I installed Omarchy via Asahi Alarm [1] and have been running it for 3 weeks without issues. I spent half a day setting everything to my taste (keyboard bindings, monitors, waybar, etc.), and I'm still getting used to Hyprland, but I have a fast machine. RAM usage with everything I need open is considerably lower than on macOS (80% -> 50%), and I don't have to pay a monthly subscription for every little piece of software not built into macOS.

Asahi isn't perfect (touchpad rejection being my main issue), but I can live with the inconveniences. This is still a very good machine, and I can't afford a new one right now.

[1] https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/1897

If you don't want Twitter/X because the owner makes you sick, I respect that but it's a different topic.

If I'm not in front of a tribunal, formerly accused of committing/attempting to commit a crime, who are you to check my private chats?

This is not a problem with some messages' content. It's a privacy problem.

Would people here be happy if the USA (or any other country, for that matter) had the authority to record all your private conversations with friends at the bar and use them against you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946

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These are two very different things.

This law is not only about Pornhub or porn, but about anything each state government consider "harmful". Porn is the excuse for blocking you from accessing, in a not-so-distant future, any topic your local government frames as harmful.

However, how is that supposed to work for your significant other, or your mother, or your indifferent-to-technology friend?

Don't get me wrong, I also strive to keep my device's information private but, at the same time, I realize this has no practical use for most users.

This is why Apple is comparing against M1: M1 owners are the potential buyers for this computer. (And yes, the marketing folks know the performance comparison graphs look nicer as well :)

Let's leave aside this logical fallacy; we're all adults here.

Buying music on iTunes became popular because it was easier than pirating the music. You could buy individual songs for less than 99 cents (you still can do that [1])

News outlets have the option of selling content by the piece (as you suggest) instead of forcing you to go into a monthly or annual subscription you don't need because you just want to read 1 or 2 articles per month from a particular newspaper.

However, they don't want to do so. And because of that, pirating the content becomes again more convenient; like in the pre-iTunes years.

Your idea of using an intermediary service to get that content isn't the solution. I'm not interested in a third party profiling me based on the content I read online.

Edited to add reference: [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/109338

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415334

Points: 4

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As an European, I’ve lost faith on any EU law “protecting” people. The business of trading your data is just too good to ignore.

I chose the startup, and it has been the best job decision I've ever made.

Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information. It's unclear where this data might end up or who might have access to it. I detest this practice and consider it a major red flag.

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I played with Meta’s SeamlessMT4 recently and I thought the output voice was quite ok for long inputs (whether text or speech). This is infitely better.

It is! Last week, I aked Bing Chat for a reference about the Swiss canton of Ticino. I made a mistake and wrote in my prompt that Ticino was part of Italy, and not Switzerland. Bing Chat kindly corrected me and then answered my question. I was speachless.

You’ll need more time and memory compared to Invoke or an Nvidia graphics card, but it’s not that bad: 1-2 s/it for an image in standard 512x768px quality, 14-20 s/it for an image in high 1024x1536px quality (Hires Fix).