it’s not even close to being over yet

living adfree is so great. sometimes it’s jarring to hear an ad in the wild, but it’s a nice reminder of how much better I’m living

it was probably programmed to do it, like grok and racism

I’m not dissing on them. I am simply aware of how they are perceived in society.

yeah, this is 1000% deliberate manufacturing consent

how to belittle and minimize a very serious thing: call any protesters of it a " ___ vegan"

all that proves is that lemmy users post those articles. you’re skirting around psychotic territory here, seeing patterns where there are none, reading between the lines to find the cover-up that you are already certain is there, with nothing to convince you otherwise.

if you want to be objective and rigorous about it, you’d have to start with looking at all media publications and comparing their relative bias.

then you’d have to consider their reasons for bias, because it could just be that things actually suck. (in other words, if only 90% of media reports that something sucks when 99% of humanity agrees it sucks, maybe that 90% is actually too low, not too high)

this is all way more complicated than media brainwashing.

that is such a ridiculous idea. Just because you see hate for it in the media doesn’t mean it originated there. I’ll have you know that i have embarrassed myself by screaming at robot phone receptionists for years now. stupid fuckers pretending to be people but not knowing shit. I was born ready to hate LLMs and I’m not gonna have you claim that CNN made me do it.

yeah adobe isn’t something i use regularly. not sure whether you mean photoshop (never) or pdf viewer (which i use adobe for and also hate)

Um, on any given day I’m running Steam, VLC, and Firefox. yeah it seems that those are all better than fine

thanks! right now the primary obstacle is arranging adequate backup before maling my first attempt.

I have a laptop with Win 11 for troubleshooting so I’m not worried about that. and I have most of my stuff on externals, so there’s not much to backup. I just gotta figure out a good way to back up my C drive and a plan for reverting if necessary!

this makes me even more excited for my plans to switch to linux. I’m gonna have to go find a good backup method soon!

lol it’s been a bit overwhelming on the inbox. I expected to get told off

☺️ it’s gonna be a quite a long while before the first install but thanks!

you say PKM as if it’s a specific thing beyond a notepad and an insane dude’s scrawlings. I am intrigued. what does your PKM look like?

cool. yea nvidia will be a problem. guess that narrows my choices!

I saw some cinnamon stuff and i still dont get what that means!

whatcha gonna use for gaming?

I’m gonna have to figure out how to install another SSD I guess… hope my motherboard is compatible with whatever is on the Market. I bought it all in asia and apparently the motherboard is an issue

it sounds like debían is better then?

I see! if it can take a while, I see why old machines would be friendlier to linux. more time for drivers to get updates.