I mean, that’s just how it has always worked, this isn’t actually special to AI.

Tom Hanks does the voice for Woody in Toy Story movies, but, his brother Jim Hanks has a very similar voice, but since he isnt Tom Hanks he commands a lower salary.

So many video games and whatnot use Jim’s voice for Woody instead to save a bunch of money, and/or because Tom is typically busy filming movies.

This isn’t an abnormal situation, voice actors constantly have “sound alikes” that impersonate them and get paid literally because they sound similar.

OpenAI clearly did this.

It’s hilarious because normally fans are foaming at the mouth if a studio hires a new actor and they sound even a little bit different than the prior actor, and no one bats an eye at studios efforts to try really hard to find a new actor that sounds as close as possible.

Scarlett declined the offer and now she’s malding that OpenAI went and found some other woman who sounds similar.

Thems the breaks, that’s an incredibly common thing that happens in voice acting across the board in video games, tv shows, movies, you name it.

OpenAI almost certainly would have won the court case if they were able to produce who they actually hired and said person could demo that their voice sounds the same as Gippity’s.

If they did that, Scarlett wouldn’t have a leg to stand on in court, she cant sue someone for having a similar voice to her, lol.

There’s basically no reason to keep using windows.

Debian or Linux Mint are both easy to install, work out of the box, and the only thing that might take a smidge of effort is the 3 commands you gotta run to install gpu drivers.

Steam proton works incredibly well. I ran my entire steam library (most of which were “windows only” games) and even single one worked with proton as is without issues.

I’ve been using steam link from my debian box for months now and it’s smooth as butter.

Well tbh Quests dont really bug you much about anything FB related. After you setup the account the only thing you deal with is the initial menu starts opened to the app store with suggestions based on what you already bought.

But that initial menu let’s you also set quick access buttons for your favorite apps.

So it’s only a single click to go from “put on headsst” to “open thing I want” usually.

It’s not any different from steam starting you out in the store tbh, I can accept that level of advertising as it’s pretty transparent and half the time it has something of interest for me anyways.

It’s about as big of a deal as a gift shop at a museum.

… no? I was asking a serious question.

Who tabled this bill, and who is supporting it?

This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.

Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.

Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.

I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.

IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…

I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.

I primarily use a couple locally hosted LLMs for searching for info now.

Larger LLMs are trained on so much info that they get the answer right surprisingly often.

Only thing they of course struggle with are recent events.

If a website has literally no login system, there’s nothing to phish.

There is honestly no reason to use SSL on a static website that has no login system and just displays some content.

IE a static blog or etc, where the only content on the website is just “look at this stuff, okay thank you!”

For casual users I typically recommend using Cinnamon Desktop, it’s the most Windows-esque UI and will be the easiest for them to pick up and use.

I roll with Cinnamon on Ubuntu and it’s been extremely painless, very simple to get stuff do and shit just works.

This by a long shot, I agree.

What CLI tools do you find have install problems on Powershell?

Everything I’ve used can be installed “headless”, often using winget now.

But powershell just sucks and windows file system is cumbersome, so limux is still better.

So far any use case I’ve solved with just SSH.

What specifically do you need to rdp in for?

The biggest saving would actually be the buns I would bet.

You could make your own 8 burger buns for like 10 cents.

1. Fancy brioche buns, not normal burger buns. Brioche is typically the most expensive bread off the shelf.
2. Fancy veggie burgers, of course they are expensive lol, that’s fancy vegan stuff
3. Don’t pretend that is a Danish singular. That’s a huge fuckin Danish, that’s the equivalent of 4 Danishes easily lol

I hate when people buy fancy bespoke food and are like “why do my gluten free vegan free range burgers cost so much?”

If you want to be vegetarian/vegan, go buy normal vegis, don’t complain about your super fancy “takes a bunch of extra work and has very low demand” food being expensive.

No problem, the mode you are looking for is called Bridge Mode, and what you’ll need to ensure your setup is, is:

ISP -> ISP Router -> Your Router -> Rest of the network

It’s crucial you only have your router as the only thing plugged into the ISP Router, and you want it to be typically plugged into port 1. You’ll need to either look up the paperwork or talk to your ISP about how bridge mode works for their modem model.

Keep in mind once bridge mode is enabled on the ISP router, it loses its wifi network so the only way after you can connect to it to configure it is by a physical connection, so if you mess it up you’ll need to have a laptop or smartphone you can physically connect via ethernet to port 1 of the isp router to be able to access its interface again.

But once you get bridge mode working your private router will now get a public IP assigned to it instead and it will act as the “real” router of your network.

You will need to open some ports, but ideally you just open up 1 port for a VPN and call it a day.

If you want a really easy solution you can buy one of the mid to high end routers that comes with a built in OpenVPN you can enable, and you just do the process to have it be the router for your network (usually by setting your modem to pass through mode and then have your personal router immediately next in line, and it becomes the actual router of the network)

If you do a search you should find a few decent models out there with OpenVPN support, and then its just a matter of enabling the feature in the router’s interface and following its guide and then installing OpenVPN on your mobile phone(s)

My understanding is “immutable” is a bit of a misnomer and avoids the “point” of using these distros.

“Layered Distros” is a better terminology, where you can imagine the OS as multiple layers, and you can swap 1 layer out for another without modifying the others and still have a functional operational machine.

Now some of those layers have to be immutable ones at runtime for this concept to work, so thats where that part of the name comes from, but thats an implicit result from the actual point/use case of these distros, not the selling point.

So you can swap versions/releases of your OS very cleanly at boot, without modifying userland, and it will continue to function just the same. This lets you do stuff at the admin level like broadly releases a version update merely by having users just reboot their machines, and next time they boot up their machine will now be running on the new OS layer, with their local “user” layer being unchanged.