Ah, yeah but not at the lower levels like this soldier.

I feel certain that any allegiance he expressed was to protect the well being of his family, rather than a genuine position.

Meh. I don’t think anyone that matters was really fooled.

I’m incredulous.

There was that thread asking what people are using LLMs for and it pretty much came down to “softening language in emails”.

For most jobs LLMs can provide a small productivity bump.

IMO if an LLM can do most of your job then you’re not producing much value anyway.

Pretty much non-profit in name only. Some shady hybrid model.

It’s USB-C.

As a point of reference, Lenovo Thinkpad’s have something of a cult following for their reliability and versatility.

My T490s has a USB-C power supply which provides 45w (20v at 2.25a).

The thing is, when docked it’s not only pulling power through that cable, but also network, USB devices, and providing video for 2x monitors in 1920x1080. It’s kind of astonishing to me how much can be crammed in to one little connector. That said, it’s frustrating trying to find a usb cable that works reliably, because as you’d imagine not all USB-C cables support the same specs.

Collecting passports from people away from their country is a huge “no, you don’t” thing.

Not really, in many cases it’s a necessity.

That’s not to say that giving your passport to your employer for safe keeping is a good idea.

Not really.

That particular comment doesn’t really enter into the “why” of Russia’s behavior, it’s just talking about the difficulties of repairing these cables in war-like conditions.

Those conditions don’t really exist presently. Russia is not “at war” with Finland and some sneaky cable cutting is not the same game as sinking merchant / civilian ships. I also feel certain that Finland would be happy to underwrite the risk to the repair company, and provide naval support while the repair was conducted.

I have no idea whether this really is the answer but it seems like the most plausible answer.

It’s obvious you know more or less all there is to know about this topic. So much so that I suspect you have trouble explaining it to laypersons like me because it’s difficult for you to determine which parts of your knowledge are obvious common knowledge and which parts are specialist knowledge.

I disagree, subs are not born out of a need for a niche, they’re created when someone wants to be a fief lord. Of every thousand or so created, only a few gather any following, and the community reflects the desires of it’s users.

As I said it’s fine to dislike a community, but insisting that it be run according to your view of how things ought to be run is nonsensical.

I’m not really sure what you’re getting at.

Lemmy is not reddit. It has its own history and culture. It’s totally fine if you don’t like it, but if you’re expecting it to be like reddit then you’ll just be disappointed and frustrated every time.

The history around “why does this community have the same name as a reddit sub” is obvious. At some point it was expected to be the next incarnation of whatever sub, but that’s just not how things turned out for a number of reasons

You’re absolutely correct, but I don’t think really anything can be done about this community nor others with similar problems.

There just aren’t enough users who actually care about this type of nuance.

There’s no point trying to uphold an ideal that just isn’t relevant to most users.

Drug cartels.

Most countries just regulate the content of baby formula.

There’s loads of ways you can monetise being the window through which billions of hours of attention are spent every day.

It’s not working for Firefox because they just don’t have many users any more. I haven’t checked recently but it’s less than 5% market share or something.

I absolutely agree with you, but it just doesn’t seem viable at this point.

I think you’re right about affordability.

There’s a subset of the population who will pursue VR for gaming et cetera, but it’s a limited subset. While the same hardware or tech might be able to be used for casual AR / VR helpful type things like meetings or informational things those applications just aren’t beneficial enough to make it worth the cost of the hardware.

If there was more content, more useful applications, and the cost was negligible, then sure it will take off.

In my 20s I would’ve been interested in VR for gaming and would’ve been excited about the potential applications of AR. Now in my 40s it’s clear that tech doesn’t bring me joy, and I’d like to diminish it’s role in my life. As in, I want tech to improve my well being and quality of life rather than consume my time and limit my experience of life.

20 years from now, I can imagine myself as a reluctant late-adopter of AR. I just absolutely will not tolerate ads in this regard. I’d rather forage for twigs and berries in the wilderness than allow adverts to be injected into my experience of realiity.

Dude it’s a book.

“Gladiators would be popular because there’s this movie called Gladiator that everyone loves and that has heaps of Gladiators.”

Do any of these applications really require AR / VR though?