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Varyk ,

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Varyk ,

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Varyk ,

The 90s weren't great for most people, but they were the peak of hope and optimism for many people.

Education, telecommunication, and trade relations were developing so quickly it was "sensible" to foresee humanity living in a utopia soon.

Then baby bush goes back to the middle east, domestic surveillance expands internationally, but most importantly the internet disillusions most people that they are living in a progressive world.

How many genocides are currently happening? How quickly are sea levels going to rise? Why, exactly, are so many people dying from cancer at the same time that processed foods become so popular?

The tobacco scientists were LYING!?

Ask and the search engine answers.

Talk to international forum friends: people tell you about their lives manufacturing your comforts in China, Jamaica, India, and so on.

It rapidly became clear from the outset of social media that tech titans also champion commodification and privatization of personal and public information rather than using that information to benefit society at large.

Things weren't getting better in the 90s, but before everybody was talking to each other and sharing their experiences, many people believed things could get better.

Varyk ,

Nope.

Varyk OP ,

Okay, thank you, ill try to do that.

Varyk OP ,

Worked great thanks. I didn't realize how easy it was to install DEs

Varyk OP ,

I'm interested in lightweight distros also for a different, older computer.

I tried puppy and like it but am doing something wrong with full installation.

Is there a more failsafe method than bookworm to install a puppy linux?

For dumdum noobs?

I found bookworm full installation a little confusing.

Varyk OP ,

Awesome thank you! I will try trixie first, this thing has an HDD and i liked how responsive it was with the bookworm live environment.

First I'm hearing about antix! i just checked out their site and I'll definitely try a live usb of antix as well.

Thanks, that really helps.

Varyk ,

Maslow, but anti-intellectualism doesn't help

Varyk ,
Varyk ,

Last year i upgraded my parents' computers to mint and they were blown away and could use them immediately, my dad actually got angry that he had been thinking about switching to linux for so long without ever trying it out.

He couldn't believe how clean and fast everything was, updates, startup, emails, everything, he looked like a kid on Christmas.

And that was on a decade-plus old laptop that he had been running and hating Windows on ever since he bought it.

Varyk ,

"Enlightened" people on the left calling for sympathy for Trump supporters are wrong and working against compassionate national policy.

I's charitable to forgive, but babyhands supporters voted for a rapist who stated his clear intent to harm people with greater focus after harming people for years.

Actions have consequences and every cowardly, selfish maga idiot being harmed by their own choice is getting what they deserve.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/fc75e3aa-a69b-4b19-8a87-39e504d2aedf.jpeg

The tragedy is the countless other people being killed and devastated because of cowardly maga voters.

Varyk ,

Poor Henry Selick, actual director of nightmare before Christmas.

Anytime I hear anything about Tim Burton now, I just feel bad for Selick.

Varyk ,

Visible with unlimited data and hotspots: more versatile, cheaper and less time-consuming than dealing with either of those fuckers.

Varyk , (edited )

Nope! Visible is owned by Verizon but fortunately offers different services and functions separately.

Human customer service, remote setup, actual unlimited plans, 20 bucks a month, no contracts.

Visible is functionally different and a better customer experience than verizon and other providers in every way, they just get to use verizon networks.

Varyk ,

Over 5 years for me too, and i actually called them up to ask if they were a scam the first month because it was so easy to sign up and cheap for unlimited data.

They said "no" and i said "okay".

Varyk ,

Why not krog learn from wolf?

Varyk OP ,

Chatgpt is constantly losing money, public surface-level interest won't matter much when the capital runs out and they're still accruing significant debt without any revenue.

Varyk OP , (edited )

Nope, you'll certainly need a source to back that speculation up.

Half a billion people are "using" AI and the total llm market cap is a few billion. On average, users may be willing to pay up to 50 cents a month for inaccurate word association.

Not even a drop in the buckets companies need to fill up with everything they're spending just on advertising, not to mention infrastructure, utility and upgrade costs.

People are statistically not willing to sustainably pay for llms, even if we assumed the rosy predictions of 20x LLM market caps in a decade.

Devil's advocate: Increased AI cash flow could occur if people don't realize their ai "search results" are paid advertisements, and considering longstanding obliviousness to directed advertising and the recent abolishment of US consumer rights...it could happen.

Varyk OP ,

Yes; the included source and explanatory paragraph above in the same comment you are referencing.

Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?

Varyk OP ,

This is why you should provide a source, your numbers and associated assumptions are incorrect:

Chatgpt has estimated revenue of 1.3 billion, not 13 billion, neither of which are remotely significant as revenue streams relative to cost.

That's the thrust of my opening paragraph, and then you appear to have taken up my drop in the bucket analogy, so i guess we're on the same page now.

Varyk OP ,

This is kind of what I'm wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.

Varyk OP , (edited )

You mean the independent source I provided several messages ago you're trying hard not to acknowledge?

You've got to learn personal and community responsibility sooner or later. You can make wild claims, but since they've already been disproved, you're going to have to provide evidence eventually.

Varyk ,

"if vitamins were effective, they'd use them for beating children!"

You're misunderstanding the use of debate.

Varyk , (edited )

It is extremely babble-minded and not at all worth reading or deconstructing.

I read it in the mindset of your first question.

Turns out, any argument you can think up in 2 seconds against bigotry is going to be more insightful and well-founded than a rebuttal against nascent nazi scribblings.

Varyk ,

Is that the one where the boy has a bag of pebbles?

Paper factory or something?

Varyk ,

This is exactly what happened to me. I was reading it for a while like okay, I guess this is kind of fun, and then a third of the way through I thought "oh wait, this is just kind of boring".

Varyk , (edited )

You got it.

I finished it and was like omigod at least nobody I ever come across with the same morbid curiosity has to read this now.

Only way I can look at reading that book not being a complete waste of time.

Varyk , (edited )

That's so funny. I was in somebody's house and they picked up the alchemist and told me I should read it, and I asked them the same question.

"Is that about the boy who collects pebbles?"

And they told me

"Yea- well, no. I'm not really sure, i can't remember the specifics, but it was really really good".

And I was nice about it, but obviously if you cannot remember the main character or the point of the book at all it couldn't have been a very significant experience for you.

Varyk , (edited )

Haha, jeez i forgot about these.

I think I read the first three? Such a tropey train wreck i actually had fun for the first couple.

But I was well and done after two, I was like well this is just unhealthy now by the second book you can tell childs isn't paying any attention to plot or character development or anything that would make a story interesting, he was actively shutting my brain down.

it felt like that episode of The boondocks where Huey exclusively watches UPN as a social cognitive experiment.

Varyk ,

The alchemist is a good shout out for being so uniquely forgettable.

So far, other commenters have a pretty clear reason they didn't like their book.

With the alchemist, we're all just shrugging into the void left behind by something we're sure was a disappoiintment.

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Varyk ,

"They often share a skepticism of entrenched power and a desire to dismantle systems"

Idiotic.

Armstrong couldn't pull off this stretch.

Varyk , (edited )

Real f'sure.

A lot of states sell Christmas tree permits every year, so for 5-10 bucks plus gas I can harvest my own tree(s) sustainably.

It's rad.

If you can't find yourself in any of the states above, it's likely you live in a state with state-run Christmas tree programs. Texas, Oklahoma, any state not in the half of the US listed above will have other state resources for Christmas tree permits and many private tree farms, which are maybe 10 dollars more but offer the same service:

Buy a permit, drive there, choose a tree, chop it down, take it home.

Varyk ,

Heck yea! A satisfying quest all around.

Varyk ,

Nope, centrally located because the whole point of the program is sustainably harvested trees accessible to civilians.

You can check the linked locations above.

Varyk , (edited )

Nope, but I understand your assumptions.

The US has conifers everywhere, and the link above is for a single collective of federally managed public lands, but does not include every other state-run and private organization that sells Christmas tree permits across the US.

If you can't find yourself in any of the states above, it's likely you live in a state with state-run Christmas tree programs. Texas, Oklahoma, any state not in the half of the US listed above will have other state resources for Christmas tree permits and many private tree farms, which are maybe 10 dollars more but offer the same service:

Buy a permit, drive there, choose a tree, chop it down, take it home.

Varyk ,

Awesome, you got it!

I've also added the state programs information to my original comment, so I'm glad you brought it up.

I was kind of blown away when i first found about this and got into a long talk with a ranger who explained it all to me, so I certainly understand your skepticism.

Up until that point, I literally knew nobody who cut down their own Christmas trees, and now a few of my friends also get their own trees every year.

6 foot trees have fairly thin trunks, so all you need is any trail saw, I've even used a hatchet, and you'll harvest the tree in a manner of minutes.

Varyk ,

Toy...outsold...by other toy...

Print it!

Varyk ,

Sick mini boss rising from a pond.

Sick burgeoning black hole.

Sick hell portal.

Pixel art is cool.

Varyk ,

How did you get started in it?

Varyk ,

Cool, it looks great! Must be a lot of fun.

Half the reason I want to make a video game is so that I can make the pixel assets, haha.

Varyk , (edited )

What's the new new after piefed?

Piefed exists, so it's already middle-aged.

Varyk ,

I like it still. Sometime last year, firefox was feeling clunky and less intuitive, and while that was the most important thing, I was also reading about Mozilla policy changes I wasn't into.

Switched to Waterfox, installed my addons, and felt like I was using old firefox again. No problems so far.

Varyk ,

  1. Chav does not mean "working class people" and is not a "slur".

  2. You've got to be the same person with the chav fetish looking for a "polite" chav synonym for your romantic interests and then attacking people.

If you don't like that word, don't use it so much.

Why is hatred/dehumanization of the working class so prominent in the UK, when about 60% of the UK population is working class?

I keep wondering why class prejudice is treated as so normal in the UK, especially when most people are working class themselves. The slur "chav" shows this clearly. It gets used so casually, almost like it's harmless, even though it's aimed at an entire social group. What I can't figure out is why so few people call it out for ...

Varyk ,

  1. Chav does not mean "working class people" and is not a "slur".

  2. You've got to be the same person with the chav fetish looking for a "polite" chav synonym for your romantic interests and then attacking people.

If you don't like that word, don't use it so much.

Varyk ,

I had mild tinnitus, an audible high pitch constantly, and what worked for me was

  1. Wearing foam in-ear earplugs whenever I was in a loud situation(traffic, construction) I basically always have earplugs in while I'm outside.

  2. Switching to bone-conduction headphones rather than in-ear or over-ear, which I had used for years previously and I'm sure contributed to my tinnitus.

I actually haven't thought about my tinnitus in months until seeing this post and keeping my eardrums protected/insulated made a difference.

Now that I'm thinking about it I can hear a slight ringing, but that's the game, and it's definitely still better than it was.