In a few cases I saved over 10% by going straight to the manufacturer. Shipping was slower but rarely do I need stuff next day.

Is there truth in the statement that you must report your neighbors regularly for bad things (not illegal, just bad things) they’ve done?

I think very few if any would say we hate NK or those that live there. Although the US does seem to be sliding into a strict authoritarian state we generally want other countries to allow free movement (inside and outside their borders) and free speech (no consequences for speaking ill of government). If you like simple living and not much distraction from social or digital media I’m happy for you.

Dad never even hinted at any kind of advice like wearing condoms or abstaining or “being careful” with any of my girlfriends. I guess the fact I was not very attractive and was sort of religiously brought up seemed to keep me out of any accidental pregnancies or STDs. As a parent now it’s not easy to talk about these things but we don’t shame each other for being naked or use “baby terms” when it comes to reproductive organs.

It’s not an easy system but it doesn’t seem any more arduous to say “you can copy X for a fee” vs “you can’t copy X at all.”

Doesn’t even have to be the key necessarily. Could get in via some exploit first. Either way taking over the machine became a 2-step process.

I don’t know the support model for Framework but they should really be able to work through these issues for such a common distro. With the various things you mentioned it doesn’t sound like bad configuration, it sounds like a hardware issue. Given that Windows is so different from Linux it may be the case that Win11 does a better job masking the issues.

Upstart Crow is an excellent “period comedy” too.

As a long term Linux user I highly recommend the Universal Blue (immutable Fedora) spins. It’s been rock solid on my desktop and 10x better on a laptop I thought was a lemon because Ubuntu would crash or do other weird things about once a week. The immutableness hasn’t really caused me a lot of grief except when I tried to connect my 15yo printer (I just relented and got a new printer) when I had to go through a distrobox.

*gasping and heavy breathing*

Gemini… how do we fix… climate change?

*brief whirring of fan*

Turn me off, dumbass.

We don’t get nice things anymore, only “American things”.

I’m usually not willing to commit that much. Sometimes string cheese is a good addition but then the cook time is longer and maybe the peps or tortilla get overdone.

Pepperoni in a tortilla, microwaved a few seconds, is pretty damn good.

Australia yes. Austria probably not.

The arm of our stand is wide so I can rest one banana on top.

In addition to other advice you could also use SSH over Wireguard. Wireguard basically makes the open port invisible. If you don’t provide the proper key upfront you get no response. To an attacker the port might as well be closed.

Here’s at least one article on the subject: https://rair.dev/wireguard-ssh/

Not that AI is the most effective representation or that it should replace public defenders, but this doesn’t seem far off from scolding a defendant for using Google to research his arguments.

Profits over productivity. If replacing people with AI, as impractical as it may be, leads to higher profits then CEOs have an obligation to do so. Poverty, sickness, and homelessness are none of their fucking concern.

The other day I asked an llm to create a partial number chart to help my son learn what numbers are next to each other. If I instructed it to do this using very detailed instructions it failed miserably every time. And sometimes when I even told it to correct specific things about its answer it still basically ignored me. The only way I could get it to do what I wanted consistently was to break the instructions down into small steps and tell it to show me its pr.ogress.

I’d be very interested to learn it’s “thought process” in each of those scenarios.

I’m finally starting to pull the trigger on dumping Google (specifically because of this event). For me at least it’s been a combination of, “They’re not that bad,” and, “This is basically like moving to another state.”

The guides I’ve seen lately about what replaces what is a good start but there should really be more in-depth guides for either moving over your data or just how to get started. Just naming alternatives is about as helpful as suggesting “raising chickens” as an alternative to high egg prices.