I find them quite useful, in some circumstances. I once went from very little Haskell knowledge to knowing how to use cabal, talk to a database and build a REST API with the help of an AI (I’ve done analogous things in Java before, but never in Haskell). This is my favourite example and for this kind of introduction I think it’s very good. And maybe half of the time it’s at least able to poke me in the right direction for new problems.

Copilot-like AI which just produces auto-complete is very useful to me, often writing exactly what I want to do for some repetitive tasks. Testing in particular. Just take everything it outputs with great scepticism and it’s pretty useful.

The same goes for cooking, making coffee and a LOT of other things you do at home. It raises the market value because it’s a chore some people want others to do for them.

Being absolutely sure about everything.

Didn’t know this guy before but it really doesn’t matter if he was literally Hitler and decides to start using Linux. It’s an operating system not a club, it really makes no difference. Maybe slightly more moderation for people on linux communities on mainstream platforms (e.g. reddit).

‘artists’ (usually rich)

I know think you’re trolling, but…

I prefer the old one, but it’s really not much of a difference. New one looks a bit cheaper, like something you’d see on piracy sites or something.

Also just realised Jellyfin basically has the old YouTube design. Don’t know if YT was first with it, but if so it was pretty influential, think it’s quite common in many players.

Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.

For me last phone I thought: “I’ve never dropped a phone so the glass or screen protector broke, and I don’t care about scratches. Why bother? It’s much nicer and thinner without.”

Guess what, I dropped it on some gravel week #2 of having it. It still lived a long life, but with a very ugly crack in the bottom right corner. Lesson learned.

Plastic screen protectors suck though, you’re right. Wouldn’t get one that’s not glass.

They are powerful centers of healing though…

What’s the problem exactly? There are many ways to do it, and I think saying you run apt-get update is quite fine even if you’re not explicitly saying that you run it as root. And he may not have flatpaks.

TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.

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This OS isn’t made by the EU, but it’s goal is to become sponsored by them:

Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

Personally I don’t see why EU wouldn’t just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it’s a good system as far as I know and it’s home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?

Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting…

Otoh, I really don’t want to learn chinese, meh

It’s unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you’re likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.

Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There’s no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you’re done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.

If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage? The angle here is weird.

Penicillin / antibiotics comes to mind. As well as vaccines. “Oh you’re body is being taken over by millions of microscopic organisms? Take this pill and it will go away. Maybe take this shot too so it won’t happen in the first place.”

And of course computers + the internet were a pretty big boom too.

I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.

(but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.