I’m in the Endeavour phase, but I think my stockings are better. Otherwise maybe my secondary Ubuntu box is holding me back.

Also, getting older feels counter to getting hotter :(

Vintage PC animations? Ok, I’m curious.

Auto-playing music? Fuck that, I’m out. I’ll stick to the OP link.

I don’t exactly disagree, but I suspect humans were domesticating plants and animals well before capitalism was a thing. Domesticated dogs for example are rather dependent on us and wouldn’t survive well in the wild. Yes “property” and “ownership” are loaded terms but I think there can be some similar underlying truth in regards to our relationship with other things.

In some ways that can extend to nonliving objects or entities. If you create a piece of earthenware from nothing but clay and fire and your own hands, you own it and it’s your property in a sense unrelated to capitalism. As in, you would not be happy if someone stole it or broke it or used it to commit a crime, and you would inherently consider your relationship to that object in your daily treatment of it and your reaction to those events.

And I’d say some of those aspects would extend to an AI or agent. Of course virtually all of the LLMs and other AI/ML models (to my knowledge) have been created within in a capitalistic society so as you point out they have all the additional baggage that comes with that. I’m just saying that’s not 100% of their attributes. The way you treat something should also respect the labor and materials that went into it.

And that’s actually a problem with many of these LLMs that were trained on the creative works of others, but that’s crossing into a whole other topic…

What the fuck does something being your property have to do with that thing deserving a certain bar of treatment? You need to examine the dangerous implications of that line of thinking and grapple with it.

I think a lot of people would put pets or even houseplants in that category, and argue that you have an ethical responsibility for their basic care.

But to be more general (since digital systems are not alive), any physical property requires at least some amount of energy and resources. So if you blatantly abuse your tools, you’re probably wasting things like electricity or mined metals (via poor operation or need for replacement), in addition to your own time and money.

Or sink some Czech hedgehogs partway into concrete. Doesn’t look nice though.

Yeah but it’s still worth researching. There are all kinds of harms out there but people aren’t exposed to them equally. Plus you can’t distill it to “genetics” because many things are muliti-gene, plus there’s also epigenetics (somewhat heritable and can even skip generations) adding an extra layer of complexity.

Umm… not much to be honest. It’s overall pretty great. I switched my main rig fully to Linux about 2 years ago.

First year was Manjaro w/xfce which got a little janky around the edges, probably due to how they avoid using the AUR directly. Can’t remember specific problems that couldn’t be attributed to old RAM or my own tomfoolery.

Past year has been on EndeavorOS w/KDE Plasma. Took a little time on the Arch wiki to get my Mesa install fully operational, but wasn’t bad. And I think at one point yay tried to compile electron32 from scratch which was kind of insane (probably wasted 80 GB of download for that one night) but eventually I found forum posts saying it was fine to just remove. Besides that, it’s been fantastic. It’s rare now that I even find a game that doesn’t work well, and half the time I forget to even check protondb like I used to.

Oh here. I guess combining PDFs could be a better experience. Had to use pdfunite in the command line which worked well but felt a lot more awkward than just using Acrobat to drop in pages and rearrange them. But there’s probably a GUI utility I just didn’t find.

Ah, and printer support. Wifi printing worked once for no apparent reason then never again. But printers are terrible in Windows too so I blame the OEMs.

😂

Umm maybe you should go back into the shower and find a better thought 😆

Thanks. Either that wasn’t included before or coffee hadn’t reached my brain yet.

7PM what timezone?

Here, you can filter by OS and license.

https://alternativeto.net/software/gimp/

Honestly the GIMP interface is way better than it used to be (5-10 years ago?). The old multi-window design always frustrated me but with the single-window tab view it feels much more normal.

Right? I hate the phrasing in this headline. Adobe isn’t somehow “owed” those millions so it’s totally backwards to call that a loss. Fuck that noise.

They’re a business, they should earn their revenue by fostering a healthy competitive environment and then winning through innovation and customer loyalty. Not the monopoly licensing and subscription lock-in BS they’ve been doing for decades.

Huh. I’ve seen Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter but not this one. lol

Haha, didn’t even cross my mind. Actually yeah if George Romero had made a sequel to any of those I’d totally watch them.

Bonnie and Clyde

Downfall

Lincoln

/s

Per the article

longest continuously running restaurant on record

confirmed by the Guiness Book of World Records

Ah of course. I’m sure one is naturally inclined to click their heels before waving to the birds in the windowless locker room.

Sorry everyone, that was me.

Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.

Honestly once you get to a few thousand degrees the units don’t matter terribly much anymore. 1200 F is too low for this though.