Anytime I post about AI or LLMs I get aggressively downvoted.

I do not do it very often and when I do it usually a gee whiz, look at that post. Inevitably the response is AI slop!!! AI is bad, you are bad , you should feel bad.

What are you scared of?

If you are worried your parents will see your browsing history, that is you threat model.

If your concern is government surveillance, you need to do more than just clear your browsing history.

Caraway seeds are good too.

So basically its its own genre.

A PC can be a server. A server can be a PC.

Famously Google use commodity PC hardware to build the v1 version of its search engine:

Day of Defeat source players:

https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All

Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.

Source mod tools not to be confused with Sourcemod tools.

I can only speak for myself and my kids. I have an iPhone because my work gave me one for free. They only support iPhone for security reasons. Keeping Android devices up to date across a large fleet is challenging leaving security gaps. For my kids they wanted my old iPhones because it’s what all their friends have.

I buy a ton of XKCD merch for this very purpose. I support others on Patreon, by buying from their advertisers and by buying their audiobooks on Libro.fm or a physical copy.

Amazon and other middlemen add nothing, they simply take a cut off the top. They maintain DRM solely to extract an maximum profits and lock in their customers and sellers. It is extortion and should be illegal.

For DRM free audiobooks check out Libro.fm.

Yes I have been a Lemmy advocate since I joined, but I have only ever gotten one person to use Lemmy. I told one of my daughters friends mom about Lemmy. She does not allow her daughter to use social media. Except for Lemmy.

So that is it. My one conversion. I have kind of given up on trying to convert people. I still love Lemmy and the Fediverse, but the year of Lemmy mainstream has yet to come.

I feel like OP missed an opportunity to title this post “Fedora Flatpaks Fall Flat”

Great article, BTW

I read it. It was relevant. Otherwise I would not have posted it. I did not clean it up because I was on mobile and it was legible as is.

I asked several questions and was impressed at the result. I know people do not like LLMs, but they are tools just like a search engine. I am somehow getting Butlerian Jihad vibes.

I could have gotten the same information from Google. Would that still be lazy?

From ChatGPT:

Ending the Bretton Woods system in 1971 had a cascading effect on corporate profits and income distribution. Wealth shifting toward shareholders and executives rather than workers:

1. Deregulation of Money and Credit

Once the dollar was no longer tied to gold, the U.S. government and Federal Reserve had more flexibility in managing the money supply. This led to:

• Higher inflation, which eroded workers’ real wages.

• Easier access to credit, fueling corporate financialization (more focus on stock buybacks, mergers, and financial engineering instead of wage growth).

2. Rise of Shareholder Capitalism

With the shift away from the gold standard, corporate governance changed. Instead of focusing on long-term growth and worker stability, companies prioritized maximizing shareholder value, which became a dominant ideology by the 1980s (reinforced by Milton Friedman’s theories).

• Stock Buybacks & Dividends – Companies increasingly used profits to buy back shares, boosting stock prices and benefiting executives/shareholders.

• Executive Compensation in Stocks – CEO pay shifted from salaries to stock options, aligning their interests with shareholders rather than employees.

3. Decline in Labor’s Bargaining Power

As globalization and automation accelerated, companies could move production abroad, weakening the leverage of American workers. Meanwhile:

• Unions declined, further reducing workers’ ability to demand wage increases.

• Deregulation in industries like finance, airlines, and trucking shifted power away from labor and toward corporate management.

4. Explosion of Financialization

The detachment from gold allowed an unrestricted credit boom, fueling speculative bubbles and making the financial sector more dominant. Instead of reinvesting profits into worker wages or capital expansion, firms:

• Focused on financial activities (derivatives, leveraged buyouts, etc.), which benefited investors rather than workers.

• Moved toward short-term profits, cutting costs via outsourcing and automation.

End Result

With productivity still rising but wages stagnating, the gains went disproportionately to executives and shareholders. This is why, after 1971, you see charts showing a widening gap between worker pay and corporate profits.

The answer to your question is zero yet at this he same time zero is not an answer to your question.

He was a shit human, but he was also a politician. His political message had two parts: 1. Jews are responsible for all our problems 2. We need to conquer more lands.

He said this was the only alternative to handing the country to communists.

The simple xenophobic message appealed to the common people, fear of communism bought the elites in-line.

Looks like this happened:

OpenSSH server has had built-in support for WebAuthn keys since 8.2.

According to Framework support, there are no supported models as of yet.

I have a Framework 13 AMD running Linux Mint. It works great and I love it. Modular IO ports are super nifty.

Here are the downsides as I see them:

1. Price
2. No touch screen
3. No wifi 7

I expect 2&3 will come in the future and I can upgrade! The fact that I can upgrade rather than throw it away in the future offsets 1.