ThePowerOfGeek @ ThePowerOfGeek @lemmy.world

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Good luck, mate.

Zorin is a good transition point from Windows to Linux, since it's an easy distro to install and it's pretty Windows-like from a UX perspective.

Here's a more general recommendation: start off by installing a VM platform (VirtualBox or similar) on your Windows system and spinning up a few VMs, each one with a different beginner-friendly distro on it (Zorin, Mint, etc). That way you can play around with them, get more comfortable, and choose the one you like best, before you go all in.

So that's where all the new jobs are going to come from after the economy goes to shit because of climate change, oligarch hubris, etc.!

They are going to pay the unemployed people pennies an hour to humiliate themselves by dressing as robots and doing all sorts of menial tasks for them. It's going to be like Sleeper meets Gone With The Wind.

(I'm joking at this point, but this could make a good plot for a dark sci-fi comedy.)

I'm kind of surprised more people aren't unhappy with their Tesla's because of the poor build quality. I know they go through patches where the build quality improves and is okay. But there have been so many recalls and problems in general with Teslas. Even aside from Musk being a toxic, loud piece of shit, his company's cars are overall just not worth the trouble. And that's not even bringing up the fact that the cyber truck looks like it was designed by a 6 year old on a 386 PC's CAD program.

Good call going with another Highlander. Musk's stupid, shitty antics have resulted in your getting a superior car.

No, it's the one where you fuck your grandmother because the man you thought was your grandfather was an in-the-closet homosexual. Then you produce your father, who then produces you. But you've got to travel 1,000 years into the future and hook up with a hot but socially awkward cyclops mutant before you can do any of that.

As if Intel doesn't have enough problems. That dipshit buying them would probably destroy them.

Yeah, I'm wondering that too. Paywalled article and no summary given.

Edit: here's a non-paywalled version.

I believe you are forgetting about the vast and formidable legion of battle-hardened and experienced North Korean soldiers they have at their disposal. /s

I mean, we do have a previous example of a Donald Trump presidency. So it's not that unreasonable to anticipate that he will sow chaos on the international scene, given that that's exactly what happened last time. Unlike pretty much every 'new' president (i.e. not an incumbent returning to office immediately after a 4 year term), he's a known quantity.

Edited for clarity.

She's had a remarkable life since she was nearly murdered. She's still fairly young but she's already been working hard for several years and has done a great job to bring attention to the flight of vulnerable women and girls. Good on her.

At the same time, political forces sympathetic to Moscow are gaining ground across Europe — in countries including Austria, Romania and Germany.

Why anyone in Europe would be sympathetic towards Putin or Moscow is beyond me. It reminds me of that cartoon with two sheep looking at a poster of a wolf saying "I will eat you", and one of them saying to the other "he tells it like it is!"

Interesting question.

It's different in the broad mechanics of the hype and the technology, obviously. AI isn't really a basic information delivery mechanism like the 00s web was. It's a lot more than that, thanks to the progress we've made since then. Plus, it has a lot more potential to impact artists and creative types. The web promised to propel them. Generative AI is threatening to make them completely obsolete.

But a lot of the psyche/sales hype stuff is very similar. The dot com boom started out all about democratizing the world and giving everyone a voice. Then it quickly became a capitalist free for all of coming up with any and every idea to shoehorn the Internet (and especially the web) into every walk of life. And the venture capital money-grabbing frenzy that inevitably led to. So that second aspect is very similar to where we are at right now with AI. And the first aspect isn't a million miles away from the frequent assurances that AI will better society.

The technology stack for AI is more stable and well thought out than the nebulous web was. But it clearly still has some pretty big implementation challenges. Not to mention the resource/energy ceiling we are currently fighting against.

The potential of AI to destroy huge swathes of professions is massively different from the early commercial web. Back then the web was widely seen as a new source of careers, not a career killer.

"ThEy'Re BoTh ThE sAmE!!!"

Good news, but disappointing it won't start sooner. Some Israeli soldiers are going to go crazy trying to get as much civilian killing and brutality in as they can before Sunday.

Mine too. Although I think we're both being quite generous in our use of 'music' in her case.

The guy who represents one of the welfare states that takes a lot more money from the union than they give back... is doing this to one of the big blue states that gives to the union a lot more than they get back?

Fucking pathetic, greedy, immoral little shit. I hope his home gets wiped out in the next natural disaster that hits good state.

Well said, and great example.

Agreed.

I agree with you. In this case it's time to bring this up. I quietly blocked monk months ago because I was tired of seeing his shit in my feed, but I didn't want to bring attention to his inflammatory posts. But that clearly hasn't worked on a wider level. He's still posting sketchy stuff and annoying other people here. Sometimes you have to call people out and the wider community has to act, even at the risk of drawing attention to the problem users.