moobythegoldensock
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- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 day ago:
That’s a bit like asking, “Can you point me toward a beginner friendly car that has air conditioning and a radio?” You’re going to get 100 different answers because there are a hundred different distros that do all the things. The differences between them are small and not really of interest to a new user.
So I’ll give you a general rundown of the names you’ll probably see:
- Ubuntu: The classic recommended option and the most used worldwide. Though they’re corporate run and occasionally makes weird decisions that piss off the linux community, so you won’t see it mentioned as much as it was 10 years ago.
- Kubuntu: An Ubuntu flavor with a very customizable Windows-like desktop that should feel very comfortable for new users.
- Linux Mint: Essentially decorporatized Ubuntu with their own custom Windows-like desktop. It’s often the go-to recommendation to new users now, though I’ve personally never tried it.
- Pop!_OS: Basically Ubuntu with NVIDIA drivers enabled by default, so it positions itself as a gaming distro.
- Zorin: Another Ubuntu clone that tries to look as much like Windows as possible for new users.
- Fedora: A more frequently updated distro, which is appealing to those with newer hardware. A little less straightforward for new users but still not super challenging.
- Nobara: Pop!_OS except for Fedora.
- Bazzite: An immutable Fedora distro (meaning you can’t edit the underlying filesystem,) making it behave more like a consoles. Honestly, immutable distros are a niche in linux so you should probably avoid it as a new user, but you’ll see it listed as it has some diehard fans.
- Arch: A DIY distro for enthusiasts and tinkerers with very frequent updates, so good for newer hardware.
But again, they’re all like 95% the same as each other. I’d just pick between Kubuntu or Mint, maybe Pop!_OS if you don’t feel like going into a menu and enabling NVIDIA drivers.
- Comment on Snip snip 1 day ago:
Nah, it’s estimated that about 90% of “sinus infections” in adults are actually viral.
Your doctor just gave up and prescribed you antibiotics because you whined or they don’t care about antibiotic stewardship.
Bonus points if they gave you azithromycin (Zpak,) which does basically nothing for bacterial sinus infections but has slight anti inflammatory properties to enhance that placebo effect for you until the viral infection naturally clears.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
Because we all collectively decided fruit were their own thing? They’re the juicy snack plants give away to trick animals into spreading their seeds.
I’m not sure why the ancient chefs decided to be silly. They should have just called it all “plants” and be done with it.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
So a roasted chicken is a vegetable?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
Any non-fruit part of a plant. I’ll also make exceptions for nonstandard fruits like pods and kernels.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
So water, salt, cheese, meat, and noodles are all vegetables?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 6 days ago:
People putting things into salads need to chill out.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, salt, pepper, bacon, eggs, dressing, croutons, cheese, olives, olive oil, vinegar, peppers, salsa, chicken, steak, tortilla chips, chow mien noodles, etc. are all things one might put in a salad that aren’t vegetables.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 6 days ago:
You don’t believe that insects are animals? Did you think they were plants?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 6 days ago:
What? Who’s calling pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers vegetables?
And no one calls mushrooms vegetables: mushrooms are mushrooms.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 weeks ago:
80% of government “debt” is actually in the form of bonds. People voluntarily give the government more money than they’re required in taxes because they believe the government will be strong enough to pay them back interest later. The government does not have to pay down all that debt because the bonds are being cashed out at a predictable rate and people are buying new bonds all the time.
For example, someone in 1995 buys a series EE bond at $100. It’ll be worth roughly $200-215 now, which is 30 year maturation. But due to inflation, $100 in 1995 is worth $212 today. So even though the US government paid out over $100 in interest, due to inflation it was basically a wash, and they had 30 years to invest that money in infrastructure. So this “debt” was actually a good deal for the US government.
The short version is the government is fine as long as it can pay the interest on its loans without needing to print so much money to do so that it causes hyperinflation. You don’t have the ability to do that with your personal debt.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I misunderstood. My apologies.
Hepatitis B takes 60-90 days to incubate. Because of the slow incubation, the vaccine works best if started within 24 hours of exposure, and can still work if administered up to 7 days after exposure. Newborns are typically exposed during birth, not while growing in the womb.
Compare to, say, the COVID-19, where the incubation is 2-14 days. The vaccine takes about 10-14 days to set in, so if you take it post-exposure in most cases you’ll be done with the actual infection before the vaccine even starts working.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 3 weeks ago:
Would you prefer to test your smoke alarms by:
- Pushing the “Test” button on your smoke alarm?
- Lighting your house on fire?
The entire point of the vaccine is to prevent the virus. If you wait until you’ve been exposed to the virus, you’ve defeated the entire purpose of the vaccine.
- Comment on Protein time 4 weeks ago:
All you had to do was phosphorylate the damn ADP, CJ!
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 5 weeks ago:
Seriously, on older games pushing up to look forward was the default. It was only later that they decided to call it inverted.
I just don’t get why anyone would use non-inverted. Why would I tilt my head forward to look up?
- Comment on I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 1 month ago:
Sure, but it’s not hard to install widevine in Chromium and it’ll be auto updated through whatever package manager you use to install it.
- Comment on I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 1 month ago:
Why not just use Chromium?
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
They’re the same thing. You just take the square root of both sides to get i = sqrt(-1).
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 2 months ago:
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 2 months ago:
Roku Channel is also ad-free with PiHole.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
Nah, it’ll be Half Life Alyx: Epsiode 1.
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 2 months ago:
Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 2 months ago:
“Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”
Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.
- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 3 months ago:
iOS is adding the menu transparency that desktops have had for over 15 years. Android is adding AI. They are both just adding things that people already use and are calling them new.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 3 months ago:
the ESPN experts’ average prediction of 1.87 points. As it turns out, the Patriots won by 6 points, which even though it was more than six times greater than the expert’s prediction
Math is hard.
- Comment on An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs 3 months ago:
can we really trust a “black box” algorithm with our lives?
No. That’s why we have clinical trials.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 3 months ago:
The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
It doesn’t. You said Belloq hired them to be his personal army, which paints the Hovitos as complicit in working against their own self-interests. As in, they were the betrayers of their own people and were selling out to Belloq for some cash.
But no, the reality is both Jones and Belloq were out to screw them: Jones by directly robbing them, and Belloq by first scamming them and then robbing them. Both were being imperialist and the Hovitos were the victims.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
He didn’t know Belloq was there until after he had robbed them.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
Where do you get that he hired them?
The opening scene is them discussing that the tribe would kill them just for being in the area, and then Belloq taunts Jones saying he can’t warn them that he’s scamming them because Jones doesn’t speak Hovitos. No where does it say he hired them.
- Comment on THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬 3 months ago:
Yep. Like if I did Metallica, I’d put the Black album on the far left followed by Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets would go on the far right (the Noble Thrashes) along with Ride the Lightning and Kill ‘Em All. Load, Reload, and St. Anger would be Transition Metal; Death Magnetic, Hardwired to Self Destruct and 72 Seasons would be the Metalloids, and then of course at the bottom I’d have the Luluthanides and Garage Inctinides.
Except actually putting that together sounds like way too much work, so I’m just going to pat myself on the back for the puns.