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- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 2 days ago:
None, but I’m asexual/aromantic, so…
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
Fair enough. Personally my hardware isn’t that new; the GPU is 3-4 years old at this point, the rest of the PC is ~5 years old so you would think even the latest LTS which is only a year or two old would support it. shrug
But yeah I’m liking nobara’s rapid update cycle so far, though I haven’t tried to change GPU drivers with it yet, so I suppose I will reserve a tiny amount of judgement until I have to do that. ;)
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
Hm, yeah that is definitely a weird thing to do, I’m using nobara (fedora) and it has the app center for snap and flatpost for flatpaks plus dnf for the package manager.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
Why is that? What’s the problem with ubuntu? I mean ubuntu-based distros seem to hate my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for some reason, but besides that. I’m pretty happy with nobara tho, and wouldn’t switch back to ubuntu even if I knew it’d work with my GPU.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
It was definitely a Ubuntu thing - Pop, 2 version of Ubuntu, and Mint all failed at various points when dealing with GPU drivers, but I’m using closed-source nvidia drivers on the same GPU in Nobara (Fedora) without issue. Though I guess I haven’t tried updating it yet, but all my hardware accelerated games work as they should.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
The problem is that Microsoft is ending Win10 support so you won’t be able to get updates and such (especially security updates) for the OS anymore which will ultimately lead to things breaking or being vulnerable anyway. Microsoft wants you to change OS, you should change OS, but you don’t have to change to Win11.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
I thought so too, largely on the basis of some very bad experiences with ubuntu-based distributions (they seem to hate my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for whatever reason), but in frustration I tried one last time to install a linux distro and went with something based on fedora and it has 95% just worked, it’s been great. I haven’t booted up windows in almost 3 weeks, all my games work (battle.net was a bit of a pain to get working), the proprietary windows software I use for work runs great in wine, etc. I’m at the point now where I’m transferring all my files off of NTFS partitions and reformatting them to btrfs and integrating them into the linux filesystem, cause I’m done with windows forever to the greatest possible extent that I can be.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 4 days ago:
Don’t buy microwave popcorn. You can buy popcorn kernels that you can just pop in a covered skillet with some oil.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 4 days ago:
I used to live in New Mexico for a while and there was a common joke: how do you tell if someone is a native New Mexican? They keep a fire extinguisher in the bathroom.
It’s not so much that you taste it on the way out, it’s that there’s undigested capsaicin that burns, uh, other mucus membranes on the way out. Fortunately not something that bothers me much either, but I get hints of it sometimes when my niece makes what I call her nuclear fire curry.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 days ago:
I don’t like drinking water. Obviously I can and do, but even then only filtered water with ice. But my main complaint is that it has no flavor, it’s not very satisfying. Maybe it’s because I was raised on soda, but I like something a little sweet and with a little flavor, so I drink slightly-sweetened iced tea.
- Comment on Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast 5 days ago:
Do your think he knows? I think folks like him just get podcast invites and do minimal research on the host.
- Comment on Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast 5 days ago:
This seems rather alarmist, especially the youtube part. I’ve watched a few full length episodes and don’t have any of that shit in my recommended videos.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s like anything else, it will take time to get comfortable with it. During that period you should probably focus on getting practice in out-of-the-way places where you’re less likely to be overwhelmed or distracted and can potentially cause problems. As someone who has never been able to drive and lives in country whose general opinion of public transportation is ‘Hahaha no’, not being able to drive can suck pretty bad. I’m always relying on others, beholden to their schedules, their bad planning, their poor time-management skills, etc, and the only alternative is taking a cab which gets expensive quick. Being able to drive, even if you don’t do it a lot, is a valuable skill and something you will get more comfortable with the more you do (and doing it regularly is key to build that familiarity and level of confidence.)
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 5 days ago:
I’m 52, I remember when websites were little more than ‘Oh I guess we have to have an internet presence, so here’s a website that’s nothing more than an ad for our TV show, book, movie, etc.’
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 5 days ago:
Or paywalling literally everything so there’s basically no easily-accessible content on the web anymore. But yeah I’ve been adding ‘reddit’ to most of my searches for years so I can get answers from actual people instead of full-page articles filled with AI-generated bullshit I don’t care about, so that’s a fair point.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 6 days ago:
Because China’s assertions about Taiwan carry considerably more weight than the DPRK because China has a lot more economic and military power to lean on people with.
- Comment on YSK: You can continue to access subscription services (even trials) after cancelation until the next billing cycle 6 days ago:
There are exceptions, but yeah the pro move is to immediately unsub as soon as you sub if you’re not planning to stick around.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank 6 days ago:
Goldman Sachs wants everyone to use AI, just not against them. C’mon guys it’s no fair! :P
- Comment on The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More 6 days ago:
Couple things…
The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.
I’ve been a nerd since the 80s and I’ll have you know I’m a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.
Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.
That’s not patriotism, that’s oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 6 days ago:
What do you imagine ‘destroying the web’ looks like if not killing off huge swaths of websites that relied on traffic/ads to sustain themselves? Do you imagine a man has to bleed all the way out before we can say he’s going to die, or is it sufficient to look at the severity of the wound to critical systems in his body and determine that he is probably going to die?
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 6 days ago:
Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn’t discover uBO til later.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 6 days ago:
But the point is that significantly lower traffic will kill the business model of many websites, and thus kill many websites.
- Comment on Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs. 6 days ago:
Oh no, China is stealing your data! Wait, America is also stealing your data and you don’t care? Hmm.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 6 days ago:
Yeah, it could be, but these guys aren’t looking to replace human workers with a robust, well-trained, and properly-deployed AI, they’re looking to slash and burn their labor costs with whatever they think will squeak by.
I’ve used Amazon’s AI live chat bots a fair bit over the years and I have to say they’re actually pretty good. 90% of the time they can resolve the issue themselves (at least in my experience) and faster than it would take to connect to a person. But most people don’t have Amazon’s budget or customer service-oriented business model.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 6 days ago:
Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 6 days ago:
My nephew has a Pixel Fold and it’s kinda neat and all, but he barely uses the unfold feature cause he just doesn’t need a big screen most of the time so it’s mostly just a really thick-ass phone. It’s not even great for watching movies because it’s a weird aspect ratio so you have big black bars on the top and/or sides.
Also we tried folding phones before, we called them flip phones, and the hinges were always the first thing to break.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 6 days ago:
It would suck for a while. Then it wouldn’t.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 week ago:
I just mean I have strictly a layperson’s understanding, wanted to make it clear I’m not claiming to have any insider information or any ability to actually predict what’s likely to happen. I just read a lot of news.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 week ago:
Be sure to remember that I don’t really know what I’m talking about and any predictions I make are likely to be wildly inaccurate, but otherwise I’m happy to help explain the situation a little bit.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 week ago:
Israel will definitely retaliate (for the strikes that are retaliating against its strikes, it just goes round and round.) The US is moving naval assets into the region so they’re apparently taking the threat seriously. It was a combination of the US, UK, France, Germany, and ~50 other nations that voted to declare Iran in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty so they likely have a vested interest as well, but Europe isn’t nearly as gung-ho about this sort of thing as the US is so they’re likely to let us take the lead if it goes that far. Iran’s neighbors have been trying to normalize relations with Israel for a while now but Israel doesn’t have puppet strings on them like we have on Israel so they likely won’t get involved. This is probably going to stay an Israel-Iran(-US) thing for a bit, but again it depends on how serious Iran wants to take this. I expect their losses in enrichment facilities were something baked into the cost of the program so they’re probably not too stuffed over that, but they’ve lost at least two high-ranking military commanders that I’ve heard of so far and that thing does tend to get their panties in a bunch.
It’s all speculation at this point, and wild-assed, largely-uninformed speculation especially on my part, so I’m not going to try to lay odds on it. But there is definitely the potential for more trouble coming down the pike.