If someone was going to reward me for burning a lot of tokens, I’d feed LLM output into the LLM input until they ran out of rewards.

I am surprised. I’ve run both KDE and Gnome on a Surface Go 2 (8100Y), which is either slower or barely faster depending on which CPU you have, and I’ve had no UI lag.

My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn’t… except that Gnome’s onscreen keyboard is crap.

Using it as a laptop? In theory, a 10" screen thin and light laptop with the guts in the base instead of the screen is a better design. There aren’t very many of those to be had, especially not for $90 on Ebay.

Watching videos during taxi, takeoff, and landing? The alternative is paying attention to the safety briefing. I think I won’t.

Surface Go 2.

It wasn’t a Linux tablet when it first arrived, but that was easy to fix.

Most models are just PCs. The cameras in my Surface Go 2 don’t work out of the box on Linux, but everything else is fine.

The power supplies for those things showed up dirt cheap on Ebay at a time when 2A+ USB power supplies were premium items. I bought a bunch of them.

As the owner of a proper Linux tablet, tablets are for combining with keyboards for use as small laptops.

They’re also good for watching videos during taxi, takeoff, and landing during which laptop use is forbidden.

That means if Google’s verification system gets widely adopted, browsing the web could become a headache.

Using a phone to scan a QR code in order to access a website on my desktop is a headache even if it has no dependencies in particular.

I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school

Aside from the risk of the authorities treating it as child neglect, do you believe this would be less safe to do now? If so, why?

It seems very unlikely to me that the model itself has a list of banned words, and much more likely that a purported list is hallucinated.

If they did want to have a simple list like that, it would probably go in the harness rather than the model, and the model wouldn’t have been trained on it, nor would a reasonably designed harness provide it to the model. Legitimate use cases, such as asking the model for a list of abusive words for use as a first pass in a filtering system could get tripped up.

As a test, I asked Perplexity to generate such a list. It did a bad job, including such words as abuse, hate, and threat which are far more likely to be innocuous than abusive. It did also include some highly offensive slurs that one would expect on any banned words list.

Yes, but there were ways to discourage tinkering like using uncommon or proprietary fasteners. They were rarely employed. The digital equivalents are common.

Basically nothing else in our society works this way. Basically nothing has changeable firmware.

A whole lot of important things used to run on mechanical control systems. Someone with a modicum of mechanical talent and a box of simple hand tools could disassemble most of them and figure out how they work. Repairs were generally possible, and if original parts weren’t available, there was a good chance of being able to improvise something in a home workshop or by paying a local machine shop. Modifications were also possible.

Making everything with a computer in it locked down and proprietary was a choice.

Though it obviously varies by jurisdiction, the typical rule is that the dead person’s debts have to be paid before their heirs can inherit their assets. If they didn’t have significant assets then there is no remaining person or legal entity to collect the fine from. Modern legal systems do not hold family members responsible for fines owed by their dead relatives.

I think we probably agree on the fundamentals here: it’s the power and speed that should be a regulatory distinction.

That’s not e-bike versus e-motorcycle exactly. It doesn’t matter what the form factor or control mechanism is. If it’s fast and powerful, you can’t ride it on bike paths and need a driver’s license to take it on the road.

How should one distinguish them? Pedals are the obvious way, but they don’t have anything to do with safety. A bike could have pedals and go 200 km/h.

An adult in half decent physical shape can hit 45 km/h on level ground for a short time on a 9 year old midrange racing bike. Source: I own a 9 year old midrange racing bike.

A professional can sustain that speed.

A judge can’t make laws. Higher courts can set precedents about how existing laws are interpreted,but that isn’t happening here. The judgment will be specific to Meta.

Yeah, now every “desktop app” is a shitty website that bundles its own copy of chromium. Progress!

“It’s a piece of shit, it’s unusable” like the guy in the video says.

He doesn’t say anything like that. He points out the notice it shows on first use saying it’s unfinished and soliciting bug reports, then ends by acknowledging they’re working for free and it’s a work in progress. Despite the comedic tone, that’s an accurate assessment; PostmarketOS is currently suitable for hobbyists and developers only.

In the middle he tries several times to make a phone call and never succeeds. If anybody is treating this as a serious review to decide whether they should use the same setup around the time the video was published, “unusable” might indeed be a reasonable conclusion, assuming they want to make phone calls on their phone.