I mean I develop software on an 8GB laptop. Most of the time it’s fine, when I need more I have a desktop with 128GB ram available.

Really depends what type of software you’re making. If you’re using python a few TB might be required.

I get around this by simply not buying a Mac. Free’s up so much money for ram.

This is resource reservation, it happens at an OS level. If chrome is using what appears to be alot of ram, it will be freed up once either the OS or another application requires it.

It just exists so that an application knows that if it needs that resource it can use X amount for now.

This is just anecdotal, but as someone who both drives and cycles in the UK, I’d say it’s city dependent. I live in Leeds, go to uni in Leeds and work in Huddersfield. I cycle to uni, cycle to the train station and drive to work (when I can’t get a train for whatever reason). Leeds is getting there, albeit slowly but it’s getting alot better for cyclists. I like the electric bicycle scheme so I can cycle to the station and just leave the bike there. although it shouldn’t be more expensive than getting a bus.

It’s harsh to criticise people for not working for free…

Right but a small company or even a group of people aren’t going to put resources into something that a few % of people use. Look at Linux, despite it being the most used operating system in the world, retail sticks to windows and Mac, so it just doesn’t get the same level of support.

I completely agree in the sense people should educate themselves and use products that benefit them and don’t abuse them, but people don’t. And because people don’t, companies won’t.

You said it better than I could

Most people don’t use federated services. I know it’s ironic that an open source project isn’t using open source channels, but sometimes it’s best to stick to services that are easy access and popular.

I’m sure if enough people got in contact about using open source communication they would likely attempt it.

I’ve found that the better I’ve gotten at writing prompts and giving enough information for it to not hallucinate, the better answers I get. It has to be treated as what it is, a calculator that can talk, make sure it has all of the information and it will find the answer.

One thing I have found to be super helpful with GPT4o is the ability to give it full API pages so it can update and familiarise it’s self with what it’s working with.

I use Ubuntu on my servers because it just… Works, out of the box I can run my scripts and have no issues 100% of the time. On desktops I used to use SolusOS for gaming as that was the only Linux OS at the time I could comfortably game on without many hiccups.

Yeah I don’t have any issues with you growing your own meat, I bet you take care of them. My issue is with industrial farming, not you.

I used to gut and skin animals my self to eat but I just don’t have to desire to do so anymore, I’m happy with plants.

I was agreeing with you against that thinking, sorry if that wasn’t clear

It also doesn’t work if you’re not “antagonistic and smug”. People don’t like to change, so they aren’t going to change their eating habits.

It has nothing to do with how people talk to you and everything to do with you just liking meat.

The vocal minority of any group is delusional

Being proud of yourself for not eating meat doesn’t stop the mass amounts of suffering in the farms though.

I became vegan once someone showed me what it meant to eat meat, had they not done that I’d still be eating animals grown in pens.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/beef-usda-climate-crisis-meat-consumption

Sorry for the amp link,also it’s not the study but a summary of said study

I mean I’m vegan and I’ve got nothing against hunters, like they said we’re animals and animals sometimes eat animals. Most vegans are against animal farming as there is no way to do it humanely on a large scale.

I personally wouldn’t eat a hunted animal, right now but if civilization was to fall it’s fair game.

The bullet also helped

They’d lose money in a sale as they’d lose their IP.

but chyna bad duh