That’s definitely a choice you can make, but if I see AI at all, I immediately move on from the article or at the very least treat it as nothing of value. Other than the ethical implications of using AI, seeing it tells me the author couldn’t be bothered to care about their article, and so neither will I.

Just some outside perspective and feedback from just one person.

Read the room.

It’s not about your system. It’s about every system connecting to the Internet. It’s not local age verification, it’s widespread monitoring by the government.

I’m curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn’t do logging, and inherently you’re traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That’s kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.

If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.

It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

There’s a difference between discussing something and speaking as an authority on a topic. I have a coworker who parrots the saying, “seek to understand before seeking to be understood”. Nobody understands everything about anything. Having conversations and learning from them are part of gaining knowledge.

AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

So by “windows supports backwards compatibility” you mean you have to bypass Windows in order to use it? That’s a hack, not compatibility.

You can think piracy is a positive, but the fact that you have to do that in order to use the OS isn’t a win.

Anti cheat is malware. It has broken Windows installs. I’m not in the habit of installing malware on my computer intentionally. Just the ability to do so is a net negative to Windows.

Do you think Linux doesn’t have forums, videos, and is also scraped by LLMs like Gemini?

Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros are very simple to use for average users and it just works with a load of pre installed, open source apps out of the box. No need to buy private software or go out, find, and download alternatives. It’s easier to install than Windows, and it doesn’t make you bypass the OOBE in order to create a local account. Only power users would know the steps in order to do so and they are also the ones knowing the implications of using a live account. Windows by default stores you private bitlocker key in Azure and has given that over to the government to bypass you private data. That’s not a thing with Linux.

Linux doesn’t have rewind malware either.

People that can’t tell when an obviously fake show is fake are idiots. Who changes their views on life from watching HIMYM? Yea, Barney is a misogynistic turd, but he often gets what’s coming to him and has many redemption arcs throughout the series. The whole point of the show is a man who found love, while also showing tight relationships, both friendship and love, throughout. There’s regret , sadness, and happiness. Anyone that cherry picks and is influenced the bad stuff are people already like.

Every not childrens story whether in books or visual media has an antagonist. Siding with them is telling of the person who does so.

They do exist but they’re not as easily accessible. I remember reading through the dated information of encyclopedias doing projects in school. Information on the Internet is readily available and updated in a timely manner as new information is gathered.

There are also plenty of books and other education resources that are full of bad information. There are many things taught in schools that aren’t true.

The source of information is the problem, not the medium it lives on.

It’s one medium that can lead people to misinformation, but the pros far outweigh the cons. Education, sharing of vital information in real time, communication, and connections before unavailable with friends and relatives exist because of the Internet. It’s rapidly being policies down a dark rabbit hole of shit policies. Blaming bad journalism and bad actors on the Internet is like blaming the roads when someone is killed by a drunk driver.

Linux runs all apps for Linux and many apps for windows. Windows doesn’t run any Linux apps.

KDE has a beautiful interface that both lets you customize damn near everything and doesn’t push ads in the OS.

Linux doesn’t need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it’s inherently more secure and a smaller attack vector.

Linux is free, and your point about pirating Windows is dumb AF. It’s $120 for the base version legally.

Linux runs almost every game that doesn’t have kernel level anti cheat malware with proton.

Linux supports more hardware than MS by far. Try running a 10 year old CPU on windows 11. Nvidia isn’t ideal on Linux, but it also works and updates are built in with kernel updates. Bonus, you can cherry pick updates if desired.

The Arch wiki is better than anything MS has to offer in regards to documentation and there are forums everywhere for help, with real people, not copilot generated slop. Each major distro, which means you have options, also has well developed forums and support.

As mentioned, Linux also has backwards compatibility, but better.

I run Arch and also never crash, and that’s one of the most “unstable” distros out there. Something like Debian makes Windows look like a beta project.

Your arguments sound like they are from someone that’s never used Linux, only read aged forum posts, and has to rely on piracy as positive note.

Extra bonuses for Linux is that it’s faster by almost every metric, a fraction of the size and resource consumption, actually free, not shoving AI shit into it, truly customizable at every level, and doesn’t steal all of your private information.

They’re fictional shows. I like the characters because I know it’s fake and think their dumb interactions are funny. How are these making people worse? Is this like violence in video games causing school shootings?

Measles and Covid were spread by the Internet? I remember hearing a bunch of misinformation spread in TV broadcasts. I remember RFK changing the vaccination recommendations. I remember reading far more factual information online than false on both of those topics. The nature of pandemics is they kill people. Shitty people can’t be bothered to listen to reason, even though they were told and showed the facts. The Internet is just one medium that information is disseminated, but the bigger factors are the likes of FOX news and other 24/7 news stations.

The Internet has arguably saved now lives than it’s taken. You have to remember the Internet is also the backbone that hospitals and researchers use to share data and research. social media and bad/malicious journalism has had a terribly negative effect, but that’s a subset of the entire Internet. It’s like saying electricity is bad because it provides am infrastructure for bad things to happen, placing the blame on the infrastructure rather the individuals (or corporations) that are doing the bad thing.

I have a friend that married a PoS. At her wedding she told our mutual friend that her now husband hits her. I believe she got married because she was scared of being alone even though we’re not old enough for that to be a real concern. A week or more later the mutual friend and I were playing cards at her parent’s. The topic of the husband came up and we pushed the topic to this. I said she told us that he hit her. It turns out that they knew but had the belief that there is never a valid reason to get divorced. I shut that shit down right away and surprisingly they sort of agreed.

She divorced him months later.

Point being some people have weird and dangerous beliefs about marriage

Apart from the ethical implications to the environment and developers, the ugly look of it, and that almost nobody wants it, they ran two 5090s to run the demo. That’s well out of the price range for most people even if stock were available. They’ve wasted resources on this instead of improving their existing shortcomings, and that’s a slap in the face to Nvidia users.

I didn’t say shut up, I said grow up.

Anyone that gets upset by an innocent acronym needs to grow the fuck up. It’s not malicious and it’s accurate to the name.