I’d encourage you to read the responses to your post and realize that you overreacted. Your outrage is not helping anything. Now you’re just lashing out and being rude. I originally responded because I cared, and didn’t want to see you go down the same path that I did (different causes but same results). I’d encourage you to get some kind of therapy. It’s likely that your inability to choose your battles and control your emotions has already affected your kid. But it’s not too late to improve things.

A school using AI to create flyers isn’t helping AI companies take over society. You’re blaming the wrong organization. It’s like blaming a crackhead for drug cartels.

AI used like this is basically just the modern version of The Print Shop. It was immediately obvious back then that someone used it and it gave a similar low effort feel, but nothing to get so upset about. Also consider that the school staff may retaliate against your child in ways that may not be visible to you. https://archive.org/details/msdos_broderbund_print_shop

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Linux is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when IDC confirmed that Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don’t need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux’ future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

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Back in the day tomsrtbt was similarly inspiring. It could boot from a single 3½" floppy. Always kept one around as a rescue disk.

TBF I don’t always see properly when I’m coming either

I’m assuming she was a good mom while she was still alive? I need to rewatch, been decades.

Another Lemming (I just made that up, what’s the correct term?) mentioned how they blocked all the news communities and how it improved their experience. Until then I’d just been blocking individual accounts. I took their advice and blocked news, but also politics, communities about certain countries, and anything else where the default seemed to be activism/rage/hopelessness related. I actually agreed with the sentiments or causes of a lot of the communities I blocked, but I found that those actually hit me the hardest as I would get invested in them. All this blocking has helped a lot. Lemmy is a lot less heavy now. There’s more humor and animals and less horrors. It’s not that I don’t care abotu bad things happening in the world, it’s that I start to care too much while being powerless to do anything about it, and then I was no good to anyone, not even myself.

Your comment makes no sense. Are you doing okay?

One thing I’ve wondered about: I’m sure the bots that are going around scraping don’t care about the content at all that are just scraping everything they can get. However, I wonder if there’s any analysis done on the content to decide whether it should go into the model or not. Like maybe if extremist or racist or other kinds of sexual content are in it then maybe it would kick it out? If that’s the case maybe such content be included in the page in such a way that it would be invisible? Caveats are of course assistive devices which may pick up the text, and also if somebody dug into it they might make a false claim of racism or whatever.

Golden

Out of curiosity, what happens if you image the laptop drive and boot it under VirtualBox (keeping the Linux host offline, so the Windows guest can’t phone home)? Potentially useful: https://superuser.com/questions/614400/how-can-i-clone-a-hard-drive-directly-to-a-vdi-image

Thanks for disagreeing with me without hostility or personal remarks. Appreciate you!

Riding a bike

… and over the top hostile for absolutely no reason. Have fun playing out murder fantasies and growing old in your parents basement.

What do you mean by “get rid of”?

USian perspective:

Things are currently going in the opposite direction where safety nets are being removed.

In 2027, a huge chunk of low income people will lose Medicaid. It will be hard to see who can stay on it, because in most states with a higher minimum wage, working 80 hours would put them very close to or over the income limit. And people not working also lose it. There are problems people have that aren’t considered “real” disabilities, yet prevent having jobs. Obamacare does provide a low income discount, but there are still multi-thousand dollar deductibles. My prediction is that this is going to put a massive strain on hospitals because people simply won’t be able to pay. We’ll probably start to see some smaller ones go under (already are, actually, but it’s going to get worse, IMO).

I think the Medicaid purge is relevant because working people got jealous that unemployed and poor people had better insurance than they did in some ways, and stripping that made them feel better about their own situation. That goes completely against the spirit of UBI, which is paid to both rich and poor and people in any situation.

UBI would likely result in price hikes where the UBI money wouldn’t provide a real leg up as everything just became more expensive. We just saw that happen with the COVID stimulus checks. Or for another example, McDonald’s using the app provides a “discount”, but not even close compared to the prices they used to have pre-COVID.

Yep!

Apologies