Hah, I even got this pun, so this is a good one as a casual Linux user. You can stay!

ROFL This is accurate. It will certainly distract you from serious mental health issues but not act as a balm against inner discord.

This is often me on my first of four days off, because dammit, social interaction/being alive is so tiring.

They’re gradually phasing out the iTunes PC App…Apple has divided the functions of iTunes into several focused apps. The second reason why I’d love to get a Mac Mini is to get my music redownloaded. I didn’t back up my tunes on another hard drive, which was a beginner mistake. I did upload it to Apple Music, though.

ROFL Dual booting with Microsoft being as shitty as they are…Yeah, no. I very much am 100% committed to Linux on my Desktop. I might only make a small concession to getting a Mac Mini for iPhone management.

I don’t know, I think they wanted that Google money so much they didn’t bother! It might have been in the cards, but perhaps Google beat them to the punch and evaporated their desire to create a search engine. Search engines are likely not a business that Apple wants to get too involved in as well, that’s something to consider. Sometimes it’s better to use what is already out there and not sink too much capital in something so uncertain. I doubt Apple would’ve seen a serious amount of success with Google being the top dog in search.

LOL Yeah, I get it…Thus my non-serious response. Who know why people do anything? Personally, I can’t downvote, as it seems to be disabled by my current server. There have only been a few times that I’ve seen a post or comment really need a good old downvote. There are capable orgs out there, for now, I suppose in their perspective it is only Mozilla who could handle it. However, open source code can be read and seen by anyone, so that means there are people out there familiar enough with Firefox to take it on if needs must when the devil drives.

ROFL I wasn’t suggesting that you were suggesting that. Like any open source project, uh, talent tends to pick up important things that get abandoned. It would be an amusing turn of events, probably in the distant future when AI becomes a thing. That a program can start its own journey of self-improvement. 😂

Provided that someone with enough skill takes up the mantle of maintaining a fork…I’m sure it will be fine!

I’ll let you stare at the stars and imagine a better world then. 😂

ROFL This is Apple we’re talking about, the slowest to innovate in the tech space. That would be a Samsung maneuver, in my opinion (if that giant tech corpo would even consider a FOSS ad-free search engine). Apple is just now getting some customization options this September with an update, something Samsung and third party launchers have pretty much solved years ago.

I suspect that Apple will choose to open up the choice of what search engine a user would like to use instead of Google. To avoid playing favorites or getting into an oversaturated market.

Oh for fun! I don’t want Mozilla to go down, Firefox is one of the few non-Chromium web browsers; I’m glad that Google is pronounced as a monopoly, as it is true. However, for every good thing, there is a terrible curse that shows how much our system needs to be changed. It will be so heartening to not have Apple using Google Search by default, as the results are fucking shit. They could survive the lack of Investor Daddy’s cash.

We know he wasn’t as the ‘clean-up’ from the fallout caused by a supposed sarcastic remark is truly a secondary gaff. You were serious, couch fucker, and we know it. So go make sweet love to couches, you weirdo, and leave US citizens alone.

Argh, this is so infuriating! This needs to stop, we need proper protection against this bullshit. Clearly, the current way of doing things is insufficient. I can only hope that real change comes by actively fighting for it.

Same, I truly love to see these weirdos getting destroyed on TV. It won’t sway the cultists overmuch but general population will likely be, “I don’t wanna vote for that.”

If anything, this is a sign that Rachel Scott is highly employable to make that insecure orange wanker go off the rails! He’s a weirdo who desperate cultists want to get elected. Not worthy of being handled with kid gloves, grill his ass!

They are being disruptive in a way that isn’t kind; arrests would be the best way to deal with them. They are white nationalists, shouting slurs at black people who are fellow citizens in the USA, we should not let them believe this behavior will go unpunished. It will make it worse in the future, enabling hate groups to thrive is something a sane country should never allow.

Yep, as regulation is surely coming because LLM development is such a Wild West Situation. Any scummy, dumpster fire Corpos will certainly put a rush on acquiring enough training data to make artists useless to them in the future. These mind blind, money-grubbing bastards are actively chasing that quick buck before it comes crashing down on them. Grab the bag and don’t get beat up with that regulation ruler!

There are already some fuckwits (Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, Salesforce) who actively scrapped content from YouTube titles and videos; data laundering that stolen content, but if you prompt their AI just right, you can see the direct influence the stolen data has on whatever the LLM generates. Reference Article It’s a gross practice that needs to be regulated and punished quickly because these corporations need regulation to be arm wrestled into barely acting civil.

Oh how surprising, corporations need to be slapped around a bit. They’ve grown too bold. 😬