Veraxus

I had to read that a couple of times before I understood what you are trying to say. At first glance, it seemed like you were calling democracy itself bourgeois, but I think you meant it as a specific thing that isn’t actual democracy… e.g. it’s an illusion of democracy because capitalism gives the wealthy the ability to steer the whole ship, as it were. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Not really, it’s just that my area of expertise changes and shifts over time.

ChatGPT 4o is the top dog right now, by a lot.

Depends on what you mean by that. PTs can use chiropractic techniques to great effect.

But there is a MASSIVE difference between an actual PT that sometimes uses specific chiropractic techniques and the con artists who try to shake your down for weekly neck cracks.

Stop giving them ideas!

Historically, Debian.

Right now, openSUSE.

I am not paying money to see something I know nothing about. They already bombard you with 15 minutes of ads and 15 more minutes of trailers, and charge you for the pleasure of wasting so much of your precious, unrecoverable time.

And when you hit your 30s/40s and have kids, going to the movies is not just costly, it’s a whole… endeavor.

“Going in blind” sounds great, but it’s just not reasonable or feasible for the vast majority of people.

I think they’re playing the same game OpenAI is. Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

No, it’s not rational or ethical or reasonable, but it’s a thing, because Capitalism gotta Capitalism.

The Mist

That ending was one of the most brilliant gut-punches in film history. Stephen King himself said he wished he had written it.

I was hoping it would be a little longer. Give them time to quietly clean up the VFX before home release.

Stop stealing my brainwaves!!!

But you are correct, nonetheless.

She was great. The movie was too long, too unfocused, and generally undercooked (bad CG, etc).

Some more time in the editing bay and the VFX shop and I think there would be a solid 9/10 movie there. As it stands, I’d call it a solid 7/10… but it’s 2024, and 7/10 isn’t going to get people into an inconvenient, overpriced, impractical theater.

I don’t just mean DLSS or frame generation as it exists today… I mean completely re-interpreting what is rendered before it’s displayed with complete temporal and deterministic consistency. Given that we’ve seen some demos of the concept in action, and that was over a year ago, I really don’t think it’s far off, either.

Imagine booting up classic Monkey Island, and Nvidia’s AI reinterpreted makes it look like a high-end modern animated TV show. That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.

It’s a matter of time before we can use real-time AI upscalers. Nvidia (et al) have been working on this quite a bit.

In the mean time, the two options you mentioned are it.

Google’s unbelievably incompetent AI or the “info”?

Because the info is wrong, but this is an actual screenshot of the outrageously stupid (and frequently dangerous) stuff that Gemini says.

Oh fuck. I didn’t realize they’d been bought… let alone by another god-forsaken cloud-subscription-based business model.

Affinity is as good as dead.

Debian. Hard to get more stable (to a fault, even) than Debian.

Affinity really needs to start making official Linux ports. It’ll work in Wine, but is a bit janky.

Fair. In that case I’d recommend openSUSE.

I try to avoid things with Red Hat or Canonical stink on it (which is why Kubuntu and Fedora are out)… and it’s more friendly than something more barebones like Arch.

Debian + KDE Plasma