What we’re currently calling AI isn’t AI but just a language processing system that takes its best guess at a response from it’s database of information they pilfered from the internet like a more sophisticated Google.

It can’t really think for itself and it’s answers can be completely wrong. There’s nothing intelligent about it.

Western society handing money, tax breaks etc hand over fist to rich people while our quality of life slowly erodes over time.

That would be nice but the finances don’t allow it currently. However, one shouldn’t need a 4k monitor to get nice text rendering on Linux when it’s perfectly fine on Windows on resolutions smaller than that.

Font rendering works OK if you just use your PC for whatever, but for me as a developer I am staring at text all day so I need them as crisp and legible as they can be.

On Windows, out of the box the fonts render perfectly, meaning I can jump between my various editors and tools and just get to work. On Fedora (which I dual boot with currently), even the exact same fonts look like a mess compared to Windows. In particular, the Ubuntu Mono font looks like a completely different (and much nicer) font on Windows than it does on Fedora for me. The same was true for Mint as well which I used previously.

I’ve probably put several hours of effort messing with my .fonts.conf and Fontconfig settings to attempt to get it even close to as great as on Windows and nothing ever comes close. I’d love anybody to hand me a silver bullet and fix it but not a thing I’ve read online does.

My operating system.

It’s not that I prefer it per se, rather I have better things to do then e.g. spend 2 hours messing with my font rendering to end up with a result half as good as Windows is out of the box.

How about in a computer?

I had to fix one on a construction site. I opened it up and it was full of dust from all the brickwork they had been doing. As in, nearly completely full of it. I bet their lungs looked the same too :(

I usually need to be in the mood for grunge to seek them out specifically among a few other bands too. But, if this song randomly comes on, I definitely turn it up. There’s no one stand out song from anyone that I’d say is my number 1 favorite, I like a lot of music.

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

We’re talking in context of phones, I didn’t specify any other device.

I thought I missed actually having buttons for things, but recently I found out that no, touch screens are usually superior.

Yes but being evil pays better.

Do some study in your own time.

If you aren’t sure what to do and like servers etc, just do the Microsoft courses. Having these on your resume gets you ahead of people that don’t have them at all.

What I do is I take several guns and a baseball bat with me when I shower so that I’m never caught barehanded ever.

I’d say that unless you are pretty wealthy then you’re pro- something designed to optimally exploit you while making you think that it’s the greatest system on Earth and that society can’t possibly do any better.

If and when Lemmy proves it has staying power then search engines will adapt. It’s only been a month or so since it blew up.

GIMP is pretty good, but I think the expectation that it should fully replace Photoshop for professionals is wrong anyway. Use whatever you feel is the best tool in the toolbox for the job.

for 99% of use cases

Brave thing to say online about Gimp 😄

I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.

I’d suggest to stop using the platform entirely.

It’s worse than that, usually at govs and companies it’s just incompetence.

In Reddit’s case they actively chose to make it shitty because some MBA told them it’ll improve engagement of their users and make them more dollars when they IPO.