To the food? Not usually much. To my brain, though?

Relatedly, adding an extra second to the microwave time so that you get the full cooking time and are still able to stop it early is also self care.

I don’t know if it’s homophobic. Altman is married to Oliver Mulherin, and presumably OpenAI offered him money to take it down because the infidelity is a bad look.

I do miss that bookstore.

Honestly if they haven’t done it in the past 22 years, I’m not sure it’s ever coming. Not saying they’re a “good” corporation, just that it seems like they’ve been playing it fairly clean for a while.

Besides, Ubuntu is FOSS. If Canonical does do a rug pull, there’ll be a fork available for people to migrate from in approximately 10.3 milliseconds.

Not saying I like Ubuntu—I’m not a huge fan, honestly—just that this probably isn’t as much of a risk factor as it seems on the face of things.

Huh! Turns out experiencing the world outside your basement has a tendency to make you more compassionate.

I’m not even joking, that’s literally the best compliment I’ve received all month. Thank you.

Just in case the search algorithm points people here:

“What distro is best for gaming?”

Most of them are fine these days. Bazzite, CachyOS, SteamOS, and Nobara are the ones everyone seems to be talking about, and the differences between them all are probably going to come down to which games you want to play and your specific hardware.

“Will linux run on my (insert random PC specs)?”

Almost certainly yes. I don’t care what the specs are, and you might have to try more than one distro for it to nail down the most performant one, but if Windows runs on it, some flavor of Linux almost certainly will too. Even Nvidia isn’t a dealbreaker these days.

“Why does (insert Windows/MacOS program) not work on the linux? Linux is crap then!”

It probably does, and you just need a good installation guide. The only applications I’ve heard of that reliably fail to usably run on Linux with some combination of Wine tricks have been Adobe Creative Cloud and online multiplayer games that use kernel-level anticheat. You may be able to get away with using some other FOSS software replacement, or using a virtual machine to emulate Windows and run it in there, or you might find dual-booting Windows a reasonable compromise. But in any case, those applications don’t work on Linux because the developers explicitly chose to make them incompatible with Linux, and continue to patch the application so that community workarounds are broken. Adobe decided you couldn’t use their software on Linux, this isn’t a failure of the open-source community.

“Recommend me a free antivirus software for linux”

Linux. You’re probably fine; not because “nobody writes viruses for linux” (as some jokes online suggest) but because the way Linux is set up is at odds with the idea of computer viruses. Linux has a much more robust permissions system enabled by default which will prevent random programs from running without your consent. Of course you still need to be careful not to install shady packages, but that’s true on Windows too.

Hundreds of millions of websites run on Linux servers. The community is very invested in making sure that they can’t be exposed to viruses.

“Why does Arch not work on my PC from the early 2000’s?”

Have you tried plugging your computer in?

I guess I’m just really lucky, because I almost never run into those. Sometimes I find the good ol’ xkcd DenverCoder9 problem:

Lost user: (Random Monday Five Years Ago, 7:00 pm) Hey, here’s your exact problem, down to the specific language on the error message even.

Lost user: (Random Monday Five Years Ago, 8:30 pm) nvm figured it out

<Thread was locked for inactivity>

But even more often than that I actually get frustrated in the other direction:

Lost user: Hey, I’m having a problem with totally-not-grombl.

Experienced user: Oh yeah, I’ve seen that. Just run sudo grombl reload -skqq --xbs-juju '2793' and then restart your desktop environment.

Lost user: Oh thanks, that totally worked!

Meanwhile I’m like…but why did that work?! It was a completely different package and there’s no indication why the two would even be related…? And sure, it did work, but I’ve learned nothing now.

I used to be a mod on a forum for a fairly popular free program, and we generally treated even that like an information availability problem. Yes, we had an FAQ (and yes, sometimes even still people wouldn’t read it), but when there were a ton of similar questions that were all answered in the FAQ, we figured that meant that the FAQ needed a rewrite for better SEO.

In public?!

For the unicode scrambler: nah, as 30+ years of Captchas have proven, that’s the sort of thing that makes your stuff harder for humans to use/read forever while only temporarily inconveniencing the machines. Besides, pretty much anything you implement that might even kind of come close to working would pretty much destroy accessibility, meaning that handicapped people can’t read your stuff.

Ok ok. Bonus fact:

There is some speculation that, in addition to domesticating themselves, cats have also domesticated some humans.

The parasite toxoplasma gondii, which is carried by cats and can be contracted from dealing with their waste, causes a disease called toxoplasmosis, even in immunocompetent individuals. While not confirmed in any study, some researchers have suggested that the disease causes mental and social effects which incline the sufferer toward mild antisocial behavior, increasing their likelihood of adopting more cats, which increases their likelihood of being reinfected with toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma gondii can also be passed from (human) mother to child at birth, meaning that the feline-domesticated human is likely to give birth to a likewise domesticated child.

This speculation has led to some news outlets breathlessly reporting that toxoplasmosis “causes” people to get more cats (or even to like cats more), and led to the association of toxoplasma gondii with so-called “crazy cat lady syndrome.”

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While dogs were domesticated by humans, there’s a growing body of evidence that cats were actually domesticated…by cats. The lack of any archaeological evidence that they were ever subject to any intentional or large-scale selective breeding, the seeming change in feline vocalizations to more closely match those of human young, alongside cats’ current “partially-domesticated” status and the rapid reemergence of wild behaviors in feral populations, all point to a one-sided decision by ancient felines to settle down around humans.

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Jefflon Zuckerthiel can only afford (1) yacht.

Maybe it’s unusual for any sort of authorities to advance a digital investigation to such a point where the would be able to definitively identify an IP address and a VPN provider.

concerning

How do you quantify that word, personally? For me it’d be anything over 0, though I suppose medical death isn’t that unusual…

American oligarchs: “No, YOU can’t.”

If Sulyok refers it to the court, Magyar has said he will launch impeachment proceedings against him, which would suspend him from office automatically.

I’m sure this is something that could easily be abused, but it seems like the right way to do this.

Harry Kim.