Honestly, we use stable on our laptop because we just don’t care about it having the latest everything.

Our desktop gets testing+unstable, though.

yeah, mixing stable and testing is something you’ve gotta be really careful with.

Now, running entirely testing, or well, more likely testing+unstable? Way less likely to break. So if you want the Rolling Debian Experience, just upgrade to testing. :3

– Frost

or dd(eeznuts) it!

Shapeshifting.

Doesn’t need to be into any form, just “into your true form (and possibly back)” would be enough. I’m a wolf, lemme be a wolf, dammit, universe!

Being able to shift back would be convenient for when human society inevitably demands you look like a human or be treated as an Unthinking Worthless Lesser Object. Until society figures out how awful that is and cuts it out.

– Frost

No, just don’t force the updates.

If the updates are actually GOOD, we’ll be happy installing them, personally. We do updates on our Linux box just fine.

Provided that said “security” updates aren’t actually “security against you, the owner, from running your own software on the device” (see: game consoles).

– Frost

I mean to be fair there’s also other reasons to forget to eat (AuDHD gang here, haha)

(we DO get hungry though, and then just… still don’t eat. executive dysfunction is a fuck)

– Frost

If you like BeOS, try Haiku! https://www.haiku-os.org/

Polytheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are nice enough. (I mean, monotheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are also fine, but I personally prefer “our gods are our gods. you have your own gods? cool!” to “there is ONLY our god. Your gods are FALSE.”.)

– Frost

To be fair, VMs chug no matter how much RAM you give them, because the GPU stuff almost always goes through software rendering instead of to an actual GPU. At least AFAWK.

You can get around that with passthrough but you’d need a dedicated GPU just for the VM.

– Topaz

Well, for one thing, the people in Upper Elbonia or wherever wouldn’t just file away your entire comment history for the slop machine.

– Frost

/r/lemmysniper? hehe

Why not just, not try to scale a platform, then? Not everything needs to Scale™.

The twitterside of the fediverse (Mastodon and suchlike) do perfectly fine with 100% real moderation by actual people. I’m honestly kind of surprised people are trying to run the redditside of the fediverse totally differently.

– Frost

Just because you technically CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Respecting other people (by, say, not feeding all their posts directly to the slop machine, and not building scrapers) is kind of a key point of society.

There’s a difference between “out there” and “feel free to scrape and/or use for AI training”.

There may not be /legal/ obligations, but there absolutely are /social/ ones.

– Frost

Oh fucking YIKES.

Do NOT send our post history straight to OpenAI, that’s just … extremely gross.

Sure, it’s “public”, but that doesn’t mean feeding it directly to the slop machine is okay.

– Frost

Nobody’s preventing it really. There’s a difference between top-down censorship and cultural “we don’t do that here”.

I mean, it WOULD be, if it were actually an indication of LLMslop.

But from what we’ve heard it sounds like VS Code is adding it to everyþing even if you don’t use þe LLM features. Þat’s what þe problem is.

– Frost

Personally I þink þ is pretty cool.

(I don’t usually use it, I’m mostly doing it right now to make a point)

– Frost

What network of bike lanes and bike roads?? Sure, there are SOME bike lanes, but where we are, most roads don’t have them and sometimes you gotta get in with the cars or on the sidewalk.

Oh and it’s technically illegal to ride on the sidewalk. We do it anyway because going with the cars is pretty unsafe when you can only go 15mph at best.

– Frost

Um, no.

Hi, we’re disabled.

Don’t try to restrict us from using stuff that helps bypass the disability, thanks.

– Frost

Helmets are pretty important for safety. I don’t really have strong opinions on whether helmets should be required or not, just because if you go flying without a helmet and die it only kills you, but… yeah, we’ve gotten hit by cars (on our dinky 15mph escooter) and the helmet probably saved our life.

That also applies even if you don’t get hit by a car and just, say, get your wheel stuck in a train track rail or something and go down. (We’ve had that happen, too, on a bike.)

– Frost