This is one of the greatest reasons to get a MacBook. It just sleeps instantly and sleeps seemingly forever (loses about 2% overnight). No need to deal with Window’s BS hibernation mode that takes longer to wake than just powering it off and then on.

Now just to get work to let me get a MacBook as my next hardware instead of another Thinkpad (most of my work is cloud based or in the Office suite).

F’ing notepad every time.

It’s a straw man argument that doesn’t address the main point the comment or was making.

Yes. That’s the spirit of what I meant.

Capitalism is the reason. They’re already at peak market share. Since they’re a publicly traded company, they have to do something to continue growing. Ads is probably the easiest, most obvious, but ultimately damaging idea. CEO doesn’t care since he probably has a fat golden parachute if ousted. The entire thing is rigged against shareholders and users.

Wife does the same thing. She wears it all but for an hour in the morning while getting ready. I HATE wearing mine overnight. I’m device free, but I also sleep great so I don’t bother tracking it. Makes a great alarm clock. Battery life for both of us has never been an issue.

They absolutely do not learn and we absolutely do know how they work. It’s pretty simple.

Generative AI needs massive training sets that represent the kinds of things it’s asked to represent. Through the process of training, the AI learns the patterns in the data and can generate new data that fits within those patterns. It’s statistics all the way down. In the case of a Large Language Model (LLM) it’s always asking itself, “what’s the next most likely word to come after this previous word, and does that next word make sense within the context of the other words in the sentence?” The LLMs don’t necessarily understand a text as a text; that is, as a sequence of ideas unfolding logically but rather as a set of tokens that carry statistical weights.

https://jasonheppler.org/2024/05/23/i-made-this/

The state is responsible for the education of children. This absolutely falls within their scope.

At a certain age/level I agree. However, they aren’t needed or helpful in basic low level grades where you’re teaching the framework to build upon.

I didn’t even know what it was till yesterday. Not sure it’s the bastion of the public.

Turning off push notifications is a large step. I did that for personal profile stuff and I’m down to 0 usage on FB, limited on Instagram (boss sends me stuff once in a while), some on Lemmy and Mastodon. Work profile has push notifications but is limited to certain hours only. Helps a ton.

Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.

TIL

Great site and advice.

Oh absolutely. In the next week or so I’m sure that’ll be a headline.

It’s been in news articles here and there.

That’s not true though. Large companies get commission breaks like Netflix at 15%.

Just to expand, here’s a list of typical 240V appliances in a typical American home:

• Furnace/Heat Pump
• Air Conditioning
• Electric Range/Stove
• Electric clothes Dryer

And some homes have:

• Hot Tub/Spa

Don’t conflate 120V/15A standard outlets with not having 240V at all. All homes have 240V or high power appliances wouldn’t function.

Of course there is. Love it.

That video is extremely impressive. Hoooo boy.