I recommend reading the article, because holy fuck is that whole thing dystopian, but here’s who was there:

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military and has contracts with the NHS. IBM and the private prison operator Serco also attended alongside tagging and biometric companies, according to a response to a freedom of information request.

Ah, yes. The very companies that helped install a fascist in the US would be great partners to bring about safety and criminal reform, and they would definitely not inject their fascist ideals into the UK government, eroding and poisoning it over time. Sounds like a brilliant plan! /s

Pragmatically, yes. Legally, no. Progressives have been fighting for years to get internet classified as a utility in the US, and regressives and (ironically) internet companies have been fighting against that effort at every turn in the name of profit.

And now look how well that’s turned out. Gee, if only some people had warned them that deregulation was a monkey’s paw…

Fix? Bruh, they explicitly cultivate that shit. Even if they could, they’re not gonna.

You can even get a modern gaming distro based off of it (PikaOS).

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Y’all, remember when people freaked out over Mozilla changing their TOU (but not their Privacy Policy)? This bill is the pro-corporate, ultracapitalist, “hold my beer” version of that change, and it could be enshrined into law.

If you live in California, call your state reps (i.e. don’t just email or write a letter). Tell them to vote no on this blatant privacy violation.

ETA: this is a bipartisan bill. If you have a Democratic rep, don’t just assume they’ll vote against it. Call them, too!

Also, spinning up VMs and practicing setting up your programs is a great way to get used to things and know what to expect.

If you want to do UI customization, be sure to look up some videos on how to do it for your chosen Desktop Environment (like Gnome, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc.).

Trim down power usage…

Don’t plug it in. Use only the abacus.

A normal Tuesday for a Linux user.

Sure, if that family member is just deaf enough to mishear everything and has the functional intelligence of a cabbage.

Calling him successful is technically true, but it kind of glosses over some very pertinent details of his success. He’s a billionaire, and you don’t get to be a billionaire without doing a lot of monstrous things to good people.

The surprise isn’t whether he’s good looking enough to get a partner. The surprise is over the fact that there’s another human being who thinks that those are qualities worth overlooking, especially one who’s queer, since billionaires like Sam Altman support the current regime that’s wholly against LGBTQ+ folks. And that same person with questionable tastes in partners wanted to take care of another human being with Sam Altman.

No, the minimize button is, but enjoy Xfce

Oh, that makes more sense. I appreciate the clarity!

• I’m not sure what you mean. Lack of desktop icons is only valuable to people who want that (I don’t, and I remove them on my Plasma systems).
• Gnome has a minimize button, and you need only turn it on in Tweaks > Windows.
• You can change themes in Tweaks > Appearance, and you can install themes by script or by manually dropping the files where they need to go (something you sometimes have to do on Plasma, too).
  • You can further adjust themes with extensions or scripts. Unless you change themes often, quick theme swapping is not a feature everyone needs or wants. How often are people doing this IRL?
• I can right click all my menu and dash/dock icons and get an app-specific context menu, so I’m not sure what you mean with this gripe.
• Systray is one of the things I don’t like about Plasma, and I wish they’d find a different solution. It’s bad enough on Windows.

I run both DEs on different systems, and they’re both good and bad at different things, but they both have comparable feature sets. Their workflows are different, yet you can do virtually all the same things in each.

Functionality like what?

Enjoy getting replaced at that job, you mean. If they’re replacing recruitment, those companies don’t value what humans bring to the table.

They stopped putting aluminum in homes, because it has a tendency to overheat more. The aluminum expands and contracts with load more than copper, which can loosen contact points and encourage oxidation, which then increases resistance and heat. Hot wires in the walls and outlet boxes are no bueno.

Premium supported. You get plenty with the free tier, but you get lots more with paid.

These AI apologists are deranged.

Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. https://addy.io/ is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.

Tried it, and it works! Loads at startup, and I don’t have to reload the CoolerControl daemon or do any other manual intervention.

Thanks!

Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, “I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel”?

This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you’re not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.