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I like Krita. But to be honest, after years and years of using GIMP, I ironically have nothing but trouble trying to rewire my brain to do things any other way. The same problem that many people have when moving from Photoshop to GIMP.

Also, i fundamentally need DDS files, which Krita (AFAIK) doesn't handle.

I actually don't think its a "bad" idea to have an AI helper like a copilot or a Gemini on my computer. But I don't want it integrated into every system. I don't want it to have any more access than I choose to give it each time I use it.

I can see myself making use of a sandboxed AI, installed kind of like a flatpak or an appimage. I can call it up, ask it to do something for me and if it needs access to something temporarily in order to do it, it can ask nicely and I say sure on an as hoc basis and then shut it down again.

In other breaking news: Water continues to be wet. We'll bring you live updates as they become available. Back to you, Tim.

No one has an issue with the notion of creating a technology that allows paralyzed people to control a computer with their mind.

Where people have an issue is that Musk was told multiple times by multiple people that an implant likely will never be 100% feasible because the brain moves around in the skull, making keeping a connection tricky at best and likely impossible. (hence why the threads have retracted)

He's been told on multiple occasions that a non-invasive tech that is both more reliable and less risky is actually FAR more feasible. But his ego and his hard-on for being "edgy" basically makes him want to do things as "sci fi" as possible because a node that sticks to the side of your head isn't as cool as an implant (to him).

Nolan would be just as happy. Just as capable. and just as helpful to the research with something less intrusive, but then Musk wouldn't think of himself as cool.

tl;dr - No one has a problem with the concept. But the invasive way it's being implemented is 100% because of Musk's ego driven self-delusion of himself.

Same. Was thirteen in 89. Graduated in 94. Hit Y2K at 23. Basically peak Clerks/Dazed and Confused generation.

To make matters worse I grew up in a small town where there was nothing better to do THAN do stupid shit with friends.

Yeah. You're right that we've always been dumb and stupid and would do stupid shit to impress our peer group

But I firmly believe social media has inflated the definition of "peer group" to include "internet followers", which jacks the whole stupidity up to 11.

For example, you're a nineties kid walking through the mall with your friends in your JNKO jeans and your slap-it watch. One of your friends decides he's going to be an idiot by balancing on the railing of the second floor and you all have a good laugh. Edit: If his friends hadn't been there, would he have done it? I doubt it. But now his "friends" don't have to be there, because they're just random followers to give him social media points.

That's sort of what I meant. Its not the we didn't do dumb shit as kids, its that social media credit has motivated people to do dumb shit when they normally wouldn't.

Edit: also, WE grew out of it. Nowadays they are socially and financially incentivized to NOT grow out of that phase.

We live in an age where the notion of "thinking something through before doing it", also known as "common sense" has been replaced with the need to get it out there onto the internet as fast as possible before someone else beats you to it. The need for social gratification on the internet beats the need for self-preservation.

The first time I recall realizing this what when another YouTube dipship picked up a Portuguese Man-o-war and people got pissy when it was pointed out how lucky he was to not have been stung and how it was sheer dumb luck that he was still alive

People defended him saying "He didn't know it was dangerous, he didn't know what it was..." And that's the whole fucking point... We used to live in a society were people were smart enough to not touch shit that they don't know if it's dangerous or not. The concept of erring on the side of caution is now abandoned because of stupidity and social media credits.

Can someone just tell Boeing that he has some dirt on them, already...

Exactly. I don't pay for Bitwarden because I need all of its features. I pay because I want to support them and the job that they are doing. The extra features are just a side-effect of that.

Pfft. If you're not building your Linux from scratch, are you really linuxing?

I've been exclusively Linux for years, and all the crap now going on with AI and ads being shoved into literally everything makes me happier than ever with that decision.

But you're absolutely right. Linux is "it just works" in a relatively narrow use-case.

Just going on the internet to browse and play some Facebook games (my parents). It'll absolutely work out of the box.

Doing some light creative work (design, writing, etc...) No tinkering needed.

But from there it becomes a scale from "probably work fine" to "hours of work and extra repositories needed".

Video editing or 3D modelling with an NVIDIA card because CUDA, it SHOULD be easy to install, but there's a chance it won't be. You take your chances.

Gaming through proton? Single player games, yeah. I've literally had 95% work out of the box because Valve is awesome. But I don't play online multiplayer. If you need to play nice with anticheat software, good luck.

I too get frustrated with the fundamentalist Linux base who think its the right fit for everyone. Because it absolutely is not, and its okay to admit that because admitting that drives the motivation to improve it.

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