Probably “dumb” in the sense it doesm’t actively spy on you. Which is a god-awful definition of dumb.

Personally, I’d go with non-malicious, shortened to non-mal which basically loops back to “normal”.

There is/was a new Windows 10 Control panel? I thought that was just the Settings app.

A single boomer could do that. However, as @rockSlayer@lemmy.world points out, that priviledge was reserved for white male boomers.

Yeah.

The 30 cm is ubiquitous for officework or drawing, while this is for tiling floors, doing plumbing, measuring walls, roofs, etc. etc… There are also those retractable coils (usually 2 or 5m), but they tend to break easily and collapse under their own weight, so they’re not as useful for some things.

I can find one like this in basically any hardware store with few exceptions (Austria). They’re almost exclusively 2m in length (I literally haven’t seen a longer or shorter one ever in my life)

Also, a meter stick sounds workable, but borderline impractical.

Yup. There are like 3 types of rulers: normal (a stick), foldable (this) and those retractable metallic strips.

Sticks are usually either 15 or 30 cm, while the foldables are literally always 2m.

The coils are the most ubiquitous, but I orefer the foldavles for most things since they tend to fall undet their own weight when measuring longer distances. These sre either 2 or 5 m I think.

Sorry for being pedantic, but those foldable work rulers are exactly 2 m long (at least in MetricLandia), which is, incidentally, the span of IQ values (0-200).

So yeah, it literally can be mapped one-to-one to a (common type of) ruler.

I got my lenses for a realistic amount (~8€), but the frames are (were) expensive af. That’s mostly on Luxottica (and the state not reigning her in).

Although, that was years ago, way before “covid-induced” inflation, and the healthcare system is being dismantled bit-by-bit for a very long time, so I don’t doubt lenses got at least 3-5x more expensive in the meantime.

When your job suddenly rolls out G-Workspace or Office Online without you knowing and you come to work to a Google account with all your personal data, already out of your control, is it really a choice?

Have a job or your data. The stakes are becoming increasingly high.

“If it’s useful, just use them” is an option, in some circumstances. In some, unfortunately, that doesn’t apply. Is keeping your job a “convenience”?

Don’t mean to attack you personally, just want to share my thoughts on the level erosion of privacy to Big Tech.

Ah, the third option.

Is that Motorola’s EULA or buying throug a carrier?

Cloased source does for privacy and security what sweeping problems under the rug does: it mitigates them, a bit, but then when they inevitably do hit, they hit hard.

About that. I heard somewhere wordpress.com and wordpress.org are seperste entities, one for-profit and the other not, but Wikipedia doesn’t mention why they share the same name.

Meh. CTU means stuff comes into e.g. Rotterdam and then easily wherever it needs to go from there, and complaining about “evading sanctions” seems to me like an exercise in futility.

About the Ribbon: Apparently M$ has a patent (or multiple ones on) it, so they ultimately have the last say on what is and isn’t allowed. They did make a licence availiable royalty-free, but I assume that that licence didn’t cover enough of what LibreOffice needed, so they probably struck a deal with M$ about having the option, just not as the default.

I haven’t researched this all that much, so mostly speculation. Although the M$ having a patent part of someting so true. And that patent (apparently) explicitly states that use in directly competing software with M$'s is forbidden, at least for-profit.

Idk, maybe it’s a case of patent restrictions, or LibreOffice being LibreOffice.

Honestly, a really interesting rabbit-hole.

AFAIK At least one user of the other instance has to be subscribed to the community in order for the community to be “synced” with the other instance (for lack of a better word).

God, that seems horrible.

I don’t get taxes on index funds themselves - you don’t “own” anything - it’s basically a savings account that (in general) actually gives you something other than bajillions of a cent.

And there’s no sense in taxing you on what you already own (what you paid in). Especially on pension funds. Selling stock directly is a different matter, but that is done by the fund. They shouldn’t be passing this down onto you, nor should the government double-tax. Why don’t casinos charge capital gains when you cash out? Or stores charge you for gift cards?

And then there is the whole banking apparatus: I can use stocks as security against cheap loans, use the loaned money for consumption and then lower my capital gains tax by calculating those loans against my gains. Remove that loophole and suddenly a pensioner can’t pay for their running costs anymore

I lost you here. How would taxing capital gains affect pensions? Surely a carveout can be made. There’s a difference between (in most countries) mandatory pension plans, index funds and $200k in stocks in the hands of one individual. It’s not as if these are indistinguishable.

Personal note and speculation: often I read people taking about a system that is designed against group X.

A system doesn’t need to be purpusefully designed against a group for it to cause carm against the group. And the system can be mended and modeled to lower the discrimination caused (or to create positive discrimination).

All of that lead down a rabbit hole of “but can’t we just” for me

You do have a point. But, the current system isn’t here from “time immemorial”. Things change, and they do so fast. Some change is inevitable. And the key to making sure “can we just” doesn’t happen is active participation in the discourse.

Thank you for the correction!

The english word “free” actually carries two meanings: “free as in free food” (gratis) and “free as in free speech” (libre).

Ollama is both gratis and libre.

And about the money stuff: Ollama used to be Facebook’s proprietary model, an answer to ChatGPT and Bing Chat/Copilot. Facebook lagged behind the other players and they just said “fuck it, we’re going open-source”. That’s how and why it’s free.

Due to it being open-source, even though models are by design binary blobs, the code that interacts with them and runs them is open-source. If they were connecting to the Internet and phoning home to Facebook, chances are this would’ve been found out by the community due to the open nature of the project.

Even if it weren’t open-source, since it runs locally you could at least block (or view) Internet access.

Basically, even though this is from Facebook, one of the big bads of privacy on the Internet, it’s all good in the end.

Sometimes, refilling an empty cup with coffee is a good fix