Kushia

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I've been watching a few American TV shows and it blows my mind that they put up with such atrocious working terms and conditions.

One show was about a removal company where any damage at all, even not the workers fault, is taken out of their tips. There's no insurance from the multimillion dollar business. As they're not paid a living wage the guy on the show had examples of when he and his family went weeks with barely any income and this was considered normal?!

Another example was a cooking show where the prize was tickets to an NFL game. The lady who won explained that she'd be waiting in the car so her sons could experience their first live game, because she couldn't otherwise afford a ticket to go. They give tickets for football games away for free to people where I live for no reason at all..

Yet another example was where the workers got a $5k tip from their company and the reactions were as if this amount of money was even remotely life changing. It saddens me to think the average Americans life could be made so much better with such a relatively small amount of money and they don't unionize and demand far better. The company in question was on track to make a billion bloody dollars while their workers are on the poverty line and don't even have all their teeth?

It's not actually this bad and the average American lives a pretty good life like we're led to believe, right?

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

What we're currently calling AI isn't AI but just a language processing system that takes its best guess at a response from it's database of information they pilfered from the internet like a more sophisticated Google.

It can't really think for itself and it's answers can be completely wrong. There's nothing intelligent about it.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What advantage do you get using one PC in this way instead of two?

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The GPL also enforces that you need to share your code, which isn't necessarily what these devs want.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You make some good points but yeah, if you licence something under a license that allows corporations to do this don't be surprised if they do.

I don't know if there's some license out there that allows free sharing of code with a limitation around using it in for-profit products and profit sharing for them and whether such a license would even work.

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. All of the basics should just work well out of the box with minimal tweaking. Yes even NVIDIA stuff.
  2. The software center needs a massive overhaul. It feels like an afterthought by people who would rather use a command line.
[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given the stranglehold that Chrome-based browsers have on the market, I'd say it's the opposite.