I’ll keep saying it: democracy doesn’t rest on elections and whatnot, it rests on fear of government officials to lose their place - or, on extreme end, their head - should they go against people’s will.

If this fear isn’t there, everything else will be warped to suit their needs.

It is most certainly worth it to pay for a VPN. That’s the only adequate solution.

“To accelerate integration of AI into Apple products and continuously improve user experience, we decided to remove the optionto disable Apple Intelligence”

-Them soon enough, probably.

Also, I’m pretty certain there’s more to it than that. More vibecoding coming to Apple devices.

You should really place a /j somewhere before someone thinks they’re screwed

I see!

Nah, no shame, it’s just that Jellyfin as a noncommercial solution is less mainstream, so if someone isn’t a permanent Lemmy resident, they may genuinely not know of its existence.

If Plex works for you, yay!

Plex

Plex has its own slew of issues and is known for enshittification. May I suggest Jellyfin instead?

Otherwise, listening in as well.

Though a universally good call, I fail to see why it’s in the Linux community

Similar idea was already mentioned in this thread and got disagreed with and downvoted into oblivion, so I assume this is controversial

See P.P.S and P.P.P.S

I see, so on top of that, it’s extra confusing because everyone means different things. I see the angle many trans people take, and that’s what I assumed initially.

Thanks for sharing!

someone politically progressive who happens to be a cishetero-passing white male, so it’s like everything I say is constantly under a microscope

Y E S.

An extremely toxic angle to a lot of progressives and especially the discriminated folks is automatically assuming everything to be evil once it comes out of cishet male’s mouth. Like, I get it, quite some people actually are discriminatory, but verifying the person’s intent before lashing out shouldn’t be too hard. Many, many times the person really didn’t mean anything bad.

Sometimes I genuinely wonder how much this toxicity contributes to the development of reactionary right-wing types, and the way they portray the left and progressives as a screaming crowd in search of another scapegoat.

Yeah, I see. I did get called out for using it as an adjective, though, which seemed particularly weird.

Generally, my rule of thumb is: if you can say “male” and it isn’t wrong/weird, you should be able to say “female” to the same effect. But practice shows it isn’t true.

Alright, as a non-native English speaker, I missed the part about “male” and “female” being strictly about AGAB.

The more I know!

(And no, I’m not a transphobe. If anything, this comes as an illustration that people may be less knowledgeable, not more evil)

Men are male

Women are female

Whoever complicated things by somehow making a perfectly normal term offensive is a giant asshole

P.S. but seriously, don’t just assume everyone using the word “female” and its derivatives is a jerk. People may not be aware of this odd shitstorm, and just use the word in its completely literal meaning, wishing no offence.

P.P.S. I stand corrected by the commenter below who mentioned terms “male” and “female” are related to AGAB, not gender. In terms of trans individuals and those whose gender is unknown, it makes sense to avoid their misuse.

P.P.P.S. Apparently, that too is debatable. I start to see why it makes sense to drop the words altogether, because it’s going to fire wrong either way.

Damn I need shawarma law

Every resident gets free shawarma every week to enjoy

It also has a glued in battery, for all I know.

This device is not longevity-oriented

It’s barely economical to address it. Hard to pay off r&d and setting up production. Also, would probably require own Android fork or entire different OS with a lot of tradeoffs to run smoothly on ultracheap hardware.

Woah nice! We need this to be used on more systems. I’d love to see this applied to more traditional immutable Linux - Bazzite in particular should benefit immensely.

Having a backup is always essential, especially for things that cannot simply be redownloaded.

Currently, I have irrecoverable info stored elsewhere (outside my home), and I plan on getting a second 10tb drive just to have a full copy.

Speaks a lot about quality and necessity of research when AI already has all the answers.

Also I wonder if these people can be reasonably called scholars if they don’t have the actual knowledge.

Like, I know this doesn’t sit well with many Lemmy folks, but LLMs do have reasonable use in science. For example, they’re amazing at contextual search, they can find what I’m looking for even if it’s buried into walls of text of an obscure 2003 article as a sidenote. Combined with traditional search, this allows me as a junior scientist to better check what’s already been discovered, and identify real gaps of knowledge, not what I personally didn’t find.

They can also be useful when brainstorming concepts from the fields I had little experience with. Finding proper literature, breaking down jargon, and otherwise streamlining the study process. This allows to spend less time researching the widely known things on the subject, and dedicate more time to actual science, and also helps immensely with interdisciplinary research.

But that’s just that - finding well-known, long discovered things that you could miss. Any meaningful steps beyond it require strong grasp on the subject, and this only comes with processing everything through the actual brain. Miss that - and you’re just a machine parrot.