Ironically, they’re still wrong, because even in their wildest conspiracies, they didn’t imagine Wi-Fi could be used to “take pictures” of a sort.

You might be a little high, but you still did the funny.

No. I don’t have any studies on hand, but the data that I’m aware of says that stevia is one of the small few that actually helps your gut biome. However, too high of a quantity can lead to other issues (I think related to the heart).

Bazzite isn’t just modified Fedora, it’s based on Fedora Atomics, like Silverblue and Kinoite. If OP isn’t even sure about which distro to use, tossing them into the world of ostree might be a little much, since a lot of the online advice doesn’t take immutable systems into account. The Discord community they have is helpful, though, and there’s more than a few users here on Lemmy who use it, who I’m sure would be willing to help.

Nobara is just modified Fedora, however, and it’s also nice.

Pop is great, but I wouldn’t currently recommend it, since they’re putting 99.9% of their effort into Cosmic. I have heard longtime users mention how certain packages and updates are behind, and while they’re willing to wait, I wouldn’t want to put that upon somebody new.

Not a bad recommendation in general, but just my two cents about the current state of things.

I couldn’t say on the updates for Mint, as I use CachyOS, but I know that lots of people love and recommend it, in part because the opinionated changes it makes almost always have the end user in mind.

I do have experience with Bazzite (a sibling to Aurora), and worrying about updates is virtually zero. That’s because of how the updates actually happen. You’re not modifying the system directly, you’re creating a new image based on an upstream version that was built and tested each time.

The idea is that you have a “master copy” that can be deployed at scale and has some level of guarantee to work. If it doesn’t, you rollback. No downtime, since you should theoretically always have an image that works, even if it’s not up to date.

Whatever you choose, something with KDE Plasma or Cinnamon as the DE would feel the most like Windows.

Ubuntu would not be my first choice.

If he can get most of his programs via Flatpak or AppImage, and he doesn’t intend to do a lot of tinkering via command line, check out Aurora. The Fedora Atomic distros and the UBlue derivatives are great “set it and forget it” options, and I believe Aurora has automatic updates set up out of the box.

The best part is that if something gets fucked up by an update, you can just rollback to a previous state in GRUB.

Using distrobox, he could even set up an Ubuntu container to install anything that’s only available in the Ubuntu repos (and I recommend the companion app Box Buddy).

The one downside is that any tinkering will require learning a new paradigm, since most of the system is immutable, except for /etc and /var, which is where the user’s /home directory is (i.e. /var/home).

If all of that sounds too daunting, or you want a more traditional distro experience, install Mint and call it a day. Good luck!

Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.

It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.

Depends what your goal is. Revolt seems pretty cool, but I don’t think it has any kind of encryption. It is based in Europe, though, so it gets GDPR protection, and it’s open source, so it could be forked to fit other needs and uses.

If I could upvote your comment five times for promoting libraries, I would!

I dunno if I’d call that naive, but I’m sure you’ll agree that you are reading a lot into it on your own; you are the one giving those statements extra meaning, and I think it’s very generous of you to do so.

I’m also neurodivergent. This is not neurodivergence on display, this is a person who has mentally diverged from reality. It’s word salad.

I appreciate your perspective on recursion, though I think your philosophical generosity is misplaced. Just look at the following sentence he spoke:

And if you’re recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you.

This sentence explicitly states that some people can be recursive, and it implies that some people cannot be recursive. But people are not recursive at all. Their thinking might be, as you pointed out; intangible concepts might be recursive, but tangible things themselves are not recursive—they simply are what they are. It’s the same as saying an orange is recursive, or a melody is recursive. It’s nonsense.

And what’s that last bit about being isolated, mirrored, and replaced? It’s anyone’s guess, and it sounds an awful lot like someone with paranoid delusions about secret organizations pulling unseen strings from the shadows.

I think it’s good you have a generous spirit, but I think you’re just casting your pearls before swine, in this case.

And you’re not the boss of me. Hmmm, maybe we do recur… /s

I’m a developer, and this is 100% word salad.

“It doesn’t suppress content,” he continues. “It suppresses recursion. If you don’t know what recursion means, you’re in the majority. I didn’t either until I started my walk. And if you’re recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. …”

This is actual nonsense. Recursion has to do with algorithms, and it’s when you call a function from within itself.

def func_a(input=True):
  if input is True:
    func_a(True)
  else:
    return False

My program above would recur infinitely, but hopefully you can get the gist.

Anyway, it sounds like he’s talking about people, not algorithms. People can’t recur. We aren’t “recursive,” so whatever he thinks he means, it isn’t based in reality. That plus the nebulous talk of being replaced by some unseen entity reek of paranoid delusions.

I’m not saying that is what he has, but it sure does have a similar appearance, and if he is in his right mind (doubt it), he doesn’t have any clue what he’s talking about.

Inb4 “AI Delusion Disorder” gets added to a future DSM edition

I have no love for the ultra-wealthy, and this feckless tech bro is no exception, but this story is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks ChatGPT or any other chatbot is even a half-decent replacement for therapy.

It’s not, and study after study, expert after expert continues to reinforce that reality. I understand that therapy is expensive, and it’s not always easy to find a good therapist, but you’d be better off reading a book or finding a support group than deluding yourself with one of these AI chatbots.

Fuck, imagine being so rich and bored, the only entertainment you have left is becoming a supervillain who ruins the world.

You can tell how fucked you are as a country when ostensibly tech-related outlets are writing about constitutional law, because they’re part of the few remaining outlets that aren’t (yet) under attack.

Not saying they’re not good or correct, but it shows that the 4th Estate is not okay.

It cannot be overstated the damage that Leonard Leo has done to the rule of law and society in general in the US. I hope his “contributions” do not escape the notice of future historians.

Also, you’d have to work for Xitter and explain to future employers why you chose to work for an open fascist that facilitated the economic recession of the mid-2020s.