Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I’m good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.

Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds, making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe.

Good article but this stood out as a massive exaggeration. They can cost millions, much like a car can cost millions, but I can pick up a microscope sufficient for most clinical laboratory work for around $200-300. A cheap epifluoresence microscope can be acquired for around $2k.

Still an inaccessible amount for many, but it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper.

Reading an article on Musk’s erratic, ridiculous behavior from over a year ago makes me pine for the world’s previous level of insanity.

Temporary tattoos can help confound identification.

And good riddance to them. The TERF rants emboldening bigots to go on further rants were getting pretty old.

I was worried it might be a bit too Reddity, but I think a little of that behavior is okay once in awhile. At least it didn’t birth 40 single word replies, probably because condoms were involved.

Some people say lamb skin is like wearing nothing at all, and it harkens back to the earliest known condom, a goat’s bladder.

Critical thinking is indeed dead for much of the population.

Linux has come SO far. I first tried it about a decade ago, wrecked my install, and came crawling back to Windows. A few months back, I installed Ubuntu (tease all you want, peanut gallery, it’s better than Windows) on my laptop and it’s so much better. It just works great, I have my system customized to how I want it to work, and the poor CPU fan is no longer blasting even when the system is idle. My battery life also gained almost an hour.

The blind or vision impaired would appreciate this. Past that, hard pass.

Unfortunately, even though it sounds adorable, that’s a myth. There’s nothing about bees or bumblebees that would make their flight theoretically problematic.

I think you nailed it. There are definite upsides to macOS, especially for less tech savvy users, but they gouge the hell out of the denizens of their walled garden.

I don’t think the biggest concerns about Windows are about functionality. It works perfectly well and even has some neat features. I’m using Linux and I miss the sys + v for clipboard history. The biggest gripe themes I see are the loss of privacy coupled with increasing sales pressure for everything Microsoft.

Edit: I looked it up, of course there’s a Linux equivalent to clipboard history. Added!

You can get/make your own archive link by going to archive.ph and entering the article’s URL.

Here’s the link for this one: https://archive.ph/wUAQn

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I learned Pitman shorthand. It combined with cursive English makes it so only a few elderly women and I can read my diary.

Yeah, it’s a few years away from being ready. Plus the dumb shits need to backpedal on this “cameras for everything!” idiocy.

I’m surprised the taxis aren’t being driven remotely while Musk lies about their amazing AI or whatever.

That would require their self driving algorithm to actually detect an accident. I doubt it’s capable of doing so consistently.

Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.

1+ for koreader, it’s so much better than the stock Kindle reader.