Most people don’t even like the idea of wearing smart glasses or smart watches, and you expect them to line up and pay for brain chips? 🥴

That’s why I just got a purely electric vehicle, much simpler mechanically as well.

I was so confused by the name “Nothing”. Really not a great idea to use a pronoun for a company name.

That’s a good point, I wonder if there’s a better per capita graph somewhere out there.

I’m sure you’ve spent a lot of time trying different things, this is what I found:

• In Linux Mint’s sound settings (Applications -> Preferences -> Sound), under the Hardware tab, choose a profile that does NOT mention anything digital or IEC. For example, select “Analog Stereo Duplex.” This can help PulseAudio avoid blocking the digital output and allow passthrough to work properly through ALSA.

• Use alsamixer in a terminal to select the motherboard’s sound device and ensure SPDIF outputs are enabled and not muted. Sometimes SPDIF is muted by default.

• In terminal, run gstreamer-properties and set Default Output to ALSA with the digital device as the output. This bypasses PulseAudio and can solve passthrough issues.

Not actually sure if any of that will help, but I tried. 😂

Realistically it’s mostly about compatibility and cost. It’s common to have the mentality of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” even when optimizations would improve efficiency and reduce costs in the long term. If you can’t justify the cost to transition, and clearly demonstrate the time/cost savings, then executives will not give a single shit.

What hoops? Installing the NVIDIA drivers is pretty straight forward.

What (simple) audio setup? Does it rely on proprietary software?

The only thing a beginner needs to know is Linux Mint. I think any time anyone shows curiosity in trying Linux, it should be stressed that there’s a really simple and “safe” way to start, which would be through Linux Mint.

Good perspective. I like the concept of marginal utility and scarcity.

I need to hammer a nail, I get one hammer, I hammer the nail successfully. The hammer was very valuable to me.

I get another hammer, it’s not nearly as valuable as the first hammer unless my first hammer breaks.

I give the hammer to someone else who needs to hammer a nail, they hammer the nail successfully. The hammer was very valuable to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

I’m not saying we adopt gold as a currency, I’m thinking we should try using it more often to measure the value of things. I’m considering working on a web application that allows users to easily determine the price of something in gold by weight. It’s a fun thing to think about. Even with supply shocks from a new reserve, that is absolutely nothing compared to the inflation of the money supply.

https://librewolf.net/

I’m not saying we should have a gold standard again, there were obviously bad downsides. I’m questioning why we measure everything in money which loses its value over time due to inflation. Can’t we measure things in something that has a more stable value while also not having a gold standard?

100% anonymous and handle spam? Good luck. You’d probably be a multi-millionaire if you figured that one out.

Yea nothing is constant I know. Asking more like why don’t we measure the value of things with someone that holds its value better like gold? It’s physically scarce and cannot be manipulated because it’s verifiable at an atomic level, and will always be in demand.

Sodium-ion batteries are becoming more viable, which will be necessary to buffer the solar energy surge during the day and lack of energy production at night.

I remember GPT 4 being useless and constantly giving wrong information. Now with newer models they’ve become significantly more useful, especially when prompted to be extremely careful and to always double check to ensure the best response.

I’ve found success using more powerful LLMs to help me create applications using the Rust programming language. If you use a weak LLM and ask it to do something very difficult you’ll get bad results. You still need to have a fundamental understanding of good coding practices. Using an LLM to code doesn’t replace the decision making.

Wait, are you blaming AI for this, or yourself?

Thankfully wind and solar are cheap and require a low up front investment, otherwise it couldn’t be. We need to continue to invest in battery technology, sodium batteries are the way forward.