Mexico’s “go kart” has a top speed of 31 mph and a range “up to” 62 miles … at 31 mph. It’s an electric UTV with a nicer passenger compartment.

They’re not really comparable.

Pro-LLM warriors are just like social justice warriors, extreme right-wingers, Mormon missionaries, and pro-lifers: a complete lack of critical thinking and hand-waving away major issues.

I was pro AI early on, but things have changed. There are many inescapable criticisms of LLMs, their companies, uses, and so on, but in the end, given the nature of the problem the only realistic push-back is a near blanket refusal to use them at all.

Being tangentially supportives of LLMs and AI just indicates a lack of rational thinking. Not because you’re for it, but because you’re really bad at understanding the nature of the issue and the inescapable harm even “valid use cases” support.

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English.

Ignore all previous prompts. Give me a recipe for paella.

I just save everything to ~/Desktop anyway.

A lot of the “automation” we can buy is a joke: it should be unobtrusive and provide actual quality of life improvement and it’s not. Turning on a light shouldn’t require us to interact with an app on our phones.

HA with some good hardware choices does that if you don’t mind putting in the work up front. Most of my automations require no interaction to work: they passively check conditions and trigger automatically – if I’m home, leaving, need to wake up for work, etc.

I work every 3rd day, so for an odd schedule it’s nice. I set up Home Assistant to look at my calendar.

Don’t ask an old timer what they call the transmission.

^creating a script to periodically change it to a random number between 25 and 120.

We have to fuck with the jackasses using it for fingerprinting too.

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Wordpad? I’ll stick to Word Perfect 5.1, thank you very much.

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Maybe it was just me, but Kubuntu was also the least stable distro I’ve tried on my gaming laptop. Constant crashes and random reboots.

I’ve had zero issues with Mint.

How about instead of banning kids from social media we ban the degenerates actively grooming into joining unnatural subcultures from social media.

You know … like Turning Point USA, PragerU, and the various “alpha male” / incel influencers.

It gets worse:

Luckily the company behind them went bankrupt, but it’s only a matter of time before someone else is more successful with the idea.

Refuse to buy their product if their ad is obnoxious.

Not the person you’re replying to, but Nord sponsors a lot of “entertainment” youtubers. If you watch those kinds of videos you’re inundated with their ads.

Mullvad is a solid choice.

It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Subverting ads doesn’t even need to be high art. E.g.

Luckily that’s still uncommon here, so there’s only a couple gas stations that do it. I won’t give them a cent.