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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Do a web search for 'color pallet' and pick one that looks good with your black replacing the darkest color

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Talking to women is the same as talking to men. Treat them like people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can appreciate that. Especially if the files in question are of sentimental value.

I would suggest transferring your files to a new drive anyway because of bit rot.

Being the typical helpful (pushy and self-important) Linux user, I might add there is no reason you can´t transfer them to Linux 😜

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If it isn't for professional reasons you absolutely can't avoid, I would switch wholesale. As a once famous song said "Freedom isn't free. It costs folks like you and me. Andif you don't put in your buck o five who will?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure they are committed to losing and not committed to trying to win by adopting republican tactics?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's really opaque. We won't know the environmental impact right away. Part of the larger problem is, while folks like you and I make a sizable impact, it's nothing compared to enterprise usage at scale. Every website, app, and operating system with an AI button makes it even easier for users to interface with AI leading to more queries. Not only that, those queries and responses are collected and used to further make queries.

Should the usage of AI stay stable, improved hardware would decrease carbon output. We should be cautious coming to that conclusion. What is more likely is that increased efficiency will lead to increased usage. Perhaps at an accelerated rate with the anticipation of even more technological breakthroughs down the line.

All that said, I'm really not a doomer. It's important we all consider the cost of our choices. The way I see it, we are all going to die eventually. I'm old enough it will probably be from something else.

 

Our university is hosting an AI summit with a student panel, a faculty panel, and attendee participation segments. It would be great to get panel questions, but we really need multiple choice, strongly agree/disagree, and yes/no style clicker questions for the attendees. Remembering they are primarily non-technical, with a wide range of exposure to the topic, what would you ask the crowd?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Who's fault is that? The author or the publisher? Or the college board? Or the accreditation organizations? Or ed tech at large? Place blame where it belongs. Fuck Cengage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The correct answer is no 🙅‍♀️

 

How do you "Do as as I say, not as I do"?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People talk about being there "for" someone. Here being there "with" him is more important. Something as mundane as letting him take a nap on your couch while you fold laundry. The more regular, boring or routine the better. Best if it's something you can do without talking. That's harder since you can't go see each other, but maybe just leaving a video call on or suggesting it to someone else would help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to call you out, but it always perplexes me that people do this without considering why.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There are worse things in our daily lives. Like the giant pothole you hit on the way to the store. Your neighbors dog shitting in your yard. The stack of TPS reports your asshole boss left on your desk. These have a direct negative impact on your life. Regardless of their agenda, politicians will always have less impact on us than our daily does of regular human bullshit.

Pessimistic as that may be, there's an upshot. As many times as that dog shits on your grass, you might watch your favorite baseball team win. Or for every TPS report, you have a real sincere laugh at the water cooler. Think about the scope. Keep it in perspective.

Note: This is meant for the people who leaned hard into the move to Canada meme last time. Obviously, there are people who's lives will be irrevocably be changed. Check your privilege and fight for those who lack it. People of conviction don't hide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Counter question. Enjoying those up votes?

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A friend of mine has a daughter who is too young for a smart phone, but he still wants her to be able to listen to music on the go. I found the following devices using spotify. Have you used any of these or do you have any alternative suggestions?

https://www.tunepat.com/spotify-music-tips/portable-spotify-music-player.html

Edit: found what I was looking for. https://bemighty.com/

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When I get fast food, I don't eat the fries until I get home.

 

As an American, the US participation in the Ukrainian conflict as well as the Palestinian genocide are beyond reproach. Many describe them as proxy wars, but I'm not there yet.

During the Cold War, there was the Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc. These were proxy wars because there was a clear adversary on the other side. The Soviet Union.

Now, who is that? Russia? China? Who is "our enemy"? I see it was war is good for business and projection of power.

Am I wrong?

 

Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't?

Thoughts?

 

FOSS or otherwise

 

My understanding of google analytics is that it is a 'free' tool which gives site operators bird's eye information on site traffic like the old fashion visitor counters all the way down to very granular information like what buttons users click on.

I have no idea what google tag service does. Based on a prior conversations I've had, I believe it has something to do with SEO.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, use the developer tools in Firefox to view the HTML of the page you are on. In the header you'll see javascript blocks. You'll see google analytics and tag service on just about every site, often meta or amazon, and some with completely unidentifiable names. I imagine the latter are the non big tech third parties we accept with cookies, but I'm not sure about that either.

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