What a lot of people fail to realize is that the whole industry is based on selling a fantasy. It’s no different then getting the girl friend experience from a prostitute. I don’t think there’s a meaningful difference between a real person and an AI in these industries.

IMO it’s only a problem when the customer doesn’t understand that they’re buying an illusion.

All of my issues have been due to the immutable distro since I can’t follow most instructions on installing apps and I don’t want to just shove everything in a distrobox.

I still like it but it definitely takes some getting used to.

Bazzite is what I went with when I decided to ditch Windows and was surprised at how well it worked. The atomic nature of the distro takes some getting used to but for gaming it’s been perfect.

He owns half the company so I’m not sure if he can be ousted.

I don’t think he can be removed. Mullvad is 100% owned by its two co-founders.

I have a number of indoor grow systems that have LED lights on a timer. I guess now I need to start worrying about the police raiding my house to seize my crop of lettuce and tomatoes.

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I’m not very familiar with LLMs. How do you install a local copy?

I was working part time as a software developer while a grad student and was assigned under a full time employee. We were the only ones working on that project. I came back after the Christmas break to be informed I was the new project lead because the full time employee i was working under got fired after he sexually assaulted one of the female employees after getting drunk at the company Christmas party.

I decided to go with an immutable distro for my first Linux gaming PC because immutable distros are as idiot proof as you can get. I like that I can’t really mess anything up and if something does break, I can rollback to a previous version. I’m sure there are ways to setup rollback for other distros but I’m not a Linux person so I don’t really know what I’m doing and letting Bazzite handle everything for me made it a perfect fit.

Everything has been smooth sailing with Bazzite so far.

Large corporations would be able to afford to make deals with ISPs to give them preferential treatment so that access to their sites are faster than others. This is good for social media sites whose whole business model is monetizing their users. Things like the Fediverse would be hit especially hard because of its distributed nature.

ISPs can offer further tiers of plans making it more expensive to access websites that don’t belong to major corporations bribing the ISPs. All the corporations win in this scheme while furthering the enshittification of the Internet.

Want to use Linux? Accessing those sites is difficult and expensive so why not use Windows instead

Want to use Mastodon? Sorry but that sites super slow so how about Twitter instead.

Want to use end to end encrypted email? Too bad. The connection their servers are super spotty. Better use Gmail or Yahoo for email like everyone else.

The bad sites are likely the ones to not require a fee to access. It would be smaller sites and the Fediverse that would become more difficult and expensive to access.

Why pay to access Mastodon or Lemmy when you can use Twitter and Reddit for “free”. It’s a scheme that would benefit large corporations over smaller independent services.

I read your comment while a streamer just said the exact same thing. No politics on his stream because entertainment is to relax and not get stressed out.

Win 11 is the reason I finally decided to switch. My work gave us all Win 11 machines and I hate it.

Fortunately I don’t do too much on my computer besides gaming so Steam can do all the heavy lifting for me

I built a new gaming PC and installed Linux on it. After years of threatening to do it, I finally followed through and made the switch.

Isn’t that essentially the plot to The Langoliers?

How about they publicly warn about it as well as follow up with some criminal charges. We have systems in place to stop all of this but it requires the officials to grow a spine and actually use them.

This is way too real. Vance was already suggesting parents should get extra votes for their underage children; they don’t need any extra ideas.

The app I use to browse Lemmy doesn’t show banners so I never noticed but once I pulled it up in browser I agree 100%. That’s a really bad banner.

I didn’t realize beating a cop to death was considered a minor incident.