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I had a FreeNAS I bought around ~2010 and didn't use it for a couple of years at one point and when I went to use it again I could no longer update it, which meant I was on an ancient version of FreeBSD and none of the modern software ran on. So this literally happened to me already.

Then you need a NAS, a backup process (backing up large collections of movies to S3 is actually pretty expensive). You need to keep your NAS up to date. You need to install / configure Plex, oops that's closed source now, uninstall that and get Jellyfin. Eventually your NAS hardware will be outdated and you'll have to get a new one and migrate your files over.

Even for technical people this is a pain over time. Nothing like just having a disc that can last 50+ years if properly stored.

I'll go a step further, you probably don't need zsh at all. Once you install Starship there's not much difference if you just use bash.

I don't know why people are down-voting it. You might not like it, you may not think it's good. But this is absolutely happening and there's a lot of data out there about it.

CDs skip very easily so they're not good for portability. So that limits their use to in the house, and they're you're competing with vinyl. Cassette fill a niche in the nostalgia world being something you can more easily use on the go.

Serverless Horrors 11 months ago

Everyone who makes this argument always assumes that every website on the internet is a for-profit business when in reality the vast majority of websites are not trying to make any profit at all, they are not businesses. In those cases yes absolutely they want them to be brought down.

Serverless Horrors 11 months ago

The difference is this actually happens, a lot, unlike your straw man. It happens enough that there's a website dedicated to it.

Cursor CLI 12 months ago

I use lazygit for that. But any diff tool you like will work.

Cursor CLI 12 months ago

They don't have arbitrary access over your file system. They ask permission for doing most everything. Even reading files, they can't do that outside of the current working directory without permission.

Yeah I agree, this idea that people won't change jobs if they are on the verge of a breakthrough reads like a silicon valley fantasy where you can underpay people by selling them on vision or something. "Make ME rich, but we'll give you a footnote on the Wikipedia page"

Because it's valuable training data. Like how having Google Maps on everyone's phone made their map data better.

Personally I think AGI is ill-defined and won't happen as a new model release. Instead the thing to look for is how LLMs are being used in AI research and there are some advances happening there.

This person built a really cool project and documented how and you're throwing negative predictions about it for no reason. No one is down voting your opinions on OpenBSD