But I’ll digress it doesn’t matter anymore.

Exactly. There is no ethical consumption.

The Internet that you’re posting on was built on top of a military network intended to provide redundant communication in the event of a global thermonuclear war. The satellites that provide you with GPS were created in order to more accurately drop bombs and guide armies. The rockets that put them in space exist because of research into methods of delivering nuclear weapons.

Your smartphone likely contains components built by slave labor, you almost certainly consume food products resulting from child labor. Your clothing as well.

The world is built on all manner of immoral things. ‘Stealing’ information (which presupposes the idea that a person can own knowledge, which I disagree with) is incredibly mild.

On top of that, the advances in AI are happening independent of LLMs. The advances in machine learning that made LLMs possible apply to all kinds of different areas that have nothing to do with language, music, or art.

LLMs just happen to be the easiest kind of AI to train because humanity has spent millennia storing language in books and the Internet provides a massive amount of data as well.

I don’t think I need to go into detail how those two games differ, right?

Yes, as that is central to your point that those games are different. You simply saying ‘you know I’m right so I’m not going to argue my point’ isn’t an argument.

But surely KZ Manager just dresses up systemic mass murder with a bunch of innuendo. It’s just some silly satire!

You’re confusing games where bad things happen, which are within the rules and games that promote hatred of protected groups.

There are plenty of games where you, as a player, are directly responsible for atrocities. This isn’t some new thing in video games.

Games can reference slavery, even the US-African slave trade, without being ‘hate content’. There are numerous examples of this across all types of media. I don’t think I need to go into the details, right?

You’re making a huge amount of assumptions about the people expressing doomerism. They could just be assholes, or bots, or workers pushing messaging for the political opposition, or non-citizens who are treating US politics like a soap opera.

All you’ve done is created a strawman, claimed it has been traumatized by politics and asserted that this strawman is every person that’s making cynical doomer comments.

The person that you’re responding too is engaging with the reality of the thread, you’re manufacturing a justification to feel self-righteous and outraged.

Slavery simulator is an allowed genre on Steam.

This has always been the case. Here’s an incredibly popular game that allows slavery.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Slavery

Rimworld also includes forced organ harvesting and a host of other war crimes

They also allow murder simulators, drug dealing simulators, genocide simulators, etc

As far as games go, a game that dresses up slavery with a bunch of innuendo is incredibly mild.

Yakuake with tmux, all your terminal apps at the push of a button.

If you have a Mac already then Asahi is a useful project that lets you use Linux on your existing hardware.

If you’re going to buy a new machine don’t punch yourself in the dick, so to speak, by buying something that can only use Linux from one specific project. Buy something that gives you the freedom to do what you want.

The primary appeal of Apple’s products is that they’re designed ‘just work’. This is only true when assuming that you’re willing to pay the higher costs, use their OS and subscribe to the walled garden services. If you’re looking at a new laptop and will be using Linux then an Apple product is simply a more expensive piece of hardware that does the opposite of ‘just work’.

Unless you really care about being seen using Apple products, buy something high quality that’s compatible with your planned use case.

You could get 2.5 quadruple A games for that price

These high prices are not from people talking to chatbots.

They’re using agentic tools where their prompt spawns a lot of bots which talk to themselves/the other bots and they keep going until someone (usually a higher quality reasoning model) decides that they’ve met the goals of the task that they were assigned.

So instead of 1 prompt and 1 response, you get 1 prompt and 800 responses across 5 different bots each using really large context windows.

The short answer is because it is open source.

I’m using some non-standard transcoding profiles, for example RIFE motion interpolation. I have some other server customizations so that it integrates with my home automation system a bit better.

I can’t customize Plex.

Absolutely not

It’s fine guys, the FBI has already caught all of the human traffickers and terrorists so going after people for photoshopping their image in the wrong way is the next priority.

I feel that companies like Microsoft have forgotten that bug bounties and ethical reporting are the compromise where they agree to pay a fair amount for the bugs and are given time to fix them and the security researcher forgoes the 10x price they could get on the black market.

Given the rise in mercenary hacking/spyware corporations, the bug researchers could probably get way more money through those alternate, and still legal, channels.

So I hear.

It is. The laptop was originally my testbed for trying hyprland so it had essentially nothing else installed, I just ended up using it as a portable terminal due to some unexpected traveling and I enjoyed the concept so I’ve kept it around.

I’m at a loss

e:f;b

I haven’t tried zellij yet, but I’ll give it a shot (thanks).

If I had to guess, it’s that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she’s more comfortable with tmux.

Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.

Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).

I understood the misunderstanding from reading the previous comments.

I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective.

I didn’t say you were intentionally lying, only that you were mistaken. I wasn’t making a personal attack.

I acknowledge that based on your experience that is how Plex worked 10 years ago, but it is not how it currently works. So, when you say that ‘this is how Plex works’ instead of ‘this is how Plex worked 10 years ago’ it’s implying that it still works like that when it does not. That could confuse people who are here and trying to learn.

This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.

The community exists to talk about, and help people with, self hosting. Providing incorrect information runs counter to that purpose and so community members should point out when information isn’t correct.

Misinformation just means that the information that you’re providing is not correct, it’s not a personal attack on you to be corrected about a factual issue. It doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person or suggest that you’re trying to be intentionally misleading, it just means that your statements do not match the current factual reality.

My laptop is terminal-only as well.

The only difference is that I use hyprland and waybar because it looks a bit better and using the dynamic tiling is sometimes easier than operating tmux panes.

To add to her list of useful apps:

mpd - To play music/audio. There are plug-ins for tmux and waybar to show the song status

ncmpcpp - TUI mpd client

lynx - Sometimes you need a web browser

If a fifth grader uses copy.fail to gain root access on their Chromebook I say we let them have some extra Minecraft time.