Crank that knob up to 11: Using multiple computers simultaneously to manage all your shit—with some having special hardware dedicated to the task!

You only use four virtual desktops‽

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Now we get in trouble for generating each other’s homework 🤷

When you “steal” something, the original owner doesn’t have that thing anymore.

When you “copy” something, the original owner still had it.

Stop calling it stealing, damnit! We fought these wars with the MPAA and RIAA in the 90s. By calling it “stealing” you’re siding the the older villains.

AI isn’t stealing or copying anything. It’s generating stuff. If it was truly copying things that would mean someone wrote all that “AI slop” that’s poisoning everyone’s search results.

They’re not stealing anything. Nor are they “repackaging” anything. LLMs don’t work like that.

I know a whole heck of a lot of people hate generative AI with a passion but let’s get real: The reason they hate generative AI isn’t because they trained the models using copyrighted works (which has already been ruled fair use; as long as the works were legitimately purchased). They hate generative AI because of AI slop and the potential for taking jobs away from people who are already having a hard time.

AI Slop sucks! Nobody likes it except the people making money from it. But this is not a new phenomenon! For fuck’s sake: Those of us who have been on the Internet for a while have been dealing with outsourced slop and hidden marketing campaigns/scams since forever.

The only difference is that now—thanks to convenient and cheap LLMs—scammers and shady marketers can generate bullshit at a fraction of the cost and really, really quickly. But at least their grammar is correct now (LOL @ old school Nigerian Prince scams).

It’s humans ruining things for other humans. AI is just a tool that makes it easier and cheaper. Since all the lawsuits and laws in the world cannot stop generative AI at this point, we might as well fix the underlying problems that enable this bullshit. Making big AI companies go away isn’t going to help with these problems.

In fact, it could make things worse! Because the development of AI certainly won’t stop. It will just move to countries with fewer scruples and weaker ethics.

The biggest problem is (mostly unregulated) capitalism. Fix that, and suddenly AI “taking away jobs” ceases to be a problem.

Hopefully, AI will force the world to move toward the Star Trek future. Because generating text and images is just the start.

When machines can do just about everything a human can (and scale up really fast)—even without AGI—there’s no future for capitalism. It just won’t work when there’s no scarcity other than land and energy.

They’re a pain, yeah but no worse than Windows. I want to point out that with Intel/AMD your drivers update in the background (like everything else) and you experience no issues at all. With Nvidia, the drivers will update in the background and—until you reboot—some apps can get a bit glitchy. The same shit happens with Windows even though Nvidia claims they can update the drivers without requiring a reboot. My father-in-law’s brand new Windows 11 PC has the exact same sort of glitching/crashes that I experience in Linux with games (when the Nvidia driver updates; if you haven’t rebooted).

The only reason why Windows users don’t experience it as much is because Windows forces you to reboot all the fucking time. Windows users have just accepted this as a natural part of using a PC.

That is the pain of the Nvidia drivers. It’s not a huge deal—just annoying.

This screenshot is just an FYI at some of your options. I’ve got bottles, PortProton, and the ProtonTricks launcher as options for any given EXE/MSI installer. Bottles is usually all that’s necessary but I have the others for super tricky stuff like embedded software development BS that would never be encountered by a normal person (haha).

FANTASTIC! I love that 100% of the games I want to play work great without issue but what I love even more is the conveniences that Linux provides over Windows:

• It is trivially easy to sync my configs/saves/game data across my network to different PCs with rsync -ave ssh (i.e. if I want to play on the big screen via the HTPC).
• I can do the same with my phone using the FolderSync Android app (which supports sync over SSH just like rsync).
• I can script stuff! Example: A lot of games (especially those with 3rd party mods) can be buggy AF and as a result of that, increase the possibility of corrupting my saves/game/world data. For these games I use rdiff-backup right there in the save/game/world directory every 10 minutes with say, 100 backups. Put that in a cron job and the worst that happens is I lose 10 minutes.
• If the game has a server, chances are there’s already a native Linux version which means I can run it locally on my PC in the background or just sync my whole game over to another of my Linux PCs and run it there. No need for complicated setups where you have to manage things across two completely different operating systems (like Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ahahaha; that’s a joke poking fun at the Windows ecosystem if you don’t get it 🤣).
• I actually have the power to control where my sound goes on the fly and it actually fucking works (unlike Windows where you get to pick one device at a time and good luck keeping that one active if you have a Bluetooth audio device that likes to lose its connection from time to time… Ugh). You can actually do weird shit like send your audio over the network to a whole home’s worth of PCs (or stream it over the Internet I guess) but I only ever did that once and man was it cool, haha. Still, it’s nice to have the option (some open source dev worked really hard to make sure that works; and fantastically well too).
• Multiple applications can use the GPU at the same time (if you’re using Wayland) and that actually works properly. Unlike in Windows—where if you enable “hardware acceleration” in an app like Discord it can suddenly become slow AF scrolling when you’ve got a game open in the background.
• You have vastly more control over gamepad/controllers in Linux than you do in Windows. In Windows—if your controller is detected properly (which hopefully doesn’t require that you download a ~4GB of driver/bloat app bullshit)—you can test the buttons in the Settings/Control Panel. But that’s all you can do. The X button is the X button is the X button. You want that button to send something else? You need sketchy proprietary 3rd party software for that! In Linux, you can do whatever TF you want with that button and there’s several ways to do it (qjoypad gives you a nice GUI—right there in your distro’s repositories for quick install).
• No “You need to reboot your computer” popups in the middle of gaming/streaming!
• You don’t need sixteen bloated system tray/processes running at all times (slowing down your PC) to keep all your stuff working! If you use a Linux desktop for a few weeks then go back to Windows you’ll get annoyed AF pretty fast at all those pop-ups, “Why did I put up with this BS?” 🤣
• Privacy by default: HP, Nvidia, Dell, Logitech, Razer, and Microsoft can’t see that you’re playing that game that just got banned by MasterCard/Visa 🤣

Also—generally speaking—Linux is just more fun to use! Customize TF out of your desktop experience. The only thing stopping you is… you.

Fox News admitted under oath in a court of law that they intentionally mislead their audiences with bullshit in order to push an agenda.

After that happened, Fox News should’ve been either forced to shut down or their audiences should’ve walked away in shame.

Instead, Fox News audience: WE WANT MORE OF THAT!

Ya know, there’s an entire organization within the US government who’s whole job it is to prevent this kind of discrimination (that isn’t actually happening).

The CFPB

Which organization has Trump (and the Republicans in general) tried to get rid of over and over again?

The CFPB

Person drives up and starts bitching at this guy.

His response?

“I have no words.” [Throws his hands up]

Management: “Perfect!”

Orgasm tokens and body paint markers for drawing faces.

If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).

Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.

I’m confused. I thought they didn’t want the brown people to be more fit than law enforcement?

Makes sense to me: The entire service was designed from the start to only attract suckers. It’s the ultimate sucker user base.

As long as they don’t have the metabolism of a shrew. We don’t need cow-sized, carnivorous squirrels any time soon!

Without memes? 😭

I have an extremist view of the legal system: I think all lawyers should be government employees and they should be assigned cases based on their area of expertise in law.

So no matter how many people sue you and no matter how much legal harassment any given entity attempts, it’s the government’s problem to manage all of that.

It shouldn’t be possible to bankrupt someone with legal fees alone. It shouldn’t be possible for a billionaire (or corporation) to always have the best legal team. It shouldn’t cost millions of dollars to defend yourself from or litigate a patent.

The only way I can think of to solve these problems is to get rid of private firms.