Hmm, yea that does make sense. But you can guarantee at least a few guys tried it.

Haaaaaa…

I hung out with a girl at the metal show, she saw me put away my dick and I was like “oh no”.

Those are still in a lot of places here in the UK. Apparently it used to be common in a lot of countries for bars in pubs to be surrounded by a gutter with a drain at one end so guys could just piss and spit without having to leave their stool. I suppose when everybody smoked indoors the smell wouldn’t have been as much of a problem.

I once went to a large outdoor music festival. They had these round plastic units that had urinals shaped around the outside. So you’re facing each other. Whilst I was using one a guy came over and said “Isn’t it great that we can piss whilst staring into the eyes of another man!”

First attempt was Slackware, installed from a CD that came with a magazine because we didn’t have the internet in about 2001 or 2002. It worked for one glorious afternoon but I’d tried to dual boot with Windows and nuked that partition. Got into big trouble and was banned from the family computer for the rest of the summer. Couldn’t try again until a couple of years later when I got my very own laptop and paid my friend £5 to leave his PC on overnight downloading an ISO of dynebolic over dial up and burn it to a CD for me.

That was great but then I got my hands on a beefier PC and used Ubuntu thanks to the free CDs you could get in the mail. When I finally got a job and a broadband connection I switched to Mandriva, then Ubuntu again for a few years with most of that being Xubuntu and for like the last 10 years mostly Debian. I switched to Fedora a couple of times and tried a few others like MX Linux and Qubes. I also had a Pinebook Pro for a while running Manjaro ARM. I just always ended up going back to Debian. I can’t see myself ever changing distros again.

I’ve tried PopOS as I have a machine with an Nvidia card but every tine I’ve done the first apt upgrade it nukes grub and won’t boot again. Probably something I’m doing wrong and it has been a couple of years since I last tried.

Debian, on servers and a desktop. I spent a long time using Ubuntu so I’m used to APT and Debian is suitably lightweight for my not amazing hardware. I also like the non rolling nature of it.

AI isn’t ready to replace programmers, engineers or IT admins yet. But let’s be honest if some project manager or CTO somewhere hasn’t already done it they’re at least planning it.

Then eventually to save themselves or out of sheer ignorance they’ll blame the chaos that results on the few remaining people who know what they’re doing because they won’t be able to admit or understand the fact that the bold decision they took to “embrace” AI and increase the company’s bottom line which everyone else in their management bubble believes in has completely mangled whatever system their company builds or uses. More useful people will get fired and more actual work will get shifted to AI. But because that’ll still make the number go up the management types will look even better and the spread of AI will carry on. Eventually all systems will become an unwieldy mess nobody can even hope to repair.

This is just IT, I’m pretty sure most other industries will eventually suffer the same fate. Global supply chains will collapse and we’ll all get sent back to the dark ages.

TL,DR: The real problem with AI isn’t that it’ll become too powerful and choose to kill us, but that corporate morons will overestimate how powerful it already is and that will cause our eventual downfall.

Instructions unclear, pulled toothbrush out of ass.

Pretty sure I wouldn’t have done a single thing about the situation there if I’d lived in Nazi Germany. At most I would have been personally opposed to it, maybe, but I certainly wouldn’t have taken any action and probably wouldn’t have even mentioned my thoughts to anyone if I was. Those are dangerous things to try and difficult conversations to have. Much easier to just keep on living my comfortable little life. I don’t live in the USA either so can’t do anything there but still probably wouldn’t if I did.

Am I proud of that? No, but that’s how it is and would be for the majority of people I imagine.

No, but there was time now…

Right, so “We’re all fucked” is the takeaway here.

It’s a cat and mouse game. Google blocks them, devs find a workaround, Google blocks them…

Yea this actually used to annoy me with a female friend who’d come over. Other than the droplet spray issue, my cats fascinated by the water in the toilet. He generally tries to follow anyone going to the bathroom anyway to keep you company as they often do. But as soon as you open the door with the lid up he runs straight over, starts pawing at the water and very quickly ends up falling in head first.

I always wonder if he thinks his own reflection is another cat. I think that’s what was going on with my last cat when he would stare at the washing machine.

Having a switch next to the door would be useful if you’re using that socket for a lamp but not if you’re using them for anything else. In my kitchen the sockets for my under counter oven and fridge are under the counter and the switches are above it so I can easily access them.

I believe the fact that she has large breasts and doesn’t mind drawing attention to them was supposedly somehow responsible for that

Chlorophyl? More like borophyl

Linux is a clearing in the woods. You have the freedom to build a cabin yourself from logs with your barehands with LFS, buy building materials and power tools to build a completely custom house yourself with something like Arch or Gentoo, get a kit and put it up yourself with Fedora or Debian, put up a prefab with Ubuntu, or just pull up a trailer for a while and move on with a live ISO.

Wouldn’t be too bad. I use Keepass for my bookmarks and most of my accounts with the database synced by Syncthing. If Syncthing and all of my devices also went down it’d be a pain but I’d have a fairly recent copy of the database which I backup to a pen drive I always keep with me. I’d have to spend a day logging into my accounts and updating the email but then I’d probably go back to just using Keepass from my pen drive and backing up to a second one like I used to until I found another solution for syncing it.