MonkeMischief

Argh I found out the same thing about NFS! I was so confused!

You can still put it in FStab though, if you want it accessible on boot. :)

Well the war in the USA would be so unpopular with the USA they'd be pressured to withdraw from the USA...but they'd stick around for another decade because defense contractors' stonks were still doing great.

Ha! I just did something like that. I thought I had "orphaned" BTRFS snapshots taking up space.

I opened a file explorer as root...I deleted this one that wasn't listed.

Oh wait..."Writable snapshot"...? Oh...no.

Yeah suddenly no programs or anything worked. Sadly there was no snapshot restoring out of that one! (That I would be capable of, anyway!)

So yeah, I managed to deliberately bumble past several safeguards into the "I should know what I'm doing" area, and found a magical way to rm -rf / from the GUI, essentially. Wee!

Thankfully, /home was its own partition, so aside from minor inconveniences bringing .configs back over and other little tweaks I'd implemented, I have reinstalled OpenSUSE Tumbleweed leaner, meaner, and cleaner. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ACTUALLY, glad I backed up /home before the reinstall because the first reinstall attempt failed and wiped it!

Backups, kids. They really are the difference between "Aw darn, live and learn."...and complete heartbreaking despair.

Hehe if you're REALLY broke you get "benevolent" corporate grants for things like cheap Chromebooks, so Google can write off a huge donation while vendor-locking school infrastructure and student mindshare into their "cloud services."

EXACTLY. High-five!

That's what I worry about. Right now we can ignore social media somewhat, but if Ai gets wedged into contracts with government/infrastructure and other unavoidable daily life, I imagine that's where a plausible threat could come from.

I've no doubt such things are already in the works. Ai controlled traffic lights or something, for instance. Obviously the military and law enforcement are already giddy about it, of course.

Giving a stupid machine a seemingly simple goal to pursue and the wrong set of keys could lead to disasterous consequences, I think. We also have the whole "Do Ai cars protect the driver or all human life even if it risks the driver?" Debate.

"But it's trendy, it's the future! And there's so much venture capital involved, how lucrative!" Seems to be how major decisions are made these days.

I don't see it some day "waking up" and thinking "I feel like humans are unnecessary." It's scarier than that...it will see us as just another variable to control and "maximize" us out of the picture.

I don't forsee it becoming "sentient" so much as "Being given a stupid amount of access and resources to figure out a problem by itself, and stupidly pursuing the maximization of that goal with zero context."

There's that darkly humorous hypothetical that an Ai tasked with maximizing making paperclips would continue to do so, using every resource it could get a hold of, and destroying any threat to further paperclip production!

So that, with data center expansion and water. Lol

See "paperclip maximizer" under "hypothetical examples" Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

Aw that's such a bummer! I don't have a ton of experience here but currently I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and something it does is say "This dependency can't be satisfied, what do you want to do?"

You can usually "keep obsolete", "remove the thing", "ignore this and risk breaking it".

If I keep hitting "keep obsolete" and it just goes in circles, I wait a few weeks and usually everything has been pushed by then. :)

I wonder if this mismatch could be from the 'buntu distros holding back certain packages differently from KDE's schedule... I sadly don't know enough to comment. 😅

EDIT: sorry for comment spam! Jerboa having issues posting, hope it doesn't show up and I tried to delete duplicates. XD

The best time to play with Linux as a daily driver system is now.

Play around with some virtual machines using VirtualBox for instance, do some installs, try distros, try desktop environments see what you fancy. Cool thing about playing with VMs is if you tank a system you can just delete and start over. :)

An old laptop to try a real "bare-metal" install to play with is even better.

This way, when MS says "Win10 is gonna be left to rot as security swiss cheese and your only option is Ai-enabled telemetry-infested account-mandatory nonsense."

You can just comfortably jump to something you've already gotten familiar with!

The 'Deck can be used as a "real computer" too! It's worth playing around in Desktop mode to just get used to how using Linux and KDE feels.

Wishing you all the best. :)

I feel the same way. I'm not a pro programmer or anything, but we can still be positive members of the community and help out users and share why Linux is a better alternative, and that's gotta count for something! :)