I have spent literal hours of my life trying to get the fingerprint reader on a latitude 7400 to work and i just gave up lol. Passwords are underrated anyway.

I think its because they just see it as the “OS non-techies should use” but as Huawei’s Harmony OS becomes more popular i expect that to take over a good bit of that market.

Chinese people use the same distros we do generally. But Linux is seen as much more of a professional thing there, and i think the people using it probably just compile things themselves, and have less of a need for flatpak. Huawei actually had a Linux laptop they were offering for sale for awhile, and a lot of the people buying it were having the store clerk put a cracked version of windows on it for them lol.

Wow that must be atleast like 7 linux users overall taking into account all the distro hopping and redownloading lol.

Honestly id argue Debian stable is the most secure as long as the apps your using are getting security hotfixes backported. Since you get all the security fixes and none of the new features that tend to be where new security holes pop up. Combine that with good opsec in general, and your basically good to go.

One thing tho. Some people use them interchangably but is your focus security or privacy? Security being harder for bad actors to exploit something on your system, and privacy being strict control over your data.

Even generative AI like as a technology isn’t evil. It’s just that tech bros were like lets do this the most immoral way possible and be really obnoxious about it at the same time. A good analog would be like planes. Like planes can be very useful in many circumstances, but because the people who run the world are stupid evil and boring they overuse them where trains could do a better job for many routes. They use them to bomb innocent people for no reason, and even the ones that are technically being used where and how they should be you get squeezed in like sardines and charged an arm and a leg for it.

You seem to be missing the entire point. An artist makes a work, a company takes that work without paying them, feeds it to an AI, and produces other works which they can use as their own.

Examine the code of whichever LLM

The exact mechanisms behind how it works does not matter. Not to mention the fact that not even the people who make LLMs know how their code works. So telling me to examine the code is ridiculous.

This is not about the resulting work being similar it is about the original work by the artist being used to train the AI without their consent, and without compensating them.

When i said the AI is essentially a photo copier i wasn’t talking about the technology behind it. That should have been obvious. I was talking about the material reality of what happens.

Photo copier: Original work is scanned -> new work is created from it.

Generative AI: Original work is scanned -> new work is created from it.

They are the same in this regard. Obviously i was not implying that they are the same mechanically.

The part that matters is that the original work is where the labor value is put in. It takes labor to create the original work, but does not take labor to produce the new work. Be that on a photo copier making copies, or on an AI generating stuff.

To pretend as if the AI is just the same as some other artist mimicing a style is to show you have no understanding of the labor theory of value, or you simply do not care for it.

If another artist is mimicing a style they are putting in their own labor to do so. They are adding labor value themselves. They are also using the original work in a consentual manner. When an artist puts out work they are consenting to others viewing it and perhaps taking inspiration from it. What they are NOT consenting to is that work being scraped from the internet, fed into an AI, and used to pump out unlimited new works for someone elses profit. Just as they are not cosenting to someone photo copying their work and doing the same thing.

To try and argue that I’m the one supporting a bourgeois framework when you are the one who is seemingly completely ignoring where the actual value here comes from (the labor) is comical.

You continue to argue against things i never said aswell. Implying i advocated for expaning IP, and ignoring the fact i very clearly made a distinction that i don’t support plagarism done by companies. Then implying that whatever i would setup in place of the current system, which i never specified, would somehow benefit companies instead of artists. Funny how you just seem to imagine things I think or say when they arent true. Then argue against those instead of what i actually said. Isn’t there a word for that?

IP and copywrite arent the same. IP is a way for companies to own the idea behind a work, a character, setting, etc.

Copywrite (copyright? Idk) is a protection from plagarism. We as leftists support the person who does labor getting the value from that labor. Copywrite when used right is just protecting that idea.

If you write a book someone cant come along and photo copy it and start selling your book under their own name for example.

I am not “anti-AI” despite what the person you responded to tried to make it sound like. I am anti plagarism of hard working artists by huge companies. I would be perfectly fine with an artist for example feeding an AI model exclusively their own work to train it, or public domain works, and then using it to help them with tedious parts of drawing or something like that.

My point of mentioning that AI needs human made art as input to work with is that its essentially a fancy photo copier with extra abilites. But companies are acting as if the AI is “making” things on its own and stealing all the labor value that went into the art it trained on for themselves.

Ya you were right on the money with that understanding of my original comment. Guess i could have worded it better, but i really dont see how they took my comment to mean “AI art is bad cuz i dont like how it looks”

So did you willingly ignore the rest of my post where i quite literally specified that its horrific nonsense when it isnt trained on tons of already existing human made art? And im not even talking about the visual appeal of the art or whatever im talking about how when AI tries to make stuff when its either untrained, or is trained on other AI content it starts to breakdown and cease functioning. It just generates stuff that doesn’t make any sense for the prompts. Good job replying to a post i didnt even make.

I think when companies do it they copywrite it as if the person who prompted the AI made it, and treat the AI like the “tool”. That way they can copywrite it.

AI doesn’t even make art is the thing without human art to train on and remix its useless horrorific nonsense. Capitalists just found a way to legalize plagarizing for themselves while keeping it illegal to redistribute their hoarded IPs.

i think a good example is text size. My eyesight isnt horrible but it isnt great either so some small text can be hard to read for me. But in gnome in accessibility there is just a toggle for “large text” so i can either make all text fucking massive, or have it be normal. Other than that the most i can do is try to change specific font settings and fiddle with it constantly for each application lol. This could be fixed by just having a slider instead of a toggle in gnomes text accessibility options and letting you choose between a few different sizes.

Is it using Wayland or x11? Try switching to X11 if on wayland. Theres a scaling issue on wayland in certain versions where it thinks your screen is a MUCH higher resolution than it actually is. Its meant to help with high dpi displays by using digital pixels but on lower dpi displays it can mess up stuff especially in certain software like games.

Tuxedo OS as far as i know is an optional distro they give preinstalled. You can buy them with no OS and install one yourself via usb it takes like 15 mins. This is true of any laptop with an unlocked bootloader (something like a mac can be done but its harder.)

Most of them already did. My own laptop is a latitude 7400 i got after a business replaced it for cheap. They update their lineups regularly anyway usually. So most will be windows 11 ready. I think this laptop would be able to run windows 11 too altho idk cuz i use debian and have never tried it.

Are people going to throw them out? With tarrifs especially i think a lot of people will just use unsecure hardware.

If your looking to use linux and have good battery life tho its not like thats hard to do. Especially with your use case. My laptop (latitude 7400) has a loud fan and runs hot on windows and undervolting is bios locked so on windows the battery life would suck and it would be loud and hot. But on linux i customize the tlp settings and turn the clock speeds down, make sure battery mode is on even when plugged in, and i get great battery life, and the fan never even turns on. Just pulled up powertop and it says with the web browser im typing this in and running a local music player im pulling 5W from the battery, at 81% right now, and have 10 hours until empty at current usage. And this thing only cost like 250$ cuz i got it used.

I mean any distro you can easily swap just log out and switch DE and have both installed. Even mint i have run gnome on before with no issues.

Are you planning to run Linux on it? Dont get a snapdragon then. Its not ready yet and youll have a ton of issues.