I’m glad I bought my house when interest rates were just barely above 3%. I couldn’t afford my home if I had to buy it today.

This fucking economy sucks and we need to start removing everyone in power forcefully until the problems go away. Then start again.

I know I’m old because I saw 56k and immediately wondered why they were doing this over dialup.

3D Printing and Modeling

Meshtastic

Learning to fix things (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, automotive, etc)

These are my latest or ongoing hyperfixations.

Glad they optimized it. Last time I tried it the RAM usage was atrocious.

I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.

This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.

Thank you. That is much more wholesome than I was afraid of.

What’s a foamer? Do I want to know?

They only need to open source the kernel. They can build whatever proprietary stuff they want on top of the Linux kernel.

What’s that? More AI? -Microsoft-

Or just Linux. Why even bother with BSD?

The first two…I’ll graciously call them “sentences”… I got the context of…once I got to the third one, my brain was like “I haven’t partaken in enough brain rot to understand this new form of damaged English language”.

And this is pre-LED bulb days. They didn’t even have compact florescents. Imagine the power bill from incandescent bulbs running for several days.

Maybe not, fucktard, but it SHOULD be.

Anything with Cinnamon Desktop or KDE Plasma is going to be the most ‘Windows-like’ in how the UI works.

If they’re coming from Windows, but they prefer macOS-like interfaces, GNOME or COSMIC fit that bill.

It doesn’t matter what distro you select, for the most part, as Linux is Linux. The only differences are immutable or not, desktop environment, and package management type, for the most part.

That said, Mint, an Ubuntu flavor, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE…all good options.

Year of the Linux desktop!

Careful. You’re going to get tetanus from sucking off clankers.

Ugh YES. I have to literally make remembering birthdays a math problem to remember it. Or some other pattern recognition.

“X person’s birthday is on the same day as Y person and the same month as Z person”.

Shit like that.

I think I developed a brain bleed reading this

The fuck is a glorp YouTuber?

There was a study done several months ago. I’ll try to find the source again and link it here in a comment edit.

[EDIT]

Couldn’t find the study, but here is an infographic that has similar data: https://infogram.com/ai-hellucination-report-2025-1h9j6q7mz7q354g

Hallucinations have improved, but the average for all models is still around 8-9%. Likely the study I read before was from last year, so the higher hallucinations rate is from that.

Even the best model hallucinates an average of around 1 in 100 times and OpenAI has stated publicly that hallucinations are mathematically impossible to eliminate entirely.