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Guitar Hero is a "rhythm game", perhaps calling it a "guitar simulator" is a bit incorrect. A rhythm game is one where you, for example, push buttons in tune with a song, exactly w…

Except Guitar Hero is a game, and is marketed as such. Guitar Hero is like Bitcoin mining, you are doing useless computations to make some number go up, in the case of Bitcoin, you…

It's not impossible to skew an LLM into a specific style of writing, one to reflect the author's intentions. I think that LLMs made everything easier, as in, lowered the barrier. W…

I use Rethink DNS for this, see ( https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app ). Despite it's name it can also block IPs and specific apps from connecting to specific servers. I use it …

At least you can disable it; on some phones (especially Chinese phones) you cannot do anything to the system services, they intercept all app requests, essentially what Google did …

I think it might be a good idea to pause updates on our Android devices, as horrible as it is for security just to prevent this from happening. My OEM has a lot of bloat (Facebook …

I'm not saying Linux phones are junk, but if you want more people to adopt these phones you do need "easier" solutions. Not everyone will want a cron job alarm. Because if we leave…

You just proved my point. > Nowadays people hardly answer unknown numbers or might ignore inconvinient calls. So your phone does make calls and it is useful but you don't want to u…

> By taking away my ability to earn a living. But this is an economy / capitalism problem, not an AI problem? AI isn't at fault that you can't get a job, your boss is for replacing…

Linux phones exist but work on a limited number of devices (see PostMarketOS) or Linux primary devices like Purism or Pinephone (which I've heard are expensive). That's the primary…

But really, blaming AI (software) for this is a similar situation to "old man yells at cloud". The software didn't want more RAM. AI companies did. Not to mention that RAM companie…