Nice try, Mr AI.

You don’t have to be 1337 to install arch, but you do need to be pretty 1337 to keep it running. I use arch btw, but I also use Mint because I don’t always have time for Arch’s shit.

Oh my god. Do people really live like this? I’m going to be sick…

Finally, some sense.

5 TABLESPOONS of butter? Jesus. That looks awful.

Back up as much of hugging face and/or civitai as you can before corporations lock it all down.

Not at work. Certainly not.

No it’s not. It’s very relevant - it’s the reason I’ve never recommended the software to anyone outside of close friends.

outside US and UK (and few others)

If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.

Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.

It’s not just awkward for Americans, but for the entire English speaking world - at least 470 million people. How can anyone seriously recommend a business use a program called GIMP? It is a massive hurdle to adoption in the corporate world. They should change the name, or at least create a business-oriented alias.

Agreed. XML has been dead for at least 10 years. Still, at least it’s not YAML.

To be fair, Photoshop peaked about 10 years ago and has been steadily getting worse. It’s only a matter of time before they’re neck and neck.

This was very well put. Thank you.

Lidar. China uses this to track aerosol and carbon dioxide distribution in the atmosphere. Likely some similar US-based scientific monitoring. Almost certainly not Elon - he hasn’t tweeted about it and there’s no X branding.

Linux user for 25+ years here. I’ve tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.

Dust off your VPNs folks, you can still browse old.reddit from a Hong Kong endpoint.

(I probably shouldn’t have mentioned this)

Yes, because the one thing we really need is more heat on earth.

The number of times that signing an online petition has prevented the plans of an evil corporation is exactly zero.

This already exists as ‘Mixture Of Experts’ (MOE) models. It’s how Deepseek is able to remain competitive with a fraction of the budget.

Firefox, or its fork Librewolf if you really value privacy.