so many parties peddling AI related services should also agree with the sentiment (so do i). a lot of people in the stack are acting as wrappers. most of their tools are always changing (e.g. see the commit counts in openclaw project), often full of breaking changes and while forcing to migrate to newer version regularly.
if you want something specific without ever-changing needs, it makes sense to do it with fewer dependencies as possible. this should be even more ideal if you believe the code made is of high quality, as it reduces the pain of updating the project for non-functional reasons.
this sentiment ironically goes against the existence of these services, as they themselves are always working on matching the ever-changing dependencies to give the impression of a stable platform.
only if it was possible to have the cake and eat it too
> Windows 10 (LTSC) has been the best operating system experience of my life
Unless you've stumbled upon it by chance, the LTSC version of Windows is by far the recommended approach by forums online, particularly for those who do not want to run random scripts to remove unwanted elements.
Windows 11 happen to have its own variant [1], I wonder how it compares to the gold standard of the previous version.
used it extensively in high school as a more approachable way to learn about countries without the daunting amounts that wikipedia pages tend to have.
come to realise down the line the "writer's biases" in the latter half of the articles. almost comical to see how nuanced situations are distilled down to "our perspective". recall how you could "learn" about the drug trade situation in almost any country, regardless of how you perceived the country's safeness before reading the page.
not quite as technically rich as i came to expect from previous posts from op, but very insightful regardless.
not ashamed to say that i am between steps 2 and 3 in my personal workflow.
>Adopting a tool feels like work, and I do not want to put in the effort
all the different approaches floating online feel ephemeral to me. this, just like for different tools for the op, seem like a chore to adopt. i like the fomo mongering from the community does not help here, but in the end it is a matter of personal discovery to stick with what works for you.
> My laptop is a 2014 MacBook Air, which is still a pretty solid machine.
as a long-term contributor to a website that benchmarks (quite extensively!) notebooks of all sorts, quite interesting to see the choice of portable machine.
quite aligned with the overall take and was well-supported with examples.
> Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games but charging per hour. Imagine how that impact Call of Duty or GTA.
Don't you worry! R* is already selling one (albeit optional) [1]. it is expected to be there from day 1 in their next title. perhaps this could become closer to reality once the current subscription becomes commonplace.
DRAM is relatively less complex to get into for those encouraged to get into semiconductor manufacturing. while there is a time and resource lag and probably a decent chunk of time before these could match the sota, here's to more competition to break the oligopoly.
it has become this due to the cyclical mania and bad margins on the troughs killing companies. hopefully this current hunger for memory make it less painful down the line.
remux vs reencode itself is a big point for video noobs such as myself.
in the past, cropping out a part of a video would meant reencoding it in some random preset. this would often take longer than required. however, accidentally realized the difference when trying out avidemux [1] and clipping together videos blazing fast (provided in same container and format)!
if you want something specific without ever-changing needs, it makes sense to do it with fewer dependencies as possible. this should be even more ideal if you believe the code made is of high quality, as it reduces the pain of updating the project for non-functional reasons.
this sentiment ironically goes against the existence of these services, as they themselves are always working on matching the ever-changing dependencies to give the impression of a stable platform.
only if it was possible to have the cake and eat it too
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