I don’t keep up with the news, is this something someone like mr. Beast did?

I love this idea. It would also be a lot of fun to load in niche locomotive sounds and see the secret train nerds light up when they hear a DC-10 or whatever

I think longer writeups help to provide for the inevitable nitty-gritty (you can’t click the button because it’s not there, etc) while also provide for holistic development, kind of like how incognito mode doesn’t really mean anything because google is still tracking you.

A few things motivate me to move to Linux. I’ve been made aware of the privacy concerns with Microsoft, and since they’re sunsetting Win10, I expect there’s a bunch of security exploits that will be leveraged almost immediately. I also don’t like doing things I can’t lay out logically, and I haven’t been given good enough reasons to get a new OS/machine, especially because tech is a very small part of my life (I have a thinkpad from 2012 and use it like your grandma uses her PC). Improved UI, inclusion of AI, and whatever other capabilities are things I didn’t ask for. That leads into the principle of the argument, I just won’t be in an abusive money-based relationship with anyone, person or corporation. Microsoft doesn’t seem like they’d be a good friend, or even a good business partner, and I don’t like the underlaying vibe I get from the services they provide, so I just won’t participate in whatever they’ve got going.

Linux, on the other hand, seems to be functional enough to meet my needs and comes without all of the other stuff Microsoft does that I’ve already complained about. In other words, Linux seems like a Honda Civic, and I’m good with that.

I appreciated your description of the depression loop that came from the exposé youtube videos on Win11. It’s something I’m deeply aware of within my own life (I started with the Christine Chubbuck thing) and have taken leaps to get away from that whole cycle of mental torture (it feels kind of Plato’s allegory of the cave). Have you been able to develop/connect/apply that line of thought elsewhere in your life?

Saving this to go over later. Thank you for the writeup! I’m also looking at going from Win10 to Mint.

Damn, that’s terrible. Thank you for the links (although I’m not going to read them all, to preserve my sanity)

I’m not very familiar with this stuff, but it sounds terrible. When has this happened in the past?

Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.

deleted by creator

Memes aside, my friends and I genuinely would have murdered these things with rocks had they come out before we’d turned 18.

What are you trying to accomplish with this comment

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

does that fuckin weenie still train bjj or was that just for show

This sent me for a loop.

I don’t mind older stuff- my car is from the late '10s, and was a few years old when I got it, but blew my mind compared to my last car from the mid '00s. It has a back up camera! And even though my car is now nearing 10 years old, my experience hasn’t changed. I’m still driving on mostly the same roads using the same method. And, when I have to get a new car, I’m sure I’ll marvel at remote start or whatever.

But what’s a bummer is the idea that someone else can decide that the hardware is no longer adequate- that “you must have the newest experience”. I simply don’t want that. Yes, it’s annoying that my phone has to be plugged in to access carplay, while new cars have it over bluetooth, but I didn’t even know it was that way until I got a rental recently.

So for AI, i’m okay with some shortcomings, because I can get to know the software and work with it, and if the shortcoming is a show stopper, then I can seek to upgrade or just not do what I was trying to do with my older gen AI.

But alas, the number must go up so the shareholders can rub their stocks or whatever

I just wish we could invest the time/money/resources into compressing AI and making it smaller and more efficient. I’d so much rather have a somewhat capable AI that can be run locally and offline, to outsource menial tasks to like alphabetizing spreadsheets and so basic image modification, than to have to upgrade my hardware constantly or use cloud based SaaS and/or have newer models that are more accurate in their predictions.

Of course that assumes a lot of things, like the intent to help people and not make money. Maybe someone in the Linux-sphere will make something.

I’d love to hear your underlaying opinions about the population of the US.

Recently? I don’t think Borat could have come from someone who wasn’t a zionist. This, however, was before the average joe cared about that stuff.

Yeah bro we’re totally just scanning everything you send just on the off chance that a child (even though you have none and don’t know any) are takes your phone and uses it to send a dick pic haha no bro don’t worry it’s for their safety haha

I, too, hate job hunting, but I’m having a hard time seeing where unemployed people have to work full time for free, unless it’s a working interview.

… and water is wet?