astronaut_sloth @ astronaut_sloth @mander.xyz

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Little column A, little column B. They're losing the demographic war, and if the trend continues without any outside influence, they are a dying party. Because of that, they're resorting to fascism to hold onto power with a dwindling minority. That is, their dwindling power in a fair system is leading them to turn to more drastic measures to retain power. We're watching them take off the fig leaf of acting as if they are bound by laws and norms.

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Not quite. It's more that a job that once had 5-10 people and perhaps an "expert" supervisor will just be whittled down to the expert. Similarly, factories used to employ hundreds and a handful of supervisors to produce a widget. Now, they can employ a couple of supervisors and a handful of robot technicians to produce more widgets.

Yeah, I didn't even get to say that I could change it (though I don't recommend it) before she wanted to throw the whole thing out for not being "user friendly" enough.

Oh for sure! Sometimes it's not even when something breaks but just a normal thing that's different. I used to be a Linux evangelist, and when I convinced my to mom to simply try Linux, she was upset when she had to enter her password to do something (I think it was an update or something) rather than it just doing it. She was mad that it prompted for a password rather than "just updating."

Explaining that giving permission is much safer than just running everything as Admin did nothing. She hasn't used Linux since.

It's funny you say that. I find the Linux way of getting software way more intuitive. Just hop in the terminal and use the package manager. When I used Windows, I always felt like I was doing something shady when I was getting a .exe. With drivers, I've only had an issue once; everything else was pre-compiled into the kernel. On Windows, I had driver issues a lot. For those reasons (and others), I switched full time to Linux almost a decade ago.

Totally anecdotal, of course, but I just thought it was funny how our experiences were complete opposites and sent us in complete opposite directions for the same reason.

This used to be me while I distrohopped. Now, I've settled on which distro I will use. I use Arch, btw.

After leaving my (very conservative) home, and going back every so often and talking to my family, I think this is it. Especially for the older ones, I get a sense of regret from them that they didn't live how they wanted or couldn't do what they wanted. Since they don't want to blame themselves and/or the culture, they blame their vilified minority du jour. It's sad really. Going home and talking to my parents always just makes me sad about how I can tell they have some pretty big regrets about taking the "expected" path.

Wow. That's really sad. He was responsible for the best of Enterprise. Everything I read about him was that he was a good, stand-up guy who had a true love for Star Trek. He'll definitely be missed.

Also a licensed ham here (though no real HF experience). @lchapman has a good point about the latency being only a fifth, but HF is pretty low data rate still. The ionosphere is not ideal, so error correction would need to be put in place, further lowering the datarate. The only thing I can think of is that they would do something with more bandwidth maybe? But why? So some fat cat can trade at just slightly faster than the competition? This seems irresponsible.

Yeah, you're right on a lot of chatbots just being paraphrased responses from the support database, but for a lot of people, that's all they want or need. There are a great number of people who just don't want to read the entire article to find their answer. For that, I don't really mind chatbots because I get the use case. What I hate is when there isn't an option to go to the next tier of support without going in circles forever with the stupid bot.