It would help if reality weren’t also currently a toxic pit of despair.

They can rent out or sell the building and recoup a measure of that investment. It’s nothing compared to the windfall they’ll get from selling snake oil on a military procurement contract.

As soon as people stop looking, Google will shut down the whole office. It’s how tons of huge companies get around “can’t lay off union workers”.

As far as modern replacements for legacy systems go, I also was NOT happy with the concept of systemd, but after using it for years, I have to say that not only did it NOT break everything, it’s on the whole been pretty stable, reliable, and I even begrudgingly admit I like the syntax better.

WAYLAND on the other hand…

It’s not about enforcing behavior. Not primarily. It’s about setting a precedent of what is important.

There’s a huge difference between “They didn’t let me drink underage but I did it anyway and became an alcoholic.” and “They explicitly let me drink and I became an alcoholic.”

The former AUTOMATICALLY comes with increased caution from even the people who break the rules. And more importantly, it completely removes the “I didn’t know” from the equation. Personal acceptance of the consequences of one’s actions is the first step to fixing it later, but with no rules, it’s easy to get bogged down in “Nobody stopped me. It’s THEIR fault.”

Critics don’t want to hear that young people whose brains aren’t fully developed yet have poorer impulse control than adults…

But young people whose brains aren’t fully developed yet have poorer impulse control than adults.

That depends… are you talking about actual AI, which is hard, or LLMs, which are resource wasteful, inconsistent prediction engines that even at their best are catastrophically wrong 1 out of every 100 times you use them, and require a $1000 GPU just to get a result in reasonable time?

Even your example there? Can be done in a 50 line bash script, with the exception of the “Review” folder, which would be wonky anyway because the files that you can decide are not useful, you already know how to decide are not useful, and the ones you don’t, you would have as much trouble with as the AI would, so you haven’t really gained anything. Instead of a continually iterating and improving script that does exactly what you want, you get an unpredictable application that will produce different output every single time it runs, with potential for regressions every single time you do it.

Basically, we’re still at the point where anything a general purpose AI could do on a local operating system, you could do better and more efficiently with a purpose-built tool.

But we live in an era where people legitimately put out Electron apps and call them “lightweight and efficient” with no dissonance whatosever, so I’m sure there are a million people ready to argue.

Please be “don’t”.

Everyone has their own line, and I don’t begrudge people theirs.

But at the end of the day we all have to function somehow. Nobody’s hands are completely clean.

In what reality is Trump going to clear his debt?

Don’t get me wrong - he’s stealing the money - but he’s not giving it to ANYBODY else.

I love shorts.

They’re comfy and easy to wear.

This is absolutely not the case, and has historically never BEEN the case.

Think of your computer like an old CD player. If you own the player and the CDs you can play them. Forever. NOBODY else gets a say. You can’t be stopped. That’s what ownership MEANS. It means YOURS. Not right now - not a license - not until you don’t get a security update - not “as long as you don’t try to play CDs we don’t like on it”… it means until either you or it physically DIE.

This is how EVERY SINGLE THING you own should be, and every single instance where that is NOT the case is one where something has been stolen from you - every bit as much as if I walked into your house, picked it up, and walked out with it. If my taking something from your house and walking out pisses you off, so should this. I have no idea how to make “I have paid money for something to then have it taken away from me” more anger inducing than it should already be.

He’s saying you can take down 100 data centers…

Or one CEO.

Not that I’D ever advocate or cheer for violence, no sir.

Lithium recycling has never been the problem. The problem is most EVs are new, and people aren’t buying enough of them, so there isn’t enough capacity of old batteries in the system yet for business to profit from building the plants to do the recycling. And now some stupid orange asshole has been sabotaging production, so we’re not going to hit that tipping point for decades.

Because calling them Nazis doesn’t affect them - they’re proud of it. I don’t particularly care about being ACCURATE with those pieces of trash, and my attempts to do so would only be taken by them as a sign of weakness. It’s about getting to them psychologically and showing them I don’t respect them in a language they can understand. I get that the language is offensive to people who are not them as well, but it’s like a gun - it’s not just about the weapon, it’s about who you point it at. If it gets to Nazi bastards, I’m going to use it.

*Mike Tython

That’s Elon “Why would we need lidar? Humans don’t use lidar, they just use their eyes and there’s no reason technology could possibly improve on human vision” Musk?

Ugh… He’s not impressed with the gasoline free, infinitely superior propulsion technology - he’s impressed by how much the in vehicle systems are like smartphones.

I threw up a little. We’re never escaping this bullshit.