I love this take. It reminds me of like that picture of a guy in a hoodie and sunglasses from the early 20th century, or when an older show or movie has a line that seems to refer to the name of something that hadn’t been invented at the time, but it’s actually referring to something else.

Or like when they fix time travel paradox in a story by faking an ‘inescapable’ event.

It’s perfect.

I spent like half my time on Lemmy today just blocking bot accounts, bot communities, and chuds. The all feed looks about as bad as Reddit did now.

That didn’t take long.

Out here desperately hoping that the fake leftists propping up Trump are mostly Russian trolls or just a pocket of internet children. I think actual real life people on the left in the US largely get how dangerous this could be.

I was on meds when I was a kid and I was not the dog. I was a shaky, confused, mentally unstable, paranoid wreck. The urgency on everything was cranked up to 11 and I still had no autonomy. It was baaaaad.

We spent the five years training the model. Manually. With Captcha data.

Now we’re teaching it not to run traffic signals, hit motorcycles or busses, or try to drive up stairs.

Not if we’re in the same car.

Ew, no. Go away.

A good number of them seem to be trying to import reddit into Lemmy wholesale.

When we’re driving typically left means left.

That’s not just reading comprehension. People are always answering my questions with unapplicable answers.

“Is it on the left or the right?”

“It’s 67, the one with grass in the yard.”

Just answer the damn question rather than providing me other information you decide would be more helpful!

I’ve been running a githyanki monk wizard and I love it. I can use medium armor and swords. I’m playing it as like a secret Zerth convert. It’s a better gish then eldritch knight or arcane trickster.

By 2130, knowyourmeme.com is the world’s most accurate and well-vetted repository of general knowledge.

I’ve begun blocking their communities in my accounts and I plan to defederate from them when i get home. Fuck em. Place is infested with exploding heads anyway.

Literally money. More specifically, the financial need under a capitalist system for businesses to constantly grow and increase profits, and to focus on shareholder profits over making a good product. Most businesses on any sort of large scale today aren’t in it to do a good job at making whatever it is they make, they’re in it to make money. Their actual ‘business’ is just an incidental stop on the way to making more money.

You see this literally everywhere. Remember Odwalla? They made these great, super-thick bottled smoothy-like juices. Easily the healthiest thing you could find to drink in most of the places they were sold. Then Coca-Cola bought them out, changed the name to Naked Juice, and watered them all down. What we have now, as a result, is a pale imitation of what we once had.

Why? Because Odwalla was profitable, so it was profitable for Coca-cola to buy up a competitor for shelf space. But once they were bought up, there’s no incentive to deliver the same quality of product. They have no remaining competition, so they can release a shittier version and we’ll basically just suck it up because it’s still healthier than soda.

Our reward for worshiping currency is for everything ever made out of love of a craft or an art to be exploited and turned into a shittier version of itself.

The solution, to my reckoning, is to start making things you love because you love to make them and to refuse to sell out when they come knocking.

You had to manually configure your IP on the PC’s end. In practice it just meant you had to hit a button to connect to your network when you boot up. Considering that like a decade earlier we were all on dialup it didn’t feel that weird at the time.

I was also getting my internet via cantenna back then, so DHCP was the least of my worries!

Lick it.

Ehh, I would take those Proton ratings with a grain of salt. I’ve definitely run into issues trying to run stuff that’s supposed to be silver or gold. But again it all comes down to what your specific use case is. Hardware, software, peripherals, and goals and preferences.

To be fair, someone with a more basic grasp of computers probably has fewer use cases that Linux will give you trouble with. I installed PuppyLinux on some ancient machine for someone I was renting from in like '08 and it was fine for her, but that’s because all she ever did was look at YouTube and check her email. It didn’t have any of the features of modern Ubuntu and the UI was clunky; if memory serves it didn’t even have DHCP.

It worked fine for basic browsing, but if you tried to do anything more complex, you’d better be ready to learn a thing or two.

Today it’s still pretty similar. Ubuntu and GNU at large have come a long way in the past couple of decades, but you still start running into issues when you get to more niche use cases.

I’d probably be running Ubuntu as my daily if Solaar worked properly with my MX Ergo, but it doesn’t, so I can’t. I guess I could go learn how to make contributions to patch that myself, and I may at some point, but at the moment I have stuff to get done and dealing with an unexpected hiccup in my workflow too often brings everything to a grinding halt.

The hard part is happening to only own hardware that has software supporting it that isn’t out of date. That and a lot of gaming.

They’re honestly doing you a favor. Grammarly is terrible. I’ve seen some of my friends whose first language isn’t English use it to try to clean their grammar up and it makes some really weird, often totally mistaken choices. Usually they would have been better off leaving it as they wrote it.