MonkeMischief
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- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
“Tank division here! We’ve fired everything we’ve got at the lava!..Now what?”
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
With style!
- Comment on The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" 4 weeks ago:
EXACTLY. High-five!
That’s what I worry about. Right now we can ignore social media somewhat, but if Ai gets wedged into contracts with government/infrastructure and other unavoidable daily life, I imagine that’s where a plausible threat could come from.
I’ve no doubt such things are already in the works. Ai controlled traffic lights or something, for instance. Obviously the military and law enforcement are already giddy about it, of course.
Giving a stupid machine a seemingly simple goal to pursue and the wrong set of keys could lead to disasterous consequences, I think. We also have the whole “Do Ai cars protect the driver or all human life even if it risks the driver?” Debate.
“But it’s trendy, it’s the future! And there’s so much venture capital involved, how lucrative!”
I don’t see it some day “waking up” and thinking “I feel like humans are unnecessary.” It’s scarier than that…it will see us as just another variable to control and “maximize” us out of the picture.
- Comment on The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" 4 weeks ago:
I don’t forsee it becoming “sentient” so much as “Being given a stupid amount of access and resources to figure out a problem by itself, and stupidly pursuing the maximization of that goal with zero context.”
There’s that darkly humorous hypothetical that an Ai tasked with maximizing making paperclips would continue to do so, using every resource it could get a hold of, and destroying any threat to further paperclip production!
So that, with data center expansion and water. Lol
See “paperclip maximizer” under “hypothetical examples” Here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 4 weeks ago:
I’m personally thinking of just plugging a decently capable little media PC into the display, using KDE’s “big screen” interface with KDE Connect as a remote. I’m pretty sure I could train my family on that…
Roku is so scummy.
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- Comment on What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) 4 weeks ago:
That’s the 1984 version, perhaps.
I’d posit the Brave New World version is
“It keeps buzzing your brain into doing your stupid task until the 30 hour shift is up, but don’t worry, you get sweet dopamine hits and painkillers the whole time and aren’t sure why this is so enjoyable! The pleasure-task curve is perfectly computed. You’re not even sure how long it’s been. There’s a momentary sadness when you witness a fellow worker just convulse and drop like a sack of rocks. This work feels so important though! You can understand their dedication.”
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 4 weeks ago:
I still love the concept of floppy diskettes. Sure, some of this is nostalgia, but what if you had something like super fast solid state memory encased in a nice solid shell like that? Sure, sure, like a USB drive…but the contacts could be protected with the little slidy-shield bit and nobody could accidentally snag the USB sticking out and damage it and the port.
I think I just really miss the “kaCHUNK” of inserting physical solid media, and flipping through stacks of them…maybe not so much the capacity or read speeds :)
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Also catalog filtering. I wish GoG had a search filter half as good as Steam’s!
- Comment on My take on selfhosted photo management 1 month ago:
Hey there, a little late to the party maybe but I think you might wanna consider Nextcloud Memories!
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories
I’m not AS big on the rest of Nextcloud (but NC is really cool), but Memories alone makes it worth it. I haven’t messed with making albums a whole lot yet, but basically it works a lot like Immich, except I’m pretty sure it respects folders and uses the directory.
Also has an app to auto-upload. I use Tailscale to connect my phone safely to my network, and it uploads when I plug it in to charge.
- Comment on Please Stop 1 month ago:
The independent currency was still worth standard currency… So the ones already hoarding all of that existing make-believe-number money just bought up and schemed us out of new make-believe-number money.
How did we not see this coming? :(
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 2 months ago:
Ok Honda, you see it right? 2025 Honda Element would absolutely dust this trash.
Clearly there’s been a market segment since 2011 that still wants it so c’mon.
This cybertruck feels like it would be such visual pollution on campgrounds and stuff.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
I know it’s probably a case of “who asked”
No, no. You’re welcome here too and your experience is really helpful to share, and also helps to dispell this idea that all Linux users are basement geeks pushing a software cult LOL.
I’m the same way, right there with you. I loved classic Windows for decades. My real last straw was when I was helping my sister with a reinstall and discovered firsthand how pushy they were being with forcing a Microsoft Account.
“Oh no problem, you just have to disable WiFi completely via the switch, otherwise it’ll complain that you need an internet connection, so then you need to try three times unsuccessfully on purpose and THEN it’ll let you make a local account.”
“Ok they don’t do that anymore, now you need to use a keyboard shortcut to open a CMD prompt, disable a service…”
It’s completely blunt anymore how Microsoft feels about customers: They think we’re stupid cattle they’ve been raising since the 90’s to “click OK” and make accounts for anything they want. I wish they weren’t so right…
Since then, I found terminal stuff to actually be fun and at least Linux feels like it’s MY machine, not like I paid $100+ for a license key to rent their software that always begs me for more and rats on me at every turn.
But yeah, “just switch” isn’t helping anyone. We need to guide and support more people into it
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
…that can barely mark up a pdf.
This seems to suggest they can download, locate, possibly extract, and then open one.
I’m genuinely awe struck. Yours are practically self-reliant compared to ours! :(
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
This. This is the nuanced intelligent discussion points we need to be talking about. Thanks for writing all this up.
It’s infuriating, but in the end, business tends to feed into and be run by other business. Microsoft is business. Their software is business.
Business is a slow lumbering behemoth that does funny things like base mission-critical operations on a Windows95 machine because decades ago they committed to the tar-pit of a now-dead vendor, and nothing else can read those files. (I’m told this happens in science fields all the time)
I mean hey, OS/2 and COBOL are still in use, connected using parallel ports. In 2024. People don’t understand how change-averse businesses are! Lol
We’re also up against particularly targeted campaigns from tech giants since the beginning, to put their proprietary software in schools and taught in universities to eventually cement themselves in perpetuity, no matter how crappy they get, as “industry standard.”
Thankfully Linux is really big in server world already, but I hope in the future more organizations will be able to take more control over their own infrastructure. I understand why it’s not feasible to “just switch” yet.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
Don’t worry it’s getting better, especially since all the attention Steam Deck is getting.
Sorry it didn’t go well the first time. The community is super friendly though, when you’re ready to try again. :)
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
I mean “Just fix Microsoft and change its direction to be less consistently hostile and disrespectful of users” is a solution…
“Put an end to the data and attention harvesting economy” is another.
…but…switching OSs was easier for me personally, until we figure out how to wrangle a tech behemoth or fix underlying problems with human civilization.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
I think the problem here is that a majority of the power to change lies in Microsoft’s hands. It’s their OS, and there’s not a whole ton we can do to halt their constant, greedy arrogance.
So, switching to Linux isn’t the easiest “solve all your problems” solution, but in the long run it simply removes a lot of stress of constantly wondering what stupidity Microsoft is going to force on you next because they “know better” and figuring out how to counter it with some hacky fix. (But also knowing no matter how hard you try, the thing is built to profit off of you.)
If somehow we could make Windows feel like it was OURS instead of THEIRS again, I’m sure people would be all for it.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
If it helps, I’ve been running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my main 3D/gamedev production rig for a while. Yes, using NVIDIA too!
It’s a “rolling release”, so it’s cutting edge with supported hardware and all the software updates. It’s surprisingly stable because of the automated testing they run through.
I’ve had bad updates before, BUT, if you install your system using the BTRFS file system (default), you get something called Snapper that works similar to “Windows System Restore”. You can just roll back to a previous snapshot and either re-update or wait until things are more stable.
Nvidia has proprietary drivers for OpenSUSE as well, and since I’ve used those, I haven’t had very many problems.
The biggest issue I have is that my machine has trouble waking from suspend. It’s a tricky one to nail down, from what I understand.
Multiple monitors with different refresh rates is iffy, but I disabled “Kscreen” and have had no problems. (Don’t worry about this but wanted to mention it just in case)
KDE is pretty neat and I felt at home coming from Win10. Now I only dual boot into Win10 for occasional games. I’m not touching Win11 at all, so I’ll migrate my games over once 10 is no longer viable to hang on to.
Lastly, the community is really helpful and kind. They’ve helped me out a lot and I’ve learned a ton. Maybe I’m a nerd but I found “computing” to be a lot more fun on Linux. The biggest hazard being getting distracted cozying up your computer instead of whatever you signed on to do.
Sorry for the long post, but hope you might find it useful. :)
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 2 months ago:
I think it’s one of those things that just becomes mentally invisible after a while. Like Microsoft slowly just drops in a new bar here, a stock ticker there, and there’s a point where a majority of folks are like “…Was that always there?” and don’t bother hunting for a way to turn it off like we do lol.
- Comment on fat time 2 months ago:
I read this in JaboodyDubs’ voice
- Comment on Fact 2 months ago:
“Hmmm, Elmo wants to know why people pay most of their piggy banks for in case they get sick, but still have to pay their entire piggy bank when they do get sick.”
- Comment on Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. 2 months ago:
Very clever subversive organic marketing you’re doing there!
Jk lol
- Comment on "Suggested" Facebook Disinfo (Moon Landing Hoax Page) 2 months ago:
I logged into FB via TOR and every other post was pushing thot-fans pages at me. Crazy absurd they’ll allow pushing anything. Such a dumpster fire website.
- Comment on 'The economy is different now': Parents pay grown-up kids' bills with retirement savings 2 months ago:
The optimist in me says maybe it’s time for a trend of extended family solidarity rather than the typical “You’re 18 get out of my house!” Thing.
I imagine the corporate angst is because families are staying together and sharing, and not all buying things separately, which irks their bets on forever-hyper-individualism.
Subsequent generations can even be raised by their grandparents and maybe even aunts and uncles instead of complete strangers. There goes pricy childcare.
Kids can take care of their aging parents. There goes expensive (and often abusive) elder care.
More people to take turns with upkeep, contribute to bills, pay the rent, maybe even work less!
The trick is getting along with your families, but this can work.
I’m super aware that there’s gonna be a ton of people who are like “You don’t know me, man. My family is terrible man. They’re all psychos, man. Totally nuts.”
Only you know your situation, but my point is that the stigma against living with family is capital propaganda, so if you can or must, why not?
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
It’s just annoying to get around.
This right here is exactly why I jumped ship. Linux questions tend to be “How do I do this?” and ya learn something.
Microsoft questions tend to be: “Windows is trying to force some new commercially motivated shenanigans on me when I’m just trying to use the OS I already paid them for, how many clever steps must I take to work around their unending, ever-evolving nonsense… Until they pull something else with the next update?”
The complete obfuscation of making local accounts and pushing M$ accounts was infuriating.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
(ducks)
Penguins. :D
- Comment on hunter2 [bash.org] 2 months ago:
One of my absolute favorite features of the game “Hacknet” was finding these logs in various filesystems you hack into. Such a nice touch.
I made it a personal mission to copy them to myself before exiting the target. I distinctly remember the one about “duck stand-up comedy” too lol.
Keep calm and wipe the logs. :)
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 2 months ago:
I agree with your stance on policy, but honest question here:
I hear lots of theories that the ownership class are trying to limit reproduction of the classes below them.
Why though? Don’t they want a huge population of desperate workers that keep fueling their profits and keeping their well-manicured hands from doing any real work?
I dunno, I wonder sometimes if we apply Hanlon’s Razor and it really is an extreme example of incredibly shortsighted capitalist stupidity: “Yeah we’re running out of workers but that’s not a problem THIS quarter…”
- Comment on I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software 2 months ago:
LOL good point about just not releasing Ctrl.
The chances are non-zero that somebody out there attempts to release and press ctrl+s at the exact same time over and over like they’re hammering out Beethoven’s 5th. XD