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  • That would make sense, but, directly from the website…

    Plasma Bigscreen is an open-source user interface for TV’s. Running on top of a Linux distribution, Plasma Bigscreen turns your TV or setup-box into a fully hackable device. A big launcher giving you easy access to any installed apps and skills. Controllable via voice or TV remote.

    Using the multi-platform toolkit Qt, the flexible extensions of KDE Frameworks plus the power of Plasma Shell, Plasma Bigscreen is built with technology which feels equally at home on the desktop, mobile devices and TV.

    I would highlight the following from that…

    TV or setup-box

    Controllable via voice or TV remote

    feels equally at home on the desktop, mobile devices and TV.

    But I don’t know anything other than what I’m reading on the website, so 🤷. I’ll be eagerly waiting to see what happens.




  • It depends on what info you’re trying to find.

    I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.

    But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There’s no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.

    ETA: The above strategy has also failed me many times, though, where chatgpt gives me information that follow-up searches only confirmed that chatgpt hallucinated the answer. Just wanted to say that to reinforce that you have to assume it’s hallucinating until you get independent confirmation.
















  • Let’s get rid of open registration instances

    How?

    Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is going to stop them. Some already have

    But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?

    You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.


  • That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.

    They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.

    If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.


  • And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

    Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?

    ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.