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  • Leon@pawb.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNetbird is king.
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    10 hours ago

    A lot of people are boycotting as many things from the U.S. as they can because of the warmongering paedophile, and his cadre of paedo crooks.

    It’s not exactly exciting to buy into products when you have that stinky orange mess breathing down your neck about how he’s going to invade your continent and annex countries.







  • Did I say ban? I said recall. People still sell e.g. cars. Just fix the problems and put them back on the market. Razor blades and knives can be used to hurt people, they don’t spontaneously hurt people, and most parents don’t let their children play with them.

    Similarly, other harmful products carry labels, e.g. cigarettes. If someone already has mental health issues then perhaps they shouldn’t use an LLM. Like someone with lung problems, you can’t stop them from smoking, but putting labels on there to warn against the harms is also a way to inform people.

    As it is currently, LLMs are marketed as intelligent, they use language like “thinking”, and in much wider terms the people pushing them are saying that they’ll revolutionise everything. They’re not talking about the dangers and that’s a problem.







  • I’ve got two laptops, a personal one, and one from work. They’re both Lenovo laptops.

    My personal laptop can be repaired, you can slip out the battery and replace it without even using a screw. There’s actually two batteries, one is internal and does require some screws to be removed but it’s not very difficult. Anyone who wants to can easily do that. The same goes for the fan and cooler, RAM, and SSD, network card, keyboard, screen, and trackpad. There’s probably a bunch of other things that can be easily replaced that I just haven’t looked into.

    My work laptop is from 2022, so it’s about 4 years old now. It doesn’t have a second external battery. Opening it up is a bit tougher, and you can’t replace things as readily.

    They have roughly the same dimensions, and weigh about as much. I don’t really see the added value to me as a consumer with this newer laptop.