I bought my smart bulbs at Ikea. Idk how the price compares to the brands you mentioned.

I think smart home lighting is overrated. Schedules are nice for holiday and outside lights. But I don’t use any “smart” solutions in most rooms. They have limited use in the hallway, though (with a motion sensor?) And in places where you want to dim them, like next to the TV. That’s my opinion.

Idk if kids are a target group of Nobara Linux, but I heard that’s good for gaming.

Rest sound good. Don’t forget to give them lots of productivity tools… OBS, Kdenlive, LMMS so they can practice shooting videos, create music… They’d need LibreOffice, maybe an IDE to learn coding, or something to create a website. As a kid I had a lot of fun tinkering with the Free Software tools, next to gaming.

Test the website blocking, if you restrict for example porn. Nowadays the browsers all try to do some privacy enhanced DNS over HTTP and that might circumvent the default DNS. I’m not up to date with the current solutions to restrict usage… Maybe someone can chip in, I’m pretty sure that’s available.

nice youtube channel / creator. thanks!

it doesn’t have physical access to reality

Which is a severe limitation, isn’t it? First of all it can’t do 99% of what I can do. But I’d also attribute things like being handy to intelligence. And it can’t be handy, since it has no hands. Same for sports/athletics, driving a race car which is at least a learned skill. And it has no sense if time passing. Or which hand movements are part of a process that it has read about. (Operating a coffe machine.) So I’d argue it’s some kind of “book-smart” but not smart in the same way someone is, who actually experienced something.

It’s a bit philosophical. But I’m not sure about distinguishing intelligence and being skillful. If it’s enough to have theoretical knowledge, without the ability to apply it… Wouldn’t an encyclopedia or Wikipedia also be superintelligent? I mean they sure store a lot of knowledge, they just can’t do anything with it, since they’re a book or website…
So I’d say intelligence has something to do with applying things, which ChatGPT can’t in a lot of ways.

Ultimately I think this all goes together. But I think it’s currently debated whether you need a body to become intelligent or sentient or anything. I just think intelligence isn’t a very useful concept if you don’t need to be able to apply it to tasks. But I’m sure we’ll get to see the merge of robotics and AI in the next years/decades. And that’ll make this intelligence less narrow.

I think superintelligence means smarter than the (single) most intelligent human.

I’ve read these claims, but I’m not convinced. I tested all the ChatGPTs etc, let them write emails for me, summarize, program some software… It’s way faster at generating text/images than me, but I’m sure I’m 40 IQ points more intelligent. Plus it’s kind of narrow what it can do at all. ChatGPT can’t even make me a sandwich or bring coffe. Et cetera. So any comparison with a human has to be on a very small set of tasks anyways, for AI to compete at all.

At the moment, no one knows for sure whether the large language models that are now under development will achieve superintelligence and transform the world.

I think that’s pretty much settled by now. Yes, it will transform the world. And no, the current LLMs won’t ever achieve superintelligence. They have some severe limitations by design. And even worse, we’re already putting in more and more data and compute into training, for less and less gain. It seems we could approach a limit soon. I’d say it’s ruled out that the current approach will extend to human-level or even superintelligence territory.

I skimmed the first few pages. And it seems it’s just concerned with the content? You can store your notes (posts, file uploads, …) on arbitrary instances and move them around. But you still need a fixed instance that hosts your actor identity (your account) which then tells where to go to fetch a post. And that one can’t change. So your account and username would still be tied to a fixed domain handle. And you can’t move it. And even for the content, it seems like you’d need that fixed instance to do the 302 forward, so it needs to be contacted to resolve each location.

Edit: But you might be right. I don’t grasp the full concept. Maybe it enables us to configure a webserver on our own domain to forward a user handle to some external server. Meaning we don’t have to install a server ourselves. And the servers would then be interchangable (if this translates to fetching everything). You’d still be tied to your domain name. But not to a service anymore. That’d be great.

I enabled the DLNA server in Jellyfin. And that works okay with my LG webOS TV. But it’s down to the quirks of the TV which also likes to enable subtitles and the default audio track.

I think unless you set up some shared folders, it can’t see anything. With the network, you’d probably need to mess with your firewall.

That sounds more like portable object storage, and not portable identity?

Well that’s kind of baked-in to social media. If you’d otherwise talk to lots of different people in person, read much etc and now come to the internet and choose any of the mentioned platforms… That’d be bad. You’re now in a smaller filter bubble. If you’re already in some echo chamber and for example switch from mastodon to bluesky… that’s a minor change. The situation is a bit different if you change from a nazi platform to a regular one. It’s still not good. But better.

That’d be a post for !TIL@lemmy.world

With “drama” I was going for the built-in drive towards negativity and sensationalist stuff. Like people complaining and sharing outrageous news that stirs them up. I think it’s well established that people are more incentivised to engage with content they disagree with, rather than nuanced or positive things. I’m no exception. I’ve had a superb weekend, did a day trip with some friends, sports (climbing) etc. But somehow I don’t talk about that on the internet but end up painting a dark picture about the near future. And my real-world conversations aren’t like that. In face to face conversations I also talk about mundane stuff, what made my day, recommend positive things to friends… I think we have some unhealthy dynamics baked into internet talk, due to the way our platforms are set up and due to how attention works.

Sure. The internet killed newspapers. And there is no easy fix. We’d need easy payment methods, value the labour of the journalists… And that wasn’t available when this happened. And nowadays we have a few other issues on top. Originally, the internet wasn’t supposed to do any of that. It was supposed to connect people all around the globe. Make information available to everyone…

I think a lot of the unhealthy dynamics aren’t baked into the internet itself, but due to people making everything about money and advertising. I think we (theoretically) could do without. And make the internet a very different place. It doesn’t seem this is happening. But I still got some places (Linux forums etc) with a very different atmosphere. I’m not sure where we’ll end up in like 15 years. Maybe after reaching rock bottom. I’ve also watched and read too much science fiction. Currently it looks to me like we’re headed for the 2006 movie Idiocracy. But H G Wells is fine, too.

Yeah, judging by your comments, you’re not a classic troll. I couldn’t judge from your original post, because you could either genuinely not know about the global modlog and the text area at the top to put your username in… Or post this for another reason. And I mean I was right and you got quite some reaction and attention specifically to your person. And that’d be something a troll would feed from.

Idk. I think things like posting something out of ulterior motives, like not meaning literally what you write, but instead writing something to make people (re)think something… Or playing advocatus diaboli… Or other things like that are closely related to trolling. It’s not the same. But everything is a spectrum anyways.

And in that regard idk why I got downvoted. I didn’t say you are a troll. I said think about OP, they could have a hidden motive like if they were a troll…

Sure. Mainstream media comes with it’s very own set of issues. And I’m glad I have the internet available. But social media is bound to get you engaged in some drama or bubble instead of objective truth. I don’t have any solution to offer. And I think the internet in general, is bound to get worse for some time to come. More AI, more noise, misinformation, enshittification. I think we’re in for a dry spell in the near future. Maybe it get’s better after that with some technological or societal advances. Maybe not, we’re going to see. But it seems to me there are some people out there wishing for a better situation.

The thing with that is, it happily makes up business hours and venues. And you end up in some dark alley without any entertainment. Or a different kind than you envisioned…I doubt someone does this more than once or twice…

That was just my final step after changing the address of the channels and editing my config to accommodate for the changes of the last months. Sorry for my low quality comment. Edit: Removed backpedaling.

Sure. I’m living in a different filter bubble anyways. Ticketmaster seems to be big but it isn’t the only platform where I live. I guess I’m not really mainstream and I go to smaller concerts, festivals, art museums. And a lot of them have different ticket services. So I usually end up googling them and following the trail of links to the individual ticket shop.

I’m 10 years younger than you. Maybe a bit more. I grew up with the rise of social media. I still despise how it confines me into a filter bubble. Makes my world smaller (despite connecting me with the world) by choosing my perspective. I take care to occasionally read local news. And not take my political perspective from platforms with an algorithm tailored to shape my perspective.

But I get it. Not everyone does it like me. But I think we have a big problem with algorithms and media literacy.

Thank you for all the detailed explanation. Seems I wasn’t aware of lots of current events. Especially regarding Lemmy. I always thought it can’t be too hard syncing posts to 45k (monthly active) users… I guess there’s still some way to go.

By the way, Piefed does not pull in remote communities by default. It only does it once a local user subscribes. And that’s why a lot of them are missing on my own instance. I skipped quite some of the meme communities when I switched. And I’m already trying to foster smaller instances. I don’t subscribe to communities on lemmy.ml and I’d like to have an alternative to lemmy.world. But you’re right. A lot of the activity here happens on lemmy.world and we can’t do without.

And last Lemmy instance I used was discuss.tchncs.de which always seemed fine. But it has a very capable admin and is located in Germany, so probably not too far out.

My uptime should be less than other servers. I’m using it for testing and development. And sometimes I break stuff and it’s down until i figure things out.

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