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  • Imo this article is mainly playing semantics. Even if they are right and this is seen as “the beginning” one day, the current LLMs only perform well in very narrow tasks, everywhere else they are sub-par to humans. Unfortunately, that will not stop many companies from using them for shit they cannot handle, just to have this blow into the face of society later. That would be the much more interesting talking point; in which areas can we see companies jumping the gun and what will be the problems and dangers that arise from it?




  • Wtf is “Linux desktop”? There are more than a dozen different mainstream desktop environments and window managers that have different degrees of maturity, stability and complexity so this blank statement is very hard to support. Not even talking about the servers/prtocols behind it. I can certainly not confirm that experience on Sway, Gnome and Hyprland and with how young the latter is, I would actually expect it to break.

    So no, from a technical perspective, Linux is absolutely ready as long as you stick to stable distros and configurations.

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  • You are totally right to be confused, the USB naming is a total mess. A quick Google search told me that your two ports are Thunderbolt4, another thing to mix in. TB4 to my knowledge integrates USB4, so you can basically connect anything that is USB2,3,4 or Thunderbolt3 or 4. Luckily, none if that matters for your use case, pretty much all proper docking stations support charging (usually the functionality is listed explicitly on the docking station description), so you can probably choose almost any. If you go with one of the big laptop manufacturer’s product (Dell, HP) it is pretty much guaranteed to work. Personally, I use HP’s Thunderbolt 3 dock for my gf and HP’s universal Thunderbolt Dock for myself across my work and private devices. Even works on my android phone!


  • X3I@lemmy.x3i.techtoLinux@lemmy.mlInstalling Batocera
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    Just confirming this being a thing; had to battle the same crap recently at work trying to install Ubuntu server onto Dell Optiplex’s… also make sure SATA is set to AHCI and not RAID, as well as the boot options that someone already pointed out in another comment.



  • Holy fucking shit dude… Sorry for you but in a weird way I’m a bit relieved to see this being the case in the US as well. The village I grew up in (Germany) still has a price of ~50€ for speeds of 50-100MBit/s However, there is at least no data cap in that case. My 1000 Mbit/s contract was capped to 1TB/month as well until four years ago (40€/month). I really hope this improves for all of us soon!