The math involved in LLMs is not complex for anyone that has passed undergrad Calc and Linear Algebra classes. If you know derivatives, the chain rule and some matrix basics you can figure them out with enough studying.

The hard part about LLMs is not the math but the neural net architecture innovations they brought (eg self-attention)

Not excusing Vanguard, but if you’re running Windows then your entire kernel is a blob. If you’re running most linux distros, then your kernel contains blobs for drivers.

There really isn’t a complicated discussion to be had unless you needlessly complicate things. There’s a big difference between having, say, better monitor or headphones in terms of resolution or sound quality vs having a monitor or headphones that add extra features.

It’s like saying that AR glasses that visualize a ball’s trajectory should be allowed in tennis or football because players can already invest in better rackets or shoes.

The detection problem is not unsolvable. First, you can forbid people that are using that monitor from matchmaking. You can find your monitor’s model number using software so that would be trivial. For a more nuanced approach, you can examine players’ reaction times and ban people that got too good too fast.

not on my machine! every time someone posts a screenshot with a handwritten font it’s less readable and looks bad

The program itself is actually called paint.net

You’re equating monthly cloud storage payments to paying 40$ per TB of external HDD storage?

For reference, 200GB of iCloud storage are 3$/month, so 36$ per year.

Check prices before you make comments like this.

Is this supposed to be a jab at linux? Because it’s wrong. The kernel is updated at the same intervals as Windows / Mac updates, if not more frequently. Popular DEs are also maintained and frequently updated.

About popular programs: Firstly, this is not strictly a problem of the OS, because they can’t force developers to build their apps for Linux. However, developers can do that, and with the advent of flatpak they can build for that instead of hiding behind the excuse of not wanting to support multiple distros.

Secondly, this is almost irrelevant because the majority of people use computers to either browse the web, or use office suites, or play games. In linux, you can browse the web just fine, use browser-based office suites that are becoming increasingly popular (or LibreOffice/OpenOffice) and, with steam, you can play most games that don’t have a linux build.

All in all, the minimum everyone with a semblance of computer literacy should do is dual boot linux alongside windows and use that for their daily driver.

If it’s simple then it has been asked tens of times in SO

I believe that even in the current state of affairs they’d be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they do that – plenty of companies who would enjoy hurting Google.

What they can do, however, is make their services run slower on other browsers, as they’re already doing.