I guess I am not understanding why every distro now needs its own DE and accompanying software. What was wrong with letting people choose between Mate and Cinnamon? If you have the bandwidth then more power to you I guess but it sounds like they don’t.

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that the necessary level of compute will be made available to the average person. We are already well into a paradigm where the average “PC” is an iPad or similar, with Google locking down Android and Microsoft… being Microsoft, I just don’t have any optimism that the future will have the same kind of access to personal computing power or even software access. The “tin-foil hat” part of my brain says that the purchasing years worth of chips output is part of a conspiracy to keep consumers and potential competitors at bay more than it’s a requirement for new models.

I hope I am wrong, but I am not holding my breath.

This is very much the problem I have. We have officially reached the point where the average artist on Deviant Art has less intellectual property rights than the average even LLC let alone megacorp like Disney.

AI like this is very quickly becoming the One Ring in my mind. Like there’s a bunch of people who have convinced themselves that they can use this plagiarism box in a good way, that the outcome will somehow justify the means. But the reality is that this machine was created by evil for evil reasons and as it stands right now you can’t use Claude or ChatGPT or any of that shit and not participate in the plagiarism, in the outright theft of all of the art and creativity of humanity, and the destruction of our environment.

I wish that more people would understand that the jump from the novelty of Watson beating Ken Jennings on Jeopardy to here wasn’t technological innovation. It was purely capitalism.

Yeah, I’m quickly seeing a future where stuff like this AI rewrite of the Adobe suite may need to be distributed as the model that makes the software and not the software itself. If that becomes the case then we really will have entered into a world where tech bros control everything as you will quickly find yourself in a world where you can’t use the software if you don’t have the compute to make it.

The US still hasn’t made reparations internally, my tribe for instance was promised a voting member of congress over 100 years ago who still hasn’t been seated… Native Americans didn’t even get the right to vote until the 1970s.

I wouldn’t hold your breath for any of the countries doing bullshit to ever atone for anything.

No… for real…

That’s not exclusive to anime, Alfalfa here was originally created as part of “Our Gang” back in the 30s:

Try that again but this time make it about Native Americans or Palestinians. Failing to overthrow your oppressors is not tacit approval of their agenda.

I am having a hard time finding confirmation of that but it does indeed seem that NATO personal definitely numbered less than 2000 from 2011 to 2014 effectively a complete withdrawal even still.

Unless the troops were withdrawn between Iraqi freedom and whatever they called this then it doesnt count as only 12 years just like Iraq doesn’t count as different wars just to satisfy the 90 days thing.

They were deployed there for 23 years.

I think people generally tend to underestimate technology levels from 50 to 100 years ago. For the most part, the biggest innovation of the last hundred years has been miniaturization rather than any one particular technological advancement. And frankly, I think that’s the answer to the question; People from the 70s wouldn’t necessarily be in awe of one particular technology, but they’d certainly be in awe of how much we’ve been able to fit into a tiny ass amount of space.

Honestly, I think they’d be more disappointed than excited. We have not been to Mars, we don’t have flying cars, and we don’t have computers that can think for themselves despite what LLM providers would have you think. Our 2001 looked nothing like that which was imagined.

For me the issue seems to be stress not work specifically, I’ve been unemployed for ~22 months and I still have the same problem.

I mean, the main difference here is he’s a president doing it to people outside the United States publicly rather than just letting the CIA do it and only messing with Native Americans publicly or something.

I already said I understood you I’m not really sure why your mansplaining this at this point, and more importantly that’s not what the person I replied to said.

I get what you’re saying, but the person I’m replying to specifically said that China had too many people for it to have the highest per capita amount. And that’s simply not possible, the amount of people you have has no bearing on the per capita amount of anything, as you just described, and that’s what I said.

Per capita specifically controls for population size so it’s not possible to have too many people per capita.

Funny joke… but you do happen to be talking to a tea drinker who lives in the US… we have three kettles…

The lick-able envelopes can be opened and resealed with the steam from a kettle.