$15.5B dollars, invented out of ether, and bestowed on the lucky gamblers. The stock market is so efficient that it can create wealth without bothering with economic activity. No jobs created; no products produced; and nothing to trickle down.

I’m confused, why is Google telling customers they can’t use it’s AI? Can they not keep up with demand?

That seems way more interesting a story than Meta relying on a competitor.

This is clickbait. Having hibernation and writing 32GB of RAM to the SSD are not “Windows 11”, but standard behavior on any OS with hibernation.

In my experience, the fragility and unreliably of M.2 and SSD has been greatly overstated.

I think the proposition of avoiding American tech in general will become more and more attractive in the coming years. Governments are already trying to move away from Microsoft for national security reasons. That’ll have the knock-on effect of putting Linux and Libra Office in front of more people at work and school.

In combination with the advances in Linux gaming, This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

The command pacman -Qm will display every package from the AUR on your system. You can then search the list of compromised packages.

An acquaintance recieved her masters in geology from a state university in deep Appalachia. (you’ve probably heard of their football team) All of the professors were YE creationists and rejected plate tectonics.

I don’t know any details, because this was years ago and I didn’t think to ask questions. So I don’t know if these were personal beliefs that you wouldn’t know about unless your deep in the dept. or if they were teaching this crap to students.

I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.

The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.

Billionaires and policymakers have AI psychosis and they deserve our sympathy and help. Articles like this are a psyop to keep them calm.

I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.

$300 for a PC speaker? Madness.

I’ve used SAMBA shares for years, and it’s dead simple to map a network drive in Explorer. And mounting that drive on boot is a matter of a checkbox in a dialog.

The problem is that knowing how to do something in Windows teaches you Windows and learning it in Linux teaches you computers. For example if you know how to connect to a remote host through the command line, you already know how to connect to one in Nautilus, and vise versa. (via the command ssh://user@host)

I think this cross-pollination approach is going to be a learning curve for Windows users. It is for me. But taking the time has not only helped me understand Linux, I understand how to use Windows better, despite barely logging in for over a year.

Later versions of Bluetooth do encrypt data, but not all hardware developers use the feature. Those 2.4Ghz keyboards usually broadcast your keystrokes in plain text.

If you’re going to buy a wireless keyboard, you should be aware.

I’m unfamiliar with AI chatbots that you pay for. What is a token?

This is just more proof that law enforcement doesn’t need age verification or backdoors to fight crime.

Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem is not. If you like FOSS, you’re going to have a bad time.

Putting music on my iPhone sucks because iTunes won’t recognize or transfer .FLAC format. File sharing on iPhone is really inconstant and buggy. And I need a whole 3rd party app to get the data moved. Or I can upload things to iCloud 5GB at a time.

Most of the batteries in EVs are still in service. As the tech ages, their is going to be a need for a robust recycling program. Led-acid batteries (the kind in gas cars) already has a 90+% closed supply system which means the primary input for new batteries is old batteries.

With robust recycling, resource extraction can actually go down even as we use more and more batteries.

Eugenics has always been a popular idea, all you have to do is call it something else.

In internet culture, the movie Idiocracy (2006) is extremely popular and the most common sentiment is that it’s coming true. It’s a cute move, but it’s central premise is Eugenics: the idea that if humans are allowed to breed naturally, it’ll lead to societal collapse. There are so many online people who think that movie represents how evolution works. It’s scary.

In the Middle East: drones deliver to Amazon.

I think Ai is a solution to our fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I think your attitude to sex work is a fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.