Yeah it's a small, local ISP. I love it. They only serve a small area, but therefore they behave like a local business with real people instead of a faceless corporation.
Can you point me in the direction of how disable truly all of it? I don't want news/ads/recommendations in the start button, bottom bar, icon tray, search results etc.
Cars have gotten bigger externally, but internally it seems storage space is actually going down. My 2014 Nissan Note has a 10% larger storage capacity than a 2023 Renault Espace, even tho the latter is 50cm larger in all three dimensions and is literally called 'spatious'.
It was really slow compared to XP, and while it attempted to improve the security situation (notoriously bad on XP) that came with significantly reduced compatibility. The Windows Glass (if I recall its name correctly) feature that was on by default was horrendously slow.
Mobile computing and cloud storage are to blame. For a large contigent of people these days, their cell phone is their primary computing device. Those make even viewing the filesystem difficult and cumbersome, and if you're not a power user you just won't see it at all. Then, on laptops and desktops, operating systems these days very strongly push their cloud storage solutions. Again, these typically make viewing the actual structure difficult, instead one has to rely on search or recommendations.
I used to teach a python scripting course to graduate students in Biology. With each progressing year, the average base computing skills actually went down. A very large fraction these days has trouble with the very concept of files and folders.
Dus terwijl de in de ons omringende landen het spoorkaartje juist (aanzienlijk) goedkoper wordt, gaan wij juist dubbelop betalen voor slechtere service? En de dienstverlening is sinds corona al aanzienlijk uitgekleed. Het is niet meer zelden dat ik een trein moet laten schieten, omdat er slechts een 4'tje wordt ingezet waar er voorheen een 4+6 combinatie reed. En savonds haal ik mijn aansluiting ook al niet meer. En das dan in hartje randstad, in de provincie is het allemaal nog erger.
De minister doet alsof dit het enige haalbare is, alsof NS anders failliet zou gaan. Maar als enige aandeelhouder had de Staat ook gewoon de portemonnee kunnen trekken.
Dit soort beleid duwt mensen alleen nóg meer de auto in. Je kunt het mensen niet kwalijk nemen dat ze tussen 8 en 9 op kantoor willen zijn, anders staat voor velen de baan op de tocht.
Ook ondermijnt het - opnieuw - het draagvlak voor (broodnodige) klimaatmaatregelen. Met rekeningrijden wordt het leven voor de (provinciale) burger stukken duurder onder het mom van vervuiler betaald. Maar het milieuvriendelijkere alternatief wordt zo de nek om gedraaid. Terwijl het (grote) bedrijfsleven 80% van de vervuiling veroorzaakt, mag de burger er allemaal voor opdraaien.
Al met al komt het mij inmiddels toch echt over als burgertje pesten.
While bard got some really bad reviews compared to chatgpt, I've honestly found it better with queries chatgpt struggled with. I have two examples:
"Please write a python function that returns an exact solution to pi" Both come up with gregory-leibnitz formula, which of course is an approximation. When challenged that I want an exact solution instead of an approximation, chatgpt apologizes and then returns yet another approximation. Bard correctly claims that that is impossible as pi is an irrational number.
"What can you tell me about a compound called polysac-active in cough syrups". Chatgpt hallucinates something about a company in Indonesia, which seems to have a product that sounds vaguely similar to one of the brands selling that compound. Bard, on the other hand, correctly surmises it's mostly honey and even gives some examples of real products that feature this ingredient.
In general, Bard in general seems one of the few llms that will tell me it doesn't know something or that something is impossible. IMHO that's better than just coming up with a hallucination.
Yeah it's a small, local ISP. I love it. They only serve a small area, but therefore they behave like a local business with real people instead of a faceless corporation.