That's weird, I have a laptop that probably even weaker (Pentium 2020M with 4 GB of RAM) that used to run Ubuntu fairly ok until about 4 years ago (but it has a SSD).
It's now running Manjaro pretty well, just can't compile some Rust-based apps because it runs out of RAM. 😄 But I get them from Flatpak instead.
If Ubuntu went off the rails during these last few years it's a pity. Anyway, it should not be indicative of how well Linux runs on such a machine, just try another distro.
I've always kinda assumed that government, surveillance and analytics would be OpenAI's main goals, and that consumer stuff is just for marketing and a good image. There's no money and no point in enabling Jimmy Random to use GPT to find out if Africa exists, and the commercial applications of the models they produce can be better leveraged differently (black boxed TPU hardware for example).
That's also what I assume Goggle's been doing with all the data they collect. The location data alone they collect from billions of phones is an analyst's wet dream.
If it turns out they are NOT selling all that data to be mined by evil overlords I'm gonna be disappointed.
No, Google Wallet doesn't pass the security check.
Which is weird because I thought Graphene can pass attestation. I can pass it and use Wallet with Magisk on an unlocked bootloader, not sure what's preventing on Graphene.
Do they? Bad UI and bad notifications is something that everybody constantly complains about with Apple. But do they act on it or do they rest secure knowing they've got a captive audience and can simply be tone-deaf and forge on?
I can come up with lots of other bad UI examples btw those aren't singular. The security code input pad is atrocious. The 3D touch fiasco etc.
there are a ton of security experts. But none of them are the former head of the NSA.
That doesn't make the point you think it makes. 🙂
Look at it this way. You can get the same expertise, in any branch you'd care to name, elsewhere. Hiring, security etc.
What this guy is uniquely positioned to do, what you can't get from anybody else, is oversight of integration with NSA surveillance. And that's where the smell comes from.
I think the "Valorant" mind set also applies to other software, like Photoshop or Excel etc. The vast majority of people don't really need to use Photoshop professionally, or the advanced capabilities that only desktop Excel can provide, but they like to think they do. It's a comfort zone thing, the devil you know and all that.
Yeah let me know when Apple figure out notifications. They're light years away from what you can do on Android to customize them.
Or UI navigation. Apple's insistence on not having an OS "back" feature has led to each app implementing their own. Sometimes it's a button, good luck finding it and figuring out how it looks, sometimes it's a gesture or something else.
Lol. There are tons of security experts out there they could've hired. As Snowden said there's only one reason you hire from the NSA, to work with the NSA.
Some ISP don't rotate IPs so it can end up pinpointing your house very precisely.