FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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FOSS is like penicillin honest to god..

"Hey Russia, death of senior military figure only miles from the kremlin? Welcome to your future, year after year ad infinitum. Slava Ukraini and go fuck yourself"

Lemmy

YouTube (Alex O'connor, RealLifeLore, History of the Universe)

BBC news

Radio (BBC radio 4, BBC radio 3, Classic FM, BBC World Service)

Lindt ftw..

I moan about it regularly but this..

Rather than flock to corporate platforms like Facebook, people spent a lot of time on federated and independent platforms. This included Usenet, IRC, and BBSes

Is just tragic isn't it? We really had it. A global free flow of hobbies, interests, research, debate, exploration.

I don't know what's so fundamentally flawed about human nature a) that something that started so well like facebook gets enshitified to the extent that it has and b) why people flock to it like flies round a steaming turd

Over billions of years, hydrogen left on its own collapsed under gravity into stars, under went fusion, supernovaed, created all the heavier elements, formed secondary stars and rocky plants, evolved into creatures, which learnt chemistry and gave it a name. We're all stardust + time basically. But we're stardust that names itself.

Hydrogen, if left on its own long enough, names itself.

Ha that's a good one

The first part is a matter of probabilities. It's very unlikely by virtue of the sheer number of possible configurations vs how many times a deck is shuffled in history (even erring on the high side)

For the second part, the composition of elements in most stars is known. And the total mass of the universe is approximated by observing gravitational effects. Which is what you need to work out approx number of atoms.

If you divided the universe's mass into 52! parts, each part would contain ~1x10^13 atoms. Which, as far as solids go, is not visible to the naked eye. Which is still quite mental..

It would if my experience of quiz shows is anything to go by..

It didn't unfortunately :/

The "upside" of planned obsolescence is that devices are markedly cheaper if you're willing to not live on the bleeding edge (which is itself just marketing fomo bs..)

Case in point.. recently had to replace my phone. Since I now feel like a liability carrying around newish £500 one I took a look at some 2-3 years old. I eventually picked one I sort-of wished I'd gone for last time around except now I was spending 20% of what it would have cost me back then. So it's a little closer to the point of being obsolete than what it's replacing. But seriously. The amount of money people spend desperate to stay at the pinnacle of camera technology (that they can't really tell the difference on) or for Apple "AI" (I mean.. god.. really.. you're a smart independent person. How has Apples marketing team gotten this far into your brain?) is crazy. But the massively cheaper deals for what are, objectively, still amazing devices is something that only happens because of technology churn and "planned obsolescence".

There'll be an initial awful bit when private companies do without workers in droves to pursue greater profit BUT the technology that enables them to do that won't stay proprietary for long, AI is a technology wide phenomena, not a product owned by one corporation. What this means is that after a lag of several years the implementation of government services will also become cheaper to run. If farms are fully automated then farm workers lose their jobs but the government buying free meals for kids gets cheaper too. If automated trucks put drivers out of work then the government (or charity or whatever) shipping food and goods to communities gets cheaper too. In other words, profit seeking bastard behaviour will lead the way, but following after it will be lower and lower cost of providing social services. The barrier to entry for many businesses will drop as well. Automated call centre? Automated marketing? Well you and your out of work brother could start a cheaper insurance company if you're willing to do the work. Businesses the used to take 40 people to get off the ground will be doable by 2. Should lead to cheaper services for all etc..

This isn't just speculation.. as a contractor I was putting in call centre automation for a car insurance company with 500,000 policy holders being run by 15 people. And if they'd been bold I think they could have done without at least 6 of those. Point being, these guys were undercutting the big players massively to bring people good quality cheap insurance that was the real deal and were using automation and "AI" to save people a lot of money.. So they hired less workers, true, but if the same happened at all the financial services we rely on a regular basis then people would have a lot more cash in their pocket..

Debian + GNOME. I'm extremely new to Linux so excuse my ignorance. I searched around the topic a while finding some commands that didn't work and others having the same issue. If you know different that would be much appreciated!

It seems impossible to set display scaling from the command line. Anything that fixes that would be nice.

I never in a million years would have guessed Israel's chief export was diamonds..

I highly doubt Kim has sent what he considers to be the "best"

Presumably there was a crazy second hand market if they went out of production in 2011?

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