LostWanderer

While I would never use a phone any smaller than 6.3 inches, I understand that others have differing needs than myself. Having a variety of devices to suit the needs of potential customers is a sound strategy. In the future, I want to see different OS choices that aren’t just either stock Android; different ROMs of Android as an option to choose from would be nice!

Yikes, the AI computer thing gives me the ick; however, it seems that they are being a bit less nonsense with a smartphone. Though, given the market trends, it will be a tough space to break into because there are so many established brands. However, if Jolla can put their whole ass into this and make it privacy focused and consumer friendly Linux smartphone…They might stand a chance. Also, I hope they also make a larger screened device, I am tired of the smaller 6.3 inch screens. I’d love for them to make a 6.7 inch screen phone (also make it international version with a lot of carrier compatibility for maximum adoption potential).

I’ve looked at their Sailfish OS and honestly wished it were chosen by corporations more often…As the overall design seems quite nice, while being approachable. You are allowed to be as hands off or as hands on as you’d like to be with getting into the guts of this OS.

As a regular joe on the web, it doesn’t affect me directly, yet. However, I foresee more slop sites getting put out there in as the Execucult’s naked desire to worship and exalt the thing they are desperately trying to make fetch: AI. This year is so fucking weird with all the AI glazing and executives trying to desperately will AI into a moneymaking thing. Spoiler Alert: It’s probably going to continue hemorrhaging money as most people can’t be arsed to use it nor do they want products with it crammed in.

Some machine learning isn’t inherently harmful. The issue is when techbros go to the extremes that they have with “AI” and the level of damage they’ve done; implanting the idea of replacing creatives with their slop generating hallucination engines, compromising systems with inherently insecure “AI” tools. In most cases, a user isn’t given the option to refuse these tools (as corps are desperate for people to use these tools). Using stolen data to train their “AI”, extreme power and water usage per prompt honestly disgusts me in a visceral way. It’s not even profitable, which confuses me as to why they’d try to desperately shill this tech swill.

Eh, Harper does seem like it is powered by machine learning, nothing inherently malicious though. Seems like a lot of the rules were set by those with an understanding of grammar and spelling.

I installed this and will be trying it out over the next several days! Grammar checkers are so useful, as they’ve improved my own grammar over the course of many years. It just sucks that most of them have gone darksided and drank deeply of the AI poison.

Without a doubt, as long as these players get their Rust fix, they couldn’t care less about Linux or the state of Windows.

Unsurprising, Facepunch were hostile in the past to the idea, temporarily played around with the idea, and always will be ambivalent. Given the direction that Windows is heading, it would be a time to consider cultivating fans on different operating systems. As Microsoft is messing up in a huge way these days.

While I have always found GNOME to be extremely limiting and highly opinionated, I don’t mind this change. Wayland has improved quite a bit and will only get better with time, x11 is an aging standard. It’s natural that it will eventually be dropped in favor of a new one. Wayland too will be in this position as another display server replaces it as well.

I mostly have problems with the Discover Store not letting me download themes, it will crash out hard! I haven’t noticed many more issues outside of that on KDE 6.4.