Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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It's funny, I just switched to pulseaudio hoping it would fix some issues I've been having with pipewire. It did not.

Edit: I'm not on Mint, though, so best of luck.

It's funny, I don't think I would even understand the attack matrix reference, had I not just watched a yt series about Gamma World (and Metamorphosis Alpha).

It seems like you're making some assumptions about what he did or did not do with the chocolate.

Well, not always: Plural 'they' is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular 'they' is about a century later.

But, yeah, you'd think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial...

It seems kind of disingenuous to compare enterprise support contracts for Linux to personal Windows licenses. Especially while also ignoring that you do pay for Windows, it's just hidden in the cost of the device.

Though it is also true that Linux is gratis and Windows is not.

Skin bandits?

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don't know why that's surprising to me, since they're just Unicode, but it is.

Connect very slightly cuts off the bottom of the image for me.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

IMO the early game exploration rush is the best part. Anomalies and archaeological digs give that great Star Trek vibe that kind of goes away once everyone is settled into their borders.

I believe the g palatalizes the n, so it's more like nyok-key.

Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn't been an acronym since the early '90s.

In fairness, the first iteration of that deal was Pepsi for Stolichnaya.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

I've been having a good time with Heart of the Machine, in which you play as a nascent AI figuring out how to survive in a sprawling cyberpunk city.

First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.

If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.

Go for the eyes, Boo!

This format is especially apropos, as Natalie Portman is one of a handful of actors with an Erdos number.

On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they'll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it's not the robots who strike the first blow.