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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
  • Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative

    CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.

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    Looking for fictional books
  • I think you may like Expeditionary Force series, there is quite a bit of what you are looking for.

    I guess Asimov Foundation series would also be a good candidate for world building.

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    Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t
  • Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn't Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

    Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That's 100%.

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    Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t
  • I remember my first meal on my first visit to the US 10 years ago. It was Subway I think. I see a price advertised, but to my shock I paid almost double that. Fee for dining in, sales tax, too.

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    Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto
  • Crypto as currency = good.

    Crypto as investment = bad.

    First one is technological progress, the other is a Ponzi scheme.

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    Can AI even be open source? It's complicated
  • The architecture can easily be open source - as long as repo is missing just the training data. Just like there are Doom engines that are open source, even though they do not provide WAD files, which are still copyrighted. The code is there, but it is somewhat useless without the data. Analogy is not perfect, but let's assume it compiles to a single binary containing everything, maps included.

    If ID Software gives you a compiled Doom with maps free to use it is freeware. If they open source the engine (they actually did), but do not release the WAD files as open source, the compiled game is not open source - it is still freeware.

    It is not complicated really.

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    Gaming on Linux is great!
  • Yesterday I've spent an hour to figure out how to make Cities Skylines use my RTX 2070 instead of the integrated one on PopOS. For me this is the main issue I face with games. Is having a dedicated AMD card instead better?

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    A cool guide software alternative
  • As a mechanical engineer - there is no serviceable free CAD. The only thing you can hope for is Linux compatibility - and you have 100% of that with Onshape only (cloud based).

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    Breast Cancer
  • I skimmed the paper. As you said, they made a ML model that takes images and traditional risk factors (TCv8).

    I would love to see comparison against risk factors + human image evaluation.

    Nevertheless, this is the AI that will really help humanity.

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    What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?
  • Nothing is happening in Norway. Source: I live in Norway.

    I've met only a handful people that use Linux on their desktop, plus some developers that use it at work.

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    Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube
  • Not in a million years. The next generation will though, they won’t see any issue with it.

    I guess they will anwser such calls with AI to get a summary anyway...

    Great points overall. I guess previous generations thought that a hand-written letter cant be replaced by a digital one, yet here we are.

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    Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube
  • Let's say that there is a single player MMO where all the other players are played by AI, but it is done so well that you can't really see the difference from real-human MMO players.

    Would you play this? I would not. The fact that there is a human on the other side is important, even though it does not make any practical difference. Same with birthday wishes - that's way Facebook did not automate "Happy birthday!" even though it could.

    Would you upload your personal data and voice to Open AI for it to make a a birthday wishes call to your mom? So convinient! She won't know the difference, and you get a 5 bulletpoint summary afterwards! Such a hellscape.

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    linux as business/ company pc?
  • In my previous job I ran my main laptop with Linux. Pain points:

    • MS Teams liked to crash on screen sharing
    • o365 email and calendar works best on Evolution, but still is not perfect
    • meeting rooms often had special usb dongle to connect to the screen. That never worked on Linux.

    Overall it was glorious.

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    How is this not the standard view?
  • Because inequality creates incentive. The bigger the difference between the bulk of the society and the top percentages of earners the more people are willing to risk to reach the top. That's why there are more successful startups in the US than in Scandinavia.

    It's a global rat race and the US is "winning".

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    Updating BIOS via Linux ?
  • That's the thing - there is no option to update BIOS on Linux then.

    You must install Windows or maybe use one of those unofficial Windows Live USB images.

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    Updating BIOS via Linux ?
  • There is no universal solution to this. Some vendors support fwupd (LVFS) on some hardware (Dell, Lenovo), some allow to update via a file on a USB stick (Asus).

    Unless it is a system from Linux first company (Tuxedo, StarLabs, System76, Slimbook) expect to manually check what the specific model you are looking at supports.

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    77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
  • Adding AI is like adding a lane to a crowded street. It will move more cars per hour, but the street will soon have the same traffic jams as before.

    Workers will be as busy and as overworked as before.

    Plus, even though people theoretically do more, it is not really more. For example Digital Signage - before generative AI you would put in some text, a clipart or a stock image and call it a day. Now one may be expected to polish the text with AI plus generate a more fitting image. Does it make a nicer Digital Signage? Sure. Will productivity actually go up? I doubt it.

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