Kirk

Not defending the behavior in question, but Linux nowadays is MUCH simpler to understand than Windows or MacOS. It is by far the easiest operating system to change to, and the easiest to learn if you are somehow not familiar with any. From a user standpoint it's the least "techie" OS now (aside from mobile OS of course).

What you describe about "needing to take courses" was true ten years ago, it was probably true three years ago. It is just simply not true now.

The disappointing answer is that those performing the insurrection on Jan 6th, as well as those that would stand to gain, are more concerned with being in power rather than respecting justice and the rule of law.

Yes you nailed it. Kamala recently expressed sadness at the level of capitulation, saying she didn't expect it. A lot of us had a rude awakening in the days after J6 when we realized that lot of our fellow citizens did not take the lessons on democracy taught to us since grade school to heart.

He kind of was in a way. The 2016 primary featured a dozen Bush wannabes, and Trump just went on stage and embarrassed them all by pointing out all the things they did horribly wrong (war, healthcare, etc), he correctly identified what made Republicans unelectable nationally. People related to that anger.

Honestly the racism I (sadly) understand. But to see the support for him not only continue but increase after violently trying to overthrow the government was truly a shock. For a brief moment it looked like he lost the support of Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham among other "traditional" Republicans but within days it was back to business as usual.

How would you do presence detection (getting home)

I have a sensor on my front door that triggers an automation that sends a text to everyone's phones that is (supposed to) trigger a location update. It then waits ten seconds and checks everyone's phones to see what wifi network they are connected to, it then waits another ten seconds and if nobody's location is "home", or nobody's wifi is the home network, then it texts everyone an alert of a possible break in.

Only about 50% of the time does it correctly identify someone legitimately coming home lol

Kbin had it. I don't know about Mbin.

Consider yourself blessed to be unaware of the entire digital media ecosystem that targets insecure white men via their preferred fandoms and is dedicated to blaming women and minorities for their issues.

This is hilarious to me so I looked up the original article and I am pretty sure that it is largely written by AI.

Also, not that it needs or deserves any kind of analysis, but the central premise (as much as I can decipher from all the ChatGPT fluff) appears to be: "Because Trekkies are conservative, Star Trek is doing everything it can to make men hate it." which obviously makes no sense. Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it's core demographic?

Anyway thanks for the laugh, OP.

Thankfully I don't think economic demand for AI generated visuals is nearly as high as the human crafted variety

I was going to report to the mod but... the mod is the one who posted it. Guess I'm unsubbing.

When billionaires complain about how windmills "ruin the view" but then are quiet about oil rigs, you can tell that it's not about the view.

That's really astute, I've never seen that comparison drawn so directly. It's the same situation with the people who claim that AI "democratizes" art by allowing someone to have a "work" of art without putting in the work of creating which is what makes a work a thing to be desired in the first place.