Why the hell is videolan still on twitter…?

I really worry about this. It is not my area of expertise by any means. I assume that it is acceptable at coding because the people making it have shoved every line of code they could scrape from the internet (and probably other places) into it. So it can reproduce approximate code to do anything that has been done before. But I worry it can’t do anything in a new way. It can’t innovate. If no one is writing code that is able to actually think about the code and understand how code works, then we as a species can’t innovate anymore either. If it all goes LLM, then we’ve built every lego shape we will ever make and anything we build from now on has to be able to be built from the bricks we already have.

I worry we are watching the early stages of a technological dark age wash over society.

I’ve assumed this is the case the entire time. It got fed every last shred of code anyone could get their hands on because coding is the only industry they have anyone inside convinced that AI is a great (or even good) thing.

Between those two, CachyOS for sure. You are already running LMDE, imo there is zero benefit to dual-booting with Ubuntu… You are likely going to be running into the exact same problems you already are.

Man, there are a lot of idiots that have clearly never used any Arch based distros for any appreciable amount of time just constantly sharing the same slop talking points.

This whole (prompted) “article” is just a rehashing of every idiot’s idea of what an immutable distro means (“it can’t break”. Bullshit) and what a rolling release distro means (“It’s unstable, it always breaks!”. Bullshit).

Same, I had that exact mp3 player and it still is the easiest to load music player I’ve owned. Just plug it into any computer and it shows up like a flash drive, drag and drop in your OS file manager. No software, no bullshit. Only downside is the storage space, mine was tiny. I think I could only get like 50 or so songs on it if I remember correctly.

What benefit? This is the “Fuck AI” community and you are reacting to the comment section on what basically amounts to a meme as though the commentors are ignoring peer reviewed science. A company that makes billions allowing people to gamble to cartoonish levels is stirring the pot to cartoonish levels all regarding a company that regularly causes headlines that read like a cartoon villain.

Article? This is a picture of a fucking tweet…

There isn’t “stock” in the traditional sense, but considering all of these AI companies are running on MASSIVE amounts of debt, to the point the banks can’t loan any more without offloading the risk to outside investors, which they have been doing at an unprecedented scale. So anything that would normally help drive up a stock price would also help the banks sell off the AI companies’ debt allowing them to loan more money to the AI companies.

I’d buy that any of that mattered if our time zone borders were straight vertical lines, but they aren’t. The time zone borders are wonky as hell already. Also, we have 25 time zones currently (-12h through +12h with 0h in the middle), and there are exceptions all over the place. There are places that are +13h and +14h, there are 30m and 45m changes, etc.

We don’t need the whole world to redefine an hour for us to go from 4 time zones to 6. We could have extreme east and west regions joining with their nearest oceanic time zones to give us a broader range of times and then re-align the interior regions in a way that makes as much sense as possible and probably be in a much better place.

edit: Also, I don’t really know why I am doing such a deep dive into time zones, I really don’t care that much personally. All my clocks change themselves basically, and my commute is going to be in the dark all winter anyway…

In that case, I would advise you read the unetbootin wiki about “hard disk install modes” and see how much of it you feel comfortable with. It is a bit of hoop jumping but if you are comfortable with partition editors it seems to be the most straight forward method to me.

Someone mentioned netboot.xyz, but reading their docs I couldn’t (quickly) find a way to set it up from windows without having some sort of boot media, and it would require another entire device on the network to boot from, which seems way more expensive than a USB drive.

This is a tricky question, mostly because you tagged it as “Noob”… It is technically possible, but it does require jumping through some hoops I would not normally recommend to a novice. Attempting through a VM is probably the safest option, but pointing a VM to an entire physical disk isn’t typically something I would recommend, but is likely much safer than doing live partition editing manually and on the fly.

Things being old does not = bad.

No, but the older they get, the less compatible they are with a “modern” system. This is inherent in any technology as time moves on. I would have similarly judged anyone trying to install Windows XP from a stack of floppy disks 20 years ago…

Burning an ISO to a DVD in 2026 as a way to test out Linux is crazy…

Sometimes I think people just want to justify their choice to stay in Windows and try to have a bad experience.

That makes no sense. This doesn’t change the amount of time in a day (or daylight in a day). They still have to get everything done in the same amount of time. Farmers have always been a red herring for DST.

I think the real problem is that our time zones are too fat. The best modern reason I can find for DST is reducing accidents during typical “rush hour” commuting times. No matter what we choose, one or both “edges” of a time zone will be left doing either the morning or evening commutes in the dark, which significantly increases likelihood of accidents. We usually err on the side of evening commute if there isn’t enough daylight for both because we tend to send kids to school around the same time as the morning commutes, and having a bunch of children walking around in the dark while assholes are in a hurry to get to work is a recipe for disaster.

Yet another problem that could be solved by better infrastructure for public transit…

Why would you need security patches or bug fixes if you made an AI write it? Surely you just add “and don’t include any bugs or security vulnerabilities in this program” and it would never need updates.

/s

I love Garuda. I tried Bazzite and CachyOS, but I just keep ending up back on Garuda. I feel like it is the only one that really lets me just use my computer and not think about the OS when I don’t want to.

Nothing against OpenSUSE tumbleweed, as I’ve heard great things, but I thought it was also rolling release, very similar to Arch…?

IMO, Manjaro mostly just convinces people “Linux isn’t ready” and sends them back to windows except for a select few gluttons for punishment.

This is so gross. Her hands (and I think hair) are touching the floor in a public bathroom…

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