(which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio).

I disabled them in settings a couple of years ago and have not had issues since.

the Midwest is in the Eastern US.

This explains some of my US geography confusion over the years…

I wholeheartedly second this. I started by removing all the files off Google Drive, which was easy for me. To swap email, I took one week researching email replacements, another week signing up, and every week since then has been swapping over one or two websites to the new addresses. Still not there, but I’ll have a lot less work to do if/when I have to de-Google quickly.

Thinking of de-Googling as a single action that must be completed in totality is not a good way of getting anything done. There is huge value in reducing reliance.

Some of us could have, yes, and I would say should have. However those in deeply conservative areas could not. I voted Liberal in a vague hope of dethroning the cons in my area (along with others according to election results) and it still wasn’t enough. The alternative was vote for a candidate I knew would never have a chance.

We need ranked voting.

“But I was told by Twitter that Trump will never get in!” - someone circa late 2016, probably, i made it up lol. Anyways yeah you can’t just take the word of a random commentor when your rights may be on the line.

I think you may overestimate how many people build their PCs instead of buying a prebuilt.

Framework also has used soldered RAM in the past. Getting their newest model to use modular RAM was quite the boast.

The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to ‘fix’ the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.

Quite easy-to-believe, really.

These multiple safeguards toppling in rapid succession

Multiple safeguards? Really? Multiple paragraph prompts are not multiple safeguards… it’s half a safeguard at best. Applying limits on what the AI can do is a safeguard.

Not quite, no. Their DIY edition displays the options as you show, but if you select prebuilt then the options include Ubuntu.

I assume with DIY they offer Windows only as a quick way to acquire a license, it may not even be installed. Not sure if anyone can confirm if thet just throw in a Windows USB.

Problem is, what reason do Democrats or Republicans have to change it? As far as I can see they love trading back every term or two which means any electoral change will require tearing both parties down. Or could you start with states / towns first? I don’t know enough about US voting.

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government

Sorry but I only just found out Doug’s party is called that and holy crap that is the biggest oxymoron I have ever seen.

My dynamic IP rarely changes. When it does, it gets updated by a Docker favonia/cloudflare-ddns image. I have yet to notice downtime.

If we’re going to slop it up with AI so hard you don’t even look at the code can we at least use performant tools and start slopping Rust or something instead, dear god.

Link layers? Alright GIMP, you’ve finally convinced me. This is 99% of smart objects from Photoshop and I think it’s finally time for me to seriously learn this program. No more dual booting for Photoshop.

Nah, having a useful tool built in is a good user experience, provided you can remove it. Windows fails on the second part. But I think OS’s should aim to have simple tasks covered by default apps such as Paint on Windows or Libre Office on most Linux distros, and an anti virus is probably a necessary install for many Windows users.

While true, I found myself mildly irked by the KDE emoji picker at times. On Windows, you focus an input, press Super+., and then can click any character and it immediately inputs so I can type out 🫵🍽️🤔 easily. On KDE it only copies the character, so the flow is (if I remember right) Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste, Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste…

I’ve found most Linux clipboard managers share the same issue of having to leave the text flow to copy an input and paste it again. Basically they are treated as separate apps rather than popups.

No no, confine them to their own space. I believe in robot segregation lol.

I just reinstalled Windows this week, saying no to everything, and I swear they did not ask me about OneDrive like before. My folders were set up as OneDrive with no opt out.

This also means modifying your git pull command to pull the correct branch. A small change perhaps, but may be harder than just committing to main lol.

I had a similar problem with GitHub actions, it was hard to test without messing up the main repo history.

I would love to see alternatives/replacements to them that are less opinionated. If you aren’t ready to consign your entire library to destructive edits and file replacements then it really is hard to fit any arr program into your workflow. Because I have a few files I want to keep pristine and a few opinions on what gets downloaded, I’ve hit a snag every time I try to set up any arr program. Lidarr, for example, simply refuses to allow a root dir to be read only. I still have yet to get any up and running.