This is why when the whole media world rushed to protect him when he came out of the closet as gay was total and utter bullshit. He wasn’t brave and he doesn’t give one hot damn about the gay community clearly.

I’ve also thought about just dropping another 2-3K on another future thinking machine and using my current for Linux experimentation. Maybe I start the crotch goblin on Linux with this machine after I buy new and transfer everything to a new one.

This is actually a pretty good idea considering your current specs may not actually be able to support Windows 11. It’s a little unclear whether you’ll be able to get it running because while your motherboard meets the TPM 2.0 requirement, your CPU is technically listed as not being supported.

That’s still asking for them to learn to use something entirely new that they might simply not have the time to learn about: Bottles. This person said they’re not savvy at troubleshooting. The last thing they need to be confused about is even getting Bottles running and then installing Ableton.

EDIT: Didn’t notice your system specs at first. While it looks like your motherboard technically supports the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11, it also looks like your processor might be too old to be supported by Windows 11. Check to be sure before going down the path below. You might only have an option of going to Linux in this case.

Unpopular opinion from a user who uses Linux as his daily driver for everything:

If you’re using stuff like Cakewalk/Ableton and want to be able to do so again in the foreseeable future, stick with Windows. You said you’re not super savvy at troubleshooting, so I wouldn’t want to send you down the path of trying to get Windows software running on Linux through WINe because it’s sometimes pretty finicky. Especially with a rugrat in the mix, you just don’t have the time to be fucking with it.

Windows 11 Activation: https://massgrave.dev/ (In case you no longer have a free upgrade path)

WIndows Debloat: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat (A powershell script for getting rid of bloatware, telemetry, and other crap from Windows)

How To Set Up Windows 11 Local Account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhyl3P5Dxw (to avoid having to use a Microsoft account to log in)

Also, I strongly suggest a clean wipe instead of upgrade, as the upgrade path leaves a lot of weird stray stuff that can be annoying. Back up everything that’s important to you on an external drive (or really any drive except the one your OS lives on) and re-install the OS, set up a local account during install, use Massgrave to activate Windows, and then use the Debloater to get rid of bloat.

Why would there be? They massively profit off of its existence.

Only barely 3% of the Desktop OS market share is Linux. (That’s regular consumers)

Something like 80-90% of corporate servers are Linux. (That’s big business, not even just big tech)

Sometimes I think Open Source is unintentionally the largest transfer of wealth generated by volunteers from the working class to the wealthy in history. The corporations get off the shelf software they can run for free and they don’t have to pay a license for and they make money using it.

clanker

Dang, hard R and everything. Welcome to the future, where we got slurs for robots.

I use it just for myself mostly to look at my listening habits. When I was younger I used last.fm to find new artists and talk to people who had similar interests and took their suggestions. These days its just to keep a log of my music listening.

Also, I have noticed a pattern of listening to less music for myself and being a lot more deferential to my partners when I am in a relationship over when I am single. This year is 20 years since I started using last.fm and part of my goal this year is to listen to more music than I have listened to yearly over the past 20 years. 2005 was my highest listening year ever, and while I’m not on pace to break that record, I’m on place to come close to it and shatter every other year in between.

Anyway, that’s just a me thing, it’s helped me feel like myself again, re-embracing really enjoying music in a way I have not over the past 16 years of being with two different partners (one for 2 years, another for 13 years). It’s like a celebration of 20 years of loving music and coming back into my own and becoming more me again, and less codependent on others and letting them drive the music.

What about actually self hosting on a local server? When I think self-hosted I don’t imagine having to go to someone else’s website.

Edit: nvm, found the GitHub

https://github.com/BaldissaraMatheus/Tasks.md

I’m just used to a “getting started” link taking me to… How to install it.

More contractual gig work less direct employment.

They AI companies are going to Mechanical Turk this shit the whole way.

You’re gonna break my OCD brain.

Recently set up a Maloja container and a Multi-scrobbler container so I can finally ditch last.fm!

Because they’ve had takedown requests sent to Firefox, then Gitlab, then Github.

Give me a minute to find my post about this from before with sources to prove this as well as links to the internet archive to show it’s true. It continues to surprise me this is questioned in a piracy forum when the whole reason it got taken down was due to copyright related takedown requests.

EDIT: here it is: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26853791/14683087

Reproduced comment follows:

Magnolia’s Twitter Account: https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
Nitter Link: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/Magnolia1234B

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean

It used to be on the official Firefox Extensions repository until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210429215917/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean/

It used to be on gitlab until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220320090024/https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It used to be on github until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611084455/https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It moved to gitflic.ru not because it’s sketchy, but because of copyright enforcement.

It’s kind of like sci-hub, in a way, it can only actually survive in a country that doesn’t respect the US copyright cabal.

That being said, I’ve never audited the code, but it’s open source (MIT-license) and signed by Mozilla as noted on its gitflic page:

PS although the add-on was removed from Mozilla’s add-on store (AMO) (because of DMCA Takedown Notice) it’s still signed and manually checked for security by Mozilla (hence the delay in signing).

Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Non-descript black gloves. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. Never take off your mask. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.

How I imagine this browser engine works.

Oh good, so that means we can just replace the C-suite with LLMs then, right? Right?

An AI won’t need a Golden Parachute when they inevitably fuck it all up.

Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguistics kind of makes me think he’s being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.

For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of “wholeness.” That when you cut something apart to it’s individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it’s potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.

For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn’t know why. Surprisingly, that’s actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn’t done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.

Further, I think he’s deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding. It does not mean we are born understanding language as much as we are born with the building blocks of understanding the physical world in which we exist.

Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t downvote you and I’m sorry people are doing so.

That’s because they aren’t “aware” of anything.

and Devil Worship

also said “Hail Satan.”

Look, let’s leave Satan out of this. He’s got enough troubles already with his new relationship and all.

Seriously though we don’t need to be enabling Satanic Panic bullshit with articles like these sensationalizing that aspect of these conversations. The push towards self-mutilation and suicide is the bigger issue here.

https://cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote

This is for all men and women, not broken down by different factors.

When an average is taken of all the elections, men average 43.67% for Democrat and 50% for Republican for a 6.33% difference. I do also think it’s notable that in only one election since 2000 has the support for Republican candidates from men been under 50%, that’s 48% for McCain in 2008. I honestly think the voting patterns from the 90’s are gone and so while I included those in the averages, I think just touching on votes since 2000 gives a clearer picture with the average for men supporting the Democratic candidate at 44.14% and support for the Republican candidate at 52.58% for an 8.44% difference. That’s still a large spread when we’re talking the total number of men who vote at all. Somewhere around the size of the entire city of Los Angeles in terms of population.

This is a valid take but also consider that the “average man” in the USA is more likely to be a Trump voter or non-voter than someone who would vote to protect women’s rights. Over half of men voters vote for Republican Presidental candidates consistently. On the flip side men supporting Democrat Presidential candidates mostly clocks in at just above 40%. When you account for the size of the USA, those differences are pretty big and put arguably awful men in the clear majority.