what’s the most mature, stable distro there is? One wherein I can stream and download torrents?

Bet that billion somehow ends up in trumps pocket.

But like I actually bet. someone bet me.

oh wow, Carl Sagan and henry kissinger on that panel for the discussion, with Ted Koppel mediating 🫥 god, remember when news was interesting and not 24/7 doom-rage mind rot?

The Incal is fantastic. Last I heard some American studio was trying to make a movie out of it

“Time Enough for Love” by Robert Heinlein 😬 about a man that, basically, can live forever.

OK so I have a nice External harddrive with enough terabytes of free space to save my stuff, then what do I do? Download a Linux installer, delete Windows (somehow), Load Bootscreen(assuming I still can after I delete Windows), and type in “Run Linux Installer?” is it that about the gist of it?

Oh I haven’t tried anything yet. I’m too scared I’ll fuck it up 😅 Anything that has me loading boot screen and entering commands has me thinking I’ll just absent mindedly type “delete system/32” somehow

As a lay-person, reading these memes and comments, and understanding nothing, is probably the biggest factor that’s made me decide that, while I hate windows, I’ll never feel comfortable using Linux. I mean, seriously, how much of the time are you frustratingly troubleshooting stuff? I just want something like Windows that won’t shove ads and ai bullshit at me and won’t brick my laptop after updates 😭

The one that took my beloved living room streaming laptop 😭 fucking windows

if Linux was more accessible to someone like me, I’d do that shit in a heartbeat. (what I mean by that is I want to download a “Linux Wizard” program, that automatically saves all my shit, installs a super easy/stable Linux version, then deletes windows, then restarts my computer and BAM! you’re good to go!)

haha watch as all the far-right AFD guys start it up again against the evil isrealis invading their land lol

Fuckin, Round two! Fight!

I think the international community, just as it did when it created the different jewish and Palestinian state, should take the reigns once more, and switch the lands. isreal gets the desolation they created in Gaza, and Palestine gets all the land/resources isreal once held.

One side, anti-genocide, the other side, pro-genocide. But the pro-genocide frames it as “supporting the jewish state” and laments, “why can’t we just come together?”

Gee, I wonder, is it because you’re supporting a state that’s actively engaged in a genocide? And every time they bring up that point, you scream at them? Conflating disagreeing with your hypocritical stance to “disturbing the peace of the household?”

Just reminds me of the gulf that lies between myself and my trump-loving parents. Supporting a fascist state or a genocidal state are hard lines, they cannot be tolerated. Yet we’re asked to tolerate those who support these intolerable actions. It’s framed as “keeping the peace,” and “for the good of the family,” but what it really is, is asking one side to tolerate the intolerable, so that the other side can experience some false form of peace. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously noted, the absence of conflict is not the same as peace.

One side is being asked to submit to the intolerable actions of the other, while the other gives up nothing. This hypocritical stance just breeds resentment, dissolving the relationship as surely as a vat of acid would a piece of meat. No arguing required.

Y’all remember when Windows updated their OS and all computers without enough memory to run it were bricked?

Because we didn’t throw a fit then, when a company’s update destroyed our possessions, now we’re getting more of it.

This could actually just be more modes of planned obsolescence.

let me put it in simpler terms: stop using AI.

How about don’t half ass the important email to your boss that your family vacation is riding on??

The answer is to half-ass the email, not use some planet destroying technology to half-ass it for you

In the final days of February, the Trump administration demanded an overwhelming aerial assault. More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit within the first 24 hours alone. That order compressed the time frame for finalizing targets, the officials said, instilling an urgency that — combined with gaps in underlying information about the site, cuts in civilian-protection personnel and an overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology — set the stage for the deadly error.

Ah so the head pedophile in charge demanded something unreasonable, so they cut all the corners they could and ended up killing 123 children. Super cool. This is AI’s fault because…? That site had been operating as a school for a decade. They can’t blame flawed intelligence, it was their own gross negligence and lack of review.

You remember how DOGE cut a bunch of government funding by random keyword searches? And they ended up banning super important research into using gene editing as a life-saving tool because the work was being done on transgenic mice? And they searched “trans” and then defunded it?

So this is like that, except instead of funding being cut, they murdered 123 children.

trump should rot in prison till he dies.

If you graded the U.S.'s capitalistic system by its quality of life, we would fail miserably. According to U.S. News, we rank 30th

you can increase perceived value through manipulation. Shrinkflation, cutting your product with something cheaper and worse, paying your employees less, lobbying the government to cut your costs, or punish your rivals, etc. All of these things increase perceived value, through fooling (defrauding) your client base. If you were doing it with a luxury good, well that’s one thing. But in capitalism, we’re seeing this being done with necessities. Food, water, healthcare, education, transportation, internet, a place to live.

How do the massive profits from vulture (venture) capitalism fit into this notion? They are only ever manipulating debt, bankrupting a business, selling it’s assets. What value did they create? As with CEO’s vs their workers, it’s the worker that is creating the product, thus the value, why is the CEO paid 325 times more than the person creating the product?