Or so many of them died they can’t influence policy anymore.

This is one of those things no one talks about but should. This is what the morning after do8ng a bunch if cocaine is like every time.

Water, I think? I think the hydrogen is less of an issue than the hydrogen fuel cell though.

Only 10 more years to go!

War is diplomacy when all other means have failed. The same is true for revolution and resistance id say.

Violence isn’t the only resort. It’s the last one. And often unnecessary. Though not always.

Don’t you just love how with phones you don’t really have one?

Google is breaking their backs locking down Android tighter than a nun’s cooch, and generally enshitifyijg every garbage product they offer. Where’s my third fucking option?

Well played.

They don’t mean antisemitism.

They mean criticism of Israel.

The Jewish people I’ve known have been lovely, like, exceptionally so, and I’m sure that overall they’re no better or worse than any other large group of people.

Israel can go eat shit though.

99% of everything people create is a variation.

Truly innovative anything is RARE.

There’s just stuff and things people haven’t thought to combine with stuff yet.

But what does ja rule think?

Chatgpt is fucking retarded.

I blame proto indo Europeans

I think it applies to conservatives though.

I feel it’s justified because conservatism is a choice.

It’s the most stable distro I’ve used so far. Manjaro just seems like it’s a ticking time bomb just waiting for borked o’clock to come. I couldn’t get Nvidia drivers working on fedorat all. Ubuntu was just slow as ass. I don’t know why. But it was just fucked from junk street. I’ve given it a go a few times. Just slow wet ass. Kali is snappy and clean but not meant to be a daily driver. Not would I use it as one.

Mint works. It’s relatively snappy. I like the gui. It’s customizabe.

It also represents the first. Chance the common person has ever had to make their visions come to life.

If you look at art as an elitist tradition largely fuelled by the wealthy and supporting only a very, very small number of living artists, requiring a kind of professional leap of of faith that anyone who isn’t blood related to a wealthy person would be called stupid for making, then AI art doesn’t seem so scary anymore.

If everyone has the ability to create compelling images, audio, movies even, then we don’t need people to spend 4 years in art school and potentially the rest of their life breaking their backs trying to get someone else to notice their art, while contributing to society only as much as whatever job they’re forced to work while trying to make it contributes.

Few people who aren’t wealthy buy art. And most of the art they buy is from established artists. It’s an oppressive and classist status quo that were all worse off with, that will survive AI nonetheless as the rich place an even greater value on “authentic” art.

Who AI art is really going to hurt are the people who draw furries, sell prints at farmers markets of copyrighted characters, and create bland soulless corporate visual bullshit for a living. I guess that’s most artists, and yeah. It sucks for them, but stopping this train because Microsoft wants a photorealistic dog dick for their next logo ain’t happening.

I’ve tried Manjaro kde and mint kde and it’s been a dumpster fire both times. Then again gnome was also a dumpster fire on Manjaro. It honk I’m seeing the common thread there.

I want to love kde… why won’t it let me?Fuck gnome though.

Duck duck go is just bing and Google.

I pay $10/month for kagi. It’s really not where I want it to be but it’s the best game in town so far.

The fact that Google and bing are aggressively fucking search to death doesn’t help much.

My first 4 months or so with Linux sucked. I literally broke a keyboard once out of frustration. I often find myself wanting to scream “can you just fucking work for once?” More often than I’d care to admit.

I’ve been at it for about a year and a half and I’ve learned more about computing in that time than in the 30-odd years before. I’m starting to get the hang of bash, I’ve figured out the cause of, and fixed, problems without reading anything online (Google is fucking broken and it’s not getting better so it’s often not an option anymore anyway).

It can be hard. And frustrating. But it’s freeing to realize just how fucking stupid Microsoft made me. And the privacy issues always bothered me (in the process of degoogling ATM) but they bother me more now than they ever did. It’s fucking gross. And it’s appalling that companies collect what they do.

Point being your criticisms are all valid but if windows is a Honda Civic then Linux is a rusted out Porsche in the backyard. It’s going to take some effort to get it where you want it but when you do baby it’ll purr.

I won free airline tickets once and was shocked and appalled when they said I COULDNT use them to go to the moon. I fought long and hard for the right to use those tickets the way I wanted but alas.

I’m not sure if this applies where you are but since covid it is HARD to talk to people irl. I’m chatty and will strike up conversations everywhere I go. Before covid most people engaged. Since they look at me like I’m grow>ng a second head. Dating apps have always worked well for me though. Damn well.