Even just like… hitting a speed bump would be pretty bad.

No quicker way to negatively influence a friendship than loaning money. Doubly so with the expectation of interest.

Ooh, this looks great!

“If you want to make a historically accurate moon landing sim, you must first model the universe.” -Carl Sagan

There were even cartoons in the 80s and 90s that made this joke. I vaguely recall a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something similar where the characters were at an auction, and one went to hit another and the auctioneer interpreted it as a bid, and they spent the rest of the show trying to get other people to accidentally place bids, too, to outbid them so they wouldn’t have to pay for it.

Mark my words, someone’s going to make a video game with 100% historical accuracy with this.

he sure is an antichrist

He is anti-Christ.

The problem is that it says it in the same general section that it talks about how to treat your slaves and things, so it’s really kind of ridiculous to cherry pick this one thing as something we should uphold today while ignoring everything else.

Why not both?

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This is great. This is his new name in my head.

Or you’re about to unwittingly be featured on a Youtube prank video.

This sort of thing is unironically the best thing about Youtube. It lets people do things like this, and make money from their activities through sharing them with the world. Obviously the money isn’t the motive, but I’m sure he appreciates the Youtube revenue on the side, and it means people get to see someone doing something good that they’d otherwise be oblivious to, which helps the perception that there are, in fact, good people out there.

This checks out.

Having alt-text makes yours superior; I will, therefore, cede the content to you. :)

Lemmy is overwhelmingly anti-AI; you’ve been around long enough that you really should have known what you were going to get for an answer before you asked this question.

That said, I’ll offer a more objective take: Based purely on the example you gave, I’d have a difficult time parsing that passage, too, but the LLM summary is much more understandable. If you’re needing to use an LLM to help understand the entire book, maybe it’s not a good book for you; if you’re using it for a paragraph here and there, the result is similar to what you’ve posted, and if you’re taking that answer and returning to the original paragraph to gain a better understanding of the original meaning, rather than taking the LLM at face value, I don’t see any harm in it. (Other than the environmental harm and societal impact, but that’s outside the scope of this discussion, I suspect.)

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It had the same benefit that cassette tapes did: It was trivially easy to record things from live TV to watch later, or to copy VHS tapes you rented. My parents were not wealthy by any stretch when I was a kid, but we did have a dual-tape VHS player for that express purpose.

It’s valuable to see comments like this, though. You could claim it’s ignorance on the part of the writer, but a better takeaway is that Linux doesn’t do a good job of explaining how it works. This could have been prevented with some kind of post-install documentation explaining exactly what you just posted, for example. The “New To Linux” experience is really not great if you don’t have online communities or external-to-the-OS resources to reference to find out things like this. I went quite a long time after making the switch before really understanding that the desktop environment is largely independent from the OS and how the two relate.

On that note, having multiple desktop environments available to “demo” on the live USB pre-install would help massively. Hearing “Oh, there’s X desktop environments to choose from!” isn’t useful if you don’t know what the difference is or which one you prefer, and online resources aren’t particularly helpful if you’re coming to Linux from another OS. Fuck anyone who installs, say, CachyOS that has what, like 15-20 options? rather than 3 for Mint.

Start at $1 million. Once they agree, then you’ve established that they’re willing to prostitute themselves, and you start haggling over the price.

These are mostly issues created by the fact that lemmy is run via self-hosting on limited hardware, rather than being run by a company with a $2 billion in annual revenue. Personally I think it’s a small price to pay to not be on Reddit.