I financially support Patrick Volkerding, because his original business model (selling physical installation media) collapsed, the online shop he partnered with to sell merchandise fucked him over and he was forced to move back home to Minnesota for financial reasons. Yet he still keeps hanging on and maintaining one of the most unique Linux distros that exist, and the only one I vibe with.
I don’t know if it’s still this strict in Germany today.
But I’ve got to say, it was an effective deterrent.
I haven’t torrented anything since then. Instead, I just download my movies directly now.
I got in trouble in Germany, for torrenting a single movie.
I accidentally allegedly let the torrent run until it uploaded the whole movie again.
Got a letter from a law firm specializing in file sharing offenses who demanded 1200€ in damages and fees.
I had to apply for financial legal aid from the government, so I could consult with a lawyer myself and write some specific legalese letters to deny the other law firm’s claims on time, and force them to actually take me to court to pursue them.
Then wait, hoping they won’t, until the statute of limitations had passed.
The whole process cost me 60€ and took 3 years.
The movie was Hurt Locker. It wasn’t even good (allegedly).
Since you’ve studied AI for so long, can you explain where further rapid progress is supposed to come from? Cause right now I don’t see any improvements in output quality in the past year, and LLMs have already used up all available training data, compute and energy.
The web is now poisoned with AI content which doesn’t work as training data.
You’re right, it’s impossible to grow plants without AI.
French press is just for people too stupid to operate a moka pot.
Honestly, Microsoft should just take the L, develop Windows 12 based on a Linux kernel, and re-write most of their stuff from scratch.
After focusing on backwards-compatibility for 40 years, they’re allowed a new start, to fix all the rotten code they inherited from the 1980’s.
The capitalists will control access to the AI and compute resources, which will be the means of production in this new world.
Some games I want to play just to experience the storyline, but without getting stressed by danger or frustrated by getting stuck.
Its entire purpose is activating known malware on your PC.
They wrote this without autocompletion or syntax highlighting.
Mostly to attract new, younger kernel maintainers.
Have you used any of the Microsoft cloud products?
It’s completely ridiculous how bad they are, especially for admins.
My PC shat the bed, I needed one RIGHT NOW for university, and a roommate gifted me an old tower with OpenSUSE installed.
I hated it and couldn’t figure out how to install anything. But I was broke (as in, couldn’t afford to eat every day). So I was stuck.
When I found out how the package manager works and how much software was available, I was blown away:
No hunting for software on the internet?
Everything is free?
No limited functionality or nagging reminders to upgrade to pro?
No searching through installer submenus to find all the checkmarks that install spyware?
Never looked back after that. The next year Ubuntu appeared, and blew my mind again.
people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Taking digital photos without editing them is like taking analog photos without developing them.
Whether you use those tools to lie, or to get closer to what your eyes saw is your choice.
But if you just use the unedited RAW image from the sensor, it won’t look anywhere close to reality either.
Not sure what you mean, the current Slackware release is 15.0 and it does include a Wayland session for KDE.
Source: I’m using it.
You may laugh, but I legit started playing Skyrim again this week.
Playing as an Orc specializing in two-handed hammers and heavy armor, who always immediately does what any NPC asks him to do (completely forgetting the last quest he was on), eats or drinks whatever he finds, and kills all Imperials on sight.
YouTube voice auto-translation is completely worthless, but they still shove it down your throat.
Slackware