In fairness, Christmas creeps the shit out of me. It’s so gaudy, ultra-commercial and fueled with fake happiness and holiday cheer nobody gets to experience because it’s so damn stressful socially and financially, that’s one tradition I’d gladly do without.

Fuck Christmas.

Oh and yeah, fuck DeSantis too. No relationship, just something that needs saying.

Easy workaround:

[…]
It’s the hap-happiest season of all,
With those holiday greetings and homosexual happy meetings […]

There… Not banned anymore 🙂

One of those Linuses annoys the living daylights out of me.

On the plus side, the White House would look a lot less gaudy.

This is an awesome tool. Thanks for putting this on my radar!

I think it’s not the first doomed generation. The previous one already had pretty high chances of being worse off than their parents (i.e. us). But sad - and quite frankly scared - though I am to recognize it, this one is in even more dire straights.

And the reason I’m scared is, desperate people are rightfully driven to do radical things. I’m fairly sure the desperate kids of today is the generation that will eventually drive the world off the cliff and into WW3. And I won’t even blame them.

I’m so glad my kids have long been out of the house and have well-established job situations at this point, because I genuinely wouldn’t know what to tell a teenager about career opportunities that wouldn’t cause them to fall into a deep depression. All I can foresee in the near future is mass unemployment and war. And goodness knows I’m normally an optimist.

Can the tariff extortion money the administration stole be deducted in the next tax return also?

Ah right okay.

The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

They’re not brain-dead: they’re sucking up to Trump.

The brain-dead people are the MAGA voters who put those bozos in office.

A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.

That should be concerning to MAGA.

That’s because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.

Just a reminder: Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Maybe she’s just as principled as all the other billionaires.

Same reason why gays aren’t called bumholesexuals.

Yeah for sure, but there’s always something off that screams fake.

I find it interesting that AI writes very high level, which is a trait that seems to be valued by upper management (VP, CEO level).

I think at some point someone will figure out that AI would sound more natural if it didn’t write so perfectly, and they’ll try to make AI sound hip and casual, and I’m almost certain AI will still fail to be convincingly casual.

I don’t worry about that. There are other markers of AI that are much more reliable:

1. Extreme verbosity.
2. Low S/N - i.e. lots of words to say not much at all.
3. Perfect grammar.
4. If you drill down into the subject, often completely incorrect - but you don’t know without having to read a whole bunch of tedious text.

And here’s how you recognize AI:

• High-schoolers turning a paper on a subject they know nothing about often fluff up their paper - at least when students still wrote their papers themselves - and hit 1. and 2., but rarely 3.

• Good writers always hit 3. They can be terse or verbose, and they may or may not hit 1., but never 2. or 4.

• Internet writers don’t write like journalists. Only journalists writing for a journal that happens to also publish on the internet write like journalists. Internet writers don’t quite hit 3, knowledgeable ones don’t hit 2., and almost none of them ever hit 1. Or said another way, when you read something about Linux networking that looks like an Atlantic op-ed, it’s AI.

Only AI hits 1., 2. and 3. AI almost always writes in a tone and form that doesn’t befit the venue.

As for 4., if you want an example of this, try to search “NFC unlock” on DDG or Bing (same AI-laden Microsoft trash search engine): you will find scores of perfectly-written articles that explain in painful details how you should buy NFC tags (they don’t say which), program them (they don’t say how), then present the tags to your device (they don’t say what devices) to program them to unlock upon presenting the tags.

If you know anything about NFC, you know this is all shades of wrong. But amazingly, each article on the subject is many pages long, perfectly written, and there are countless such articles.

(no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.