I’ve been dealing with poor sleep habits for at least the past 14 years, can confirm.

reading this, my faith in humanity died a little bit more. Not because of your question, but holy fuck, I avoid advertisements like the plague, so I totally forgot slop like this actually gets funding. . . . .

capitalism worked pretty well in the 40’s and 50’s, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.

We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don’t game the system, you will lose, he’s going to grow up to be Elon Musk.

thanks 💛

I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.

But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.

It has just never occurred to me that what I need while surfing the arch wiki at 3am are some thigh high socks.

So yeah, it’s me not society. Society can go fuck itself though, and if I had to wear them in solidarity with my linux fam, I probably would, just not as a regular thing.

(and i have some hairy legs, I refuse to shave them so I don’t imagine them looking that great on me either ahah)

If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.

Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.

And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of the common man?

fedora, debian and arch linux user here, and no, as a man, I ain’t rocking thigh-high socks, but if I was a woman, hell yeah I would.

Their justification is, “Your bike only moves 1 person, and my vehicle moves more, so by you choosing your bike, you’re only thinking of yourself and not others”.

It’s a short-sighted perspective, I know, but it comes up repeatedly, so I guess I let it get to me.

car spreading . . . first time I’m hearing this term, I like it!

The slow but gradual approach to marketing “new” products that slowly become less practical over time, adapting to “market trends” or in other words, the insecurities of a society addicted to cars.

Croissance inutile!

Yeah, I believe I saw that about the Netherlands. I think Montreal in Canada also closes off residential streets to vehicle traffic in the summer in some areas. Such an awesome idea! Residential streets are for the residents, not the out-of towners trying to speed up their commute time!

it’s definitely a one-off person with personality problems, but nobody is perfect, so I don’t argue. It just sucks when I can’t even talk to friends that easily about it, because most friends think the car is essential, even if they live 10 minutes from the nearest subway terminal! I can’t wait to move somewhere more accessible, get away from the insanity.

giving AI the power to do things on your PC will lead to cases like:

Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

right, but you realize what server this is. Opposition for the car is not just opposition to going places, it’s the entire machine itself that has taken over cities.

I just don’t agree with the idea that car ownership is always for the greater good, when it’s clearly not.

I love doing this.

that’s the biggest benefit that goes ignored with folks I speak to, I find. What about the kids, the ones who will be future workers, future teachers, future parents? Good on you for giving the little one a head-start, my parents always encouraged the outdoors and to this day I love being outside and staying active. When I take my daughter out, it’s a reminder to me to stay in shape too, because she loves to run 😅.

seriously, first thing I do when I install a fresh OS is download a preferred browser, and add an ad-blocker extension ASAP.

And Carcentriphobia hasn’t gone far enough!

I like how Dell has all this data, and still somehow believe that AI will help sell Windows 11, and also seem to think that Apple’s affordable products are the only alternative option for those holding out on updating to windows 11.

Oh wait, look at this headline from 3 weeks ago, “Microsoft signs $9.7 billion cloud deal with IREN as AI demand swells”.

AI-server maker Dell was also up about 1%, as it would provide IREN with Nvidia’s GB300 chips and other equipment that Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will use for about $5.8 billion.

Oh wait, they only care about their corporate customers, what’s new? Water is wet?

I downvoted because not understanding the hate for windows 11 is really just due to ignorance at this point. I mean, not everyone is a power user, but windows has been on the steady decline for at least 10 years now. Enshittification isn’t some new concept.