Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get the “I’ll pick it up on the weekend”, and then they no-show, and you have to contact everyone else again…

And then they sink millions into chasing crypto, AI, etc…

I googled for the default port of dynmap, AI gave me the minecraft default port. I knew it was wrong, but that would have been annoying if I didn’t know that.

Seems it has been fixed now, but definitely kills the trust.

Crazy that Mozilla themselves didn’t put this out.

You can AI as hard as you like, you’ll probably not manage to replace the really complex tools.

I have just started writing a laser cutter tool, and I tried some suggestions from AI for doing basic matrix transform calculations, and it was completely wrong. So I wouldn’t trust it for anything moderately complex. That said, it was fantastic for the UI.

4gb sadly, but I think that says more about how shit the Australian market is than anything.

50AUD, so ~25USD. I think it’s a good deal, given your looking at 400AUD for something similar at officeworks. And shipping at a minimum is $50 to get it anywhere useful.

But yeah, definitely not a “nice” laptop, it’s no macbook or surface.

You’re US based?, it’s about $35 USD, but the laptop isn’t worth that much.

If I can’t give it away locally, it’ll get ewaste recycled, so it’s not going to landfill (at least not directly).

May as well toss it directly if it’s exposed to the weather. And it would likely get me in trouble with the council for dumping.

Melbourne? Because shipping just isn’t worth it, it’s gonna be $50 minimum.

Yeah, I did manage to give an old netbook away to a woman who was very excited to have it (I watched her skip down the path excitedly), and that almost made the effort of giving it away worth it.

Ram is soldered :( , but SSD will be extracted.

Because giving it away isn’t free. It takes time and effort and wading through bullshit. I have given a few away for free already, and the amount of time I wasted just kills the process. At least at $50 I’d be breaking even on time,.

I am being reasonable, a laptop for $50 is a steal, and I’ve tried dropping the prices progressively, you just get nothing until it’s free

In my experience, all of the hackerspaces in my area are completely full, and have no space for further donations. I’ve been trying to offload some materials for a while, they just don’t need them.

I think part of the problem is that selling second hand on gumtree and fb marketplace is just a nightmare for sellers. You can list it at a great price, and it’ll stay there forever, except for the occasional person trying to score a freebie and insisting you deliver it as well. Or someone who is just going to resell it anyway.

I have a laptop that is $50, working, no takers.

So it’s easier just to toss out unneeded stuff. Which I’ll probably do with the laptop eventually.

“It was just a side hobby”

Especially interesting as translate long predates LLMs. Maybe they didn’t want to publicise the change to avoid comparison with the classic algorithm.

They didn’t make a mistake either, they got the hateful person they wanted.

Great read, all entirely valid points, 0 chance of it reversing the trend. As an industry, we have given up on quality, and we aren’t going back.