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If we Americans

It's not you, it's Big Tech. There's no use bundling yourself with greedy billionaires, and it may actually harm you in the long run, IMO.

Combat the inner enemies in the ways you can. You are not the one.

It essentially is multiple OSes, one host and plethora of separate virtual machines that only communicate what they were designed to communicate.

This way pretty much nothing can get access to userspace.

App that mimics wireless debugging device and allows you to access ADB functionality locally. Widely used to perform actions that are normally unavailable on non-rooted devices. Some apps rely on functionality provided by Shizuku - for example, Canta, which allows you to delete any app, including undeletable pre-installed ones.

When I first tried it out in a VM, it was just a pinch of curiosity. Some people argue for Linux, so, maybe there's some merit to that? And, unlike MacOS, you can install it anywhere without all the hackery.

When I actually tried it (my first one was Manjaro KDE, and that's what I stuck with for my first 1,5 years later when I decided to go for a real install), I was amazed at how smooth and frictionless everything is.

The system is blazing fast, even on a limited VM, there's no bloat anywhere, no ads, no design choices to trick you into doing something you don't want to. The interface is way more ergonomic and out of the way at the same time. Seriously, Microsoft, do learn from KDE, pretty please.

So, when I moved to a new home, I decided that my virtual home needs an upgrade as well. I installed Linux alongside Windows (on two different physical drives), and ran it as dual-boot ever since. Not that I address Windows that much (normally about once in two to three months), but it's handy to keep around.

Later, I went into some distro-hopping and also got a laptop, which has become my testing grounds. After trying various options, namely Mint, Arch/EndeavourOS, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, I gravitated towards the latter, and I use it as my regular daily driver on both my desktop (Tumbleweed) and laptop (Slowroll). I love how it manages to keep the system both up-to-date and extremely stable, and has everything set up just right (except KDE defaults, what the hell is wrong with SUSE folks on that end? Luckily, it takes 5 minutes to change). So, there it is!

Bought a 19-year-old secondhand Brother printer 2 years ago, still working flawlessly, and everything (drum, toner, etc.) is available when needed.

Got hacked?

You okay?

Lack of jobs is not a problem; the system that makes us work BS jobs or die is.

AI replacing some of the workforce is a good thing; businesses firing people they don't need anymore and state leaving them without a safety net is the core issue.

Being against a new wave of automation is just being a luddite. Yet, as religion generally supports the capitalist mode of production and conservative policy, it cannot offer a way out and just blames tools for societal shortcomings.

Vigilantes are pretty much always odd in applying their "justice".

Which is why we have police, y'know

These are all good options! In person testing is certainly on my list, and I like the ideas with WIP versions (especially for larger submissions) and commentary.

I also think of more presentation format submissions where I could ask quick questions to see if the person actually understands what is written. Sort of a small defense.

On technical means, I welcome different forms of AI poisoning in tasks: these don't always work, but they can catch the least attentive.

LLM boom has certainly affected education - complicating things for honest students and at the same time empowering cheaters.

Having studied both pre- and post-boom, I can say the amount of times I was offered to use LLMs overall and ChatGPT/Gemini specifically to generate answers as a student has gone through the roof.

And as a soon-to-be educator (I currently pursue PhD and aspire to teach others), I collect ideas on how to combat it, as it tanks the quality of education so much it may as well be nonexistent. But in any case, students that genuinely complete their assignments should not be harshly affected.

Every English class at my uni has huge, like 10-page essays (can you even call them essays at this point?) where we cover scientific developments in our field we discovered in that month.

Everything is handwritten because "there were students who used LLMs, and they need to be sure at least some effort is put into admission". Like, just to spite on LLM users and all of us just in case.