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I think we will have to develop some kind of framework for the difference between consuming AI-generated content and using AI as a tool as those use-cases will likely increasingly …

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I am using a M1 Mac Mini 8GB as a home server/desktop, and it works just fine. It can run games and a Minecraft server in the background while serving video and home automation, an…

useradd has the Other category at setup. Could you argue that anything which allows arbitrary text information to be input into a user account that could be passed on to other appl…

Ironically, Win32 has sometimes become more universal than native Linux binaries. For example, Baldur's Gate 3 released a native Linux version only supported on the Steam Deck, whe…

That works as reference to a frustrating situation, but Charlie Brown doesn't just miss. We assume that if the football was left where it was promised, he would have kicked it. May…

Americans are a pretty diverse group, but the most iconic image anyone has of Charlie Brown is perseverance. Lucy sets up a football promising potential success, and despite the fa…

The main tiling window manager using Wayland is Sway, although personally I like the simplicity of DWM. You can easily edit the configuration and compile it yourself. One of the th…

The data analysis here is interesting. One thing that stood out to me is that black metal is the 6th most common musical genre for bands, right after rockabilly. I would never have…

Back in the 90's, the Sci-Fi channel would regularly run MST3K marathons that would last all weekend. It was pretty much the same experience as the modern streaming channels, and I…

Valve's only official statement as far as I know is that it will come when they see a significant enough hardware upgrade to warrant a new system. If they don't move to ARM, AMD's …

What is devalued is traditional labor-based ideology. The blog references Marx's theory of alienation. The Marxist labor theory of value, that the value of anything is determined b…

All that performance is still available with Linux, and it's great. I use plenty of modern systems, but my home desktop is over 12 years old (from the last generation of hardware b…

I'm also a long-time Linux user, but there are some things that still need Windows, so here are my cheat codes to make it usable: O&O Shutup: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup1…

You're in good company. Something similar, minus the hydrogen phase, is proposed by Roger Penrose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_of_Time

I don’t know if some people are just wired differently, but I can back up the feeling of not caring at all where I fall in a hierarchy or how much people respect or don’t respect m…

Wouldn't this depend a lot on how management responds to your use? For example, if you just kept a log of prompts and outputs with notes about why the output wasn't acceptable, tha…

It's the networking effect. When all the other kids are playing a game, it's tough for some kids to be the only one not on it. Then it becomes one of their primary means of sociali…

But dinner parties mean time away from Roblox and YouTube! I know this struggle, especially in winter. I think kids still want to socialize but struggle more often these days with …

When you shelter your children from the world to an extreme degree, you end up getting one of the most popular stories in both Europe and Asia for the last 2500 years: https://thec…

This isn’t about wanting or not wanting Google but wanting freedom. I don’t avoid Google completely, but I don’t want to be dependent on them. I always want to have free and open a…

It’s dangerous to assume so much as this about the thoughts of someone on comments, but let me offer a supporting opinion to the other point: People like things to be consistent an…

This is some quality information! About the return on investment, the methodology is interesting, and I’m surprised that a hand crank to nuclear would increase so little in efficie…

You can have a very usable phone with https://f-droid.org/ Obviously, you will be able to find plenty of examples of things that don't work, and you probably have a bank app or som…

I appreciate the thought and detail you put into these responses. That's beyond the scope of what I anticipated discussing. The types of things I had in mind are old techniques tha…