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  • Though when you do encounter problems in windows, they will likely be something that just cant be solved or its unnecessarily big hassle. Or bad stuff will happen that was mostly out of your hands in the first place, like what happened with the article.

    But yeah, there should be a distro that is specificially aimed for tech illiterate people that is nice and easy to use and also safe. But then again, if majority started using linux it might also draw more attention from malicious parties like criminals and corporations. Its just that for me, once you have linux set up and automated, you dont need to do anything complicated with it if you dont want to. At least i havent had to on mint. I understand that basic users can’t do that on their own, but I bet there are tons of people who have skills to do so and could do it for a reasonable pay or even as a favor to friend. People are willing to pay more for less, so why not.




  • no matter how difficult you think linux is to use, can it really be that difficult compared to windows? At least with linux any problems can be solved one way or another and with varying levels of effort. With windows, you just have to deal with the ever increasing levels of bullshit. And if you dont need to do anything complicated and use pc just for browsing, email and other simple stuff, why would you put yourself through using windows to do it? People should really consider if the mental models they have in their heads about different operating systems are actually based on reality.






  • i dont think anything in orbit or space is supportable without a planet. Or at least it would take so much effort and skill to pull it off.

    Or maybe the rich want to have kind of ultimate ivory tower -> they live in luxury in orbital habitats while we slave on the surface for them. Maybe they would want to get somekind of coercion method too, like nuclear arsenal in orbit they could use to threaten any part of the surface that might get too rebellious. At least i can imaging enslaving the entire planet would be something those psychos dream of.

    Well, its not that i think this is what they are planning right now, but it wouldnt put it past them.



  • only way it will be worth putting anything in space is by having a spaceport in there first and some reliable way to haul stuff from ground to it. At least way i see it, at the moment its like building a complex facility on an undiscovered continent with no support. But anything we put there shouldnt be privately owned anyway, or maybe that can be acceptable AFTER we have good and reliable infrastructure there which can deal with the bullshit that comes with privately owned stuff.








  • yeah, i think that is because it knows how research papers should look like and how references look like, but since it has no reasoning, it will just do whatever. I used gpt to diagnose my problem with internet getting cut off and it determined its because of drivers, which sounds reasonable. Then it suggested that i download the latest ones and it did link to correct website but it also tried to download stuff that doesnt exist. No idea how it determined the version numbers and such, maybe based on earlier patterns.

    But it isnt making stuff up, its just outputting the best data it can based on what it has been trained with and what it can find. Its not lazyness but just doing what its doing. Just like code that isnt doing what you want it to do isnt doing it out of malice but because there is a mistake in the code.