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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • zolax@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Using ChatGPT with Linux
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    7 months ago

    in terms of the quality of writing you can get models from 20GB at a similar level to GPT-4 (good for creative writing but much worse if knowledge of something is required)

    the model I use (~20GB) would know what rclone is but would most likely not know how to use it

    EDIT: now that I think about it is was based off of some benchmark. personally I wouldn’t say it performs at GPT-4 but maybe GPT-3.5

  • zolax@programming.devtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Why don't banks like root on Android?
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    7 months ago

    ah, okay, that’s fair. in terms of short-form social media that tries to engage you, I’d expect little warning and for children especially to take more risks when encountering this type of content.

    Folks with rooted android phones have a high chance of having watched a 12 year old tell them how to root their phone on TicTok.

    I was more focused on this, though, because this sentence implied that you could successfully root your phone with short-form, likely phone-generic tutorials when the process nowadays is much more difficult and technical

  • zolax@programming.devtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Why don't banks like root on Android?
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    7 months ago

    maybe it’s just me, but isn’t it quite hard (at least for people not confident doing technical stuff) to root a phone?

    like a decade ago the bootloader may have been unlocked by default and for many phones there were exploits so that they could be rooted with an app, but nowadays you would have to:

    • unlock the bootloader by installing ADB and fastboot drivers, booting into download mode and run terminal commands that would reset your phone in the process; and for some phones, you would also need to shorten a test point and for quite a few of them nowadays, unlocking the bootloader is impossible
    • boot into download mode and flash a custom recovery with fastboot or potentially with Odin or some other proprietary software (or sometimes you can root from download mode)
      • for some newer (including Samsung) phones, you also need to disable dm-verity otherwise your phone wouldn’t be able to boot into Android
    • boot into recovery mode and finally flash (probably Magisk) an image to root the system

    I guess there are usually detailed instructions for this, but I doubt that most people rooting their phones now would be non-techie people who are just watching generic online tutorials. they would most likely stumble upon XDA or other forums that would have proper instructions. and even then, they are not very beginners friendly as they aren’t usually supposed to be followed by people with little to no experience with using the command-line, drivers, how Android phones work internally, etc.