Recently needed to set up a Win11 VM. It worked after removing the network adaptor from the VM setup, and then using the bypassnro command.

Fucking Microsoft.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right. Might not want to get too familiar with having collateral damage in our vocabulary.

Lol, ML image recognition is also AI. Don’t think they want drones that talk shit.

Dunno, your decision. The last person he offered one to after sexually harassing her didn’t take it either. Horses are expensive to look after, and all that.

He might offer you a horse in return, though.

Kinda depends on what you mean by produced. From what I can see, the modules are assembled in Europe, which makes them more European than other RAM, I guess.

Well, they’ve been selectively bred over thousands of years, but mass farming has really sped it up.

https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-chickens-tripled-in-size/

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

That except. Though their wording about free people seems misguided in the context.

Is that a reference to a specific Justitia statue? Because I am pulling a blank on there being any french-made ones in the US, except for one at the courthouse in the Bronx. That one’s by a french artist, but it doesn’t have the scales or blindflold.

I don’t see why today’s chicken would necessarily be more stable than a chicken precursor. If you look at the way chickens changed in the last few decades, you’ll probably find that it happened much faster than ever before, making them less stable, I’d argue.

Uh, Justitia is a Roman goddess?

OK, as a result of this, I went on a bit of a research trip, and found out that

a) Setzer is apparently just what you people call carbonated water, and, b) that that is because of fucking Selters, a brand of mineral water I could go out and buy in any random-ass supermarket. (Sure, if you wanna go into it, it’s because that source has a kinda funky mineral mix, and because water from there has been bottled forever, but whatever.)

There isn’t really any point or punchline here, I just think our world is very silly.

I’m sure it’s a common enough occurrence in a community with lots of computer nerds.

I do recognise that there are a lot of usecases in which Linux isn’t currently the sensible choice for most users, but I also feel the ready/not ready thing is quite as clear cut. While I’m obviously rather biased, I do genuinely think that there is a subset of casual users that would do better with Linux than with Windows.

I could talk about how Windows has been a lot more problematic for me than Linux, but that has been mainly down to driver issues with a specific network adapter, and we both know that isn’t the reason I prefer Linux anyway.

I’ve put Fedora on my mum’s pc after it became clear that Win10 will EoL soon, and that Win11 would refuse to run on it. Have had significantly fewer support requests since then.

Her work is mostly done via Citrix, which has an official Fedora Client. Everything else happens in the Browser, or sometimes in OnlyOffice, which so far has worked as a drop-in replacement for MS Office.

As always, it really depends on the use case.

Fuck Tesla, but that doesn’t sound like a terrible idea, to be honest.

Never understood why people are so amazed at this. Like, great if you have no appointments that far out, just write this one down in your calendar, don’t plan anything else on that day.

I’ve got ADD, and that still works most of the time.

I never got the motivation this “otherwise benevolent superintelligence” would have to behave like this. There seems to be absolutely no benefit whatsoever that could be derived retroactively punishing people for not working on it (hard enough). Whether or not it does is immaterial to the motivation of those who were convinced it might.

Also, focusing on one possible future scenario and completely ordering your life around it seems, like, dumb.

Also, KaWeCo. Not quite as big, but really neat fountain pens.

Honestly - I think end to end encrypted email isn’t that important, as long as you don’t ensure that your recipients are also using end to end encrypted solutions. Still, one should keep in mind that this isn’t, which limits it’s use for sensitive applications.

On the other hand, end to end encryption for file storage seems vital to me, and the only thing I’d use these 3 tb for is already encrypted archives and backups.

I don’t think the average user thinks much about the platform they’re on, and about who controls it. I think they go to wherever most of their family/friends are.

Also, those platforms are firmly in the mainstream, the alternatives aren’t really - you’d have to actively go search for them. People just aren’t likely to do that, I don’t think.