Unless they’re going to ban heating elements and stepper motors I’m not too worried.

It probably wouldn’t be too good for Bambu Lab so I wish them luck in their lobbying effort. They could buy a veto from Trump for a few hundred thousand USD in the worst case.

I still have an OG Xbox with an emulator and the SNES romset and Conker’s Bad Fur Day on another partition (I did the mod to install a larger HDD). All it took was a hacked save and a Mechwarrior game.

I’ve never been a big fan of the word “atomize” in any case.

Mate, I’ll have you know some of my relatives are made of atoms

There isn’t much there that can’t be done with PVC and bent aluminum sheeting.

Hamas famously uses water pipes for their rockets (no idea about the propellant, payload or control systems though)

The drone parts and control surface actuation is by far harder and I say this as someone who has a professional background in computer science and software engineering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrzxSOtj33s

The model rocket community has this one sorted.

Not anymore

I swear some people are unredeemable.

This is an ironic statement.

future Taco Bell vs future Del Taco during dinner rush:

It’s not a MANPAD really.

The sensor package has no IR sensor (or radar unit) and no way to proximity fuse.

It has GPS, accelerometer and barometric pressure. It’s more like a rocket powered artillery shell than an anti-air weapon.

Or, given the lack of payload, it’s more like a high speed burrito delivery device.

'Murica

If you swap “says” with “doesn’t say” it also works.

It’s uhh, for home defense

So, we’re just trafficking in misinformation now?

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort

True

, Says Their Time Is Over

Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.

The tweet:

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point.

Since you’re just starting you’ll want to make sure you have a good foundational understand of what Linux is and how it works. Understanding the File System Hierarchy, file permissions, user/groups management, etc will help the ‘feeling over your head’ part. There are a lot of Youtube videos/playlist talking about the basics, skim a few to see if you like how they’re presenting the information and pick whichever works best for you.

For a more structured approach, look for books (or a class at a vocational school if that’s something you’d do) teaching Linux+. This is an entry level certification by CompTIA and the course will cover all of the fundamental things that you need to understand.

Have a project in mind to motivate you. In the end, you’re learning all of this so that you can do something with Linux so pick a something that would improve your setup. Jellyfin running on a NAS is an good and achievable goal to start with.

Join some of the Linux/selfhost/homelab communities: !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@programming.dev, !selfhosted@lemmy.world, !linuxmemes@lemmy.world. These are great when you’re stuck on something and need to ask for help.

On Reddit the homelab, linux and selfhosted subreddits are also good to read.

When you’re getting started and also when you have a problem remember: RTFM - Always, ALWAYS read the manual/docs and also check the Arch wiki and Gentoo wiki. Asking for help without first reading the documentation and wiki is… frowned upon in the community. Some people will give you a hard time if your question is answerable in a Google search or in a wiki article.

LLMs can be useful as well. You have to be careful here because they can hallucinate and provide you with wrong information. LLMs that search and summarize based on your question will generally be more accurate but generally don’t run any terminal commands that they give you without first verifying what they do. Treat them like a search engine, a starting off point for you to do your own research. You could probably just ask for the exact terminal commands to setup a Jellyfin server on docker and get pretty far, but you wouldn’t learn anything and that will hurt your efforts to learn. I’ve been using Kagi’s AI assistant which includes a research agent option that has been pretty useful.

Finally, don’t avoid using the terminal, you can do a lot with a GUI but being comfortable with terminal use is fairly mandatory for anything but casual desktop use.

No, they prefer their jobs at Costco and McDonalds

Ah, an idiot.

Given the state of the Internet today, I’m gonna need to see the DLSS 5 before and after

The video game adaptation will be the next AAAA game

Imagine a service with a set price, no ads, never increases prices except to maintain operation in the face of inflation. Not beholden to shareholders, but rather to stakeholders.

I think that would be amazing and, in the US at least, there is a new business entity that could do that.

One of the issues with trying to make Netflix not enshittify is that companies have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder value (Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. (1919) is the case if you want to read further). So if Netflix decided to try what you’re suggesting then some shareholder could sue the company and show that they’re not doing everything to maximize returns.

There are around 40 states in the US that recognize a new corporate entity type called a Public Benefit Corporation, which is allowed to operate without the legal obligation towards profit so that the company can pursue goals other than making money. The AI company Anthropic is an example, they are a Public Benefit Corporation. Because of that fact, they’re able to take a moral stand against the US Government… a decision that will cost them money, without worrying about shareholder retaliation.

I think eventually we’ll see more of these companies forming and I will certainly support them. However, as it stands now, we’re on our own and have to work together as a community to mitigate the worst of it. I’d certainly be interested in running a Public Benefit Corporation towards those ends, if you know anyone with a few tens of millions of dollars to burn!

I think maybe you don’t know what ‘weasel words’ mean.

From Wikipedia:

In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated. The terms may be considered informal. Examples include the phrases “some people say”, “it is thought”, and “researchers believe”. Using weasel words may allow one to later deny (a.k.a., “weasel out of”) any specific meaning if the statement is challenged, because the statement was never specific in the first place.

There’s none of that here.

Summary review:

The passage does not contain significant weasel words. It acknowledges uncertainty explicitly with phrases like “I may be wrong,” “I would guess,” and “I assume,” which actually counteract weasel wording by qualifying claims. The author distinguishes between fact and opinion, admits lack of knowledge about the individual, and provides a source for a factual claim about social media as a news source. Overall, the language is transparent about uncertainty rather than using vague or evasive phrasing to appear more confident than warranted.