For me, the suicide-related data is so hard to measure and so open for debates, that I’d treat it separately, or not include it at all, if using death count as an argument against llms, since it’s a breach for deviating the debate.

I understand and share the dislike, but the openly released version will remain free, and no one can change it, so don’t you think temporarily open is a bit misleading?

temporarily open?

Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.

I still have issues with wayland when using extensions inside other software that aren’t compatible with wayland. They tend not to work even with xwayland. Well, I hope compatibility improves until I need to update…

Brazilian here. The situation is much more complex than “Brasil is destroying the amazon”. We suffer from political instability, and the big foreign oil companies lust after our resources with enough power to lobby our politicians and manipulate thepublic. A notable case was in the early 2000s, when pro-environment protests led to petrobras abdicating from exploring some recently discovered sources, only for shell to come and explore it soon after, so the environmental damage was done anyway, and we lost our sovereignty over it. Allowing for petrobras to explore it can allow for some degree of environmental control and avoid falling into the same trap. But since things are always more complicated the more we look into it, petrobras isn’t fully state-owned, and suffers market pressure from several actors, both national and foreign.

Anyway, I don’t agree with the exploration in the amazon, but I wanted to show that things are way more complicated than the international media make it look.

This reminds me of a joke where a student tells the teacher that if they had only one more hour of life, they would spend it in that teacher’s class. The teacher gets moved by the comment and, while wiping a tear, asks why the student would choose their class to spend the last hour, and the student says that it’s because that hour would feel like an eternity.

My ancestors were poor people and some of them were slaves. I guess they would give me very different wisdom for troubling times.

Linux stats on statcounter was growing a lot, up to almost 5%, then reduced quickly back to less than 3%. Maybe the new users learned to install privacy tools?

That’s interesting, because according to statcounter, linux usage actually went down last month, but I guess most browsers on linux will block those stats scripts

I believe it’s more a cultural thing. In a lot of places, people think in terms of a community, not individuals, and will plan things for the longer terms. But in american culture, people are much more selfish and short-sighted. Problem is that they have been shoving their culture in the entire world, and it makes it look like this is the default for all of humanity.

But climate change IS happening, and already observable.

And simply blaming older people also hides the problem of global inequality and exploitation of the third world. Most elderly in my country only faced food insecurity and hyperinflation when younger, and their environmental impact for all the time they’re alive is smaller than the environmental impact of a current teenager in the usa.

I love e-ink screens and Always wanted one of those phones, but even the “budget” ones are too expensive for me :(

Don’t forget supertuxkart!

My family photos from the 90’s disagree. There’s even one of my uncles with a mustache in them, and he was like 20 or 30.

So we’re responsible for netflix not meeting their profit target? I feel honored.

Just like companies embracing ai and messing up to the point of catastrophic failures

Your computer very likely doesn’t need a special distro for low end devices yet. A common distro like linux mint will do fine, and that’s probably the best choice if you’re new to linux.

Edit: if you only want to host stuff on it, and nothing else, maybe that yunohost people recommended can be a better choice

My mind has been much more peaceful since I started to get rid of consumerism in my life, that I wish everyone could do and feel the same, but it’s one of the hardest things to convince people to, because the peace of mind only comes in the long term, but the extremely brief consumption satisfaction comes instantly. It’s like a drug in so many aspects.