About eight years ago, I moved out of the US to a Third World country but each day it feels less and less like a Third World country.

I do not really understand what you want to do. But I think you want to use an existing AI model and create your own personality from it.

Is that correct?

If so, you want to download ollama and run it. Then you will also download and run sillytavern.

In Sillytavern, you can create different characters and give them different personalities.

This does require some technical knowledge, but it does not require you to code anything. You will also need a GPU with ha decent amount of ram for any complexity.

Some billionaires are saying shorter work weeks be used of AI, some are saying longer.

If this just a way for us to be “grateful” for things to remain the same?

Thanks! It’s been so long since I’ve used plex. I didn’t know they offered their own proxy service now.

Doesn’t Jellyfin operate the same way?

I’m not sure there is any difference.

What?! Why don’t you have to do those things with Plex?

Ok, so don’t use a vpn, just go to a proxy running in another country that is connected to a vpn?

Anyone who asks me about this is getting the “At least try Linux for free first before buying a new computer.

Another example I have is that my mother-in-law is retired. You think she needs a new computer? Nope! She’s getting Linux before a new computer. The only other option for her would be an iPad since she’s just browsing the web anyway.

I find that I don’t use it much after I do my initial setup.

Mainly I use it when doing server admin stuff, but for my personal computer, I use it to update and install apps for the most part.

That must be what I saw before and decided against it.

Do you mind sharing what you use the terminal for? There is usually a gui to do most things these days.

I also only know basic commands. ChatGPT is pretty good that, so it is my first stop if I need something complex.

Are there specific things you dislike about terminal?

I thought there was a charge or something. I guess that’s what turned me off from it.

I’m not to familiar with zorin, and I don’t see it recommended often. What’s the deal? Any criticisms of it? Especially for new users?

My ideal world does not use money.

It suggests that if AI companies unfairly exploit musicians’ intellectual property to train their generative AI models, the creative ecosystem will be wrecked and original music silenced.

I kind of disagree with this.

There may be less people making music when money is their main motivator. But there will still be people making music.

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

I’m not a musician, but these protests are going to be completely ineffective.

I agree that some of them are worse, but some are better. I think this person is nitpicking for the sake of the article.

Tldr?

Hopefully there are some performance improvements.

About a year ago, Canva tried to raise their prices significantly.

I forget exactly, but I pay for an account and can have 5 people on my team. They said they would start charging for each team member or something like that.

One person said their cot went up from like $100 to $600, maybe the numbers are off, but it’s close to how severe there increase was.

There was so much backlash over it that they decided to keep the old pricing structure.