Still calling it “The Chat Gippity” though

All depends on where you’re starting from. If I can map an engine to be worse on both, then a mapping exists that is better on both.

As a non-US person, it blows my fucking mind how frequently y’all haul out a goddamn Ouija board to channel the founding fathers on any issue. What would George Washington think about ChatGPT? Uh probably that it comes out of a box possessed by the a demon and then he’d ask if you owned a comfort girl he could borrow for the night? What a valuable exercise. Much wow.

Spaceman pointing a gun at other Spaceman “wait it’s all a cult?”

How can you be so sure aliens aren’t already among us?!

“Address Unknown”, a twilight zone/detective noir tv show within the universe of Max Payne.

If you can see it, you’ve already downloaded it. You’re just chosing to retain it.

It reads to me like someone trying to build a persona that Elon would like.

Saw it done on someone once. If you’re in bad enough shape that you’re getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it’s fucking violent

I agree with you.

I’d be curious if a purely random choice of beat would actually be easier than if there was a skewed bias.

Why are your knuckles on your ass

Same way as every single other Russian transition of power in modern history:

Reveal that the previous leader betrayed the Russian people, and you’re here to set things right. EVERY transition.

From your link:

I know that’s the general sentiment for online discourse. I think it amounts to a rounding error in terms of total population. I’m confident it’ll improve. Maybe never be better than airtags… But I expect better than now.

I have a pebblebee, which uses the FMD network.

It’s pretty obvious that the network isn’t as robust as Apple’s. I expect it’ll improve.

They will say, while simultaneously ignoring every NIST recommendation

I wtf’d that you could do 100W w/ USB… Then I can see that new specs are to allow 240W.

Ok, I think I see your position more clearly now:

You’re thinking about people who are interested and installing based on technical interest and curiosity.

In those cases, I think you’re probably right. There is probably some base competency at play. A desire to learn. Probably someone in their sphere to support.

I’m thinking more about the type of people who would buy a Chromebook. Or my cheap ass parents who want to squeeze another 5 years out of an ailing laptop. They don’t want to spend any money and just want to use Facebook and YouTube. Send some emails. Connect to wifi. Print their boarding passes. Not have their machines riddled with viruses within minutes because their windows OS isn’t getting security updates anymore. I think this is actually a massive use case, and I want Linux to be accessible to them without needing to use the terminal for anything.

I can’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve seen absolutely terrible advice posted and taken regarding how to do things in Linux. Can’t connect to something? Easy, make a blanket iptables rule to permit everything. Something can’t read a file? Chmod 777. Install isn’t working? Just install as root and use root as your general login from there on out.

It’s hard to learn Linux.

But it’s even harder to FORGET what you’ve learned, to empathize with what it was like to not understand it at all. That’s why it’s SO HARD for us who’ve been using it daily for a decade to empathize with newcomers.

It’s why people literally can’t fathom why people are afraid of the terminal.

It’s why, even when someone takes the time to explain why, people go, “nah, that couldn’t possibly be it”

It’s like when gun people can’t comprehend why people are afraid of guns. The answer is obvious they just can’t hear it.

Edit: I think I better understand that there are more nuances around the cases now, and I think I’m being unfair by making blanket statements about what is and isn’t obvious

Right, and so if you have no idea what ANY of it means you just bail back to windows.

IMO, caution, wariness, concern, and unfamiliarity manifest as revulsion.

EVs. Solar panels. Heat pumps. Anything outside of CIS heteronormal relationships.

I’m my experience, after the age of like, 25, people (in GENERAL… Obviously many expectations) feel like they’ve got life figured out and push back against pretty much anything that challenges whatever they’ve grown accustomed to.

Nobody bitched about the DOS prompt when nobody knew how to use computers. Young people learned it. Old people insisted computers were a fad and pushed back entirely.

In my calculation, it’s just typical and predictable human response. Open to other theories though.