LibreOffice

And perfectly working software that covers whatever else MS365 offers, e.g. Thunderbird

I’d love for more people to change to Linux, but these are all (also) Windows software.

How do you prove a negative?

You remember the video where someone filmed the rainbows a sprinkler made in the sun, and claimed it was proof that “they” are poisoning our water?

Maybe in some country/countries. In others, it is extremly uncommon. Actually.

vinyl home siding

TIL that’s a thing. Eww.

Different article, but the picture just makes me so happy:

Oh, thanks for pointing that out… my head was just going “Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman …” —

Thanks for clarifying!

The time will come when we look back fondly on “organic” conspiracy nuts.

People always forget about the energy it takes. 10 years ago we were shocked about the energy a Google factory needs to run; now imagine that orders of magnitude larger, and for what?

💯

I have yet to see people using chatbots for anything actually & everyday useful. You can search anything with a “normal” search engine, phrase your searches as questions (or “prompts”), and get better answers that aren’t smarmy.

Also think of the orders of magnitude more energy ai sucks, compared to web search.

Not only in America.

I loved GOT, I think Daenerys is a beautiful name, but still, there’s something about parents naming their kids after movie characters. In my youth, Kevin’s started to pop up everywhere (yep, that’s how old I am). They weren’t suicidal but behaved incredibly badly so you could constantly hear their mothers screeching after them.

So it’s essentially the same mechanism with which conspiracy nuts embolden each other, to the point that they completely disconnect from reality?

What’s that link got to do with PostmarketOS? It does not look like FuriOS is a version of it?

Convergence! I think Ubuntu tried to go that way for a while.

We need phones with standard Linux.

Already exists. Several iterations are active and work as a daily driver: phone, sms and mobile networking works reliably, apps exist. Just not as many as on Android, and some features are not part of the OS. This is enough for many to declare them “a failure”. That and limited hardware support.

Google has coddled us for way too long, and at what price.

seriously, “g8keep”?

Can’t overcome the Juche!

I seriously believe this will work until someone from sufficiently high up tells them it’s OK to neg him for the Greater Good. But how high would they need to be to dare speak that out?

An open-ended discussion of world politics steered towards the Koreas might also help.

Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don’t know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.

I’m not! Seriously, I see kids of that age everyday at work and they’re neither better nor worse than we were; maybe even better.