AI slop? Text looks very non-uniform, link’s name is misspelled, and the camera foreground/background focus doesn’t make sense.

Shorter term: less foreign investments in the speculative industry casino of AI in their country

Longer term: A less brainrotted workforce

Free to play is always unsustainable without microtransactions unless the game is community hosted or open source. That doesn’t represent the overwhelming majority of F2P.

Maybe I’m perpetuating outdated wisdom here, but my understanding is that HDDs can prevent data rot without being powered and accessed for 10 years, an SSD for a few months to a few years, and magnetic tape storage lasts far longer (archival usage).

By data transfer, I meant read/write speed, sorry.

I presume that the SSD wouldn’t consume enough power to make this unusable, but SSDs tend to not retain data when they’re sitting on a shelf. Additionally, I believe USB-C 3.0’s speeds are slower than SATA, although I could be wrong on that one.

Damn near every application I install through the terminal requires sudo.

The only time I haven’t had to invoke sudo was using the graphical flatpack installer included in Linux Mint.

Many of the people who I have had to support through my IT work would 1000% brick their system by following copy+paste commands using sudo instead of just installing a flatpack.

The choice isn’t supposed to be for us hobbyists. It’s meant for a “I would like to make my system protected from my ignorance, please”.

• Tar smoke stick causes damage to internal components regardless, and will murder any resale value if there was any. Also a permanent smell will emanate from any exhaust ventilation regardless unless all your devices are passively cooled (which is doubt)
• Damn bro, love yourself sometimes
• Sticks to your clothes and the smell can’t be easily removed even with a shower, know that from family who did smoke.
• Second hand smoke is still dangerous outside, also pollution.
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• " ", but good on you for not endangering pets in your home
• Only gotta be unlucky once…
• I meant trash in your home/litter out and about, probably should have phrased that better
• Regulations advisement, not willing advertisement.

(Sorry, I tend to give corrections out of spite to sarcasm, you got me with the bait)

Apart from incredibly dense urban cores, the population density across North America is incredibly low compared to almost any other nation, except maybe Russia, Greenland and Iceland.

Additionally, cities are designed for automotive traffic, and the cost of redesign to solve that problem is prohibitively high, meaning it likely will never happen. Even in dense urban cores who seem to benefit the most from the infrastructure, the negative association of public transport with poverty and subpar service brings little appetite for people who already own vehicles to ask for trains/busses.

Then, on top of all of that “Not In My Backyard” (NIMBYism) is incredibly prevalent among wealthy neighborhoods, because most upper-middle class investments are in property values, using their home as collateral for loans. These actions to bring greater accessibility with more dense housing may lower their property values, which will lead to their hostility as well.

TL;DR: Too many people stand to benefit economically or structurally from the existing system to bring change for the collective.

That’s definitely fair, but there is the argument that the largest source of change for major powers is through harming their economies.

Sort of like, I like the artistry from this person from X nation, but by giving them money, I am indirectly helping fuel the economy of X nation, therefore giving their goverment less incentive to change existing behavior.

The problem is that in order to achieve that collective impact, a whole lot of innocent parties who have no support for or active hostility for the existing regime are also badly impacted. Usually individuals will greatly suffer before the political or structural systems will ever change.

So it’s a bit of a bind. Support Russian media, comes with the side effect of supporting the Russian regime, at least indirectly from their income flowing into taxes. End of the day, it’s a choice to make.

Cigs bad. In almost every way.

• you can’t clean the residue out of electronics
• slowly kills you
• slowly kills loved ones
• slowly kills loved pets
• stains rooms
• starts fires
• trash
• addiction

Aw shoot, we’re the 2b2t of forums?

My father used to teach here (not an art teacher sadly). He said he enjoyed getting neat artwork on the essay packets students would give him (he gave extra credit if students added art related to the subject at the front of the packet).

If frien, why enemy shaped?

The Fallout:London timeline was not on my bingo card, not gonna lie. We’re speedrunning Fallout politically here in the US, though.

Hell, I’m in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.

If you’ve read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it’s apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn’t a huge fan of California’s diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted…

Honestly I think self-hosted OSS for those models may be the only way to get genuinely useful results in the long term for several different subjects, since I’d imagine investors and advertisers would be unwilling to throw capital at an unrestricted platform.

Anna’s archive my beloved

“What the dog doin’?”

• Regulators

The peak artist has returned!

The pain-rito