My organisation has fired a bunch of people and plans to replace them completely with AI. They’re pushing us to use it. Soon it will be mandatory to use ambient, always on AI for all information recording. There’s mention of working areas AI camera surveillance to monitor for efficient use of man hours (don’t know whether the tech is developed enough for this or how practical this is). The guy working above me is doing some sort of degree in implementation of AI in business and his answer to a lot of problems is “AI could probably do that for us”. Meanwhile we get training to tell us that we will personally be held accountable for any errors in the AI output we use, and we will be held responsible if we input any information that was would be deemed confidential or sensitive. BTW, copilot is already activated for all our work outlook, calendar and one drive accounts and has all that data; so not sure what would be considered more sensitive information to give.

Synology. Although I’m sure other ready made NAS machines will probably work and be chapter if you want to explore.

Toilet water is literally right there. If it was good enough for Steve Jobs, then it’s good enough for you.

I’ve gotten good at avoiding being Rick Rolled. But this catches me out way too often.

The state’s attempt to control our every action has gone too far. I call for anarchy.

“Make people study”? You’re mistaken. No one is making anyone study.

Charge people to study? You bet your ass they’ll take as many people as are willing to pay their overpriced fees. Finding a job after? Getting decent pay? That’s a you problem as far as they’re concerned.

Bring a whole laptop to play games? Get a Steam Deck! Or if you want a smaller form.factor then get a Retroid Pocket 6.

Other than this:

1. Learn something (language, art, etc)
2. Read something
3. Listen to podcasts
4. If it’s a private office then do a Costanza and sleep under your desk
5. Watch TV shows or movies
6. Take up knitting or crochet

I’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.

I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.

When I update I use this:

sudo apt update && \ sudo apt upgrade -y && \ sudo apt full-upgrade -y && \ flatpak update -y 2>/dev/null; \ sudo apt autoremove -y && \ sudo apt autoclean && \ sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d

Twin stick shooters/bullet hell games are different though.

And I found enter the Gungeon before Nuclear Throne, and somehow was always drawn back to Gungeon. Blazing beaks was fun though.

During

Any suggestions? I love brotato, but have struggled to find others I like.

Ones I haven’t liked: Soul stone survivors, death must die, nordic ashes.

if things continue more and more towards enshitification, I do care, I hope it doesn’t happen

Inevitable I’m afraid and quite far progressed in many industries. The sad part is that it doesnt even matter if we refuse their product. There are more than enough people willing to keep paying them billions.

I’ve progressed quite far in the technical science part of my job. I’m at the top end of the graph and encouraging my junior staff to simplify their language and message. Some things absolutely need technical terms, but they don’t need to use overly complicated words to say “this has moved up” or “this thing is bad”. More often meaning gets lost in using euphemisms instead of being clear about the message.

I’ve moved up the management role as well and really can’t bring myself to move from the bottom end of the meme graph. Management really has its own language so they can say lots of words in meetings with very little meaning. We’re in the business of doing shit…are we going to do shit or not?

If that happens: Don’t watch shit and certainly don’t pay for shit.

Even if nothing good is made for years, I guarantee there are millions of hours of undiscovered movie and series content for you to find in older releases. These companies are going to consolidate more and more, and will churn out sequels, spin offs, low effort movies, AI trash and easy cash-grabs. We need to not watch that shit and let these companies die. Pick the indie movies. Pick better quality older stuff. Wait for however long it takes for the industry to get over its unacceptable enshitification.

Games have the same problem. It is your responsibility to not pay for this micro transaction hell.

WTF does it mean? Are we doing the project or not??

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People would end up skipping it anyway when they rush to respawn.

The choice of Linux distro is a major battlefield. You couldn’t have gotten to any answer that wouldn’t invite complaints.

Approval voting

This is the way.

Tried 5 but it got too floppy.

My work uses all browser based apps. They have Linux workstations in most areas and these are set to login and go directly to a Windows 11 server remote desktop.