They might have “upgraded” it to use an LLM instead of an older (and more deterministic) technique.

Is it weird that it’s written as if to imply that Canadians would normally find it difficult to resist visiting the US, or am I reading too much into it?

How many Ubuntu users (who are usually novice in Linux)

Don’t be so sure of that. I used to use Gentoo 20 years ago. I use Kubuntu today. Why? Because I don’t care anymore and just want something that works with minimal effort.

The last time I reinstalled my OS, about a year ago, it was because I replaced the SSD. The time before that was seven(?) years earlier, when I built the system in the first place.

Snaps mildly annoy me though, so I might change. Eventually, after probably several more years.

I bet there are more people like me (long-time users picking boring, “basic” distros) than you think. We just aren’t usually very conspicuous compared to the “I use Arch BTW” crowd who are new enough that they still feel the need to make distro choice part of their identity.

I’m expecting my owed publicly provided education, but they are provide trauma inducing childcare.

Holy shit, there’s a pull quote for ya! 😬

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

British Petroleum, the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals. It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint” in the early aughts. The company unveiled its “carbon footprint calculator” in 2004 so one could assess how their normal daily life – going to work, buying food, and (gasp) traveling – is largely responsible for heating the globe.

The term would literally not exist in the public consciousness were it not for BP using it to shift blame. But yes, the concept itself is valid.

How’s the math work on a shady place? I’ve got a big-ass tree above most of my roof.

That’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.

GIMP being worse doesn’t mean WLBR isn’t bad.

Are plastic recycling and “what’s your carbon footprint?” scams to shift blame away from Big Oil? Yes.

Should you try to recycle and reduce your carbon footprint anyway, despite that? Also yes!

By today’s standards, sure, but this comic is from half a century ago.

And for “smart car” issues, it’s really reticent to move in some cases, like wiþ þe trunk or any doors open. No, fucker, I’m just inching forward in þe garage! I don’t need to close all þe doors! Give me a warning, fine, but don’t refuse to move.

I get nervous about my '94 4Runner because it has a power rear window that rolls down into the tailgate (and thus the tailgate can’t be opened unless the window is working); there’s no way in Hell I’d ever consider buying a car that refuses to work based on potentially-flaky sensors that aren’t necessary EFI inputs.

This has nothing to do with pickups, except that one happens to be the car he’s using as an example. It’s going to be coming to every new automobile (there was already another thread yesterday talking about it being mandated by law in the next year or so) unless there’s a massive public backlash that stops it politically.

Same, except I dumped them a lot longer ago. (And frankly, I didn’t own much from them even before that, except a '90s Walkman and maybe a few other small things.)

Well, unless nearsighted people were outcompeting people with 20:20 vision, for some reason.

I mean, even in an LTS distro, it sure would be nice if the packages were reasonably up-to-date on the day the version was released.

Are you sure? The guy in the pic looks a lot like William Shatner, and Wikipedia tells me he was in Miss Congeniality, not Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Garfield is a famous example of being at least equally guilty of the things that user claims to be complaining about, yet he chooses to criticize this instead of that. It makes one wonder if he’s being honest about his motives, or if there’s some other reason Pizza Cake particularly bothers him.

Isn’t there a Garfield comic somewhere you should be railing against instead?

👉 👉 banning social media from being owned by any single entity

What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn’t there a huge public outcry against it?