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You need to renounce your wicked lifestyle and follow the teachings of our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds!
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there’s no Linux client that supports lossless
Do you mean ALAC files? I downloaded a sample at https://getsamplefiles.com/sample-audio-files/alac and played it in VLC under Linux. There are several players that can play libavcodec FFmpeg.
The file might be lossless but I’ve yet to find a way to actually verify or set the playback quality of my DAC.
Linux is very frustrating when it comes to audio.
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Listen to music on phone? 🤔
how do I do A?
do B instead
It’s a suggestion
Had me in the first half.
* Theo de Raadt
The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I’m using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I’ll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don’t access anything personal from my windows installation. It’s just for games that don’t work on Linux.
your personal hard drive? Did you mean OneDrive?
Oof - that reminds me - I have a LOT of scanning / digitizing to do.
“I see you are dual booting with Linux? I’ve reformatted that partition for you.”
I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.
For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven’t had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.
I’ve read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I’ve had my share of them.
Now, if I’m doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I’ve not needed Windows for a couple years.
It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.
One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.
Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn’t given me any issues in the past 5 years or so
My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I’ve picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.
Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA
Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.
Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!
Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.
Windows is the security risk
How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?
I’m guessing that the answer to that is … as soon as openai collapses … hopefully.
I’d give it another year at best.
As if recall wasn’t bad enough.
Recall 2.0
Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
What’s the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.
Drugs can at least be fun?
Jokes aside, I loved Freelancer and that was Microsoft
I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn’t even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.
Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?
Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.
Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren’t editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It’s the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.
Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.
… If people were willing to pay for it, which is a tiny percentage of the small percentage of people that want AI on their windows. Even the people that are all in on chatgpt will very rarely accept paying a cent for it (and it must be a bargain considering that openAI said a few months ago that the average premium plan is a net loss for them due to the server costs)
The way things have been going it’s more likely that the AI-free version will be the upsold luxury
It’s kind of amazing how much they’re willing to tear down in hopes of this “” incredible “” AI vision
Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.
Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:
DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh
Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don’t know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.
Well, they won’t be accessing my personal folders and files because I just won’t use Windows. Thanks but no thanks. That’s really creepy.
Pro move
