Long story short, profit.

The not so short versio is that each manufacturer along the supply chain decides for how long they want to provide updates, the following manufacturer can’t provide updates that the previous manufacturer doesn’t. And so it goes until you get a phone that has 3 years of software updates and 5 years of security updates and that’s it.

For example, you might buy a phone from google, they buy electronic parts from maybe Qualcomm and a few others. Say Qualcomm decides that it won’t be profitable to provide driver updates to the SoC past 7 years and critical security updates past 10 years. At this point even if Googke really wanted to, they can’t provide anything past that as they would not be able to update the Qualcomm driver. But google has otger providers with maybe shorter support windows, abd they have their own costs and updates to make. So Google decideds that for them it won’t be profitable to provide support past 5 years and security updates past 7 years. So now you get a phone which will be unsupported after 7 years, and here comes the big difference between phones and most computers. Phones have a locked bootloader and usually a custom SoC. Locjed Bootloader means that you can’t just install another OS that might still provide some support, and the custom SoC means that any driver support will have to be only for this specific device.

So with an old laptop you might have a custom motherboard, but the cpu, gpu, ram, wifi, sound, etc will all be off the shelf, so if some linux developer makes some sort of driver support for your wifi card, it will also apply to all other laptops with that wifi card, but for a phone this won’t work, let alone even be viable since the bootloader is locked.

Simply put, no right to own and profit chasing means that no one really cares if your phone is a security and usability nightmare after a few years.

If you stall and everypne starts getting angry, ignore them and do your thing slowly and safely.

Most of them, but by far makeup.

If someone enjoys it and wants to, I don’t judge.

But I seriously never saw a person who looks better with makeup. Even light makeup ( which can look good) still looks worse than just natural.

Also there is this vicious cycle where heavy makeup users have worse skin and more pimples so they feel pressure to but heavier makeup, which in turn worsens the skin condition.

People, be happy, love yourself, you are pretty for who you are.

RAG is basically like telling an LLM “look here for more info before you answer” so it can check out local documents to give an answer that is more relevant to you.

You just search “open web ui rag” and find plenty kf explanations and tutorials

Have you tried RAG? I believe that they are actually pretty good for searching and compiling content from RAG.

So in theory you could have it connect to all of you local documents and use it for quick questions. Or maybe connected to your signal/whatsapp/sms chat history to ask questions about past conversations

Yeah, personally I just looked for second hand high vram gpus and waited. I got 2 titan Xp (12gb vram) for only $180 each.

Tried wayland on arch with modern drivers on a few different DEs and everytime I eventually switched back to Xorg.

One simple example, manually configuring the resolution of a monitor with a mode that is “not compatible” with the monitor. Xorg does it pretty easily with xrandr, wayland seems to have no option for the user to do that.

I know there is all of that AI hate, which i’m all for. But taking models to run locally does not benefit the AI companies. If anything this is the way to make something that is actually good out of that hot mess.

Localsend for easy file sharing between devices

My personal best is $4K because of one unchecked option.

You could use an llm with an mcp to the local filesystem and hope it can do it for you

And it will always end with a more modern and streamlined infrastructure that they never update again and then two years later there is an article that shows how they all went bankrupt.

Put an nfc tag there, you can insert it behind the leather. Write the same key on it and that way you could tip your hat onto someonea phone for a quick transfer for later communications.

With the way you stitched it, you could easily push one of the flat flexible ones there without having to mess with the stitches

Not exactly true but for simple malware yeah

That is actually missing an important issue, hallucinations.

Copying from SO means you are copying from a human who might be stupid or lie but rarely spews out plausible sounding hot garbage (not never though) and because of other users voting and reputation etc etc, you actually do endup with a decently reliable source.

With an LLM you could get something made up based on nothing related to the real world. The LLM might find your question to be outside of it’s knowledge but instead of realizing it it would just make up what it thinks sounds convincing.

It would be like if you asked me how that animal that is half horse and half donkey is called and instead of saying “shit i’m blanking” I would say “Oh, that is called a Drog” and I couldn’t even tell you that I just made up that word because I will now be convinced that this is factual. Btw it’s “mule”

So there is a real difference until we solve hallucinations, which right now doesn’t seem solvable but at best reduced to insignificance (maybe)

Now say it with me, WINE IS MALWARE COMPATIBLE

Epoch, takes a bit of practice but I already read it fluently and often make fun of everyone arpund me for not knowing how to read a clock (my clock)

Nice

You remind me of Joey from friends when he gets a female roomate.

Sure, it won’t be a straight and simple indicator, but it helps. Like how you could probably read the fat content on a snack to know if it might trigger it.