Happy birthday!

Back then I was in elementary school. It was fairly cozy, and life was quite a bit more predictable - classes with friends, extended curriculum, family evenings, lots of play and fun. Coming to visit grandparents on the holidays. When family needed anything at all, my grandmother has always been there, and she is why our family is still so close together, despite her passing many moons ago.

I also got my first ever phone around this time - an old used black-and-white Sony Ericsson, with buttons and 2G mobile connection. Was nice to get my first personal piece of tech. Played around with it like crazy, lol.

Overall, a lot of things have passed since then, some for the worse, some for the better. But I had a good childhood.

Now, how do you feel about turning 18?

Men use AI partners more often than women, as per the article’s content

Content: 31% of young men and 23% of young women chat with AI partners

Headline: Bots Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

Classic

I just never stopped using them since childhood. Why would I give up on it? It’s ergonomic, it relies on strong spinal muscles allowing one to carry heavier weight, keeps one’s hands free and unloaded, doesn’t press against one’s neck like shoulder bags do, and is very hard for someone malicious to take off someone.

The only downsides I can see is that I cannot keep it in sight, meaning I should mind my surroundings not to hit anyone, and it can also be opened without me noticing (although Bobby bags solve this in particular).

Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.

It’s worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You’ll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.

Me. Introversion doesn’t mean individualism. We can support the community in many ways, we can participate in it and bond with it. And this makes us stronger.

I feel this way about religion.

It is literally being bullied by a supernatural creature that doesn’t even exist. Do X, do not do Y, else the entire wrath of the Almighty will be upon you.

And at the same time the Almighty can do absolutely anything they want - mass murder people, sleep with anyone, get everyone drunk, tell father to kill the son - because what, are you gonna defy or question someone who else destroys you and tarnishes your soul for the rest of eternity?

The good is replaced with compliance, because an authoritative voice says what’s good and you better obey. 1984 type shit, invented millenia before.

Backups and High Availability come to mind.

If there’s any other place you’d be allowed to install a second node on, ideally served by another ISP (since we talk about remote access), you can do that. This can be your friends, or family, or someone else you trust.

Just have 2 NAS devices with equal drives in each and let them work in a high availability cluster. This way, you’ll have near 100% uptime and a backup in case something goes wrong.

Sure, that is more expensive, but it gives some peace of mind while keeping control of your data. Additionally, with this configuration you don’t necessarily have to build a RAID array if money is a problem, so some costs can be shaved off (Though it never hurts to still have it if you can afford it)

Made me buy a used 10tb drive recently.

Screw them all, I will have a place for my data and I won’t pay them a dollar for these shenanigans.

Su often takes more time and is more involved, even if it’s a difference between very little effort and no effort at all.

For example, I update and install apps through CLI about once a week, and I’d rather just bang the sudo <update command> than go su, enter root credentials, and only then go for what I wanted in the first place.

So for all that time one could do THIS?

Beautiful

Honestly, yes.

Linux lacks a native Task manager, and this is one of the “death by a thousand cuts” roadblocks that prevent its adoption.

A user must be able to launch a graphical tool to manage processes even if everything else froze. That’s just basic usability.

Can it be currently resolved with a terminal? Yes. Should it be resolved with a terminal? No.

I once accidentally unmounted the system drive. You know what? Aside from some crash messages and a lost battery indicator, the system just kept going.

I finished my Zoom call just fine, finished what I needed to do real quick and then rebooted.

It all went back and was just fine.

That’s one of my gripes with Arch, too. It takes too much manual interaction on an everyday basis, it’s not a “set it and forget it” kind of system.

To some, sometimes lesser, extent it also translates to its derivatives, be it Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro or whatever strikes one’s fancy.

There are normally only a few points at which traffic enters the country. Shutting them down will effectively cut you from most of the Internet, and the rest that remains will be fully in the jurisdiction that oppresses you.

Fair enough. Honestly, fear is the main barrier

If you can open a YouTube video, open a terminal and not scream in horror, you fill all the prerequisites.

These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.

Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.

Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.

Arch can be configured without archinstall in 20 minutes by a YouTube video even if you’re a grandma with 0 technical skills.

Let’s all stop pretending that having it manually installed means anything and just use whatever does it for us. Like, well, Endeavour.

Honestly, I’d love to see more research on how AI CSAM consumption affects consumption of real CSAM and rates of sexual abuse.

Because if it does reduce them, it might make sense to intentionally use datasets already involved in previous police investigations as training data. But only if there’s a clear reduction effect with AI materials.

(Police has already used some materials, with victims’ consent, to crack down on CSAM sharing platforms in the past).