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Zacryon ,

From my amateur experience Krita is really nice for drawing, painting and sketching, especially if you have a graphic tablet, as it bundles commonly used features and makes them easily accessible.
But it is by far not a sophisticated image manipulation program such as GIMP, which comes with a plethora of more features you'll probably not use if you're just doing some "typical Krita stuff".

Zacryon ,

Which ones?

Zacryon ,

True, increased demand for meat is one of the driving factors of ecological malpractise as it's found in the meat industry.

Plant based diets and a lifestyle free of animal products provide a more sustainable and ecologically beneficial alternative. As does reducing the overall world population of course.

Zacryon ,

Humans need at least some meat to survive. [...] It causes long-term, serious harm to people who do not supplement their diet with at least some meat. [...] completely cutting out meat is bad for you.

That is not correct.

Advocating a vegan (or even vegetarian) diet is ignoring science and how our bodies function. [...] Pure veganism is a cult that ignores science, diet, and common sense.

To the contrary. It is very much supported by science.
Are you interested in the scientific literature? I'll happily share.

Zacryon ,

It's impossible to trust any sources these days because there are hidden agendas. [...] No amount of "scientific literature" can contradict actual, basic, fundamental science about who we are and what we are supposed to eat. Anyone who does has an agenda.

Sounds more like, "I don't like it, so it must be an agenda".

If you have issues trusting science we won't come to an agreement here. Having a biased view and choosing what you want to believe, despite contradicting evidence, is building an illusion and not having an accurate picture of reality.

Note that research on that topic has not just popped up in the last couple of years. Also you may take a look at other cultures for hands-on counterexamples, e.g. some monks who live and have lived their whole lifes without consuming animal products.

The fact remains: we are omnivores

I wonder how you decide what a "fact" is, since you have issues trusting the work of scientists.
Anyway:
The fact also remains that digestion capabilites, i.e. being able to eat both plant and animal matter, don't necessarily impose dietary recommendations.

What you need to survive is a set of nutrients your body can digest. In which form they come, is less important.

Zacryon ,

That's why you need to think about the company you're going to invest in.

Your critique is accurate for too many companies, yes. But by far not for all.

Zacryon ,

Forex traders are shocked.

Zacryon ,

Everything is a resistor. It's just a question of voltage.

Zacryon ,

It's more of a slap than a punch.

Zacryon ,

In that case you could pay tuem for their USB A plug-in service.

Zacryon ,

Strange. Never had automatic updates on Ubuntu. Just notifications that there are some. Also I don't have similar issues with Firefox. Works perfectly fine for me.

Zacryon ,

Windoof on my computer got an update last week. I wonder when it's done. /j

(But seriously, it took almost the whole evening.)

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

Zacryon ,

*they're buying studios who make legendary games and kill them.

They are a parasite to the gaming landscape.

Zacryon ,

Yes, and consider what insane amount of pressure was necessary to achive this. Over 200.000 negative reviews for HD2. That makes it very unlikely to happen again. It shows how little gamers can achieve and how little their concerns are heard if they are not accumulating to a critical mass.

Zacryon ,

Python is already really slow.

Zacryon ,

I don't know enough about IT security to understand this.

Does that mean that run0 puts programs in some form of sandbox? What's the difference now to sudo?

Zacryon ,

It's "freemium", not free. There is a difference. You can't use ChatGPT 4 without paying as well as the API. Also, you are limited in the number of prompts you can make per hour before you are put on pause and asked to pay.

Search engines like Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, etc. don't ask you for money. Regardless how intensively you use it. (They might come with other drawbacks though like Google with privacy, environment, ethical principles, ...)

Zacryon ,

I've never been asked to pay for using one of the aforementioned search engines. I have been asked to pay for OpenAI products.

So I don't see how you come to that conclusion.

Zacryon ,

The ones where you just claim that despite it being not true or which ones do you mean?

Zacryon ,

Well... as I said. OpenAI asks for money, search engines usually don't. Ergo, OpenAI is not free. (But freemium.)

Despite claiming that's not the case, you lack the necessary proof and don't seem to care about countering my argument with something of substance.

Such a discussion will not be fruitful if you are unwilling to deliver.

Zacryon ,

That you deliver reasons for why you claim I'm wrong.

It's freemium, not free. As I said before, OpenAI limits the number of prompts you can make per hour in case you don't want to pay. Also, using the API or ChatGPT 4 costs money. Users of search engines are usually not asked for money.

Zacryon ,

Some may not have the money for such expenses.

Some may have ethical issues regarding how the CEO invests his profits into military companies. And Spotify makes less money with ads than with the subscription fee.

Some don't want to pay for ad-free Spotify, since the subscription fee is much higher than what they make with ads. They don't see the price as justified.

Some prefer other ways to listen to music, since they have an issue how a plethora of artists don't really benefit from Spotify and are rather exploited. (Okay, those listeners are probably not meant here anyway as they are not affected.)

Some have a problem with such subscription services, especially if you do not own a copy of the music and there is a risk of the music, they like to listen to, being removed from Spotify's library.

Some especially don't want to pay for Spotify if they removed a feature, miss a feature or moved a feature behind the subscription, if that feature was previously available or should be available, because there are some things which are taken for granted or are usually expected and they protest against a business model of "creating value by taking something away".

Some may be cheap, yes.

But surely not all of them. There can be many reasons and it's usually a good idea not to shove all people of group X into a single drawer and judge them in such an inconsiderate way.

Zacryon , (edited )

System as a service. I remember that as well. Obviously they didn't make as much money with it as they wanted to. Sooo they just draw an arbitrary line regarding supported CPUs, ditch Windoof 10, push 11, force users to upgrade their hardware and therefore often force them to buy new licenses and making new friends that way by starting that in the middle of the chip crisis. Then, captivating the user in their new OS, shoving ads down their throat, harvesting their data to make even more. What a shitshow.

Zacryon ,

Holy shit.
I fucking hate that rounded corner mania which is spreading all over UI design decisions almost everywhere you look.

I can tolerate it with window borders, but if rounded corners hide content, e.g., of videos or images, it really irrationally infuriates me.

My screens are rectangular. Not rounded. I paid for those pixels, so fucking use them! ò_ó

Zacryon ,

It feels to me like every second version of Windoof is shit if you start at XP (my first Windoof OS, no experience with earlier ones):

  • XP guhd
  • Vista shite
  • 7 guhd
  • 8 shite
  • 10 guhd
  • 11 shite

Until now I was able to skip every second version and could wait until the newer and better one was released. But now it seems that I need to make a complete switch to a suitable gaming Linux OS. I don't have any other use for Windoof.

Your poll results feel therefore relatable to me. I want a system that just works and with which I can do everything I need to. I don't mind testing new features. Often I welcome them. But if I can already expect that I have to adjust to new features which are unavoidable, and from which I can tell – either by reading reviews or testing myself – that I really don't like them, then of course I stay with the system which doesn't have them as long as I can still do everything I need to.

Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...

Zacryon ,

“Mistakes were treated statistically,” a source who used Lavender told +972. “Because of the scope and magnitude, the protocol was that even if you don’t know for sure that the machine is right, you know statistically that it’s fine. So you go for it.” [...]
During the first few weeks of the war, officers were allowed to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians for every lower-level Hamas operative targeted by Lavender; for senior Hamas officials, the military authorized “hundreds” of collateral civilian casualties, the report claims.

I fucking hate people. Especially those, who don't need to use violence but choose to do so anyway.

Zacryon ,

our government

Not mine. Classic Murica problem, I suppose?

Zacryon ,

having the control to make decisions over my own computer is superb

I find it really sad that it has come so far that feelings like these exist. That should be a matter of course. Instead, it has become a special feature.

Zacryon ,

Lol, not even Windoof is compatible with all video games.

Zacryon ,

"Everything is a file."

Zacryon ,

What's wrong with Canonical?

Zacryon ,

I totally agree with Linus Torvalds in that AIs are just overhyped autocorrects on steroids

Did he say that? I hope he didn't mean all kinds of AI. While "overhyped autocorrect on steroids" might be a funny way to describe sequence predictors / generators like transformer models, recurrent neural networks or some reinforcement learning type AIs, it's not so true for classificators, like the classic feed-forward network (which are part of the building blocks of transformers, btw), or convolutional neural networks, or unsupervised learning methods like clustering algorithms or principal component analysis. Then there are evolutionary algorithms and there are reasoning AIs like bayesan nets and so much much much more different kinds of ML/AI models and algorithms.

It would just show a vast lack of understanding if someone would judge an entire discipline that simply.

Zacryon ,

You are literally wrong.
Nice article, don't see how that's relevant though.

Could it be, that you don't know what "intelligence" is? And what falls under definitions of the "artificial" part in "artificial intelligence"? Maybe you do know, but have a different stance on this. It would be good to make those definitions clear before arguing about it further.

From my point of view, the aforementioned branches, are all important parts of the field of artificial intelligence.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

Zacryon ,

"Tips and recommendations".

For years I had that turned on in Windoof 10 as it sounded like: "we see you're regularly doing X or having problem Y. Here is a way how to make X simpler and a solution for Y."

Instead it was nothing like that. It was literally nothing at all. Probably they just tried to shove some ads down my throat, which I luckily didn't see.

But it has become clear enough: it's not about helping users with useful tips and recommendations. It's about luring them into buying some stuff.

They can find new clever euphemisms, like EA did with their "surprise mechanics". But it is what it is: ads, digital noise, a waste of resources and probably one of the last incentives I needed to fully switch to a good Linux distro.

I used Windoof just for gaming anyway. And as I'm already working professionally with Linux, it will hardly be a miss.

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