> Many systems that pay hourly for task-based work like this deal with this problem by instituting a minimum number of hours of pay per-instance, which is usually higher than the expected time it takes to complete a typical quick task.
That's how it works for the occasional on-the-side server/printer tech jobs I occasionally take (long story short: I took a temp IT job years ago, resigned to go somewhere else, but the company never took me off their payroll so I get the occasional call to go install some number of printers or some number of servers/switches/etc. for some customer of HP or Dell, respectively). The usual rates are pretty abysmal for someone of my experience and skill level, but the 4-hour minimum means that if I can bang out one of these jobs in an hour or less I'm making more per-hour than at my day job. Nice bit of occasional money to blow on craps or penny stocks or shitcoins or whatever, and it keeps my fingers on various industry pulses.
Given the explicitly-stated attitudes of the people running my country (into the ground), it probably ain't unwise for your country to be ramping up the patriotic messaging.
That blew me away when I found that out. Fingerprint readers never work on Linux, and yet (with openSUSE Aeon) the fingerprint reader built into the Framework 16's power button works out of the box. Felt like fucking magic.
You could always do what I do with mine: use Rufus to install Windows to one of Framework's storage modules in "Windows2Go" mode, and then just pop that in when you need to turn your otherwise-BSD laptop into a Windows laptop. Since the storage module fits flush with the laptop's chassis, it doesn't have the jank factor that you'd usually feel from running off a USB drive.
The only downside is that you lose a module slot, which hurts when you've only got four of 'em like with the Framework 13. It'd be neat to see storage modules that expose Type-C ports of their own, making this downside less painful.
That's not a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion I might go that route!
My adventures of swapping out the internal NVME drive have not been very good. I have to disable secure boot for FreeBSD and then re-enable it for Windows (else have to hand-enter a bitlocker key) and even when doing that Windows "forgets" my Pin and Fingerprint. Possibly due to the way I set it Windows initially but still, annoying.
Recently picked up a new WiFi card that works with FreeBSD but haven't had a chance to install it yet.
I wonder if that's something that can be addressed by embedding the right metadata into images/videos? Most people don't bother even checking e.g. Exif data (let alone stripping or otherwise altering it) when reposting content they find online.
I can't speak for every platform but when I was working with frequent photo posts, most in-camera or post-editing metadata was stripped out on instagram and facebook. Some smaller sites like Gab didn't seem to mess with it as much, but the bulk did. I wouldn't be surprised if all of the other big ones did, too.
It was incredibly disheartening to have no recourse to attribute my own work, other than to smear some gross watermark on it. The automatic removal of that metadata, along with AI image generation, are some of the reasons why I gave up on the hobby entirely.
It's incredibly hard and stressful to derive any sort of pleasure or interest from something when the second it's exposed to the internet, any sense of humanity you tried to attach to it is stripped away, burned, and commercialized for the monetary benefit of some ethereal financier. It's the sound of an invisible vacuum cleaner, whisking away any sense of joy or life you wanted to share with the world for common love; the death of sharing. For-pay hugs.
Why would it mean that their days are numbered? Nothing wrong with having steady income from a loyal customer-base, even if that customer-base is niche.
It would mean that if they are operating at a loss and hoping to capture more of the market later. But if they're profitable then the main danger is a competitor coming along.
Growth mindset is a big part of our sick society, unfortunately. It's the only thing our politicians like to talk about, after all. Being a stable business delivering value is as good as dead.
I think the bigger danger is the competition around AI chat assistants. There are other paid assistants, but you already see that even the paid assistants are getting trained to promote certain corporations.
Bing Chat (chatgpt without login) has replaced more than 80% of my searches. Still with kagi for the remaining 20% but if my searches run out I probably use duck again for those
Certainly a good point, but largely overstated. It's fundamentally incorrect to act as if the private sector didn't do the bulk of the development of computing and the internet itself, commercializing and evolving the software and hardware, and running the physical fiber optic lines.
But thank god for the US department of Y combinator for taking a risk on all those evil private startups so they'd be able to support this government website.
It's also fundamentally incorrect to act as if the private sector would've done very many of those things without extensive cooperation with and guidance/mandate from the public sector.
Well fuck, I might very well be an AI, then ;)
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