I got hallucination from trying to find a book I read but didn’t know the title of. And hallucinated NBA play off results of the wrong team winning. And gotten basic math calculations wrong.

Its a language model so its purpose is to string together words that sound like sentences, but it can’t be fully trusted to be accurate. Best it can do is give you source so you can got straight to the resource to read that instead.

It’s decent at generating basic code, and testing yourself to see if it outputs what you want. But I don’t trust it as a resource when it comes to information when even wrong sports facts have been provided.

Innovative data collection for the shareholders so the line goes up!

Apple is already at the bad news stage and has been for years. Android is headed towards it, but people can make decisions to get hardware that is unlocked and has community support to install another OS on it. Devices that can already be unlocked and has custom roms will keep working with the ability to install apks without restriction.

I hope China moves to Linux once they get around to pushing their own consumer PC parts and move on from Windows. It’s just madness to me that countries will use OS of countries they aren’t on good terms with and use it to do important work on it and store important data on it.

Yeah people will probably turn to China when it comes to consumer pc hardware in the future like how when it comes to drones its been primarily just China actually interested in selling to regular people.

Gamer Nexus said it best pointing it out that the tech bros want to do to computers what private equity did to the housing market of turning everything into subscriptions.

Whatever is assumed of them it’s been interesting seeing the anti AI sentiments growing on reddit subs like pcgaming, pcmasterrace, buildapc, and buildapcsales. And these enthusiasts already hated Windows 11 before but the push of copilot was leading the negativity before the prices got out of hand.

PC gamers among the first to see the direct effects with hardware costs skyrocketing. And hard to ignore with it affecting the pricing of things like the Steam Machine leading to uncertainty around it.

So that group is starting to get pissed off.

So the solution to algorithm being dictated by billionaires or governments with little to no transparency is to move to another one?

Maybe its better to stay by the sidelines instead of constantly rushing to join the next new social media. Perhaps its better to view them more from a position of an observer than a participant when it comes to the meta, tiktok, twitter type social media run by big centralized money or governments backing them.

Specs seem bad. Only 720p from the looks of it no mention of latency which makes it questionable for gamers. Better off getting a gaming monitor at that point over it.

I don’t think this is even worth buying and seems the type of junk TV that would be sold on black Friday as a deal.

If you are fine with controller, Steam’s Big Picture mode comes in real handy for launching and playing games without needing a keyboard.

But something like the k400 which has a touchpad does come in useful for navigating the desktop. Not great for games, but serviceable for typing and controlling the mouse if you ever feel like using the PC to browse the web or launch video files on the TV.

For keeping things neat I got a cheap packet of cable clips with adhesive and stuck them along the bottom of the baseboard.

Yeah when I went from only Android to picking up Apple hardware I was shocked at how ad and subscription infested the Apple app store was after hearing for so long how much more polished it is.

And there isn’t even a foss app store like F-droid to turn to. Was such a headache just trying to find a calculator app that didn’t have ads and wasn’t a subscription back when iPadOS didn’t come with a calculator.

Apple and Google appstore sucks, but the obstacles Apple puts in so something like F-droid can be used makes it suck even more.

Linux on minipc with a cheap wireless keyboard like the k400 is a great combo. Won’t be seeing ads with that, since on browser you’ll have ublock origin for things pihole can’t block.

If your TV isnt too far from your desk getting a fiber optic hdmi cable and a powered usb extension cable if needed might be more convenient and let you keep your PC where it is now. Fiber optic hdmi cables can get pretty long without issues.

I have one that is 22 meters long that supports HDMI 2.1 that I use to send a 4k/120 hz signal to the TV with VRR.

I think laptop or mini pc is the best. Casting might not be an option, but its nice not having to deal with apps at all if you want to watch something on the TV, and picking up a cheap wireless keyboard with touchpad makes it a nice combo.

Customers aren’t asking for this shit. The issue is that companies don’t seem to try to deliver products customers want anymore. Instead they hop on some bullshit trend to try to appeal to investors to buy their stocks to pump it up because they want to show they are the next big thing in innovation.