Well, there’s nothing yet that even resembles a comparable replacement with a different architecture (RISC-V?). So even if they were angling for that, it would have to be at least 3 years away, plus if Intel and Power PC are anything to go by, there’s another 5 years until they drop support. So at a minimum, if someone buys a M-series laptop today, they can expect support for 8 years.

Not terrible, given how Microsoft left 3-year-old computers unsupported by surprise with the TPM requirement in Windows 11.

I never had that struggle because back when I was struggling to make relationships last, I didn’t know I had ADHD.

Luckily I met someone who could understand me and be patient with me like nobody ever had. And conversely, I understand him and I am patient with him like nobody has ever done. And the catch is what seems to be a common pattern for us ND folks - he’s neurodivergent as well, which is what made things about a million times easier.

Just like queer people have a “gaydar”, it’s useful to tune in to your inner ND-radar, which for me has become easier as I read and understand more not just about ADHD but Autism, for example.

For me this has totally made my relationships easier - not in terms of finding a prospective partner because that happened before I knew, but it can help adapt your communication with friends/coworkers/managers/customers/etc. When I know somebody is autistic, I am extra conscious to not use any sarcasm, double meanings, or rely on implied context. For neurotypicals, I try to go to the point and drip feed the context if and when needed. For ADHD people I am careful we don’t go down rabbit holes for too long, but I frontload the context for my request/topic so that their brain has the big picture to work with.

Trust me, statistically you’re far more likely than not to find good friendships and a loving partner - you just don’t have a neurotypical brain chemistry so don’t hold yourself to neurotypical timelines for that to happen.

But this is only because of execs’ stupidity.

For a simple task that AI can actually do, say a boring text processing task, the API calls don’t just cost less than my salary, they typically cost less than keeping the monitor on during the time it would take me to do it.

However when companies are stupid and decide to do things such as “tokenmaxxing” or leaderboards for who can waste more AI compute, you end up with things like calling multi-trillion models to do number calculations, or passing a 300k token context into every turn of the chat and giving it your entire codebase to change two lines of code.

This one I blame squarely on stupid CEOs and execs. The smaller version of Gemma 4 is low-powered enough that can run on phones, and can output usable results for many use cases.

What I don’t understand is how the production is sold through to 2027. Assuming it’s not a fake claim,

• Are they making just a handful?
• If people were buying them to get on the list for the “hyper exclusive” Ferraris that they don’t offer to a first time buyer, could people not have bought a cheaper model?
• Was there that much demand for a Ferrari EV that people are willing to buy the Leaf-errari regardless of cost and aesthetics?
• Are there that many people that like the aesthetic despite the public opinion being seemingly so against it?
• If people who bought it are doing it for bragging rights but don’t care about the aesthetic, why are they buying this turd instead of a sports car or the SUV thing that looks kind-of-ok?

I just don’t understand…

I profoundly dislike the philosophy of renting rather than owning your compute, but with the current price of components, I just can’t be bothered to buy a gaming PC. I have a steam deck and a £10 subscription to GeForce now, and with this I’m sorted for pretty much anything.

For the £120 that it costs me a year, I could barely buy a 16 GB RAM stick, let alone a 3060 RTX… It would cost me 10-15 years worth of the subscription to buy something equivalent and there’s no way anything with those specs is staying relevant any longer than 5.

I’ve reported it too, probably it won’t have an effect but we might as well try

What for? If it’s plural you can use “parents” just fine, and if you’re referring to one of them, you can always use “my dad” or “mom”.

I guess it could be useful to have something equivalent to “my parent” that is gender neutral and it doesn’t sound as dry. But then again it doesn’t allow you to differentiate which one you’re talking about. I’ve seen people with gay parents use “dad” and “papa” or something along those lines, which solves that problem but isn’t gender neutral.

Language evolves to serve a purpose or solve a problem, and I guess we haven’t had this linguistic challenge before.

(Leaving aside that these are technically not pronouns, but I don’t think that’s the point of the conversation and we don’t gain much by debating grammar)

Depends on what the targets are for the C-Suite, but in 2026 one could assume yes.

I use AI transcriptions and read them. I feel if the person can’t put effort into writing, they shouldn’t expect me to put effort into listening.

I sometimes send them when I don’t have a better way of communicating (e.g. during a quick stop in the car) but I tend to apologise because I know how much of a ballache they are.

Like Gmail? Google drive? Slack?

I’m not defending AI, but I can come up with >10 products that would absolutely cripple the company I work at if the provider suddenly says “Soz, terms of service violation”.

Vendor reliance is dangerous. That doesn’t just apply to AI. If the company in OP’s message had both Claude and Gemini they’d been okay, so the problem isn’t with AI explicitly - the problem is with reliance on services that are critical for workflows, and providers being able to change their mind at a moment’s notice.

In any case, leaving aside where the problem is, the idea that 60 employees can’t use Natural Intelligence to do their jobs means there’s something really wrong with that company…

First of all, I’m going to say that I don’t think this comparison actually makes sense and I was just entertaining the question of the message I was replying to - humans are machines are way too different to reduce the comparison to merely “which is more energy efficient”.

But second, I compared to the same level - I stopped at infrastructure. I didn’t consider the costs (energy or otherwise) of building a solar panel or power plants in the same way I didn’t consider the costs of a frying pan, a hob, or farms. Because if we do that, then any point we make about this needs to be a 500 page dissertation, not a Lemmy message.

The good news is that data for how much material/energy is required for a solar panel is freely available, and also that a solar panel can be used for energy generation many more times than a cow.

Well, in pure energy usage, no; however if you take into account the energy usage of the whole chain, they’re orders of magnitude better.

After all, they can even be hooked up to a solar panel directly. For us to get 2000 kJ of energy, we need to water plants for a year, transport them, spend more than 2000 kJ of electricity cooking, and that’s not even considering raising an animal for x months or years which needs >5000 kJ a day to just exist. Our sun->movement energy efficiency rate is pretty appalling and orders of magnitude worse than a robot’s - even if the robot is just hooked onto the regular grid.

My money would be on Mandarin but… Boy it’s a hard language. The English has a few quirks but it is an EASY language compared to most, including French. IMO, this and not number of native speakers or economic power alone explains best English overtaking French and establishing itself as de facto lingua franca of the 21st century.

How can you ever depict a gay relationship in a game without “being woke”? By having the characters say “no homo” loudly and high five while they fuck? I swear right-wing asswipes find new mental gymnastics routines every day to redefine what they mean with this word.

The only thing is that the 8GB Framework 12 is a bit more expensive than the (8GB) MacBook Neo, and if you get it to 16GB it starts getting close to MacBook Air territory. But if you can sacrifice the nice build quality and nice screen plus spend some extra £, you can get Linux and a repairable laptop.

In any case: Windows is just not a value proposition anymore. Why pay extra to deal with Intel, MS and Copilot?

Of course not; in the eyes of Tories, all Muslims have brown skin, which is BAD. But Jews are white, so that’s “good”.

I cannot comprehend how Kemi Badenoch can be okay with racist policies. It’s like gay Republicans in the US, I guess… Crazy cognitive dissonance.

Surely the leopards wouldn’t eat my face…

No matter how many times they try to make it sound like the same thing, anti-zionism is very distinctly not antisemitism.

It used to be really hard to defend Apple and the pricing of their “budget” lines. But these days it seems manufacturers are trying HARD to make apple look like the sensible option.

£1099 for a 2 year old processor, 1080p, 256GB and 16GB RAM, and it doesn’t even run linux but windows? How’s that better than a £1099 Macbook Air that comes with a better screen, brand new processor, 512GB and the same 16GB of RAM?

At this point you’re paying extra for the privilege of dealing with Windows and Copilot. 🙄

At the risk of being called a corporate bootlicker, it sounds like it isn’t their own, it was their employer’s.

If it’s your own, absolutely, fair play. If it’s your employer’s… Then it feels murkier. I wouldn’t blame their IT department for being quite cross if/when time comes to upgrade and return the laptop and give it a second life. For example, I would be quite pissed if IT gave me a defaced laptop like this as a loaner while mine is getting repaired.

I don’t think it’s quite like that, I think it’s more that an important part of these drugs is the release mechanism - and any two given brands will work differently for a given person.

I take long release methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta being the most known brands). I started with Medikinet because that’s the main recommendation from my healthcare provider. It turned out it releases most of the dosage in the short term and at 40mg doses I constantly felt like I was at an airport with my boarding gate closing in seconds.

Moved to Meflynate, which is also methylphenidate hydrochloride, and now I’m a happy bunny.

My point being - it’s not that generics are bad necessarily, it’s more like, only a certain brand(s) will work for you. Whether for you that’s the more expensive or cheaper one, it’s a bit of a lottery really.