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  • I am more impressed you got windows 10 to work well on 8 year old computers ngl. I had an HP pavillion around that age and it had torturingly low startup speed.

    Definetely try mint-cinnamon and mint-xfce4, latter one uses xfce4 which has very good performance.

    A lot of experienced users will find linux run without bugs for them but that’s because it’s an OS that gets better as you learn more.

    In my case battery life was 2 hours on windows and 1.5 hours on linux. But once I past the skill-curve I tweaked it to be 6 hours because I knew how to find what caused the problem and fix it.

    Either that or there is the IT-guy effect going on where once an experienced user shows up the aura just makes computers work normal again lmao.





  • Isn’t there are a similar thing with Unions? Or so I have heard.

    CEOs love slandering it but before we invented sitting down to negotiate with them, exploitive factory owners still existed.

    It is said that when enough workers got mad, they would fucking burn the owner; and there was much rejoice.


  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldApophenia
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    Technical term is the ELIZA effect.

    In 1966, Professor Weizenbaum made a chatbot called ELIZA that essentially repeats what you say back in different terms.

    He then noticed by accident that people keep convincing themselves it’s fucking concious.

    “I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

    - Prof. Weizenbaum on ELIZA.