annas archive is very nice

at least with llm one can always get some help. not necessarily good help and maybe even be misdirected by ones own misconceptions that the llm could reinforce. But with little things like what some obscure thing that is obvious to experienced users is, or how to do something not too complicated.

But i wouldnt rely on it to troubleshoot arcane problems, did that myself and later it turned out the problem was somewhere completely different i thought and it “suggested”. I think it proposed at some point the problem could be where it actually was but i was convinced it couldnt be that and i thought i had ruled it out myself earlier. Then i noticed much later that i missed something when i tested things to rule out that particular source of problem. I guess one could still use it to get information on how to gather information yourself, that might be relevant to someone who actually knows something. And it could do some analyzing on logs and other system information files to find patterns human couldnt find without a lot of expertise.

mine has started acting up quite badly,

-from the start the internet has cut off randomly, likely due to driver issues or hardwareissue. Fixed only by complete restart. There seems to be no pattern, only that machine spirit gets angry if i use internet too much or sometimes just because i woke it up.

-Sometimes when i start the pc it takes really long time to boot and just stays in black screen,

-there are always kind of worrying error messages on startup and shutdown, something about rdseed being broken, something about data being lost, something about a thing hogging the processor and maybe switch to hq_unbound,

-sometimes the pc just refuses to shutdown when shutdown and everything else goes offline but fans keep running.

All of this has just slowly accumulated overtime, without me doing anything that should have caused it.

Yet funnily enough, i’m STILL very much more satisfied than with windows that didnt have that much immidiate issues.

that someone wants all the dissenters to their agenda listed so they can be dealt with later after they have removed more rights from people. control and removal of “unwanted” is the only reason this is pushed. Maybe the rich elite is getting antsy over how the climate breakdown is starting to affect regular people more and more and they want to be ready when people might start questioning if its good to have parasitic class.

i never really even got in, now i dont even want to anymore

them having no control or forethought makes thing worse for all of us. In my opinion, its in essence same type of behavior as throwing trash on the street.

because what you buy is what you support. and a lot of people support this shit. Buying stuff from companies should be viewed as sign of endorsement of their actions.

the “i do what i want with my money” people are so annoying. i wish they would be on the suffering side for change, maybe it would teach a little solidarity for others.

at some point, if they manage to make everything so difficult to get that its just not worth the time, i wonder if some start to consider if they should turn their attention to striking back. For me, watching stuff is mostly letting focus on other things than how shitty the world is. If all of it was taken away from me, i dont know what i would do.

not the part of shadowrun i wanted to become reality

nowdays you never know

is this hyperbole or is that actually a thing?

you wouldn’t preserve media important to you from disappearance!

just dont make this too obvious to the companies that do this if its possible, otherwise they will try to hide their bots better.

Also, is there a “tos” for open source projects, kind of like what is acceptable behavior and what is not? Directly calling out ai generated “contributions” as malicious and unwanted would at least remove the facade from them as non hostile.

Like, if someone trys to add malicious code to the project, that is definitely gainst some kind of agreement, no? So add slop to it too.

i recommend using portmaster, its kind of extra firewall since windows default is shit. At least you’ll be able to see if something you install is connecting to internet and maybe even block it, though if you dont pay you get only 15min history data. Maybe it wont help preventing infections, but it might help mitigate damage and potentially reveal strange traffic, though i wouldnt count on it too much. Better than nothing at least.

Or if there is some other program that does the same but is better then go with that, just dont rely on default firewall imo.

to me, gnome seems to be just bad ui design for people with stockholm syndrome about it.

if i ran a privacy focused company, i would keep records that are just wrong and dont link to correct people at all. If i actually need to make records maybe i would make somekind of system where i personally can use them, kind of like extra cypher on top of everything else that would transform/pick the useless data into actual data. So if someone demands the records and i just have to give them, i’ll just give them -> they cant get anything out of them anyway.

Can’t demand me to be competent too 🤷‍♂️ maybe i would give excuse that i used ai to wibe code the thing

if too many people know about the site, it will draw attention of the corpos too. that is why i cant fathom why some video sites i have used even tell you to share the site with other people in social media or whatnot.

at least this would create quite nice case if someone has to defend oneself in court. Either one can defend oneself with it or its dismissed and it proves that law does not apply to the rich.

majority of the applications i use are installed via f-droid. I couldnt even use my phone if i lost them. For example the default camera is piece of shit that just turns the pictures black and doesnt even have good options, while the open camera has everything one could hope for.