Nah bruv. There's a world of difference.
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What's the fucking point of comments at all if anyone who raises a contrasting opinion is downvoted into invisibility?
I haven't been keeping score, but everything OP said matches what I've noticed. I used to come here on my Beehaw account and literally couldn't see the downvotes since Beehaw ignores them, but since I switched, the mass downvoting anytime anyone from Alberta posts is very noticeable. More broadly, people seem to largely be doing one of the shitty things I left Reddit and moved to Beehaw for: using the downvote button as "disagree" instead of what it should be: "not contributing to the conversation".
I wish more instances removed downvoting; it just accelerates the move to an echo chamber, furthering polarization. I honestly don't understand what they add.
If it's hateful/prejudiced, then report it for removal. If it's incorrect, then ratio them in the comments with your thoughtful response.
There's no contradiction there. This broke over the summer: Microsoft Admits: US Law Supersedes Canadian Sovereignty — Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
CachyOS is what I installed a couple of months ago and it's been great. The only major challenge I've had so far have been with my Windows 11 VM which I need for work. For anyone who doesn't need Windows-exclusive software to work (Excel 2024, in my case), Linux is easier to use than Windows... But it does have a bit of a learning curve if you need to install specific things.
Another example: Omada Controller is needed for my wifi mesh network. Took me a while to figure out that I need to use Podman or Docker for it (after several failed attempts at installing different versions from AUR.) But once I figured that out, it was easier to get running than the official software was on Windows. I think 1 app to install from Cachy Hello (Podman) and 2 commands in the terminal to get and run the container in Podman. (I even ignored the instructions to use Docker and it worked 100% smoothly on Podman on the first try.)
All my hardware just works without manually installing drivers. Updating almost everything on the system took 1 GUI command a few minutes to run, then less than a minute to reboot. It mounts my old Windows drive no problem.
And it's so fast. No random slowdowns for Windows search indexing, antimalware executable, "System". No hours spent needing to debloat and reconfigure Windows 11 to hide all the bullshit... It took me longer to configure Windows 11 in my VM than it did to set up everything in CachyOS.
That said, I'd only suggest CachyOS to someone who can tinker and wants/needs cutting edge (gaming stability/performance improvements, in my case). I'm leaning towards an immutable distro for my wife's laptop—old hardware, and won't be used for gaming. Maybe Fedora Kinoite? Windows 10 runs like shit on it, now, even though it used to be plenty fast.
Re: your last paragraph:
I think the future is likely going to be more task-specific, targeted models. I don't have the research handy, but small, targeted LLMs can outperform massive LLMs at a tiny fraction of the compute costs to both train and run the model, and can be run on much more modest hardware to boot.
Like, an LLM that is targeted only at:
The more specific the model, the smaller the LLM can be that can do the targeted task (s) "well".
There are, of course, open source licenses that don't allow for commercial use without a license.
Also, there are lots of industries that need guarantees about the software, and even CC0 open source software doesn't come with those guarantees; those come from a commercial use and support contract.
It's appropriate to say that.
Absolutely, unequivocally not. No. By doing so, you are trivializing their experience.
You're doing it again, mate. What is being heard by your audience is that your sound sensitivity is as important as (or more important than) this woman being fired at and grabbed by secret police in front of her children.
There are orders of magnitude separation between those levels of trauma. Those children will never be the same, nor will the mother.
Frankly, fuck your sound sensitivity. Contextually wildly inappropriate to complain about, compared to the severity of the situation.
ikr? Can we start labeling this as a Republican choice, not just Trump?
This is a Republican administration operating with support from a Republican-controlled Senate and House and by Republican judges and other appointees.
Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan, it's a Republican plan. Let's start talking about the party that's doing this to America so they can't just claim it was "all Trump" and be believed when it all comes tumbling down around them.
Just wanted to throw out there that class size and complexity matters a lot.
I taught in an Alberta public high school. I had a class of 47 students. And this was a split Math 20-3/20-4 class. Over ⅓ of the class had IEPs, and another ⅓ (at least) should have had IEPs, but they'd fallen through the cracks of the system and didn't have paperwork on file to support a designation.
20-3 and 20-4 have virtually 0 curricular overlap, btw. I feel badly for the -4 kiddos in that class—they got almost no attention from me. It just wasn't possible. The one EA in the class did what she could to help them, thankfully.
I got reprimanded by my admin for that class, too, since a lowkey fight broke out (nobody was hurt) in that class and I didn't notice for about half a minute.
I left the province and haven't regretted it for a second.
Absolutely. Why bother with the test?
My wife and I both did before having kiddos. It was extra protection for them, especially when they're most vulnerable as infants, but also for us. It was super easy to book and get done and, of course, free.
Even if you still have immunity, a booster will make it more effective anyway.
Sorry, I thought the context of that quote was clear:
I was referring to raising a contrasting political opinion in defense of Albertans, as that's the context for this entire discussion.