I scream laughed at this story lol, wasn't expecting that twist xD
Skooshjones
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Even using ad block on most everything, some stuff still leaks through. It's so refreshing once that's all gone, I don't think I can go back either.
Totally! And lol yeah, feels fun to watch, especially the earlier episodes. I quote a lot of Simpsons lines even though I've watched far more snippets and compilations than full episodes haha.
"Sir, why did you wait until the last minute to do your taxes?"
"Because I'm an idiot!"
A little depressing, sounds like so far, research shows it's largely genetic luck.
Still important to live as healthy as you can, but if you wanna live into that super old age, seems like that's up to your genes mostly.
I'm trying to be more optimistic though, they mentioned that in the article :)
So far, same. I've been using social media here like it was originally designed, with real social interaction happening lol.
I agree with you, it feels great to have genuine conversions with folks without the constant feed distractions, obvious karma farming, and non-stop ads every few scrolls.
As for the Simpsons, I haven't watched enough to have an opinion yet haha. What are your top recommendations?
Sounds good!
About to start my journey with it myself :) got a fresh Arch iso ready to go and a tutorial for installing hyprland on top.
Gunna try it tomorrow and start playing around :)
Sniff the air vent softly while playing an intense game. The heat creates a wonderful sweet, sort of electronic savory smell.
It's really lovely. I sniff my Steam Deck air vent probably once or twice a week on average. Some weeks much more if it's cold out.
It feels nice to lightly brush the tip of your nose across the ribs of the went while inhaling too :)
True, and an interesting idea. I wonder though if this will show long term that pure computational methods cannot produce sentience at the level of human beings. I still wonder where AI would be now if analog and fuzzy computing had taken off in the 1950's instead of digital/binary computing.
The ultimate irony if it goes this way. The singularity is inherently impossible, instead of an exponential explosion of machine intelligence, there is an exponential implosion.
Honestly, if the FOSS community wants better adoption of these technologies, there needs to be an stronger emphasis on presentation and UI/UX.
The general public isn't interested in using something that looks janky, behaves glitchy, or requires fiddling with settings to get looking nice.
Say what you want about that, I'm not defending it. I think people should care more about content and privacy/freedom vs just shiny things, but that isn't the world we live in right now.
The big tech corpos know this, companies like Apple have become worth trillions by taking existing tech and making it shiny, sexy, and seamless.
Maybe that is just antithetical to FOSS principles. I don't know what is the correct approach. All I know is I've heard so many folks who are curious about trying out FOSS software give it up because they encounter confusing, ugly, buggy user experiences.
Some FOSS products have figured this out, Bitwarden, Proton Mail, and Brave Browser have super polished and clean UX and generally are as or more stable than their closed-source counterparts.
Sad truth. I'm super happy with my FOSS experience overall, but I'm also a techie and very open to tinkering with stuff.
OP, I like several of your examples though. Lots of the old school tech is really solid. Just needs a clean fast front end in many cases.
My choice is Vim and its variants. Add some plugins, it's a really great way to write code. I have no interest in GUI IDEs anymore since getting my NeoVim installation set up and tuned.