brie

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[–] brie 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Semi-offtopic, but the one feature I wish was more common is (good) equation support. Whenever I try to use a new word processor, no matter how great, I always find myself crawling back to LyX for anything with maths.

[–] brie 2 points 1 year ago

Not that it isn't a lot, but the 3.2 trillion figure is a total, not an average; that gives an average of only 8 billion per person. Going off Wealth Shown to Scale, Bezos' wealth could be equally spread among at least 23 people, and they'd all still be in the top 400.

[–] brie 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VMs have their own drawbacks. There are some projects to integrate a Windows VM with Linux (WinApps), but it won't quite integrate fully. Graphical performance is bad without a GPU to pass through (Intel GVT-g kind of works, but is a massive pain to get working).

[–] brie 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.

[–] brie 3 points 1 year ago

As someone who hopped over to the Linux side of the fence... same. Dual-booting somewhat eased the transition though, since I could do it more gradually and fall back to Windows whenever I needed it. Now that I primarily use Linux, I love how swapping to a new computer is 99% done by just copying homefolders. Even apps copy over, using user installed Flatpaks.

[–] brie 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the EEA, much more is on the way:

Bing's web search from the Start menu and the Edge browser can be uninstalled Third parties can add to the Windows Widgets Board feeds Third parties, like Google or DuckDuckGo, can provide the built-in web search results that Bing once had exclusively Windows users who choose to sync their Microsoft accounts will have their pinned apps and preferences synced, seemingly keeping their EEA-enabled choices Windows will now "always use customers' configured app default settings for link and file types"

Good to see Microsoft just blatantly confirming that these are anti-competitive measures rather than any sort of technical limitation.

[–] brie 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!operating_systems@beehaw.org faintly sobs, forgotten by all.

(But seriously, if it's a post about Linux itself rather than Linux software, consider showing it some love :P)

[–] brie 2 points 1 year ago

For Linux I use Evolution.

[–] brie 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of bytes per image doesn't necessarily mean there's no copying of the original data. There are examples of some images being "compressed" (lossily) by Stable Diffusion; in that case the images were specifically sought out, but I think it does show that overfitting is an issue, even if the model is small enough to ensure it doesn't overfit for every image.

[–] brie 1 points 1 year ago

Self-plagiarism to me is more of a related but separately defined term from "true plagiarism," but defining it based on work rather than author does make a lot of sense.

[–] brie 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do you define the two terms? I'm genuinely curious since the definitions I've seen for the terms imply that it is a type of plagiarism, but they definitely don't have the same connotations.

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