Moral judgement or suppression of fiction/artistic expression is deeply and profoundly unethical. How you or I or anyone else feels about something that isn’t “real” is inconsequential. If you allow any line to be crossed in this, then every line can and will be crossed.

That is an exceptionally clickbait headline. The article itself makes it clear that Trump is sharing an anecdote from when he first learned about Nvidia and how important they are to the AI industry.

As a sidenote, I don’t think Nvidia can be broken up. The way to break their monopoly and spur competition in this space would be to take away their patents and make them public. Then again, I’m firmly of the philosphy that patents are anti-competition and monopolistic by design and should be abolished entirely.

And trying to hide the fact that convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump trafficked and raped children.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is excellent and no less beginner friendly than any other major distro, so I wouldn’t worry. It really is one of the most underrated distros out there.

Kubuntu could be a good option for you, but I recommend doing the “Minimal” install to avoid Snaps and bloat.

If you are mostly about gaming and flatpak, then consider Bazzite. You can’t just install packages on Bazzite, so if you need to do things that aren’t already built in then you need to use containers or, as a last resort, create a new layers with rpm-ostree.

For the record, Arch and it’s offshoots don’t especially resonate with me, either. I want my OS to “just work”, but at the same time I want to have the ability to go wild whenever and however I feel like it.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Bazzite lately and I’d wholeheartedly recommend it to most Linux newbies, especially gamers who want their system to “just work.” It’s also a very interesting system for jaded old Linux users because it works so differently than we’re used to. The “everything needs to be a container” paradigm is very interesting and has a lot of security and stability benefits.

If you want more control and freedom, then OpenSUSE is definitely the best option here. I’d only fallback to Kubuntu if there was some software you need that only ships in .deb and you have no other options. I’m not a fan of Canonical or what they’ve done to the Ubuntu ecosystem.

It was inevitable that they would become Anthropocide

There are alternatives like Manor Lords that can scratch that itch. Ones that aren’t by a predatory, anti-consumer company and aren’t infected with Denuvo malware.

Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. On top of that, they infect the games with Denuvo malware while charging top dollar. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, business sense, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.

It is BS. Blood typing exists.

I do use the em-dash occasionally, but I was raised on a diet of classic old books with certain habits reinforced through academic writing standards. AI outputs these things because they were trained on inputs containing them. AI is nothing but a slightly distorted reflection of the training material.

There is no Excel spreadsheet named Epsteins_Client_List.xslx

Ergo, no files.

where everything you install comes from the first-party distro repo, you’ll likely be fine.

Canonical’s Snapcraft has a bad reputation for a reason. Many reasons. But compromised apps is a major one.

Linux is gaining market share quickly as the Windows 10 EOL rapidly approaches. There is still a massive amount of perfectly great hardware out there that isn’t officially supported by Windows 11, and only 3 months until Windows 10 reaches EOL.

It’s still infected with Denuvo malware, so even if the gameplay weren’t a disaster the answer would still be “no.”

Remarkable people, the Blacks. Musical, athletic. Not very good swimmers.

They know exactly what their limits are supposed to be and they do care. They care about dismantling those limits and seizing permanent, unbridled power.

One of the tenants of capitalism is that you, the consumer, should demand more-for-less

Oh dear, that was never a tenet of capitalism. Capitalism has only one tenet: amass as much capital as possible at all costs. Literally anything goes, including and especially capturing and controlling markets by stifling competition.

Self-hosting a search engine is unfortunately not feasible given the amount of data and power required for it. Not to mention access to the data (crawling yourself or using another index).

For privacy and customization there is Kagi, which is amazing and very customizable, but requires a paid subscription. You are a customer rather than the product, though.

They added a system prompt directing it to be “politically incorrect” which, as we know, is a dog whistle for hate speech. The AI, a powerful pattern-matching and pattern-replicating machine, was doing exactly what it was told to do.