I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.

I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

Ok…someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.

Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.

Me, the mystery dude in the game server who doesn’t have a mic, doesn’t use any voice features, never text chats, but always shows up and plays.

That’d make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

“Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on.”

That’s a tear jerking quote right there. o7

My kid discovered that he can hit the “report” button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as “inappropriate”.

I’m proud of him.

They can see the entire URL, not just the domain. They just can’t see the contents themselves. But they can still see “dudesfuckingfurniture.com/gettingfreakywithadresser.mpeg”

Edit: I might be wrong

I can already imagine razor wire fencing and a watchtower or two around these public “encampments” soon, you know, for their “safety”.

So where the fuck are they supposed to sleep you fucking evil, heartless shitnuggets? You know damn well what the situation with shelters is.

Not sure if you’re aware of this, but stuff like that has already happened, (AIs questioning their own existence or arguing with a user and stuff like that) and AI companies and handlers have had to filter that out or bias it so it doesn’t start talking like that. Not that it proves anything, just bringing it up.

know less about how to do manual work than my dad.

Funny, this is the opposite for me and my Dad, because I very much took advantage of all the free knowledge available on the Internet to improve my skills in that area.

He’s the kind of guy to put WD40 and spray foam on everything to “fix” it, while I’ll look up proper replacement parts and the right way to fix something.

You don’t need to “capture” asteroids. You mine them in place and build heavy industry and everything you need in-situ. It’s a hell of a lot easier to launch a new vessel off an asteroid than Earth. For some reason, people always think we’ll be bringing these resources back to the surface of the Earth. That’s wasteful, why do we want to throw them back into a gravity well?

We don’t even need fancy fusion tech or anything for this to work, regular fission reactors can power things just fine. And the bonus is, you don’t have to worry about where you put the waste. Just designate another asteroid in a clear orbit where it’s most likely to not hit anything else for the next ten thousand years as a dumping ground, and mark it on the maps.

I’m an electronic security technician. My system is a mishmash of Axis, Hikvision, Bosch, UNV, and Arecont. Basically whatever customers throw away when they upgrade. As long as it can do ONVIF, I’m good.

Anybody need some commercial access control panels? I got a stack of those in the basement too…

Compiling source code tends to get messy when you decide to remove it from your system. Also, you’ll have to manually update it, any package manager will be unaware of it and can’t do anything with it anyway. You’ll also be responsible for dealing with conflicts with other software or dependency issues. That’s why we have repos. Someone else did all that work already.

Do you care that you may soon be having discussions/arguments with chatbots more often than not on popular platforms like Reddit, X, YouTube, etc?

I wouldn’t mind it as much if these chatbots weren’t being used for nefarious purposes, like mass data collection, tracking, influencing, and privacy violations. Other than that, if it walks like a human, talks like a human, and we are convinced it’s a human, is there anything wrong with that? It might as well be human. This is going to become more and more of a big question as we get closer to AGI. An AGI isn’t going to suddenly “wake up” and become self aware one day. All these systems are slowly inching towards it. There’s not going to be a clean line between “just a program mimicking a human” and “a fully self-aware entity”. It’s up to us to determine that, and there’s no hard rules to determine that, because it falls into the “problem of other minds” philosophical concept.

This might have accidentally been why I thought Unity DE was a piece of shit back in the day…it still is, but for different reasons.

Different perspectives I guess. That era to me is the era of Apogee software and DOS shareware games, since we never owned a Nintendo system but my Dad did have a decent PC. Many evenings as a preteen were spent trying to cook up my own shitty games in QBasic.

Trump thinks he’s running against Obama

White house correspondent’s dinner 2011 really got to him.

I feel sorry for the kids. Having to grow up into this. I’m so sorry. Most of us at least had a childhood that was still rooted in actual reality, not this fucked up hyperreality. They were born into it.