Let’s take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.

Microsoft went too far in 2001 when they included a new online activation feature in Windows XP which spearheaded the future of drm and enshitification. They’ve been one-upping themselves ever since. All the most recent stuff is just more icing on the shit cake.

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Congress is making laws about bathrooms and genitals like a bunch of 6th graders running a minecraft server. Of course we can’t handle fucking asteroid defense.

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Windows ME didn’t have the ability to automatically install USB drivers and it was fucking bullshit even back then.

You can’t install a flash drive driver if you need the flash drive in order to transfer the driver to the computer, everything is always 0.1mb too large for a floppy drive so CD has to be burned which is clunky and stupid and time consuming.

When they start making affordable arm or risc motherboards that can take pcie cards and ram sticks, then I’ll be interested. The “pi” motherboard form factor has its place but we need better stuff.

I don’t think that replacing order taking positions is stealing anyone’s job, in fast food at least. I worked at a fast food joint one time. We were always shorthanded and we always had to do order taking while doing a bunch of other things. It was such bullshit. From an overworked employee perspective, if there was any way to get out of doing drive through orders while doing all my other tasks, I would be happy to use it.

It’s probably going to be like twitch. I’m sure they’ll eventually succeed in making it so you can stream videos without watching ads but they’ll never be able to stop people from downloading the video and skipping the ad in vlc.

I use Arch btw. You should try Arch. Everyone in this post should stop what they’re doing and try Arch. I never go outside.

I only use Gimp for my image editing and I can literally do everything I ever attempt. I do stuff game modding and 3d model textures sometimes. Wtf else do people want in gimp, an automatic dick sucking machine?

If paying all that money to use photoshop is worth not learning a different ui to you, then you are their intended customer. I’m glad you found something you like.

Krita can’t do the same things Gimp can though + I already know where all the buttons are from years of using it. I fail to understand why people hate gimp so much. I’ve never run into an image editing task that I couldn’t do in gimp.

Imagine getting banned from all of adobe just for drawing a dick with the brush tool in their expensive image editor.

If you haven’t found one you like yet, consider trying Debian. It’s basically the same as Ubuntu, everything works the same on Debian as in Ubuntu but it’s better because of less bloat.

Due to a slower update schedule, it may be worse at steam proton gaming than arch or something with a rolling release because that stuff heavily depends on how up to date your mesa or Nvidia drivers are. I can play everything except Starfield on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop pretty much.

There is a command line program called tesseract that does image to text generation. It produces plaintext from a picture of text. I didn’t look into exactly how it works but iirc, image to text that’s actually good and accurate needs ai shenanigans.

Remember how smartwatches were a big deal and now no one cares? That’ll probably happen with ai. Hopefully in 10 or so years whatever losses corporations suffer when all the money they’ve invested goes to waste will help the common person somehow. Maybe gpus and computer parts will stop costing so much for example. Maybe their leadership will collapse, things will change and the tech industry will be a good place to work again.

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I like Atril too. It has easier and more fluid zoom in/out capabilities than Okular but Okular has a dark mode. I keep both installed because they’re both really good.

I have a $60 ac1750. My privacy and being able to actually rely on port forwarding is worth $60.