Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they’ll be.

Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the “Department of Government Efficiency” comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.

Discord at least has community moderation tools. Xitter is just a town square where all the Neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists get louder megaphones than everyone else.

But the “my friends are there” is such a weak argument, imo. BlueSky exists. Spoutible exists. Mastodon exists. If they’re IRL friends, they can just regroup elsewhere. If they’re only online friends, you can make new ones pretty easily.

“My friends are there” is just a tacit admission that they don’t mind sharing space with Neo-nazis.

I know I can’t ever go back. I donate to my instance, and I actually feel good about it, because I know it’s not going into the pocket of some faceless corporation who’s beholden to its shareholders instead of its customers.

Hardly. The Fediverse spans multiple apps and services, and it existed before Elon bought Twitter and it will continue existing regardless of what the billionaires do, because it’s not run by just one person.

The whole point is decentralization, not growth, so unless the billionaires can take out every server hosting an instance, the Fediverse isn’t going anywhere.

Yeah, but you’re not a shitty billionaire who’s directly contributing to and accelerating the decline of humanity, so you get a pass.

You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

Anyway, get your passport now. They’re good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump’s circus.

But that’s not as exciting as promising to end something that’s barely happening in the first place.

People elected Trump to be entertaining, not for sensible governance.

My original comment said as much. No point repeating myself.

I think we’ll have midterms, but I’m less optimistic about 2028.

Based on their “assessment” of why they lost (specifically the politicians and DNC), I’m inclined to agree.

I hope there’s people on the left working to provide a populist candidate, because I haven’t seen anything even remotely suggesting that’s happening, and I don’t see how we can hope to fix shit without it.

You get the thing that represents all cyber truck owners: a lollipop, or as it’s also known—a “sucker.”

Conservatives will have a majority in all branches. Repealing or revising constitutional amendments isn’t out of the question, and there’s a lot of damage they can do before midterms (if there’s even a chance to vote in different people).

Tried the KDE version (KRDC, I think?), and it had trouble maintaining a connection. Furthermore, Remmina doesn’t care if the endpoint doesn’t want you to save username and password; it will do it anyway based on your preferences.

It’s simply superior.

I’ve “convinced” ChatGPT that it was both sentient and conscious in the span of about 10min, despite it having explicit checks in place to avoid those kinds of statements. It doesn’t mean I was correct, just that it’s a “dumb” computer that has no choice but to ultimately follow the logic presented in syllogisms.

These things don’'t know what they’re saying; they’re just putting coherent sentences together based on whatever algorithm guides that process. It’s not intelligent in that it is doing something novel, it’s just a decent facsimile to human information processing. It has no mechanism to determine the reasonability or consequences of what it generates.

The only thing that is a genuine problem with Linux as a whole is that a lot of apps and games just aren’t compatible, be they a less popular app who’s users rely on it or a really popular game that refuses to enable Linux compatibility in EAC.

To that I say: then pick a different program or way of doing things. I used to use a Mac over 15 years ago, and part of that experience is not being able to use certain programs that you can use on Windows and finding alternatives. Many companies have multiple versions, nowadays, but that wasn’t always the case, and it’s not uncommon to find programs that only work on one OS.

If your favorite game doesn’t work on Linux, there’s ways to solve that problem (e.g. dual boot, GPU passthrough to a VM), but 80% of games in ProtonDB are currently gold-rated or better without those measures. Many people miss the functionality of certain programs, so people create ones that do similar or even better things (Remmina is so much better than Remote Desktop Connection), or they can utilize web versions.

I get that there are occasions where you just can’t make something work, but I would say that for the majority of users, their “unsolvable needs” stem from credulity where they can’t imagine any other way than using “Program.exe.”

It’s up to us to help new users find those new ways to do things.

Okay. They fed Google’s Notebook AI a book called “The History of Philosophy Encyclopedia” and got the LLM to write a podcast about it where it “thinks” humans are useless.

Congratulations? Like, so what? It’s not like it’s a secret that its output depends on its input and training data. A “kill all humans” output is so common at this point, especially when you have a vested interest in trying to generate content, that it’s banal.

Color me unimpressed.

Old article, btw. This is from Sept 2024. I get that’s what he promised, and while I think he’s a complete asshat, let’s not discount that he and Trump said and will say anything to appear smart, capable, and as if they have a plan.

Time will tell if this actually comes to pass, but I’m not actually going to hold my breath for this one.

I would do further research, as this is based on my experience with VMs, but some ISOs refuse to boot when the VM is set to Secure Boot.

I wonder if that’s why you’re having trouble. I believe drive encryption and Secure Boot are separate protections (one being disk encryption and one being a way to assert system integrity). Trying to boot from a USB might be causing Secure Boot to freak out, since it’s not the system your BIOS expects.

My initial thought is that you should be able to use LUKS without Secure Boot, but please don’t take my word for it. Do further research. I am not an expert in this, just a passing enthusiast trying to help point you in a direction.

Her messaging still sucked.

It was this. I was really engaged this season. I was fully on board to support her, but towards the end, I had to remind myself why I was excited. I was already going to support her, and I had forgotten what made me excited more than once.

If that happened to me, a fervent supporter of what she represented, everybody else who was more lukewarm forgot completely. She was the candidate of change at the beginning and was Joe Biden 2.0 by the end.

If Dems don’t figure out how to capture excitement in their next attempts, if they can’t energize the young who are so naive they follow Instagram influencers without a second thought, they’re gonna keep losing to these terrible but charismatic Republicans.

The US elects a misogynistic fascist, and misogynists feel emboldened. Who could have seen this coming? I’m as surprised as y’all are—which is to say: not at all.

You seem to be under the impression that I’m obligated to take every claim and see if it’s backed up by evidence.

I’m not, and I don’t feel any compulsion to find out if Vaxry has made rational claims or not. That’s the beauty of using subjective reasoning; it’s not reasonable for anyone but the subject (me).

Be my guest and see if he’s justified. Tell other people. I stopped caring what he has to say here the minute I read that paragraph, and I choose not to hear him out any further either way.