Does it still take forever to launch if you have more than a screen full of tokens?

Does it still only show four characters of the editable component of the name?

Does it still refuse to show the secret as text if you load a QR code?

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.

Black Friday is a marketing exercise to get you all riled up about the massive savings you will receive if you buy something RIGHT NOW.

Suffice to say that the actual bargains on the day are far and few between.

If you actively track pricing you’ll discover that the price goes up before the event, then drops to the same or slightly lower pricing on the day. The “bargain” is notional at best.

Then there are the “pre Black Friday” sales, and the “Cyber Monday” ones afterwards. It’s all just marketing.

If you want an actual bargain, find what you’re looking for, set a price watch on it and track it for as long as you have patience. When you’re ready, buy it from your preferred supplier and get them to price match the amazing price.

As far as refurbished goes, ask yourself what is the upside for the supplier to give away any bit of return on their spend to refurbish the item in the first place?

Whilst that does create a more pleasant atmosphere, it also creates echo chambers and I believe that’s not a good thing.

I try to only block those who are explicitly being antagonistic, rather than just those whom I disagree with.

It would be great if Lemmy had a way to tag a user, so you could tag a borderline account, then decide after several interactions if they warranted blocking.

I also block several key words, rather than accounts.

I actively search for, report then block spam.

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To enjoy yourselves doesn’t require that you all buy the latest gaming rig or even something new or identical. As long as what you decide on has games in common, you’re good.

I’m beginning to suspect that the recent election results can be explained by one word: Entropy

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I am not privy to your financial situation, but can you three pool your resources and find a common platform?

I’m not eligible to vote in your country. In mine, voting is mandatory and there are no stickers, just democracy sausages to aid in the funding for local polling places like schools and community halls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

That’s like asking for an elephant stamp for wiping your butt after going to the toilet.

Voting isn’t an accomplishment, it’s your duty and the reward is the society you live in.

Thank you, much appreciated.

I just looked on the Google Play store and can’t find either of the apps you mention. Do you have a link?

If you don’t have any hair, it won’t change colour…

(It’s a joke, laugh)

Also, not for nothing, the human body changes daily. I’d recommend that you get used to it before you have an unhappy life pursuing battle against the inevitable.

Not sure how I feel about such a bot. I can see potential security issues arising in relation to stored relationships between users and posts.

I’m fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I’ve never looked into it deeply.

No, you didn’t “edit” your mistake, you completely changed the meaning of your response which makes anything after it look absurd.

You originally stated that an algorithm was intelligence, the implication being that using your logic, you thought that a calculator was intelligent.

As far as the meaning of AI, you clearly don’t understand the landscape surrounding the hyperbolic assertions made by ignorant journalism about the topic.

Machine learning is one aspect of the landscape, useful as it is, intelligence it is not.

LLM emissions on the other hand appear to emulate enough grammatically correct language to fool many people some of the time, leading to their mistaken belief that what is happening is intelligence rather than, at least from their perspective, magic.

(Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke)

So, intelligence it is not, Assumed Intelligence is what it is, or autocorrect gone uppity if you prefer, an algorithm either way.

Ignorance is bliss…

A.I. means Assumed Intelligence, despite what you might have read elsewhere. Using it to do “research” is how you’re going to get first hand experience with so-called “hallucinations”.

But you do you…

I’m an industry professional in ICT with 40 years experience.

I’ve come to form the view that industry certification is a vendor lock-in process created solely for the purpose of generating a guaranteed income stream for that vendor.

If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it as a learning experience.

If you have to pay for it yourself, I’ve yet to see any evidence that they represent a return on investment of any kind in your career.

That’s not to say that learning should be abandoned, quite the opposite. In this industry, if you’re not learning, you’re going backwards.

Stay curious, read verociosly and try to figure out how stuff works and more importantly, how it breaks.

Mathematics and Politics.

There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.

There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.

What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.

Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense. Politicians use this as an argument for the status quo.

Finally, the rich shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.