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- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 1 day ago:
The article says it’s ruining Pinterest?
Finally a good use for AI.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 days ago:
Bitcoin specifically was never meant as a currency.
Sure it was, look at the name of Satoshi’s paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
In the past: Redhat, then Mostly Debian or Debian derivatives. Mepis was great for the time it was a thing (2003 - 2005). Also Gentoo for awhile.
Nowdays: Arch and Fedora mostly. I put Fedora on a laptop a couple of years ago while trying to see what would work with it and I have been extremely surprised by it. Packages are really up to date, I have gone through a major revision upgrade with no problem at all. Arch is great, but you have to pay attention and deal with change. Fedora is just as up to date but I don’t have to manage the changes.
And Fedora recently added KDE as an official release instead of a “spin” which is all the better. I hope they keep going, I read that they are not a big team and one of them just left.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 days ago:
It was great to trade and move value around. You could send to other countries, or do work for it. But Bitcoin fucked it all by basically being a ponzi scheme. People below will talk about it and how it holds or increases in value. Thats because most people are still buying in and hording it. Making it terrible as a currency.
I never bought crypto, I only traded, bartered, worked for it. I never put it on an exchange or used another company. Another sink of value and a stupid place to keep it. But that is the vast majority of people now.
So it is not good for anything anymore.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
So I wanted to see for myself.
Ubuntu… ugg the worst of all distros. I had issues with it since it came out. I never got why it took off. Although I did like their fonts, colors, and Unity. (Even as a KDE person).
So my experience: download Kubuntu. Install. Click update. It of course throws an error. I ignore it and click update again. This time it succeeds but it seemed like forever. Why is that? I can’t stress this enough: Nearly everytime I have tried to work with Ubuntu the very first thing it does is throw an error. Never a good look.
Anyways: Click on software center. Go to settings. Click enable Flatpack. Click on Flatpack add Flathub as a repository. (That step is a little confusing actually, but it is there). Search for Strawberry music player: it offers to add it from Flatpak.
No command line ever used.
The confusion sometimes comes from looking up info, which will lead to the command line. Becuase command line is always the easiest way to share information. Same thing with windows, when I go to fix stuff, they offer powershell. A dozen gui steps and pictures reduced to a single line.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
average user at using the command line to install flatpak.
Kubuntu require you to use a command line to get flatpaks? Usually it is just a toggle in a package manager. I think Fedora is on by default.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Wait, this seems completely backwards.
Windows: Here is some forum post to some rando’s software. SomeShit.exe. Should I install it?
As opposed to Linux: I look in the category of the software I am interested in, click install.
And as far as breaking… I use linux because it doesn’t break. I don’t have time for windows bullshit.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
I would think you would want to do that in python anyways, regardless of the OS. I suppose it might be relative to what you want to do, there are several monte carlo applications for linux but they are focused on certain fields. Whats yours?
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Last I checked Rhino was gold in winedb. Did something change?
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Just switch to Linux.
This is like saying “put some salve on the wrists where the shackles are binding you”. For fucks sake just wake away from the abusive computing relationship.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 3 days ago:
I am not sure what that has to do with what I said.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 3 days ago:
Maybe, but the average car payment for people who don’t take out loans to buy cars is… Zero.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 3 days ago:
Auto insurance in the us is nuts.
But having to have a car and having to have car payments are two different things. Boggles my mind what people are willing to take loans for. Save the money and buy it, or don’t buy it at all.
- Comment on Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout 5 days ago:
Lol can’t read the verge article and can’t read the archive one either.
The internet is so fucking dead.
Captchas that don’t work, next to a reminder that to keep from seeing this I should run antivirus.
I am on a damn PHONE! No VPN, just a standard internet connection.
So sick of this shit, I want early 2000’s internet back.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 1 week ago:
I remember the same thing when they replaced they dark room, light tables, plate makers, and eventually the printers and went digital. They said the same thing back then. I was one of the last ink and print and manual design and hand drawn artist left in our company.
But, oh well. Things change. This is what computers do.
From what I gather during the discussion about Vogue, is people are realizing that AI isn’t the problem, it is the fact that there aren’t even any places that actually sell anything in person anymore. It either cheap walmart/target garbage, or you have to try things on via delivery. Vogue going AI means those patterns, textures, and designs don’t even really exist. So whats to even try on anymore?
- Comment on TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs 1 week ago:
Wow. You missed my points, and called me a scab for no reason.
You FOR spreading TIKTOK bullshit? Or can you see that it is a sad day to have to work for that company?
Maybe you should look a little deeper and not be such a prick.
- Comment on TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs 1 week ago:
They want to work for tiktok?
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers 1 week ago:
Wait, it has a quick blurb on by default but actually interacting with it requires an opt in. That seems like a gold balance.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
- Comment on After 4 years my banana tree decided it was time to fruit! 1 week ago:
Well we could say that anything wet is water. But we know that isnt true. This is similar. The definition, even to a layman, of what herbaceous means is not that much of a stretch compared to a notion of a tree.
The point being is we could call them all plants. But we like to break things into categories, and in the case our science has categorized a banana as an herb. Definitively as far as I can tell, and when they are observed you can see why.
- Comment on After 4 years my banana tree decided it was time to fruit! 1 week ago:
You seem to be making two points here:
- That people colloquially call it a tree, so don’t “correct” that we know what they are talking about.
That seems fair enough.
But then you seem to say that:
- There is no definition of what a tree or herb is so you can’t separate the two. The term is used to describe non woody growth that dies back. How can you say the word herbaceous is not a testable definition?
I don’t think it is pedantic at all. I have a banana patch, and I certainly consider them bushes instead of trees. I think people are interested in finding out the trivia that a banana tree is not a tree, but an herb.
- Comment on WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version 1 week ago:
It amazes me people use this crap. I guess people just don’t give a fuck about their life.
Yes I know it is extraordinarily popular in many places of the world. Mine included. The hardest part isnt friends, it is businesses.
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 weeks ago:
Here is the really scary part: so many doctors were using Google lately anyways… Now they are turning to medical llms.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 weeks ago:
I liked the internet better when there wasn’t a business model.
Even this stupid article wants to sell me something.
I am still hosting websites, for free, with no ads. These are few and far between. All this technology and it only has gotten worse while hosting has only gotten easier.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
I never knew either of these things existed. Who is stupid enough to buy streaming movies or tv’s? Oh xbox and windows users. Makes sense.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate the feedback. We both agree that American is the worst, and I think that is true.
I don’t fly as often as you, but I fly internationally and of the US airlines, Delta has been the most consistent for me. But then again, I still am bitter after getting stuck in an airport at 2 AM (flight was at 10) because United kept saying this plane will leave, just wait. They knew the whole time it was not going anywhere after I talked to some people that work there.
I have been stranded by many airlines, for many reasons, but rarely has one been so bold.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s legal, why wouldn’t it be? This writing is awful. You what technically legal is? Legal. Why do they keep mentioning it over and over.
The article takes on a tone that the poor business is suffering because they are getting a fast one pulled over on them. Boo fucking hoo.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
Cheap tickets, and yet the longest travel time ever. No more showing up at the airport and walking onto the plane in less than 20 minutes anymore.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
They sure seem to suck less than the others. American? Never. Do they just hate customers? United…if I have to.
This kind of blows my mind. Globally The top three airlines for being on time in order were: Aeromexico, Suadi, and Delta.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 3 weeks ago:
"said that the AI-driven traffic apocalypse is a nightmare for people who make content online…“If we don’t figure out how to fix this, the internet is going to die,” he said.
I make content online. I host my own web pages, I create my own content.
The difference is I don’t do ads and I don’t ask for subscriptions. Like the way it used to be. The internet won’t die, the internet for profit will. I couldn’t care less if AI scrapes my site, it has zero bearing on what I am doing.
The bigger issue, and the article is touching on it “journalism will die”. That is significant. Because any moron can post nonsense on the internet and have it picked up (also why the internet won’t die). Anyone with money in a different business can pretend to be publishing “news”.
I think they are right that AI is not going to save media companies, I don’t know who is going to pay journalists, and there are few laws about owning a monopoly on media companies and requiring them to tell the truth.
