You guys still play xbox games?

gah, you’re right. Wouldn’t surprise me if Trump tried to put his name on either TBH

Because of course they lit up the lincoln memorial Washington Monument like it’s a christmas tree. It’s just a stone to hang lights on to them.

We’re already there, it just looks different than what you describe. Food, shelter, and healthcare all require money in the US. Sure you have some free will, but does it ultimately matter? Are you really gonna go be a homesteader and live off the grid?

You have to work- sell your time, rent your brain and body out to whoever you can find to pay for it. You are unlikely to ever truly own the place you live. Either rent or long term mortgage, someone can come kick you out of your home if you don’t constantly prove your worth. You must pay for your food, even the basics. Without selling a part of your life, you don’t eat. In that case, how much of your life do you really own?

Beyond that, nobody chooses to get sick. Especially not so sick that they can no longer work. But of course, it happens. Are you valuable enough for medical care? Have you sold enough of your life to earn healthcare, even when you can’t work?

Do you, as a human resource, generate enough value that you will continue to be fueled, stored, and maintained?

WinBoat maybe? It’s technically a Windows VM so it works better than Wine for certain things. No idea how well it’ll worke with Minecraft though.

In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.

It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.

This is something I didn’t realize until I traveled outside the US. In some places, WhatsApp is the default.

I’ve always been very anti-Meta, and refused to get on WhatsApp until I ran into that situation.

It’s only getting worse too. The entire US economy is being propped up by AI and crypto. It’s like the sub-prime mortgage craze of the early 2000s. Lots of money going into a system that will never recoup the investment. Either they have to find a way to extract value, or the bottom’s gonna fall out. Just wait for the too big to fail AI and tech bailouts.

Awww, that’s fun. People think we’re going to have an election in 2028.

That’s a wild take. That’s like saying you’re uncomfortable in the sauna so you moved to the desert.

Every company wants AI even though they have no idea how it helps their business or their company.

My grocery store app does not need AI when they can’t even get search right.

Some things are riskier than others. The point is that you understand the risk and make informed choices.

I’ve tried a few distros recently in my efforts to migrate away from Windows. I landed on Solus https://getso.us/ for my own personal use and I’ve been very happy with it. I’m a power user of course, but Solus just feels solid to me. No stability issues, no significant driver issues (details below), very easy to work with / low learning curve, no real need for terminal commands or tinkering, and all of the apps that I use on a regular basis are available and easy to install.

They’ve implemented the KDE Discover app in a recent release to manage packages (they used to only have their own package manager by default). Discover combines their own curated repository of apps that are known/designed to work well with Solus along with Flathub so users have options to install other apps, all from one place. I like the approach since it seems to offer increased stability.

The default Budgie DE is just okay. It’s fine, functional, and easy to use, but there are some quirks that I don’t love that make it feel a little incomplete in some small ways (i.e. you can’t really customize the start menu). I’m personally willing to make the tradeoff for the simplicity that it offers overall. That said, they do offer Plasma, Gnome, and Xfce builds. Plasma was my second favorite and I think it might be a better choice for a newbie.

The only problem I’ve had with drivers/compatibility on my modern Dell laptop is jumping through some hoops to get the fingerprint reader working and enabling hibernation which really wasn’t necessary, just a personal preference.

Another distro that caught my eye that I haven’t tested personally yet is ArduinOS https://www.anduinos.com/ . It’s another distro that touts a default DE layout reminiscent of Windows to make it easy to switch. However, it is Ubuntu + Gnome based, so take that as you will.

And many, many more rely on their jobs not only for income, but also for access to healthcare. Something seems wrong here.

Can’t have the uppity peasants upending the status-quo, can we?

That’s the fun thing about Japanese trademark law. If they don’t agressively protect tyeir trademarks, they risk losing them.

It’s like saying an embassy is not US soil. Sure, politically, that might be true, but for all non-political purposes, it very much is within the US.

Nobody asked for this! FFS, can megacorps stop shoving AI into everything. Lucky Charms and scissors will have AI soon enough.

A tragic death does not redeem an evil life.

Hey uhhh… about that… they’re planning to occupy just like we did in the middle east.