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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not seen Nagato in a while

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Although, these stats are people who would consider giving up cars, among those who currently own one.

People who don't need a car and already don't have one won't appear in these figures

If you imagine the perfect fictional country, then for that country the bar chart should theoretically be at 0% - because that would mean everyone who doesn't need a car doesn't have one, and anyone who does own a car needs it very strictly for jobs only a car can do, no matter how good the transport infrastructure and planning and zoning are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm really not sure there is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah I thought that was somehow supposed to be the punchline

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah but there's clunky in the way where its big but still a single unit as designed and intended, and clunky when its got some extra growth hanging off the back of it like some technological parasite.

Of course, my advice is only that, and you should choose the approach that works best for you. But advice is why you came here right :)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I have a portable monitor that I'm pretty pleased with.

It has a magnetic cover that goes over the screen to keep it safe, and that same cover folds and goes on the back to act as a stand when it's in use. Power and video are via the same USB-C cable.

Nice and slim and stays in my bag most of the time but when I want a second screen I can whip it out in two secs.

A screen that attaches to the laptop sounds convenient initially, but I feel like in practice it would be a hindrance and make your laptop clunky and bulky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's a "choccy (chocolate) coffee"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn't reach 50% until the year 2000.

To have a phone in '92 you'd need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.

My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.

As for mobile internet, that wasn't really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn't have Internet until about 2009-10

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Pop!_OS is the next big

(It finished there)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

AI is absolutely going to be transformative but a lot of the hate right now isn't the technology itself but the way companies are jumping on it and forcing it down the throats of people who don't want it, in a way that worsens their customer experience. Yes, let's force AI into every software product. Yes let's take away the humans you used to talk to and make them all bots instead.

Even from within tech itself there is huge resentment because you've got corps pumping billions into AI while at the same time slashing their workforce to afford those billions, with no clear return in sight.

Tech is treating AI as the next dotcom boom and pumping everything into it, but just like it did then the bubble of investment will burst, and there will be losers as well as winners.

I'm running self-hosted LLMs at home and I'm having huge fun experimenting with their capabilities. I just wish LLMs could have been implemented in the real world with space for ethics and the human factor, not the pure profit chasing bullshit we actually got.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's the strategy, yes

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