Going to add one more: Steam.

Steam has a built-in voice chat and chat channels for your friends.

Thank you, I appreciate the suggestions! I’ll look more into a few of those. Swapped over to Linux about a year ago and the Microsoft toolchain no longer fully exists (like Visual Studio). It’s to be expected, but, mostly just means I need to find other tool chains.

What is a good language to code in for Linux if one is used to C#? I didn’t realize this limitation and am considering writing some basic Linux tools for myself.

Practical effects are more informative than theoretical readings. Study the countries that implemented it and how things ran. That gives the most practical and unbiased reality.

Absolutely, that monitor isn’t even plugged in. (No, seriously, look at it!)

Note Putin’s monitor isn’t even plugged in. Just, A+.

Or, more often, the ones acting up abuse everyone else until they leave. Spam. Porn. Spam. CSAM. Spam.

Having the drivers installed is fine and, quite frankly, good; for exactly the reason you point out. When they aren’t being used they are only taking up disk space. And that is OK, nobody is particularly upset with Windows’ disk space.

It is the RAM usage, telemetry, and other running processes that just don’t need to be running. These are the things that make a Windows setup so bloated. One doesn’t need to reach out and tell MS every time you open the start menu, one doesn’t need Candy Crush and One Drive ads appearing in the OS. There is no good way to turn all that off. That is just using resources and making the OS worse for users.

8GB should be fine for Windows 11. However, the OS is so bloated that it simply isn’t.

Microsoft should fix that.

Yes, I think that is a major part of it.

Your religion telling you you are a bad person causes some deep turmoil. And keeping the feelings (and the person causing those feelings) away likely offers him some temporary reprieve.

You need to talk to him. Possibly many times over a long period.

Disclaimer: All I have is what you told me. So this isn’t very authorative: He is gay (or bi), having troubles processing it, he cares for you as a person, and finds you attractive.

You need to talk to him, help him process his feelings, and possibly wait out how long it will take for him to do so (This might be a long time). He is attempting to do nice things for you, do a nice thing for him and be his friend and maybe take some shit from him while you help him sort his feelings.

American from the North East

they always say they aren’t white

In many lefty circles, White people are seen as lesser/placed lower. (And even formalized at many companies for hiring purposes.) So, instead many will say they are _3% Indian, referencing a blood test that (very likely) said so. Now they are a minority and not White.

Apparently I’m the Luddite here for sticking with the light switch on the wall that has always just worked. ;p

‘Layoffs to focus on AI’ at this point seems to be the in-vogue way to distract investors from the poor financials that are driving the layoffs.

The suit says after the rollout, DoorDash delivery drivers were able to see when pizzas would come out of the oven. They would wait up to 15 minutes for multiple orders to be ready before grabbing them, slowing down delivery, according to the lawsuit.

Was it the AI system or the DoorDash integration that caused the issues?

EVs already pay electricity tax when they charge. We don’t need to double tax EV ownership.

And this is on top of the fact you pay an electric tax when you charge.

EVs in Washington are already double taxed!

How long ago did you try?! Have an example?

I expected it to get this one wrong and it did; I expected that as Hollywood portrays this wrong and people don’t have an intuitive understanding of missile rocketry. Interceptor missiles only burn for a few seconds, get going very fast, then coast to their target. It is just flat wrong here.

I then fixed my grammar mistake and asked again, and poof, 100% opposite answer. I literally got the OPPOSITE ANSWER just because I fixed a grammar mistake. This fundamentally cannot be trusted for actual learning.

Anytime I ask it about things I’m knowledgeable about, it falls on it’s face. It only seems smart on topics I don’t know shit about (this red flag has spotlights on it!). Given this, I cannot trust it on anything lest I be led down false paths. Given how LLMs work, I don’t see this problem as fixable.

I have found them useful for search term generation. (Using a topic I know things about) If I need a more powerful drill for screwing lag bolts into hardwood and I’m not finding what I need, asking it and and getting back the keyword ‘impact driver’ is helpful, as it lets me go search for what that is and if it is the solution to my need for a more powerful drill. Note: I do not let it teach me about impact drivers (as it falls on it’s face all the fucking time), only use it to get the keyword to then use to search the internet.

To circle back to your question, I’m not scared with how fast they are advancing. I’m scared by how many people think they are good at everything and put them in places they don’t belong.

It always struck me as…poor…to not require a password for decryption. If you require zero knowlege from me, that means a stolen has everything inside needed to decrypt all the data.

And well, lookie there at the article!