Spent the last few days trying out Manjaro linux on my home gaming PC. Same conclusion as always - lacking in finish for gaming.
Specific issues - Wayland + Nvidia is still a "you have to do all this fiddling" mess to get it to work.
Tried it with X11 instead, but then half the stuff in Lutris doesn't work, and the response for others with similar issues is "all the devs use Wayland, so you're on your own".
Doesn't seem to matter how much time goes by, the Linux community stays the same.
One of the biggest flaws in modern technology is lack of diversity.
Not racial diversity. No.
I'm talking about class and wealth diversity.
How many working class people are involved in creating AIs? The answer is simple - not many. Simply because that's how our education systems work.
You can follow this lack of diversity back to government. Look at your representatives. Are they from the working class? Do they even understand working class people?
And just for clarity, I do think there's a racial diversity problem, too. But that's been widely covered by mainstream media over the years. I can't think of any media articles talking about wealth and class diversity in technology though.
How are so many people generating photorealistic images with AI? Every time I have tried any of the image generators, the outcome is a hilarious mess. Such as this nightmare from Dall-E.
The prompt? "A fleet of 5 British aircraft carriers in a large NATO taskforce at sea."
Its vaguely taskforce-y, but its hardly what I asked for...
I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.
I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.
Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."
I keep seeing articles about getting rid of self service tills in supermarkets. The people that end up interviewed are invariably boomers.
What about those of us who LIKE self service tills? I like being able to shop without having to interact with strangers. There's plenty of people like me as well.
Rather than talking about banning them, how about we just make sure there's both manned and self service tills in shops?
I see there are people questioning the death totals coming out of Gaza, specifically the percentage of the deaths that are children. The numbers so far have been around 50% of deaths are children. Which seems outrageously high doesn't it?
What if you factor in the demographics of Gaza? That half the population of the strip are children in the first place? Also it being a densely populated area, with nowhere to go to escape.
Half the deaths being children makes sense in that context.
@goatsarah this is exactly the issue I've had for a long time. The arguments for changing how Mastodon works, how it is moderated, etc, are seemingly mostly from Americans that are trying to frame everything from a US perspective. It's infuriating.
There's more Europeans than Americans, surely we can have one place which suits us more than them?