NaibofTabr

FYI, this won't shock anybody, the piercing bar will just get real hot, as will the battery in your hand as you've just short-circuited it.

Installing an OS will always be a hurdle. Most people don't want to spend that much time thinking about how their computer works, they just want to turn it on and have it work. For more people to use Linux, it will have to be preinstalled.

After that, it needs to be stable. If the audio stops working, most people don't think "maybe I need to roll back my driver" or "maybe ALSA has muted my output channel for some reason", they just think "my computer is broken". These kind of problems have to go away, or at least be reduced to <1% of users.

Also, very few people are going to have any patience for any kind of difficulty related to "oh you have to add a different repository to your package manager to play common media formats" or w/e (e.g. AUR or Ubuntu Multiverse &etc). Normal people spend exactly 0 time considering what codecs they might need to install to listen to some music, or where they might need to get those codecs from, or whether those codecs are open or proprietary or freeware or whatever.

both AD and GPO are fucking incredible pieces of software.

AD is really the only way to manage an organization with thousands of endpoints and users.

I have some hope that someone in the EU will develop a competing product now that they're pushing to get away from Microsoft, but it doesn't exist yet.

A SCOTUS ruling could potentially make the outcome worse, widen the scope and enshrine it as a national precedent.

There is always wisdom in picking your battles.

I would start many companies and organizations based on open source business models developing various software and computer networking technology. The goal for each would be to become self-sustaining (paying employees appropriately but not necessarily attempting to generate profit), and with an objective of creating a unified suite of system administration tools that is equivalent to Microsoft's Active Directory - but 100% open source and interoperable rather than proprietary.

Absolutely none of the developed software would include or support any of the kind of surveillance-state functions that are part of the current trend of collecting data on users for "AI". If possible, technical methods for preventing any such data collection on users would be developed and implemented in every single project.

Overall the goal would be to out-compete every other computer networking product on the market in terms of convenience, stability and affordability - creating a complete set of best-in-class systems which act as a bulwark against any privacy-invading AI-enabled surveillance software.

*Edit: also some advocacy organizations like the ACLU and EFF with the same overall goal of reducing the global presence of surveillance-state garbage. Basically the antithesis of anything Peter Thiel is trying to do.

"end me"?

I remain very skeptical about this.

It would not surprise me in the least to find out that "disabling" Recall only disables the user-facing aspects of it, but that the data collection still happens in the background regardless.

I have no proof of this, it is pure speculation, but it would be in line with behavior Microsoft has demonstrated before when adding new "features". Would anyone like to play Bejeweled?

Windows 11 is hardly an upgrade.

On the floor it is.

One of the best thing about old reddit was how often you'd see a post for a news article about some scientific research, and if you went in the comments you'd find something like, "I'm a graduate student who helped work on this research and the reporter completely misunderstood it and their conclusion in the article is all wrong. Here's a link to the original paper, and I'll give a brief explanation of what our research actually found..."

Hmm, but what if the Earth has not been destroyed by a singularity yet?

We are at the center of what we can observe, obviously, but assuming that everything (including what we can not observe) is within the event horizon of a singularity then what we can observe may all be experiencing the same (relative) spacetime curvature and is apparently "expanding" because it is accelerating as it falls deeper into the singularity.

I'm kind of thinking of the classic spacetime expansion demo of dots on the surface of a balloon, extended into 3(+?) dimensions... the singularity (the balloon) is expanding as we (and everything else) are drawn further into it, resulting in the objects we can see (the observable universe) appearing to accelerate away from us. The actual center of the singularity is so far away that we can't observe it, and the acceleration appears (locally) uniform to us in the same way that the surface of an infinite-radius sphere would appear flat.

There's probably some obvious physics reason this doesn't work in reality, but I don't know what it is.

Careful not to cut yourself with that edge, lord.