At least you won’t have the problem of being invited for dinner anymore

This first post is fucking hilarious.

For the record: I’m not interested in reading comments stating your views on AI

Yeah, buddy, that’s very clear.

Because people are stupid and market hype is dumber still.

both Europe and the EU have a lot of countries with different cultures

Though to be fair, forgetting that is very much in character for our American friends.

Vivaldi is Chromium based but with a team that works towards reducing the privacy and usability impact of running something Chromium based. Retains support for adblockers etc, after Google severely limiting that functionality in Chrome itself. Supports Chrome extensions like usual - better than Chrome itself, now.

No. The story of hardware development is a fucking legend, it’s just tarnished by how completely fucking inept we are at using the gains. And it’s apparently getting worse all the time - my mind boggled when Electron of all things turned standard, because I would’ve thought putting Chrome into everything (including low power scenarios) was an obviously fucking blitheringly idiotic idea, but here we are. LLMs have the same problem except probably orders of magnitude worse. Aside from possibly getting worse at developing better performance, we usually seem to beeline for a way to waste as much of it as we can. Moore’s law, of course, is long dead.

And if you’re one of those people who think that Office is superior to LibreOffice because of its ribbon interface, the TDF thinks you’re wrong and that you only tolerate that layout due to a psychological normalization effect forced by Microsoft.

The UX engineer seems to be in charge of PR too. Not that it’s completely wrong, just a fucking hilarious thing to be saying.

It’s probably natural - unless some big site like Reddit shits its pants yet again, there’s not going to be a major influx of new users. Even if something like that happens, parts of the fediverse are just a hard sell - relentless negativity, poor browsability and discoverability, trolling and bitchiness, and a lot of the content that’s left is just… dull.

I’m bored out of my mind too, and even then hanging here is only occasionally worth it.

I was already vaguely interested, and when I was desperate for a pandemic hobby, it was a fairly natural choice. I can recommend “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” by Samin Nosrat as a good introduction - recipes, but, more importantly, explains a bunch of basic concepts and “whys”. Then, if you can stomach youtube (ublock origin or some other adblocker + sponsorblock are basically mandatory), check out e.g. Food Wishes (Chef John, aside from a râthër wéîrd spèàking style, is good at explaining things in an accessible way), Helen Rennie, Frank Proto and others.

Trial and error is a must eventually, but starting off that way is very likely just wasting food, effort and motivation because failing at cooking can be pretty demoralizing.

Same, I guess. But then I also didn’t really expect the “AI” to be a bunch of overhyped nonsense snake oil bullshit, with tremendous practical and ethical problems… so I’ve got to say I feel pretty comfy with the stance.