They will burn down the planet in an effort to replace us by telling themselves climate change won’t matter as long as they kill like 7.5 billion people in the process.

Which, I mean, he’s technically not wrong. Files exist as data on a hard drive that exists in the computer. If you destroy the hard drive in the computer the files cease to exist.

Except Microsoft doesn’t have the respectability to discontinue a clearly broken product now that they’ve baked it into ever installaion of Windows 11 by default

I’ve been running Ubuntu on laptops for a lot longer than five years and the last time I had real WiFi issues was over a decade ago. That’s why I think it may be debian related or based on your description, possibly a closed source driver issue. There’s actually quite a lot of WiFi devices that use chipsets that we don’t have proper Linux drivers for at all, and what exists are sort of hacked together projects that live on github. I’ve had to do this with every netgear dongle I ever had, the downloading and compiling drivers for it from github.

I couldn’t even find any evidence in the article or photos that anyone interviewed was running a local LLM, which would at least justify worrying about temps if your keyboard acts as your air intake (which apparently is relatively common now).

Just a bunch of narcissists wanting an excuse to have people ask them about what they’re doing, ogle what they’re doing, and so they can pretend they’re…

Ah, yeah, was there any particular reason you were using LMDE? Because I’m not sure what parts of systemd it uses (especially back then), but I always just edited /etc/systemd/logind.conf to have HandleLidSwitch=ignore and have had zero issues. Pretty sure there is a gnome GUI for changing this same setting, gnome-tweaks.

I would assume the bad WiFi support was due to it being Debian and Debian being notoriously behind in terms of updates for the sake of stability.

What OS are you using?

Thank you, I was about to edit my comment to add it.

He’s a product head at an AI company, as per the article. He is a boss.

then just rig it up to ping your phone when it’s done…oh who am I kidding these dudes wouldn’t know how to do that.

Fucking. Exactly. I just made a long comment about how this article feels like they’re talking to non-tech-savvy people who are pretending to be tech-savvy because they talk to a fucking AI.

Like this dumbfuck kid who “has to keep shipping software” as if that means he’s not shipping it riddled with bugs and security issues since his AI makes the spaghetti code and he just says “I’m sure this is ready for production.”

This article is so confusing because it seems like everyone they’re talking to is just using online models and the use of local models is mentioned but it’s not clear how many of the people being interviewed are using local models since it’s all about laptops. Even the one lady who you can see her screen is a CLI, it’s not clear that she’s not just using the CLI version of Claude.

I have a mid-range desktop and doing local LLM can be pretty darn slow on it especially with an AMD card and ROCm as opposed to Nvidia and CUDA. I have a relatively nice laptop, but it’s specs are well below my desktop and I just can’t imagine actually running a local LLM on a laptop.

If they’re not using a local model, then they wouldn’t need to worry about overheating with the lid closed. Easy to make it so it doesn’t hibernate when the lid is closed via CLI (at least in Linux anyway). Because if they’re offloading all the work to a remote model, their PC can essentially be relatively idle and draw less power/produce less heat.

Article also seems strangely focused on Macs? All it’s mentions of how to make it so you can close the lid are Mac-focused. Did I miss something about the new Apple Silicon being really efficient for local LLMs? Maybe that’s what I’m missing here.

It just seems almost weirdly narcissistic, like they want people to ask them about it so they can talk about it. Certainly it seems that way with the kid with a startup business that he runs during classes with tokens paid for by his parents.

Anyway, the whole thing seems odd to me. Either the article is about people who aren’t actually super savvy coders or techies, or they would… just switch it so they can close their fucking laptop… or something about making a show of what they’re doing is part of it. I dunno, weird. Anyway.

A long time ago now, literally years and years ago.

I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.

By fleecing rubes it seems.

99% of my stuff from 1337x
what trackers even are

Meanwhile, me: Pirating since before Napster, has automated nothing at all, likes browsing private torrent trackers websites because it sort of makes me feel like I’m in Blockbuster video in the 90s walking the aisles and checking what’s available.

That’s because… It. Doesn’t. Exist.

It’s not elusive, it’s just fake. They still do all their business in other countries like the USA, they don’t actually have anyone hanging the fuck out in Panama. They just say it’s in another country because it’s a bunch of “oh well you can’t prove it doesn’t exist” malarkey every time. Panama is just one country that is very open to letting this happen.

They’re trying to bring back Welfare Queens. I’m sure almost everyone’s forgotten, but this was the kind of accusation that led to Welfare being viewed so negatively and eventually being renamed entirely.

There’s still a little time to get in at reasonable prices before they truly blow up and go insane. I’ve definitely started seeing increases such as a WD 8TB that went from $204.99 to $239.99 overnight after a short period of being out of stock. Depending on brand and size, some are still available at retail prices, but they’re quickly running out.

Don’t worry, Debord didn’t think he was either! He actually thought that his Situationist writing would be forgotten and that he would be remembered for his (ironically now forgotten) board game Kriegspiel. Instead Society of the Spectacle is now considered an important piece of French culture and history.