As much as I love my independence, I can’t help but look at society and think that things have gone very wrong at some point.

Some say they are still stuck inspecting those ceiling beams to this very day. It would be the safest pool in the region if it weren’t for the giant lift on a raft stuck in it.

If it’s maintenance they have to do regularly, there might even be a part of the pool tooled for it with arms for the floating block to sit on while they drive the lift on and off normally. Or a ramp with rollers where it gets launched like a boat and a winch to pull it back up the ramp to get out. That last one is my guess, since that whole setup could be portable as long as they had somewhere to anchor the ramp and winch.

Don’t mind him, he’s just joking.

Wtf half of me!? Are you implying that I have a split personality disorder??

Is there a good argument for why any society not in collapse should submit to any “higher” authority?

Which is kinda funny because they could save money by automating texting for some of the shit they have people call for.

Though on the other hand, if it’s a legitimate business, you can stop the call spam easier, at least in places with enforced do not call lists.

I’d still have to because the new voice mail notification won’t go away until you at least pop in and delete it or listen.

Only watched half of the video (because it’s something I’m well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there’s often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.

Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).

There’s many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it’s just propaganda to make people who don’t think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with “evil” in their minds.

Also there’s characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark’s case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he’s still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.

I was thinking in a different direction, that LLMs probably won’t be the pinnacle of AI, considering they aren’t really intelligent.

There’s a name for that: Madonna-removed complex. Might help find resources to help deal with that. Best of luck; it sounds like a hellish experience.

I think it means he’s not really that into her but just gets horny for her.

All I can say for sure is that the cinnamon desktop I’m using has wayland (experimental) as an option. I haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know how stable it is. Or how well it might work with other desktops.

My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.

Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she’d get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She’s got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.

I thought he was a dentist with a hitman friend.

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IP as a concept exists in a superstate where it’s bad in the context of piracy but good in the context of generative AI.

Personally, I’d just try live boot usbs instead of going to the effort of setting up VMs for different distros.

For getting images, my approach would be to search for the distro name to find its website and look for their downloads page. If there’s multiple flavours, just pick one and see how you like it. You can always switch to a different one once you’ve got enough experience to decide what is and isn’t important for you.

If you just want to game, Fedora was pretty easy to get going for me. I just installed that and then steam and was able to play games after that. I’ve got an AMD gpu and it was actually easier than on windows, since you still need to install gpu and chipset drivers on windows. The only time I spent on that in Fedora was the time it took to figure out I didn’t need to do that.

Only parts that took a little digging was mounting my other partitions (I think because I misunderstood some setup during the install, but it ended up being no big deal) and finding the setting that enabled all games to be attempted to run with proton, since by default steam will only show games with official linux support as playable by default.

Also getting sound working the way I wanted it to was a bit of a hassle, though any of the workarounds I tried worked pretty quickly. I wanted to use the optical digital, but it wouldn’t at first, but sound did work from the analog port as well as plugging my soundbar in via USB. And even though I gave up on getting the digital to work at the time because I just wanted to play a game, when I later swung back to it, it just worked, so I’m guessing it was just broken because my motherboard was a new one and the software needed to be updated to properly support it.

Check out the behind the bastards episodes on Gates. Even his charity foundation is just another way to exert control.