Tenderizer78

Oh, I see, I thought you could only pick one on that drop-down menu. Which when combined with the warning that deselecting “unspecified” would hide basically all posts, makes the menu seem useless.

Likes:

• Small size, which makes it better. Quality over quantity.
• That it’s not American.
• Abundance of highly technical Linux/Security/Privacy discussion (I assume, could be technobabble for all I know).

Dislikes:

• No mute button. I want to see what the pro-Russia people post in the Privacy, Degoogle, and Linux communities, but I don’t want to hear their replies when it comes to politics. Actually, maybe there should be a “block only within this community” button.
• Replies don’t ever load. I have to open the comment in an incognito the see the replies to said comment.
• Can’t select a language for my posts on this instance. And in the Australia instance I have to scroll down through 100 languages to select English. I should be able to select the languages I know in my profile and only choose from them for my post.
• Still need a Reddit account for r/manga and r/liminalspace. Probably always will.

If anything it’s a multi-track drift.

Then let me instead zero in on a different idea, from before I edited in the TLDR. “Both sides are made up of horrible people, just with different policy”

Ukraine, deportations, invasion of Canada/Greenland/Panama, and tariffs are the few areas where there is an actual difference. Biden absolutely would let Netanyahu keep doing what he’s doing.

When it comes to the morality and corruption of the candidates, they’re both the same. It’s just foreign policy and social issues where they differ.

TLDR: Short-term they’re different, long-term it all comes out in the wash. Or it would if Russia wasn’t trying to erase Ukraine from the map.

Both sides are complicit in genocide. Sure, technically both sides aren’t the same, but once you get to that level you’re splitting hairs.

While those of us who are wealthier like to make fun of poor people who vote for Republicans because they’re the pro-corporate candidate, strictly speaking they’re just the ones who are honest about it. LGBT rights, immigrant rights, and the rule of law are important but they’re also mirages. The democrats sold out LGBT people and immigrants as soon as they saw it wasn’t helping them (that isn’t to say it was hurting them, just not helping), and the rule of law has barely been a thing for a while in America.

Obama double-tapped children using drones, so he could get the paramedics too.

America is a unique country. One where the left-wing party has become the right, and vice-versa. As a result the supposed left-wing party in the Democrats is built on a foundation of slavery. That can’t be repaired without a miracle.

Mint is the best distro for people who need you to tell them the distro.

I use Mint on my Laptop but once Windows is done for I’m switching to:

1. Fedora, OpenSUSE, Secureblue, or something with KDE Plasma (security, stability, and ease of use priority)
2. Bazzite (for games, and dual-booted into to protect the security of my daily driver)
3. OpenBSD or something (so if something like Crowdstrike or Wannacry happens but for Linux, I have an alt)

I’m not an expert, but OpenBSD may be a wildcard option. I’ll leave considering that to somebody else.

I wonder how, a group of people who’s entire job it is to determine who’s worthy of a nobel peace prize, can make the mistake of awarding it to someone who bombs civilians (I think it was hundreds per year until Trump stopped publishing the numbers).

They missed at least one.

That’s where I’ll need to flex my con artist muscles.

I have some rewrites I’d like to make to the US constitution.

I want both sides to lose this war. I don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, and I don’t want Israel to continue to have the military and economic strength it currently holds.

Just as with the US and Russia, both sides can suck. And Ukraine/Palestine get caught in the middle (although in the case of Ukraine, all the fault lies with Russia).

I’d sooner fly on the Hindenburg than Boeing.

Nationalize the drug industry.

Bluetooth didn’t work on my laptop. Got new bluetooth card (exact same type). Bluetooth still didn’t work.

Turns out:

1. The specific card doesn’t support Linux.
2. My laptop has a hardware whitelist in the BIOS that prevents me from installing any other card.
3. My headphones don’t support USB bluetooth.

We are not currently on track for the world to end. Things are bad, but not that bad.

Yes, it is a lot. But again not apocalyptic. And it’s noteworthy how the article tries to frame it hyperbolically as “22% of US household consumption”.

This article is dubious. When it comes to training it uses a lot of sensationalist and unsupported estimates. Notice the following quote:

OpenAI and President Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, which aims to spend $500 billion—more than the Apollo space program—to build as many as 10 data centers (each of which could require five gigawatts, more than the total power demand from the state of New Hampshire).

I am DEEPLY sceptical of those figures. Like, what data center uses FIVE BLOODY GIGAWATTS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FIVE GIGAWATTS IS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT’D COST.

The use of metaphor is also concerning, comparing it to San Francisco or New Hampshire or household electricity consumption.

America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says “22% of household consumption in 2028”, which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption. A lot, but not apocalyptic and merely a projection for future power consumption. It’s also less than the 50GW to 10 data centers alone in the line I quoted above.

It’s right in that the core problem is that we don’t know and so I can’t fault it for assuming the worst, but even then there are limits.

As for the usage, the document you linked puts generating an image using stable diffusion at 400W seconds, or as much as my computer consumes at idle for 8 seconds. I’m gonna stop reading this article because I’m tired and this isn’t worth it.

I’m not pro-AI. I don’t like how it makes it so easy to fill the internet with slop. I don’t like how it discourages the people who use it from any and all critical thought. I’ve used AI twice, to reword by assignment questions in college because no amount of googling made the phrasing make sense. All I want is for the fearmongering about AI power consumption to stop, not just because it’s inaccurate, but also because it encourages investment into gas-fired power generation to “prepare for the AI boom”.

Social media, including Lemmy, doesn’t warrant that.