dtxer

He seems like the average reddit user raises nose

I didn't go to university, because I wanted to learn useful stuff, but because I'm curiousity driven. There is so much cool stuff and it's very cool to learn it. That's the point of university that it prepares you for a scientific career where the ultimate goal is knowledge not profit maximisation (super idealistically).

Talking about Turing Machines it's such a fun concept. People use this to build computers out of everything - like really - it became a Sport by this point. When the last Zelda was Released the first question for many was, if they can build a computer inside it.

Does it serve a practical purpose? At the end of the day 99% of the time the answer will be no, we have computing machines built from transistors that are the fastest we know of, lets just use these.

But 1% of the time people recognize something useful... hey we now found out in principle one can build computers from quantum particles... we found an algorithm that could beat classical computers in a certain task... we found a way to actually do this in reality, but it's more proof of concept (15 = 5×3)... and so on

I don't agree. It depends really on what you're using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it's been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it's been just plug and play so far.

There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

I use it and it's called Bixby. Thought most spam callers don't make it after the first phrases.

And what does it tell you?

The first two statements are bold claims to make I'd like to see some credible sources on this.

The last one which I'm also not sure is true one could put in context. E.g. as a comparison how much acres of land/ water/ energy does it use compared to vegetables.

Firstly running Android != running Google on it.

Secondly you prove exactly the point. They try to make you dependent on their proprietary technology, forcing you to use their app store, apps, chargers, repair shops, desktop OS, TVs etc. (you can circumvent each of these point, but it requires always some amount of technical time investment).

If privacy is your concern the better option could be e.g. some google free android variant. There are several other OSes that are specialised in this regard and I think it's not a pro argument for apple.

I have Bixby on my Samsung which I guess is similar?

Sadly I can't find Sponsorblock and BlockTube in the Firefox addon store (Android).

We could use AI to remove the clickbait from headlines automatically. 🤔

I was providing Linux distros and Machine Learning datasets some time ago, because official servers where slow. I'm the meme I guess