And that just underlines my decision to quit Duolingo when it got contaminated with AI stop.

I can tell you from experience that AI was worse at teaching me a language than humans were.

I’m running a pair of nvidia cards. An 3080ti drives 4, and a 4060 drives the other two.

PC is a 12700 with 64gb and 4tb of ssd. Running Arch and KDE. Sometimes Hyprland when KDE is being a pig.

Yup! Running Gnome on my laptop is dreamy, but on my 6-screen desktop it’s a mess - ends up feeling like a huge phone. KDE handles the desktop perfectly, tho!

Because Oracle sucks donkey balls.

People went to Qatar to sit in slave-built stadiums. Don’t expect any morals from FIFA fans.

This is why Canadians won’t cross the border. The US is no longer a safe country to visit. Innocent people being thrown in to concentration camps and shipped off to El Salvadore to die… Thanks, but no thanks. Ima go to France this holiday instead. Nice and safe over there.

There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.

Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.

Yet another reason to look at non US CPUs going forward. Either RISC-V or ARM from Europe/Korea.

This. Only the server owner needs a plexpass.

The AI slop is why I quit Duolingo after my 1500+ day streak.

Fascist gonna fash.

Yup, between that and the lack of gun control is no wonder the US is the way it is. On paper, that level of freedom is lovely. In practice it just lets the worst people be violent assholes with zero consequences.

I’ll take the German/Canadian/NZ approach every day!

Yup. Same goes for being employed - if they’re publicly traded they’ll almost certainly treat their staff like absolute garbage.

Not sure I agree that it’s sinophobic. Acknowledging that Trump has literally handed a narrow race to China due to the Republican hatred/gutting of science doesn’t seem 'phobic to me…

The policy damage is easily repairable. The reputation damage is going to take a lot longer. Trust is hard to gain and easy to lose, and the US has been shedding a LOT of trust recently.

Hell, you couldn’t pay me to cross the border right now. (Literally - my employer offered me a 20% raise to go work in the NY office and I laughed at them.) I don’t want to risk getting a one way trip to El Salvodore because some psycho with a badge doesn’t like the shirt I’m wearing, or whatever fucking excuse they use.

Decades. Lifetimes, even.
The US has shown that it’s not a reliable partner. Sure, the next pres might be sane, but what about the one after that? They’ve shown they’re more than happy to elect a con man and do sfa to keep him in check - they’ve done it twice now, so it’s near 100% that they’ll do it again.

The entire USA is in FO stage of FAFO, and now China and Europe will be the players to watch. I mean, other than watching the US flush itself down the toilet to own the Libs, obvs.

So much this. Closest we get seems to be a Prius. :(

Bones

But might be cheating since it’s The Crystal Method. https://youtu.be/trmaxIG-1bE

Hell ya! Whole soundtrack is amazing!

Understanding is a three edged sword.