Can we make a Conspiracy Shitpost comm and… just lock the door behind them?

Goddamn it.

You can have my upvote, but I don’t have to like it.

Mint is meant for beginners and folk who just want an OS, not a hobby.

Another to check out is ZorinOS. Same deal as Mint, but looks wise is closer to modern Windows and is also designed to make it very easy to run windows programs in Linux.

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Have my angry upvote. After I’ve shaken the dust out of my joints.

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I recently finished playing through Itorah, a side scrolling action platformer. It’s been on my list for a while. The game is beautiful, the story and art are influenced by Aztec, Incan and Mayan art and culture. There’s no voice acting, but each NPC feels different. There’s little backtracking, and in the areas you do travel a lot there’s usually a new path you can take through it.

I enjoyed my time with the game. The mechanics are fun and varied, and the boss fights are all different and challenging. My playtime was about 20 hours and I didn’t rush it. There are achievements for speed running the game too. I didn’t get all the achievements on my first play through, so there would be more to do for achievement hunters.

Look at this youngin, turning 18 in 2016. Enjoy your knees and shoulders while you can.

2009-2010, you hear about this “Bitcoin” thing for the first time. You remember some old fart telling you about it years ago, but you had no idea what they were talking about and assumed they had mental problems. You decide to download it and start mining it, it doesn’t hurt anything. It just uses your CPU to mine them. You let it run and quickly forget about it. Eventually, you get tired of it slowing your computer down. You have a few thousand coins by now, so you shut the miner down and put your wallet somewhere safe. Then you forget all about it, until about 2021…

Mine Bitcoin. Hold.

Do you really think that there won’t be multiple models even if the bubble bursts? The “best” models are from China and are open source. “We” don’t control China at all! So I don’t see this as likely.

There likely will be a few models remaining when the dust settles, but considering the sheer cost, scale, and power requirements of the data centers the current ones need, I could see one company buying up the rest when the bubble crashes. I don’t want this to get political, but the models coming from China are incentivized to follow the government’s policies regarding information control. They already answer certain questions with government sanctioned answers, or outright refuse to answer. I don’t see them remaining open source for long, and their datasets even less so.

What I DO have an issue with is Mozilla turning its users into training fodder for the AI companies - instead of just building that private AI they keep jawboning about.

This is a fair concern. I don’t use the AI chat bots, and I try to not use the AI answers that pop up with searches. And I refuse to use the generative AIs. But I’m a minority it seems. Thousands of people use these AIs everyday, many of them by choice. So the real question becomes, do we want them using browsers like OpenAI’s new browser, that will likely mine everything they do for their datasets? Or do we want a browser that can limit what these AIs can scrape up, like Firefox?

We’re losing the battle against AI. The amount of people using it keeps growing. Just look at the people using Grok to argue with each other on Twitter. Or the students getting ChatGPT to write their essays. We need to build alternatives that aren’t controlled by billionaires, massive corporations, and venture capitalists. But that’s going to take time. And until we get there, we should be mitigating the damage as best we can, by giving privacy-focused alternatives when using AI.

These aren’t great choices. But if I have to choose between them, I’d rather back Mozilla.

Why not both? (I know lots of folks will hate this take, but please hear me out.)

Because let’s be real: AI is not going away. Yes, we’re all waiting for the AI bubble to bust. And I really want it to, these companies are getting so terrible. But when it bursts, AI isn’t going to disappear. It will condense down to a few companies, or even just one. Do you want one company controlling all the AI out there? Controlling all the answers AI gives? Saying how you or others can use it?

Mozilla claims they want to develop responsible AI. They say they want to make their AI private, and work on-device. I believe we should be encouraging this, so that we don’t end up with control of AI in the hands of Google, Meta, or Musk.

We need alternatives, badly. Because AI is here to stay, no matter how much we hate it. This Pandora’s Box has already been opened, and things aren’t going back.

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Why are you trying to bypass a security feature of your bank? Because that’s obviously what this is, so that nothing shady can happen in the background without your knowledge. This post seems pretty suspicious to me.

Maybe your interests are completely innocent, but this kind of bypass can and likely has been used nefariously.

OP, please stop linking to your posts. Cross post the original. Doing this stops folks on other instances from interacting with the original post easily.

I didn’t see it suggested yet, but you should check out Selaco. It’s a fairly new FPS with tight gunplay and retro graphics. The enemies AI is well made, they will work together to hunt you and try to flank you. The weapons are a mix of standard fare with some new stuff, and you can modify them with upgrade packs similar to how Doom 2016 does it. The upgrades give each weapon a good variety for different play styles.

The first chapter is released and playable, and there are 2 more chapters coming. The first chapter has a good amount of gameplay, I put 35 hours in it.

I’ll read the Consumer Reports reviews and see what the comments say. Their rankings can give you an idea of the models to avoid at least. Even in the same brand, one model can be wildly different from another model simply due to who the real manufacturer was, or just the parts used.

Sometimes the reviews are detailed and thorough, but sometimes they only list the basics. Usually for the appliances they go in depth in my experience.

Brands like Frigidaire, Kenmore, and Whirlpool generally don’t manufacture anything anymore. They pay other companies to make the appliances and then slap their name on them. And you can guarantee they go with the lowest bidder.

I avoid all those brands now.

So what it sounds like, is if you’re working for a studio and they partner with NetEase, start looking for a new job. The layoffs are basically a certainty.

I want to thank you for this meme.

I’ve shared it with my girlfriend and friend group, so this may be the last comment I ever make.

I like to live dangerously. Hasn’t burned me ye-

Look into under desk cable management. You can get trays that screw into the bottom of your desk to run the cables neatly and most importantly off the floor where a kitty can get them.