Mate
The fake ass AIs we have are straining the power grids of the entire world
AGI literally cannot hurt humanity because a minor brownout would kill it in its cradle.
You mean the thinly veiled eugenics manifesto?
Asshole (but left wing)
People are commenting 'fates worse than death' and 'being made into a labrat by the 1%', but really, if you have infinite time to just do stuff and you can't be killed -- And you don't somehow squirrel your way into a position of power then what are you even doing with your time and immortality, oomfie?
The loneliness part is also questionable. I know OP said it's overly done, but I also think it's just wrong. If you're an adult you've had people in your life die before. It sucks. You miss them. But then you move on. And you meet other people. You'll still go ":(" when you think about the person and such... But life goes on.
And that's just life. It doesn't get any worse if you extend it longer -- If anything it gets better. You might have lost your beloved today, but you have another dozen lifetimes to heal your wounds and meet someone else and fall in love again and (...)
So here's some lower-stakes, frustrating inconveniences of being immortal:
- Your favourite fashion? It's not just out of fashion. It's so out of fashion it is now considered 'historical costuming'. You can no longer find any articles like it at all. Because the only people even trying to recreate the techniques are costuming nerds and theater people who always exaggerate stuff
- You got a song stuck in your head. It is either from before recording was invented, or any recordings of it that existed are too old to be reliably listenable. You have a song stuck in your head.
- You used to really enjoy a job you did. That entire career path is now obsolete. As per the first paragraph of my post, if you're immortal you have probably snuck your way into the upper echelons of society at some point during your infinite time... But like. You're bored. You loved being a Court Jester, now there are no Court Jesters.
- Actually tedium just in general. Sooner or later you'll run out of new things to try, because you'll have done everything that even remotely caught your eye already. So what the fuck will you do with your time? You'll eventually just get depressed and not do anything.
There's a book I heard about where the main character is immortal. Nevertheless at one point he pisses off some mafia dudes, and they nail him inside a barrel full of urine and throw him in the sea.
The thing is
"The law says it has to happen" doesn't mean it happens.
And the weaker labour protections are in your country, the more bosses can walk all over their employees.
In the US, with their so-called "at-will" employment system, you can be fired at any time for any reason, and if you need the job to like, live, you won't even bring up your legal rights.
Mind you even on countries where polling happens exclusively on Sunday (like mine!) there are other subtle ways The Poors ^tm^ are kept from enfranchisement. "Voting happens on a work day" is just one of the ways it happens in one of our world's oligarchies.
It really depends on how much you need that job to like
Not be homeless
And how hard it was to get the job in the first place.
You can make your legal rights count if you have options.
If you don't, you let your boss walk all over you and thank them for it.
Because they don't want the workers voting.
If you "can't go to the ballot because you need to work" you are a plebeian, and so they have a way of excluding you while technically not excluding you.
A lot of modern oligarchy is powered by these technicalities. Technically everyone has a "right to" participate in the system, but the whole apparatus is rigged in such a way that in material reality only the same nobility caste that has called the shots since the bronze fucking age gets to call the shots.
Gave it a shot too (it even has an option to use the same language model as nerd-dictation cited by another poster)
It works. Once again, works very well in english and just gives up in portuguese.
I guess I'll just have to accept that computers are anglo-only tools. [cackles]
Teeeeeeeeeechnically what they linked is for running the AI model inside your own machine, and so not much is given to OpenAI when you do so other than I guess attention.
.... But yes, they are absolutely a tech megacorp. It then depends on how you define "giving your soul" when it pertains to said tech megacorp.
You are right-ish
How you feel about that is up to you. Personally I feel like allowing commercial usage of the code is actually a major blindspot with the normal FOSS licenses, as it leaves the doors open for TiVoization.
Went away from my computer for a bathroom break. When I came back I noticed it took a very long time to wake up. But that was the least of my worries, as Plasma seems to now be really bugged out:
Two things: Window decorations (like the ones at the top with the buttons to close and such) do not render properly. That's the simple part
The other, weirder one, is harder to explain in text so I made a video -- The short version is that whenever I mouse over any icon in a panel, be it a tray icon or something on the taskbar thingie -- it seems to jump to the top-right corner of that panel. Though only visually (as in, to interact with it, I still have to click the blank space the icon once occupied)
I have also noticed that icons within qt6 windows do not show in the proper place
These persisted after reboots.
Other info:
- Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240531
- KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
- KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
- Qt Version: 6.7.1
- Kernel: 6.9.3-1-default (64-bit)
- Graphics platform: X11
Extra details about system (idk maybe it helps?):
- I have an AMD Processor and GPU
- All the things I have installed are either from the official SUSE Repos or from Flatpak. There's also some appimages and local executables in my user folder. There is 1(one) application I compiled from source and installed system-wide, and that was Orbiton, a text editor for terminal.
- When I update the system I get a notification about how updating glibc-32bit would break Steam. So I marked it as untouchable on YaST. Maybe this broke something else? Idk.
Things I have already tried:
- Updating the system
- Rebooting
- Changing theming configurations back to system defaults (hey, you never know)
- Moving widgets around in panels
- Disabling fancy effects
- Disabling and re-enabling my second monitor/changing which monitor is the primary
- Asking nicely
Things I have not tried:
- Switching to Wayland (I would do so permanently but it breaks Inkscape for me and that's part of my workflow -- Plus I'm new to SUSE, and the last time I switched from X to Wayland was on EndeavourOS, dunno if the process is any different)
- Crying
I have also posted this to the kde bug tracker. Posting it here to in hopes of getting an answer sooner :P
EDIT: I gave it some time to see if it would stick and it did. So. "Going into the Plasma Renderer settings and switching it to OpenGL" was the solution to my issue, even if I have no idea what caused it, I at least seem to have fixed it
Count Regal Inkwell, the Lord Inquisitor, favoured by the Princess, leaned in for the kiss. For all the rewards which power netted him, it always came with equal if not greater amounts of stress: So much to worry about, so much to fear, so much at stake every day.
This was meant to be his comfort from the stresses of life, to be in the embrace of Mr. Fluffy Pillow, his Majordomo, the highest-ranking servant of his household, and his beloved, his precious, sweet fluffy boy.
And still, the noble worried. Always. He often joked that he wouldn't be himself if he didn't worry. It wasn't that he couldn't have the pegasus: Few would deny a powerful stallion such as him anything, let alone some common-born pegasus. It wasn't that he was a married stallion seeking comfort in the embrace of his servant, he was naught if not a dutiful husband, and his wife knew and did not mind the time he spent with the pegasus.
Rather, what worried him at times like these, always, was quite the opposite: How aware he was of the gulf there was between himself and the winged servant. In power, in age, in all things. It had been years, and still every night did he wonder if one day the other horseshoe would drop, if he'd find out the pegasus was merely following orders, doing his job in spite of himself. — He very genuinely loved the servant and wanted to see him happy. He would never, ever, forgive himself if it came to light that his beloved had given himself to him out of duty, and that he had essentially been forcing himself on the pegasus.
Still they kissed, even as the little pony in the lord-inquisitor's head reprimanded him for this great impropriety. Still they embraced in their secret little rendezvous.
Fluffy, for his part, thought of nothing, and worried about nothing: His master was a great stallion, as lovely on the inside as he was outside. He took great joy and pride in serving a stallion such as Lord Inkwell, and considered himself the luckiest colt alive, that he was also the target of his glorious liege's affections
Very self-indulgent piece I commissioned as an early birthday gift to myself <3 It shall have a less safe sequel, in time, but it should take a while.
I wish it was socially acceptable to call people lazy for certain computer-related woes.
I often have to "rescue" my mother because her computer 'broke'. -- What is actually happening is that windows is doing the usual Windows thing of nagging you about updates/microsoft edge/whatever. It's a matter of reading what it's saying, but she just... Doesn't read the message or look for the button. This woman has a PhD. Like. She isn't stupid. She's incredibly smart, actually. But she just doesn't want to learn.
Like, the computer itself can tell you a lot of stuff. You just need to read and click around. But when it's a computer screen it's like some people develop selective blindness. I legitimately wonder if people who are 60+ have some eyesight thing going on where content displayed on a screen and specifically on a screen is unreadable to them. Because if anything is in a different place or it does something unexpected, they just lock up like a deer in the headlights instead of like. Reading what is on screen.