If you download something, nobody can take that away either. By getting the physical copy you are just creating extra steps.

I am making the point that it seems we have a generation that doesn’t understand how to go and get files and/or share them.

Nothing I said was about subscriptions.

Personally, I could do without the physical media, that is just going backwards and I don’t want to own all that crap. But it also means the only services I use are ones I make myself so I can listen to my collection anywhere in the world and on any device I own. But its my service.

For what its worth, I never have subscribed to spotify or any other music service. I do chip in a bit of money for SOMAFM, and I guess it is streaming, but it’s listener supported radio basically.

There is so much to listen to, and so much fan traded and openly traded music, whats the point of paying someone?

Large enough

Too short.

The resurgence of vinyl was understandable as the sound exhibits a warmth and depth

Only because it is adds pleasing artifacts to the original and people connect a turn table up to something to listen to it with. When used to hearing crappy encoded digital, with a bad DAC through lossy bluetooth to a tiny speaker, vinyl sounds better.

Funny thing is that you can record vinyl digitally and that recording will sound exactly the same on good equipment which tells you it isn’t the vinyl itself that sounds good.

In any case vinyl is extremely disappointing to see come back. It is a very energy intensive process, using PVC often mixed with lead. It is very heavy and bulky to move around, so transportation costs are high.

I understand the desire to have a physical thing, but only its flaws make it be a reproduction of the source material AND is environmentally not good.

Because they are too computer illiterate to simply download what they want?

It makes no sense.

Makes about as much sense as asking should I walk or drive. That’s the point, it is a senseless question.

If am asking if I should walk or drive, one HAS to assume the car is already there. You didn’t ask how to get the car there, so you certainly must be asking how I am going to get there.

The point is the question is never one you would actually ask anyone. It definitely is unlike the math question you presented.

It isn’t nitpicking. The weights and stats in the model would never have been trained on this, because nobody would ask it. Why would anyone ask “should I walk or drive” to get to a carwash?

Any reasonable person should assume it is a trick question. Because of course there is a car there, do you really need to ask if it needs to be driven there?

It almost comes off as a riddle, but isnt, so you get results about saving gas and getting excersise.

I mean how many people know the answer to this:

“A man leaves home, turns left three times, and returns home to find two masked people waiting for him. Who are they?”

And yet AI will get it right, nearly instantly. Because the training data statistically leads to the correct answer.

The reason why your /s is there is for the same reason the question made no sense.

Its funny because I used it to install onto a gaming laptop because everything configs for the laptop nvidia card with no effort on my part. But I don’t game on it, lol.

It is remarkably snappy though, fastest feeling OS that has ever been on this laptop.

Edit: first time I mention it and first time it broke. Update today kde is broken with a black screen at login.

LOL! That is a great answer.

I have a Microsoft story. I know some one who was hired to stop them from continuing an open source project. They gave them a good salary, stock options, and an office with a fully stocked bar. They said do whatever you want, they figured they would get a good developer and kill the open source competition (back in the Ballmer days).

Sadly, given money, no real ambition to create closed source software, they mostly spent their days in their office and basically drank themselves to death.

Microsoft just kills everything it touches.

Why wouldn’t it be? How often have you thought, I wonder if I should drive my car to the carwash, maybe I should ask someone?

That’s the thing: it is a nonsensical question, the only sense of it is if YOU need to get where the carwash and car is because you must be asking about something else.

I am not saying AI is making any sense, it cant. But if you follow the weights and statistics towards the solution for this question, it is about something else other than driving the car to the car wash, because nothing in the training would have ever spelled that out.

Shame they didn’t get access to the analytics. It would be very interesting to see the extent these data collected are used.

For instance, training voice AI on customer data. Or voice printing to make a location map of users and selling that data. Or customizing ads that show up on their devices based on what’s in the home, etc etc

Where is the car?

This is the exact question a person would ask when they to have a gotcha answer. Nobody would ask this question, which makes it suspect to a straight forward answer.

Like I said the person above, there is no wrong answer. Its all about assumptions. It is a stupid trick question that no one would ask.

What is the wrong answer though? It is a stupid question. I would look at you sideways if you asked me this, because the obvious answer is “walk silly, the car is already at the car wash”. Otherwise why would you ask it?

Which is telling because when asked to review the answer, the AI’s that I have seen said, you asked me how you were going to get to the car wash. Assumption the car was already there.

I am trying to figure out how my little non interesting domains have kept certified for decades now without lapsing, while they can’t seem to keep it together even after a failure.

Hard to imagine that they are so big that people simply forgot to get notices or manage the certs after it has happened so many times before.

Yeah, I am the same. CachyOS has been working better for me.

Wow. How does this happen when letsencrypt exists? Or certbot?

More importantly… How does this happen again?

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What is the wrong answer here? You asked how to get to the car wash. Where the hell do you think the car would be? It isn’t getting washed if it isn’t there.

I know AI is not really AI. I know how llms work, hell I know how to train them.

But this kind of question makes no sense, so you get back an answer that follows the weights and answers as if there was some sense to it.

I repeat for those in the back, when would you ever ask this question? The answer is never.

Its a dumb, stupid question. There are probably thousands of others questions to demonstrate “wrong answers”, this isn’t one of them.

You are missing the point. Any reasonable person would wonder why you asking a stupid question.

Which is why when asked, the AI said of course the car is there, you. Must be asking either a trick question or for another reason.