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Same. I didn’t even worry about Linux until a year ago, and was willing to put up with the buggy dual boot for two months before wiping it. Luckily I got a new laptop last fall and it works perfectly on this one. I LOVE Mint and prefer it over Windows for nearly everything.

Yeah, if I didn’t need to use it I wouldn’t. I hate it.

I run a dual boot.

Love that it functions so well on my current PC, as my last one didn’t run Linux particularly well, and I love having the option to do anything private off-Windows.

Don’t need it if you use the Brave browser.

Yes and no.

Occasionally I like to fall asleep to SNL or a football game in the fall, but my bedroom is also haunted and the ghost likes to turn the TV on at weird times, so I leave it unplugged the vast majority of the time.

Yeah, it’s nothing particularly special IMHO. The best feature I’ve found in using it is that, for Microsoft products in particular, it can tell me capabilities of certain things I didn’t know previously when I present it with a problem.

Search engines used to do that before they got enshittified.

The closest facsimile I have in my work is occasionally running an Excel formula I’ve written through Copilot in order to find a formatting error or to help fix an Access query, but If fundamentally understand what I’m doing, can validate that the produced result is correct, and can fix it if I have to somewhere down the line.

It’s good you’ve found some simple ways to use it, but in the vast majority of work I do, it would take longer if I used AI because everything produced using an LLM has to be human-validated regardless, so I might as well not skip the important step of learning and understanding it.

I never use it to ideate and never use it for anything that isn’t eminently simple, like creating a sheet with x number of columns and rows or something like that. I hate the idea of the environmental impact and that helps me avoid it.

Yes.

Hate turning mine on and having to reset the input every single time because they’re trying to annoy me into connecting it to wireless.

Not sure, but I know which one I absolutely would not choose: Westeros.

Not with wars fought the Israeli way. Fair point.

I know schoolteachers who can’t get kids to pay attention to anything for more than 60 seconds, even when it’s literally written on the board in front of them. I don’t like age verification either, but people are burying their heads in the sand about how harmful these applications are to developing brains, and IMHO age verification is the lesser evil.

30% of their kids off of social media is a huge success.

You sound like a gun supporter in the US: “It’s not perfect and is, therefore, not worth doing at all.”

Absolutely right.

I’d love to see 30% reduction in kids being on these platforms globally. That would be a good start.

A 30% reduction of kids being exposed to these harmful platforms is a good thing and I’m glad to see it.

Also, all laws are imperfect, and expecting 100% efficacy is moronic.

Americans aren’t keen on reading history. It’s partly how we ended up electing a man who paid smarter people to write his term papers.

Can’t say we’re particularly keen on empathy either.

Clearly.

I would recommend you go look up the word ‘effective’. That will help with your confusion. Good day to you.

Incorrect.

That it is still a law on the books does not make it ‘active’. There is a law here in Kansas City that still bans automobiles on Main St., but I wouldn’t call it ‘active’, and nor should anyone else.

It was ditched, and with good reason. (At least for the the Epstein Class.)

Vibe coding, baby.

Legit endangering our brave spacefarers.

This is why the US ditched the draft after the Vietnam War.

The only time we ever had a meaningful anti-war movement was when people were forced to send their own kids to die. Having a “volunteer” force eliminates that. The excuse is always that people signed up for it, and people just ignore that it’s the poor and minorities who are still effectively pressed into military duty due to manufactured lack of opportunity.