Something smells funny. Musky even.
From the article:
Note: these are estimates
Do it as an end user? Be part of the solution?
Documentation is one of the many ways to contribute that don’t involve coding.
Hot take: what most people call AI (large language and diffusion models) is, in fact, part of peak capitalism:
- relies on ill gotten gains (training data obtained without permission, payment or licensing)
- aims to remove human workers from the workforce within a system that (for many) requires them to work because capitalism has removed the bulk of social safety netting
- currently has no real route to profit at any reasonable price point
- speculative at best
- reinforces the concentration of power amongst a few tech firms
- will likely also result in regulatory capture with the large firms getting legislation passed that only they can provide “AI” safely
I could go on but hopefully that’s adequate as a PoV.
“AI” is just one of cherries on top of late stage capitalism that embodies the worst of all it.
So I don’t disagree - but felt compelled to share.
I have a desktop which has / had a similar problem.
Originally I built it with a g-series Ryzen which has integrated Radeon Vega graphics. Upgraded to a 3060 and wanted to run Linux for gaming instead of windows.
I couldn’t get a distro to reliably use my graphics card without the issues you describe. Stuttering, crashing, generally unusable.
Garuda was the answer (to be fair I’d try Bazzite too but I just didn’t get there as Garuda worked). In fact, it worked out of the box for me and I enjoyed it so much I made it my work OS.
I like the GUI utilities they’ve made for front-ending a bunch of Arch CLI utilities and I’ve been saved by BTRFS snapshots more than once.
I’ve built many many bikes in my day. I have a full bike mechanic setup at home. I ride road, gravel, adventure, and regularly use both my dirt jumper and my full suspension mountain bike (which is a Norco).
For the life of me, I have no idea what a “rear brake insert” is. There’s a calliper, a disc, some pads, some hydraulic hose. WTF is a rear-brake insert?
Halp. ;)
There aren’t many adventure-specific (or bike packing specific) Pinion transmission / Belt drive bikes. So this one builds off of the success of the Priority 600 in a more adventure-friendly package.
Also a collab with Ryan Van Duzer and his audience.
It’ll be interesting to see how it does.
Here’s to hoping we see some real inroads into mainstream cycling (I’m including commuting in that) for belt drives and transmissions.
What is success here? The few founders and VC get filthy rich as the larger population dumps their money into Discord stock while the users and teams with limited foresight, who’ve moved their communities to discord, suffer?
I mean yeah I guess that’s the success Cory Doctorow warns us about again and again.
But that’s not my definition of success.
For context I’ve been on the receiving end of an IPO and the founders and investors made out like bandits while a fair number of employees were stuck holding the bags thanks to lock-ins, dilution and over priced shares.
His recent interview on Pod Save America was so off putting, so filled with his own narcissism, that I simply couldn’t finish listening to the interview. There was little of substance there; just a very out of touch very rich guy loving the smell of his own shit.
While this is probably more interesting for a synthesizer community, Alex usually touches on how these instruments influence production and writing. Plus he's a brilliant musician in his own right.
And so, I thought it equally belongs here.
Hearing that opening line brings back so many memories.
It looks like the transition to a single company is underway.
This kind of monolithic beast isn't often musician friendly (look at what Waves tried recently). But, it also opens up the door for new players to make some headroom (har har).
It'll be interesting to see how the matrix of these products looks in a year's time.
It could be anything from tutorials, YouTube channels, plugins/software, anything goes for this first post.
One of the most recent things I've stumbled across recently was Baphometrix's Clip-to-zero series. While I don't work on music that needs to be competitively loud, the in-depth series helped provide a new perspective to incorporate into decades-old mixing habbits.
Link to the playlist:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT42-ur080&list=PLxik-POfUXY6i_fP0f4qXNwdMxh3PXxJx&pp=iAQB (I didn't watch every episode)
I also really appreciate the work Dan Worrall is doing these days: https://www.youtube.com/c/DanWorrall
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As someone who loves bike tech I recently toyed with tyrewiz - but came to the conclusion it was one step too far (both in terms of installation and also surpassing any real world use case - as I have none).
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be into whatever they’re into but I think your sentiment is correct - there’s simply no need to have yet another piece of information fed to the average rider constantly.
Over the years I’ve slowly divested myself of most devices on my main bikes. No more head unit, no more cadence or speed sensors. I don’t and have never had a power meter fitted to any of my bikes (though my indoor winter trainers all them).
I do love me some electronic shifting but I don’t have it connected in realtime to anything. I just want to ride.
I check my pressures before every ride whether it’s road, gravel, bike packing or mountain biking (or almost every ride) - but that’s enough and more than most riders do.
One other thing a lot of these gadgets do, is make the setup to go ride often a little more annoying. “Oh today my front wheel tire pressure sensor is acting up.”
That said; if anyone wants this stuff go for it - I just think the market is small (albeit very very well off - and the fact this is Zipp wheels supports that.)
I’m often reminded of this satire piece: https://www.lavelocita.cc/opinion-page/data-disconnection
It reinforces, at least for me, that I love riding and everything else is just noise.