What is the problem with techno-solutionism? Is it just that under capitalism techno-solutionism often results in corruption? Is the development of lemmy not techno-solutionism (to the enshittification of reddit)?

hmm, I added GApps to my LineageOS, which includes Google Play Services.

You can use LineageOS on your existing non-pixel android phone, instead of purchasing a pixel.

this is exactly why google should have been broken up.

I use LineageOS. Will this affect me? I’m getting unclear answers. Someone told me that the apps will be forced to verify the OS.

on the one hand, obviously this is not the way you should be using that function. On the other hand, I’m not sure how you even should.

Did they fix the problem where for some reason, on steam deck you can’t do local multiplayer? You need to provide a command line argument to turn on local multiplayer and I can’t begin to comprehend why they did this.

True, but this was.

Dividing the world according to this uniform mathematical system is so stupid. Is this secretly a pro-gerrymandering psyop?

I think the regime probably seems pretty good to pro-life anti-queer christian white and east-asian women.

51 years is 2 generations.

yeah, I agree. But like, pointing fingers at “politicians” broadly speaking is still just pointing fingers.

I was saying that if the left is broadly condoning the murder, then it might as well be the party that murdered Kirk.

This seems unrelated to what I was saying. You’re talking about what one should expect. Of course I expect political violence.

I’m not claiming that.

The oligarchs want that, and the oligarchs have many politicians in their pocket I presume. However, it’s not like non-corrupt non-bought politicians have any reason to be afraid of a unified nation – they’re in politics to effect change in the first place.

that’s very pragmatic, but you can also flip this around – almonds are a luxury compared to other more practical foods, whereas LLMs can help a coder net an income if used properly. I don’t think you can justify almonds if you’re going to claim AI usage is unethical on purely environmental grounds. And dairy milk is twice as much as almond milk in terms of water, so if you have dairy in your diet, cutting that out is going to be a lot more effective for reducing your water footprint than not using LLMs.

Anyway, check out the third link for more info on the total water usage of data centers; it doesn’t really add up to much compared to much larger things like golf courses. I don’t get why anyone would use water usage as a reason to agitate against AI for given that there are so many worse problems AI is causing.

I’m curious if anyone has any credible sources about recent political violence from the left. I’m skeptical of that all of the last 31 political attacks were from the right.

Does it even matter that/if this guy wasn’t a leftist? The left has been celebrating and condoning the murder – isn’t that what actually counts? (I say this as someone who’s mostly leftist, slightly liberal.)

Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying that condoning violence and committing violence are morally equal. I’m saying: we can’t simultaneously celebrate and condone the murder and also act like we have the high ground for for not being the party of political violence. That’s having the cake and eating it too.

if he’s a leftist, then of course he had “evil leftist” influences. The internet exists.