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And thinking of it this way… if you cash out and lock in losses and stop investing, you’re likely to never or greatly delay your retirement. If you keep investing, even with catastrophic losses in the market, you’ll be buying at the bottom and if you’ve still got enough time before retirement, you should still make it.

Removing the need to do any research is just removing another exercise for the brain. Perfectly crafted AI educational videos might be closer to mental junk food than anything.

Android Messages and Facebook Messenger also pushed in AI as ‘something you can chat with’

I’m not here to talk to your fucking chatbot I’m here to talk to my friends and family.

“If Kamala is elected the economy will be destroyed” - cons in October

“Going through the hardship is patriotic” - cons now

If the 1920s really are repeating then, if we survive the Trump administration, we’ve got a modern version of the New Deal on the way.

He’ll be making posts from his deathbed. As bleak as things are right now, I really hope he never thinks he didn’t do enough.

I miss clear plastic cases. That was the peak.

Honestly this has kind of been reassuring as it seems that things that are behind the scenes are as dumb as what’s on the surface.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers

Literally “we’re big so we’ll make money” with no thought on the product actually being offered.

Hilarious.

In 2024, stocks were high, jobs were strong, feds were cutting rates, inflation was under 3%… Biden did it, the soft landing from COVID. Anyone who paid any attention knew the economy was in a good place and, four years in, only Biden’s admin would have had any affect.

Part of me is weeping for this nation, but another part thinks the nation deserves it for being so fucking stupid.

$61/mo actually.

It worked for me last year. Put 5% on a home near a major city, purchase price $425k

Some areas like LA are just a special kind of fucked, but you don’t have to live there.

Smoking is a single habit that a large percentage of people have no problem never being tempted to do.

Unsustainable practices pervade societ in a way that requires real education and lifestyle changes to avoid. It’s not enough to “just stop polluting,” you first need to learn how to. The fact that beef is unsustainable, that other meats are still far less sustainable than a plant-based diet, that some plant-based foods are still unsustainable. Where to get the sustainable plant-based food without them being packaged in disposable plastic – and at prices you can afford, at the job you work at where commuting doesn’t require a private vehicle. Learning that basically everything sold online from overseas is unsustainable, especially most of the stuff that advertises itself as sustainable. Learning to be content with what you have, unless it’s a gas-powered dryer because wouldn’t a heat pump clothes dryer be better? But really you should air dry your clothes!

Unsustainability isn’t a single habit like smoking, it’s entire lifestyle and thought patterns and ignorance and you have to learn about it all and change deeply ingrained habits. That’s why blaming the individual is so unproductive. Governments should have responded to the danger of climate change a long time ago but chose not to, even actively accelerating it for profit. The failure lies there.

A couple people recommended Fedora spins but I’d recommend just sticking with the big distros (that have up-to-date graphics drivers readily available - so not Debian.) A lot of the gaming-focused distros are only saving you a few terminal commands and increase your risk of running into issues; they’re good, but they may not be as 100% stable as you’ll find in major long-running distros like Fedora or Mint.

I have settled on Fedora with KDE Plasma. Here’s basically everything I copy pasted for gaming:

# install steam, discord, nvidia drivers
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y
sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264 -y
sudo dnf update -y
sudo dnf install steam discord akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

# install bluetooth Xbox driver
sudo dnf install git dkms
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.git && cd xpadneo
sudo ./install.sh

I also had to enable Legacy X11 App Support through the settings gui so that Discord could receive push to talk presses without having focus.

“You don’t understand! Right now is the worst times, and my specific suffering is the worst and most hopeless in history! This is the end!”

Getting out may be an exception but self-defeating right away, like a lot of people in this thread, isn’t the way to become the exception.

I loved the puzzle dungeons of the previous games. The shrines feel like just puzzles, with no real dungeon.

When he first started he used Pop!_OS and an issue with their packages uninstalled the DE when he tried to install steam which was a really terrible look. A bug which I believe wasn’t present in any other debian/ubuntu based distro. He then moved to Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, and just had more problems with hardware.

I wish they’d try again and just use a user-friendly distro with more momentum behind it and stability, and realistically that means Ubuntu or Mint. Or take a tour through desktop environments, package managers, and what the differences between distros actually are.

Bing’s copilot is genuinely pretty good, the AI answer is often pretty accurate and the way it’s able to weave links into its answer is handy. I find it way more useful than Google search these days and I’m pretty much just using it on principle as Google is just pissing me off with killing their services, a few of which I’ve used.

I don’t think Microsoft is some saint but copilot is just a good product.

Well, I bet they didn’t lobby for fossil fuels at COP28.