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Naa, allowing a single post to affect my opinion of a group would be silliness, no worries :). As for AI, I can understand peoples reticence, particularly in regards to corpos using it to replace humans. I just run local models as a means to explore ideas, fantasies, and have a bit of fun in my free time. Thanks for the response kind stranger, may your day be excellent :).

As a lactose intolerant individual, I can assure you that once a quarter or so Mexican food beckons me and a willingly walk into that dark night. No regrets... at least not while I'm eating. Afterwards there are regrets.

The real kicker is how you even decide what quality is. A one line script that updates a driver may be a solution to your issue. A four page walkthrough that rambles and gets you to your answer but only after an hour is still a solution, but is it better quality? The issue is that you can't quantify quality. Even if you managed to for something like programming, you couldn't apply that same logic to horticulture. The issue is that quality isn't something you can stick in an algorithm.

One can dream. I need a new graphics card and it would be super helpful if a sticker change lead to a price drop :p

Honestly, it depends on how the clients handle it. If they're cool about the things you can't provide, agree to pay for the cleanup, don't absolutely burn the place down... eh, who cares? You get paid, they get to fuck, the place is still rentable the following week. Now if they're asshats, this conversation is very different lol.

Having played the demo of this game it was phenomenal. It handles Risk/Reward in a fun way that allows you to push your runs for better rewards while generally leaving you with the option to leave a portion of a map undone for an easy exit. It was a genuinely fun experience, and from my brief interaction with one of the devs it's clear that they care a lot about this project. I'm definitely planning to grab it when it releases!

Flameshot and bind it to your PrtSc button. It has been the absolute best screenshot util I've ever used.

So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than... Well text edit.

If I remember right .world is hosted in Finland. Who likely doesn't care about MS politics. They'd have to lobby the Finnish government, who, if they did capitulate would start an awful president. So they won't as MS has 0 authority there. But, lets assume that they did, or that MS went to all of the ISPs and had them block .world. That's thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, lawyers, and paperwork. And the .world users in MS just download their config files and move to .de, .ca, or .uk. And now MS gets to repeat the entire process at three more countries who couldn't care less about their laws. The would waste unfathomable dollars and hours chasing this mouse and get nowhere. So they just won't. It's posturing for the big tech companies. Same as with porn. The big 3 or 4 will just block the state and move on, and the rest and those hosted in other countries will continue like nothing happened. The conservatives will claim they won 'for the children', nothing will really change.

Immune, no, insanely hard to police? Hell yeah. The thing with these laws is that it's pretty easy for MS to sue Reddit and force them to comply. They have one centralized location to complain to. You can't just call John Lemmy and have him comply. Would it be impossible for a state government to contact every single instance owner? maybe? But they're not going to do it. Even if they made an attempt the instances hosted in other countries couldn't give less shits about some southern US state.

Nostr is a whole other beast... it's currently littered with things illegal in just about every country on the planet but that shit's still there so I can't imagine MS could do anything there either.

TLDR: Immune, no. Neigh impossible to enforce, yes.

Here's the thing. When I talk to friends interested in Linux, it's always Debian or Fedora that I suggest. I think they draw a good line for what the average user wants and needs and they're stable. In fact, I used Fedora for a long time, and all my homelab stuff runs Debian. It wasn't until computers themselves became a hobby that I switched to Arch. And I think that's likely the cutoff. If you're a computer user, stable distros are great. If you're more a hobbiest... Well, the Arch wiki can own your free time.

I want to switch to Nix... the idea of Nix is compelling. In practice every time I try and test it out I remember that I'm an idiot with a keyboard and I should stop.