I’m sorry, are you citing a graphic from Fox fucking News to support your point?
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Interestingly enough, just yesterday I finished the (audio)book that this excerpt is from: Stolen Focus. It’s a good read and it really resonated with me.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. I’ve struggled with focus my whole life but had managed well enough to finish school and get established in a career. But even with treatment, it’s been getting harder and harder over the years to stay focused on anything - whether it’s work or hobbies that I enjoy.
It occurred to me after reading Stolen Focus that my struggles really started getting worse around the time I got my first smart phone. Over the years, more and more I’ve found myself reaching for my phone out of habit to fill time, even when I’m doing other things like watching tv. The timing may just be a coincidence, but I thought it was interesting. The book has definitely caused me to reevaluate my phone and social media usage (I say as I post on lemmy while watching the office).
You’re just not thinking like a narcissistic billionaire.
You see, the financial system didn’t make him a billionaire. His innate genius and talent did. All the system has done is prevent him from truly achieving greatness, with its laws and regulations.
But post-apocalypse? All that is swept away. He can be more than a mere billionaire. He can make the world the way it should be, directly, without the slow, imperfect process of buying politicians and funding think tanks.
And, of course, he will be one of the ones to rise to the top. He’s a billionaire. The cream of the crop. He didn’t just luck into his wealth through family or ~~gambling~~ investing. His inherent greatness placed him at the top, and it will obviously do it again when society collapses.
Account passwords have never had the purpose of protecting data from physical access - on Linux or any other operating system that I’m aware of. Physical access means an attacker can pull your drive and plug it into their computer, and no operating system can do anything to block access in that scenario, because the os on disk is not running.
You need disk encryption to protect your data. The trade off is that if you forget the encryption password, your data is unrecoverable by you. But that’s what password managers are for (or just writing it down and putting it in a safe).
Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.
Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.
Yeah, dropping 32-bit made me start considering leaving the platform, despite being a happy Mac gamer for over a decade. The switch to arm finally made me move to back to pc. I expect Apple will drop their x86 compatibility layer after a few years like they did after the ppc to x86 transition.
Steam and lutris has made linux a great gaming platform for me.
I don’t know. The speed that these things blew up in becoming The Next Big Thing™️ kind of sets off my bullshit detectors.
I’m certainly not an expert in machine learning topics, but I suspect that the output of LLMs will never be able to output complex code that doesn’t require a lot of modification and verification.