Tenderizer78

I’d sooner fly on the Hindenburg than Boeing.

Well, at least Twitter would be gone forever.

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.

EDIT: For the record, I run Linux Mint Xfce with Chicago95. Honestly it was a mistake, the vibes of the UI are nice but it still feels kinda Linuxy (as in, held together with duct tape) and I keep roling up Firefox by mistake. SerenityOS or FreeBSD, something Unix-based, may be more what I’m looking for.

I said it was rhetorical. I know the reason is because a lot of people here view the world in pro-America and anti-America with latter being “pure good” and the former “pure evil”.

I wonder what your opinion is on Afghanistan.

Why does everyone on this platform assume that just because I’m pro-Ukraine, I must automatically be pro-Israel (rhetorical question). I’m against any country trying to do a land grab at the cost of human lives.

And whataboutism with Israel doesn’t make Russia bombing schools and hospitals any better. Neither does Ukraine using them to house military equipment and personell.

Russia’s been bombing Ukrainian schools and hospitals, if Russia does retaliate I don’t think a drone attack on war planes is sufficient to call it “provoked”.

I can’t believe Javascript on PDF’s is enabled on default on Firefox. NOBODY wants that.

I considered Proton Drive but stopped when I realized that if I did then access to my email would be contingent on keeping up to date with my subscription, where it wouldn’t on the free tier.

I meant more on the security front than UI, but Librewolf does mention “security” 5 times on their page so I guess they are probably more secure than base FireFox.

Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?

I don’t. I just hope for the best and try to install as few things as possible.

I’m focussing on disaster recovery now, more than prevention. Prevention seems like it’s almost impossible in this age.

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

I answered with a question because your question was absurd.

I support the fight for self-determiniation in Palestine, Hawaii, US territories, Punjab, Taiwan, Ukraine, Somaliland, Kurdistan, and Kosovo. I’d probably support a bunch more fights if I’d have heard of them.

I don’t support, and in no universe will I ever support, Russia’s war of aggression in order to exert control over Ukraine.

Sorry, I got my words mixed up.

Do you support the right to self determination only for the people that want to integrate into Russia, or universally?

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.

Thank you Tampermonkey, for allowing me to fix the YouTube UI.