and voice with futo

spin offs

Now there’s an excellent idea!

My sympathies, something, something, don’t shoot the messenger…

Well it’s a god awful look, but so, IMO is a sports coat, tailored or no. YMMV. However I can get behind ‘wear clothes that make them feel gratified, and good, instead of putting on the same uniform everyday.’

My takeaway was add https://universal-blue.discourse.group/tag/announcements.rss to my rss reader (already had fedora) and I’m happy I’ll know when I need to, still for those of us who support non-technical users on these platforms it is indeed problematic.

OTOH, this is the first time I’ve had non-nvidia (sleep broken on my desktop, just rolled back and held updating for a while, no big deal) update problems in two years, which is pretty outstanding for a new rolling distro, and gives me confidence in the architecture. Shit happens I guess, but it was quickly and publicly sorted, also trust building…

I’m inclined to lay cause for the decline on AI (not so much AI scientists IMO, but it’s illuminating to see how badly they’re perceived), people are rightfully distrustful of hallucinating LLMs, and often have personal experience of how easy it is to get one to spit out a plausible sounding argument for whatever you want. I suspect you’d find a similar or greater decline for media and journalism, for the same reasons, at least, so I hope, although echo chambers probably mitigate the effect.

The ability to tell ChatGPT to ‘Write me an article scientifically proving X’, e.g. vaccines are harmful, the sky is red, the earth is flat, and have it diligently come up with some reasonable sounding codswallop is genuinely scary. Add to that the ongoing removal of critical thinking from the educational landscape, and you’ve got vast swathes of the population who know deep down that something is wrong with a lot of what they hear, but can’t put their finger on exactly what. Seems like a recipe for anxiety.

It was for me, check out ublue for simpler setup.

…is my enemy’s enemy, no more, no less. (Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries #29)

VRAM

Cheers for the laugh mate. It’s funny coz it’s true.

Fair cop, you got me.

So replace OP’s schools with subjects…

Ah, write only code ;) I was an enjoyer pre python.

What is inside these things, from a chemical perspective, and what are the kids breathing into their lungs?

In most cases insanely high concentration nicotine salts. Back before corpos got a hold of them, most everyone vaping used nicotine freebase in concentrations <20mg/ml. Freebase absorbs slowly, you had to work hard with 20mg/ml to get a headspin, like hyperventilating for a minute. Also less addictive. Salts absorb much faster, and the disposables (disgusting waste, but that’s the profit model) are at 50+mg/ml, so the dopamine hit is a lot more instant. Of course, cigarette manufacturers have been finding additives to make their products more addictive since at least the 1950s, so whether or not and how long before those things make their way in is anyone’s guess.

You can still get reusable vapes and freebase nicotine, and it’s still the most effective way known for smoking cessation, but the enshittification has basically happened.

Rechargeable batteries were the default.

Replaceable rechargeable batteries were the default.

Perhaps BeautifulSoup for scraping data to fill your arrays…

Good point, but if I’m going to the bother of transcoding remuxes to AV1, I’ll probably knock up a script, at least for the first while.

I’m resigned to probably giving up youtube (at least for a while, as the ad cat and mouse continues) in the not too distant future. Little of value will be lost… and going back to seeing ads is not worth the price.

Rather obvious that ‘What product did live up to its advertised claims?’ is a more useful question…

So far fine in FreeTube, touch wood.