely plausibly profitable.

If you just want to build a basic web page or roughly static document / form, then AI can see why it would feel like overkill.

But if you’re building a full featured application then modern web development is kind of glorious.

Can I remind everyone that it is impossible to produce helium in a practical way?

It is literally only produced through a fusion reaction, and that happens in stars and in incredibly tiny quantities in fusion reactors.

Whenever it’s released, it basically just floats away into space and is lost forever.

And what hardware do they run Linux on? And what phone do they use? And what TV device?

And if they’re not a mac fan boy, then they’re insistence of looking at Apple as the only possible sign of industry trends is mind boggingly narrow.

Do I really miss it? It never once came up in any practical situation.

You would buy a mobo and a CPU and put them together and not think about the specific buses or controllers you have available, unless you had a very specific reason to.

Unless we’re talking about a mobile power constrained device, I certainly would rather have expandable RAM and graphics cards then everything slammed in a single unchanging chip.

And again, the fact that the author states that Nvidia can’t release an integrated SoC because they didn’t buy ARM, when they actively sell an integrated SoC licensed from ARM, makes the entire rest of their “opinion”, untrustworthy.

This is a bad article. It’s just an Apple fanboy watching their company continue its trend of shitting on customers and assuming that everyone inevitably will, apparently never once reflecting on whether their insistence of sticking with Apple is the real problem.

Their argument boils down to CPUs increasingly integrating basic versions of other components over time meaning that desktops will disappear… Ignoring that the desktop market has stayed surprisingly flat that entire time and has certainly not disappeared.

If your argument is that integrated CPUs will outclass discrete components connected with high speed buses then you need to make it from an engineering standpoint, not a headline one.

I also don’t understand his reasoning that because NVidia don’t buy ARM they don’t get to make an integrated CPU… Nvidia made and sold an integrated ARM CPU before ever being rumoured to buy them, and they still make and sell it to this day … because ARM’s entire business model is based on companies like Nvidia licensing their designs.

Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.

XD you think the CIA can’t crack your closet server? Bruh, get real.

There is none. Theres like 0.1% of people who complain about it who have a valid point.

And those points are always meaningless in light of the alternative’s drawbacks.

You can also do this with Lunar, or with the paid version of BetterDisplay, and they also support controlling external monitors via DDC/CI.

I personally despise MacOS, but the MiniLED displays in MacBooks have fully changed what I prioritize when buying displays.

It’s so much more pleasant to be in a bright room (or outside), but that’s only feasible if your screen can output like 1000nits of brightness which few can outside of MiniLED displays.

Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.

It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.

I care if an OS can manage the running applications and their windows in a reasonable way, which MacOS cannot.

Lmao.

,we have to submit tickets to run software because everything is installed through random .exes.

You have to do that because your IT department doesn’t trust you. There’s no difference in danger between a dev with system access installing an exe or a DMG.

If you’re talking the US government, then no, they don’t need political capital from the people, they just need capital capital and they can use that to swing elections and bribe politicians.

Regardless, some AI companies will inevitably survive. It is legitimately useful in solving a ton of problems that were near impossible before. Literally this xkcd. Now it’s not “I’ll need a research team and five years”, it’s “sure, easy API hit, we’ll just have to manage cost / use”, in the future, it will be “sure, we’ll just add a background task client side”.

If they lie like that peacefully and contently then it’s because they find it comfortable.

If they’re active and trying to get your attention, but don’t want pets, then it’s because they want to play.

I was like “ok what’s the principal”, then I scrolled looking for it and saw how long the article was and was like “Jesus Christ I’m not reading all of that”, then I started reading it and found myself at the end.

A lot more compelling of a lens then I was expecting.

This is literally how he always acts. There’s a reason that many instances do not federate with lemmy.ml, his instance.

He’s incredibly pro communist, pro Russia, pro China, and will ban you for even mentioning that something could be foreign propaganda.

At the end of the day, hopefully your instance builds their server code from source and inspects it to make sure there’s nothing nefarious. It would be nice to use a decentralized Reddit like platform not coded by him, but no one else has the time, resources, ability, and/or dedication, to step up.

I would still rather use Lemmy over Reddit, though I did switch to donating to piefed, the Canadian instance runners, over donating to him.

Are you a vegan?

Fair that they’re not mutually exclusive, but you did imply that that’s why the majority don’t switch.

There’s also lots of people who become developers because they want to build the best software they can and don’t care to spend time thinking about whether one open source hosting platform is better for their code over another if they accomplish the same thing.

Your response is insanely narrow minded and judgemental, not everyone chooses to fight the same battles you do.