Lived in Japan for 6 years (2 as military 4 as a civilian), best place I’ve ever been and my number one regret in life is not doing whatever it would have taken to stay.
Also traveled to France, Italy, and Germany at different times in my life and I was pretty impressed by those places as well.
Sisyphus, but instead of rolling a boulder he has to keep an apartment reasonably clean.
lmao okay it took me a minute to figure out, that’s great.
cuts the other way too
kid: I have difficulty focusing and chronic executive dysfunction, I think I might have adhd
parent: well all I need to do to get something done is want to do it therefore you’re just lazy
I instantly thought of exactly the same article. Compared to text, image generators seem much more prone to this kind of shit, just spitting society’s worst impulses back at us because that’s what its been trained to mimic via advertising.
I’m a fan of this banger myself
Yeah I was thinking about that, which is why I pointed out that Apple’s plan only worked because of the massive growth in personal computing. Google was able to create marketshare for Android during the massive growth in smartphones, but those conditions haven’t existed for anyone for a while.
Generally how these things go is that after the growth phase comes consolidation and monopoly - we’re far more likely to see Apple and MS merge into one corporation than we are to see a third option emerge as a serious competitor.
I think the big thing that everyone is missing here is that schools and workplaces need to push it into people’s lives. For that to happen Linux (or at least one of its distros backed by a hardware distributor) needs to develop killer features for those markets and successfully sell to them in large enough numbers that the average computer user - who does not care what their OS is because they only use it for email and work - will make sure that their at-home setup is compatible with their work machine.
That moment is when market forces will take over and drive real growth in desktop Linux, rather than the tiny little bumps we’ve seen the past few years thanks to the Steam Deck coming out and MS pissing its users off.
This is how Apple built its marketshare against the Microsoft domination of the 90s. For a long time it was the go-to “school computer”, and then those kids grew up and now a huge piece of the tech industry and culture is more or less Apple only. It’s unclear if this process can be repeated, since Apple’s marketshare was carved out during a time of massive growth in the industry that is unlikely to repeat, but I wouldn’t say it’s impossible if the right conditions reveal themselves.
I will say that it is highly unlikely that the people here would like the change if it happens - imagine Google slinging fully locked down “linux” machines en masse and everybody else needing to download their kernel fork that’s loaded with spyware (“for security reasons”) in order to connect to Google Teams for work. Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I just don’t see mass adoption of a new OS happening without some kind of fuckery like this that renders the version of Linux that gets mass adopted unrecognizable from the version we’re all using now.
The other option is state intervention, as with NeoKylin in China, although the Chinese government seems to be limiting themselves to just government computers with that distro.
fr prison should only even be considered if a person is a violent threat to those around them
Been rockin this for years, I will never change it
for my notifications I have a folder with all of navi’s sounds from OOT, and I used to have a program that randomized them every time I got a notification, but something changed somewhere and I haven’t been able to get that to work for a while.
I don’t think you understood what I meant by increasing demand/consumption. “Another sequel of Star Wars” or “A new season of Game of Thrones” aren’t increasing demand for art, they’re replacing previous forms of art with generated forms. And the usefulness of machine learning in fields like medical research is great - but it isn’t going to massively increase consumption.
Textile workers have been fucked by machines
I’m not a fan of this comparison because textile machines replaced textile workers at the same time as demand for textiles increased a thousandfold. The industrial revolution achieved this increased demand by increasing people’s living standards - instead of having a handful of outfits people (in the privileged parts of the world at least) started keeping dozens or hundreds of them - but with art demand/consumption is already effectively “maxed out” because every person with an internet connection already has access to more art than it is possible for them to consume in their entire lifetime, so increasing the amount of art produced can only have a “zero sum” effect on art writ large because the amount of art will increase while demand will not.
The internet we know today… We won’t miss it should it disappear.
Yes but it should disappear back into the direction of many smaller websites and more privacy, not in the direction of all of that texture being totally consumed by LLM generated search results and everyone further congregating on a smaller number of sites that collect every iota of data possible.
LLMs and image generators are incredible inventions to be sure, but my main opposition to them is related to the very real negative outcomes of flooding our society with computer generated drivel.
There’s more stuff but I’ll end this by saying that I’ve use an LLM to help me write code and it’s pretty good at doing repetitive writing that has to strictly follow a certain format. Still need to understand code in order to read and troubleshoot its output though, which is why everything the so-called “vibe coders” make is so sloppy.
Scene I think is cool
Prequel that may or may not lead into the first scene
Sequel that exists in my head but never gets written
something like that
I would do TV shows and movies that I like. Yeah streaming but having a local copy is great and often faster especially where I live.
This is what drove me to Debian. I like stability, I don’t need cutting edge, simple as.
“you’ll own nothing and be happy” is also a fair descriptor of software piracy come to think of it
the transparent/translucent electronics trend of the 90s and early 2000s
I’ve been feeling nostalgic for this look lately. I really like how it emphasizes the artificial nature of the device in question and invites you to think about how it works and how it was put together - while minimalist electronics do exactly the opposite, almost as if you’re embarrassed about owning it and want to pretend that it’s not there.
If there’s any discounts they probably take the form of a link on a website that gets you 10% off (clicking the link installs a cookie that increases your prices on that website by 10%)
Have a drink with ice. Hands down that and air conditioning would be my top two missed conveniences if I went back in time.