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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sometimes friends, in their curiosity, come up to me and ask me, Jordan Belfort-style, "Sell me ~~this pen~~ Linux." Why do I like it so much, they wonder?

And I always tell them:

"Linux is like... the vegan OS. (bear with me) Mac and Windows people don't really care about OSes. People who switch to Linux either find they couldn't be assed to deal with it, or they love it, and those who love it love it. Then they always tell people lol.

A good thing though: because everyone's such an opinionated nerd, the lateral set of problems you run into won't be 'solved' by random Microsoft Forums /sfc scannows or arcane regedits, but by a nut who debugged the entire thing 30 minutes after the bug came to exist to find a workaround. True story.

Buuuut Linux is more of a lateral movement in terms of problems, it's just a tool after all. You solve Microsoft Recall and start menu ads but run into new but tiny annoyances. I find Linux problems easier to fix than Windows ones because of the nerd army thing but if your Windows setup works for you, it works and that's really all that's important. If you do start Linuxing though you'll learn a lot just by osmosis."

And they usually laugh and decide to keep their routines in place. Don't hate me vegans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I use Firefox everywhere else, but for my Android I'm on Brave.

Sure, adblock and tab grouping is a plus but my main reason I use it (i.e. over Firefox) is because of memory. When I have six FF tabs open, my Samsung model shoots at least three down the moment I enter another activity or open a new tab. They survive on Brave.

I'd still use Brave on iOS devices too -- as another commenter said, it's a webkit reskin but at least it's got good Adblock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh.

yeah that's more likely

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In a similar way, I'd learnt an eeny bit about visual composition at one point, and it's helped me understand how something pretty can be uninteresting and something ugly can be interesting. (Maybe it was more obvious to everyone else, especially with the whole image gen sitch (ー﹏一))

Oddly it's made me respect internet-ugly MS Paint stuff more. Like this ancient shitpost.

And nature too of course. The way a red sky refracts in cirrus clouds. Ladybugs on leaves. Elk.

All stuff I normally wouldn't have noticed :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

trawl your boss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Weaving up the wire thingies on chain link fences? What'd you need that for -- did your property fence get a huge hole from a burglar or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, that's definitely a few. Didn't expect an entire set of chainmail to show up in these comments!

And I seem to notice something:

...the armor. But because I want to be done in less than a year (will be part of my wedding outfit)

"Hey, what if I not only learn to play the [Hurdy (Nerdy?) Gurdy, but also learn to play it for my wedding"

Someone's wedding is going to be very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I went to Yalemacs for my Comparative Text Editors PhD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it just feels super different. Somehow it tastes different too.

It's like drinking water out of a red plastic/solid cup vs. a nice clear glass. Or eating sushi using chopsticks instead of by spoon or fork or something.

I wouldn't eat sushi without em :^)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HOA docs didn't even cross my mind, that's resourceful.

Has the AI been particularly accurate, and does it cite where it found your information? With more technical stuff it's always confidently wrong

ty for the response btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Nice, AI with half of the suspicion removed.

Does it save you a lot of time, what do you use it for? I have a somewhat old GPU but have been considering something like this to comb manuals. Does it have a file size constraint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

edit: I realize the below sounds kinda ranty. sorry lol

I'm mildly fortunate but ever since I was a kid I saw the rank race as insufferable as well. Since the start of high school I felt that way. Every step of college apps, standardized tests made me physically grimace.

Kids in my hs class obsessed over ranks. "You let this guy beat you? Chump." "I'm taking all AP classes, I'm a workaholic!" "Did you know so-and-so got into Princeton? She's so smart!" Superficial as fuck. Talk about something more interesting than numbering people, I beg of you.

The SAT depressed me. I did good, but only because I read at an unholy speed, I wasn't super smart or anything. And I saw lots of kids get average SATs because of home trouble or not being a test killer or being unable to afford time or money for SAT training or not being able to take the SAT 5 times. Instant sieve.

Even in my undergrad people were ranky af. "Oh, yeah, I got waitlisted for Cornell, I got rejected from MIT, I got deferred from Carnegie-Mellon..." Shut up, please shut up. Whether it's innocent or not, it helps no one and does nothing.

About your brief digression with Trump. My undergrad was heavy on DEI, and I think a lot of people disliked it but kept their mouth shut. I felt neutral either way but I'd hear conversations like

"Why didn't I get into this program? What did the others do that I didn't have?"

"Oh, he's gay."

"Fuck, I shoulda been gay! Maybe I should apply for random scholarships and pretend I'm 1% Irish or whatever."

even though they'd switch and say

"DEI is important for disadvantaged groups..."

during the orientation meeting. So I can see where a lot of modern hostility comes from, even though the effects of said hostilities have put America worse off.

cheap sailboat and live off the grid

Dreamy. Make sure you stay safe :P

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