TL;DR: Stop jumping between Linux tools and setups.

Pick something simple, stick with it, and actually learn it before moving on. A deep knowledge of one toolset is more useful than a shallow understanding of many different ways of solving the same problem.

Modern day “It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun”.

Jesus. It probably does happen. 😭

If I ever want to know about rich people using shady tricks in order to get tax breaks, there is one content creator that always delivers: https://www.floridapoliticalreview.com/trumps-mar-a-lago-tax-break/

Yeah, I meant all of the substations, roads, police, etc that will now need to have a bit more funding.

I don’t know a good way of solving it, but the ‘I can just go to another state’ gives these companies way too much bargaining power and the net result is that all states lose out on income that they shouldn’t have to have given up in the first place.

It seems absurd, it isn’t like regular people can just say ‘Well, I’m going to buy a house in the next county over unless you guys give me a break on my property tax’ and then get to live there property tax free (though, now that I think about it, I’m sure there are people rich enough to do this too :/)

Yeah, it’s a really dumb way of doing things that should be regulated as it results in essentially every major industrial site operating tax free for years because they can always play states off of one another.

Meanwhile the citizens of the state are going to spend years eating the costs of building the new infrastructure required to support the new operation.

In the words of Mario:

What a shitty thing to do

Why do they need to give tax breaks?

These companies are falling all over themselves to build data centers and can’t find enough places, states should be charging a tax premium on data centers.

I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.

The good ole days when tabs were mindblowing innovations. They hardly used any gigadatacenters to function (just most of my sweet, sweet 32MBs of RAM and only someone looking to meet the BSOD would dare open 3).

Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).

I remember that period, if you tried to join a DotA map after an update and you didn’t pre-download it from the website you were never going to finish downloading before you were booted… and this was before MOBAs were toxic!

I’ve got a decade on you then 👴

There were so many back them, Limewire, Napster, eDonkey, gnutella and the old old school IRC+FTP servers.

Then bittorrent came out and blew everything away, Suprnova was the OG Pirate Bay.

It feels a lot like this gif

Of course, we used to have it rough; we used to have to call the Internet through a 56k modem, download 3MB .mp3s from WinMX, burn them to CDs and play them on a boombox just to listen to music.

You try to tell the youth of today that and they’ll never believe you.

This must be true, I never even heard of software vulnerabilities before AI and Windows was beloved by all without any problems whatsoever.

Exactly, the whole point of the project was to create a new system image, not to modify the existing system images.

Nobody would see this except the people who wanted it.

The way the articles and the social media discourse was framing it made it sound like Fedora was pushing this out to everyone, that isn’t remotely the case.

I think the capitalist frenzy around AI is destructive too, but I also understand that the technology is much larger than a few US tech companies who have too much money to burn.

Machine learning and the related applications are not going anywhere and if there are not open source tools available then people have no way to access that technology without going through some tech company who’s wrecking havoc on the world.

☝️🤓 Uhh acktually they’re not bets.

They’re regulated swaps, a financial instrument regulated by the CFTC and, as such, can only be framed in terms of a yes/no question otherwise they’d be illegal bets instead of a swap contract between two suave and sophisticated gentlemen.

That’s fucking madness.

Bitlocker was implemented well before LLMs were even a concept, this isn’t a vibe coding thing.

That’s what everyone does.

Example gift from Russia, completely passive listening device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

It’s not just that it is open source. It also has the largest software ecosystem of other open source software.

Yeah, they could use TempleOS, but then they’d need to write their own Office replacement. Or they can use Linux and use/fork LibreOffice.

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, Linux has been the nerd community’s go to OS for replacing Windows for decades.

According to the song.

Hit Mike Jones up on the low, cause Mike Jones about to blow

“Call me to buy cocaine” or maybe just artistic impression, who can say? Nobody if they know what’s good for them.