I think that's what the US government is trying to do.

Because the whole thing is just AI slop made to shill the creator's website debugging tool.

As long as it's cooked properly, I prefer white meat for most applications specifically because it has less flavor and fat than dark meat, making it more versatile. I also just don't like a lot of strong flavors and prefer relatively bland food. 🤷

As a US citizen, I sometimes realize how lucky I am to be living here, even with the political climate. I acknowledge that I have less agency than many that are wealthier than I am, but I'm still better off than many who live in other areas or don't have the support system that I do. Particularly when considering people of similar status in other countries.

It does feel somewhat precarious, because it seems like the agency that I do have could largely disappear in short notice at the whim of the government or economy... but I'm trying to enjoy it while I can, and live life to the best of my ability without fretting too much.

Personally, I'd hate to have anywhere near the agency of the "top 100" people, because I don't want the kind of responsibilities that come with that. I'm fine with my meager existence as a tradesperson, keeping to myself and my community.

Ahh, yeah that makes sense... when I first started HRT I thought some of the stuff I heard he was doing was interesting but I never got caught up in the cult of personality. Well, maybe a little, but I wasn't a very emotionally healthy person and I'm well past that.

Ego is a hell or a drug and it does sound like he has a lot of it.

I've been out of the loop for a while; what problems are there with Dr. Powers?

Fiat currency like the US dollar is just as intrinsically worthless. It has value only because people accept that it does, they trade with it, and it has legal status as tender "for all debts, public and private".

People trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for goods all the time, without converting it to USD or anything first. I mean, yeah, usually the thing they're buying is drugs or something but it's the same as handing your local dealer a $20 bill.

Torrenting can be faster than normal downloads. A file server with a fast connection that's not overloaded can easily be faster than a P2P download that doesn't have very many peers, or the peers all have slow connections. There's no fixed percentage speed boost that you get, because sometimes you don't.

That said, for things like Linux ISOs or archives of stuff that people just keep seeding forever but aren't hosted on fast file servers (if at all), it's great and typically the bottleneck is your own connection.

Well it already got cold, hence the sticking together in the first place. All they need to do is get it hot again.

Does watching episodes 5-7 (S1) of Lower Decks count?

What distribution are you using? In my experience, ease-of-use varies wildly between software and hardware configurations.

There are systems that are built for Linux support, and some system builders (like System 76 and Pop!_OS) bundle their own distros with their machines, which makes for a better experience overall.

There's also ChromeOS, which is technically Linux (in the same way that Android is), which is typically regarded as one of the most reliable and easy to use, and recently is available to install on nearly any machine.

That said, Linux is very much different from Windows. With Windows, the GUI is baked into the system and you can do almost anything without touching the terminal. In Linux, being familiar with (or at least not afraid of) the command line is a requirement to really getting things done.

One of the biggest issues with Linux is that installing applications isn't non-destructive to the system unless you're using Flatpak or Nix or something. Applications being installed, upgraded, removed, etc. and not putting things back the way that they were or that other applications expect them to be is probably the biggest source of frustration.

Once we have a reliable community distribution, which uses only containerized/sandboxes apps (a la ChromeOS), I think adoption for the average user will be a lot easier. Until then, just avoid using apt whenever possible.

I do worry about how the community will handle when that eventually becomes a problem, or how the community might keep it from becoming a problem in the first place. Low-quality posts are inevitable with a sufficiently large user base.