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  • Understandable, I don't know of anyone off of Twitter but maybe some of the people I follow are on Mastodon. I'll try and find out sometime and get back if they are.

    And yea pretty much, just stands for open source intelligence, people just use publicly available data (mostly drone videos, and paid satellite imagery) to analyze progress from both parties in the conflict giving a real, semi live perspective on advances on the ground, what kind of equipment and quantity of that equipment that have been destroyed.

    This site by oryx is the main one I know of that tracks destroyed Russian equipment that's confirmed through imagery, so the numbers are likely fairly lower than reality, and the destruction numbers are still staggering.

    Ops I see someone below already linked oryx and some other good sources!

  • Ahhh while Biden has generally supported Ukraine he has handicapped them and extended the war by the constant wishy-washy support.

    "You can have these weapons but not these better ones that you actually need" 6 months later they get the weapons they actually need anyway

    "Okay you can have the good weapons but you can't use them inside Russia" a year later they can use the good weapons in some areas of Russia

    Constant weak minded actions like this from Biden are a big problem.

  • It's hard to stop an LLM from responding in the way that it will, especially since these Russian bots have been using us based companies APIs for LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic.

    OpenAI and Anthropic can hardly stop their LLMs from giving bomb instructions, or participating in questionable sexual role playing that they would rather people not use their systems for. It's very hard to tame an LLM.

    Of course Russians paying for these APIs can't stop the LLMs from acting how they normally would, besides giving them a side to argue on in the beginning.

    You just don't understand the technology. (I don't either but I know more than you)

  • "hey this went better than I expected and I'm glad that it happened" you just described me exactly lol. I figured Biden dropping out would be bad for our democracy and Trump would be more likely to win.

    A day after he dropped out I knew I was wrong given the absolute excitement from pretty much everyone except Republicans, happy it happened now.

  • What video card do you have? All distros should work perfectly with AMD cards out of the box, while nvidia you will probably have to install the driver yourself. Nvidia driver support is continually getting better as time goes on though.

    Blender, GIMP, and Krita will work out of the box with all distros. Not 100% sure on the tablet so you may wanna research a bit more on that front.

    I tried Mint when I originally switched and wasn't a fan, I distro hopped a bit and stuck with Fedora when I tried it out. I use the gnome version of Fedora and originally installed some extensions to make it more windows like. After a few months I dropped those extensions and am pretty much in vanilla gnome now.

    Also sorta unrelated but I also installed the new cosmic desktop environment recently (it's pre alpha right now) and use it instead of gnome, I like it more than gnome but it's pre alpha so hold off on that one probably.

    The only issues I've experienced in recent memory with using Linux is Steam won't launch properly if I launch it using the steam icon, I have to open a terminal window and type 'steam'. That launches steam with the terminal, and I have to leave that terminal window open as long as I want steam open.

    Whatever distro/de you end up going with will have a learning curve for sure but in my opinion it's really worth it. I truly think open source software should be the future, and I'm happy I took the leap myself. Good luck on your journey!

  • The shitty games released on steam are the outcome of it being relatively easy to publish a game on the steam, and that should absolutely not change. Let people publish their crap that nobody will play, you don't see the vast majority of it.