i actually was discussing that with a guy i met the other day, an old school producer, did succesful stuff 30 years ago. He used SUNO to reinterpret old and ideas of his, in his judgement it did an excellent job and lets him create many songs daily if he want.

Sounds familliar? the good old "let AI be steered by experienced X and boost productivity".

All in all, gun to the head, i think i am so critical because to use these tools is surrendering to big corpos. It is not a democratic tool. If it was i would probably be using it. I have finally given up and started messing with local models (well, i did already with images) but general local models are useless.

OR maybe it's me? i cannot for one moment let go and converse with the machine. I can give order to the machine.

The tech is fantastic, but the fact that it's in the hand of corpos with all interests in never letting us be able to do shit without them, makes me one hundred and one percent against it.

why would i ever want to use a tool that remove the part of my job that brings me joy? Fuck productivity, we were already doing good, when we were able to actually do our job, i.e.: not wasting hours in useless meetings, or doing customer care to idiots who could not be bothered to follow instructions, which i shouldn't be doing in the first place. let the LLM do that, or let the human assisted by the LLM do that. Not my job.

It would cost me considerably more to keep changing it with something i don't own and as a result always be unconfortable with (and also keep paying until the end of time).

But that's kind of beside the point: ex-lease are also being sold somewhere, nobody wants to lease an old car and nobody in their right mind will destroy a perfectly good car just because it's too old to be leased, so i think my point still stands.

The problem is always going to be: what's going to happen in 10 years, or whatever, after warranty expires?

The problem with vertical integration is for the customer, and it's repairs: traditional manufacturing is more expensive because you have a constellation of companies manufacturing pars with official and unofficial second sources. While this increases the overall cost of the vehichle, it decreases the final price of every component because the customer (independent mechanic) can choose to use a different source. The market working as intended.

BYD is currently the only EV i would consider, because it's the best value and the engineering quality is indeed high, but because i want to own, not rent, i'm preoccupied of what's going to happen in X years.

Yes, it's the same fear we had three-four decades ago when toyota/suzuki/kia entered the european market, that bet paid off but also because cost of repairs went down over time as they were also traditional manufacturers. (Yet for some exotic components you still must go to the OEM, and pay 2-3 times the equivalent sensor/component for an european car.)

However, with vertical integration you are always at mercy of the manufacturer. Better engineering, yes. Better integration, better efficiency, but you will suffer for repairs if you can't have second sources.

Think apple. (and tesla. but tesla is shit quality)

Or john deere.

No. In northern italy alone we have tens of thousands unused warehouse spaces.

Let's use that space for datacenters and solar farms instead of destroying forever yet another plot of fertile land.

If data centers will also bring nuclear to power them, i'm all for it. But let's be honest: realistically they will be powered by coal, maybe gas.

As to why we have so much unused warehouses: some legally have no owner, some have declared bankrupcy and will be leased at absurd prices (it will cost half to build a new one), some were costructed illegaly and all stay there in the limbo because the local administrations would have to pay to reclaim the land

I have seen many many times in microcontroller forums posts from first timers in the liking of "hello sirs i have problem please show how to do this", followed by their own reply a few hours later asking again because they were holding up, where "this" was usually something really trivial, you just needed to read the docs and the rightful answer was "did you really not try anything in 6 hours?"

Precisely. Every online-only solution is a huge risk i personally do not want to take, i've always done my best to use offline-only tools.

That may restrict me from the latest and greatest, but i prefer not to be left at mercy of any corpo

If you buy property it will be yours, forever. You will pass it down, you will be forever part of the community, and your children, and so on.

Both my parents come from big farmer families, and lots of poverty. When my grandparents managed to end serfdom in the late 50's and their rented farm became their it was a huge deal: that became the family home. Like our own castle of sorts.

But i guess it's a different culture, my country has the higher percentage of home owners in europe for a reason, whereas most of northern europe housing marked is dominated by speculation and renting agencies, among the worst sort of leeches that have ever lived.

which i'm sure the current administration would honour

There should be grave consequences alone for the fact that the goverment acted against the parliament

I've always agreed with the reservations about browsers being able to control peripherals. I'd rather download a python script i can inspect.

Which is what i usually do, but if in that moment i am particularly fed up with it i will also leave the comment.

Then there are more zealous combatant that will pollute all the slop posts

Every single fucking article with 20 lines of introduction before you get a chance for actual content. LLM slop then dilutes the information, and LLM slop always read the same way. You know, how easy it is to spot LLM generated content, it is actually refreshing when you can tell it's a human.

However, the problem with binary blobs is that they are binary blobs: no sources, can't make changes, can't adapt them to work on a new system, can't audit them. Free folks have always argued that a computer will never be free if there are binary blobs in there

(well: the last part is not really true, there is always a way to have a custom firmware, or make an audit, but the manufacturer will do that only for elite customers. Not for open source folks.)

Do you really want to be the person that hands this kind of tech to corporates? Or that does anything to benefit those corporates?