I know this is not exactly the same because I’m talking about a different country, but its still a Warren Buffet business: Honduran textile factories, “maquilas” as we call them, very generally close down entirely and move elsewhere if a union even starts bubbling up. They’ll fire entire floors or departments if they suspect someone is trying to start a union, and they specifically keep profiles on people who have been known to get involved in unions and either don’t give them jobs or fire then as soon as they realize the history that person has.

I understand it was worse before (well, I don’t follow local news that much but I’m pretty sure there was a textile unionists massacre a few years ago, unknown causes, so maybe it’s still that bad), but that’s enough currently to have absolutely everyone hating unionists in these environments. Pro-union stances can get you in real trouble because of how much that endangers everyone around you and their livelihoods. I… Don’t know how you deal with that, I don’t think anyone around here knows either or something would’ve been done about it by now.

If your defense mechanism is to essentially say “at least I’m not as bad as the real deal”… Brother, there’s a problem.

Douching master race. Moved and my bidet no longer has the necessary pressure for douching and I’m back to being the guy from OP’s meme. Don’t know about inserting anything anywhere tho, the right amount of water pressure, maybe with the right angles, and you’re good to go.

Even then, I see no way for water to go back up the bidet line and contaminate stuff elsewhere. Its like expecting faucets to contaminate things upstream when you wash your hands, it kinda makes no sense, at least to me.

Yeah i don’t think they ever stop training is the thing. At this point I’d assume they have multiple training pipelines to try different shit out, just queued up to hit the big farms as soon as the last models are done training.

Resting isn’t a thing in capitalism.

I’m not running away from most distros because somebody added a date field to a dataset somewhere

As someone who pays $20/month for cursor for work and never go past my quotas to finish all my month’s tasks, AND who has transitioned to almost not coding manually at all and mostly just reviewing generated code, what the FUCK are y’all doing that would ever eat anywhere even close to half your damn salary??? How can you trust any of the output at that kind of volume???

Man, it’s gotten REALLY hard to gauge yourself as a developer nowadays. I have no idea if I’m falling behind or not, and I’m pretty sure more than half of y’all would already condemn me for going too far for using AI, while at least a few would laugh at how behind I am.

Regardless, fuck you Jensen. Fuck you and your crocodile leather jacket.

Next he’s gonna say he’s too cool for the futa schoolgirl cum sock, smh

Yeah, to be completely honest, the one place where you actually could trust this kind of information is on your own local (and ideally libre-oriented) OS, never leaving your device and instead obfuscated through an API that’s exposed to whatever services need to do an age check, with the potential for additional security impositions or other concessions from data requesters due to the leverage of still having your data controlled by you. This is the bonus FOSS part where we get a say on how we want our data to be exposed on our libre systems. Other users aren’t so lucky and don’t get to have any voice on how this implementation happens, so we should probably participate in the discourse for those PRs rather than condemn them point blank.

Boring is good indeed. I’m running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.

You’re getting downvoted but its the truth. We’re constantly exposed to slop or negligent use of AI, none of that means AI isn’t scarily good at the things it does. It is.

And just to clarify, fuck AI, but some of y’all do need a reality check about the technology’s capabilities.

I also went with 16 drives, but they were 20TB each. OP, if you don’t already have those 4tb drives, reconsider the amount and sizes. 4tb can’t be the price sweet spot for HDDs…

Nothing would make me happier than not having to use WhatsApp. Instead, I had to bend over backwards to get WhatsApp on a separate device entirely after they flagged and banned my account (multiple times over the course of a month) for random reasons (hackers trying to hack my account for 6 months straight is my guess as to why I got flagged) and wouldn’t let me log back in with my GrapheneOS phone, and if I ever forget to check that other phone for more than 2 weeks, I get logged out of all my companion devices and lose all my stickers and some recent chat history.

I floated the idea to my contacts of possibly not being able to come back to WhatsApp, they all essentially said I should just buy a new phone (have had my pixel for like a year) and get a new phone number (have had my number for 20 years). My own family scoffed at the idea of using something other than WhatsApp at all to talk to me.

So yeah. Fuck WhatsApp, absolutely fuuuuuuuck Meta, but we’re all literally doing the best we can given the situation we’re in.

The first season was groundbreaking at the time, but quickly became cringe in hindsight from its popularity and the romanticization of certain events. Later seasons, which weren’t as immediately popular for spoiler reasons, get more and more serious and become more cinematically rewarding for the viewer.

If you can get past the first season, it gets a lot better. The last season is honestly some of the best pieces of television content I’ve ever seen.

Its a victim of its time. There is a decent amount of filler and some episodes have big inconsistencies at one point due to being released out of order since they were filler content, but the overarching quality of the show, and watching it slowly move away from monster/mystery of the week to something that rewarded its fans in multiple intentional and sometimes subtle ways, it truly felt… And still feels… Like something deeply special and really worth recommending, even if you do end up having to work through a decent amount of filler in the first seasons.

I would absolutely think twice or thrice about recommending GoT. In fact, I’ve already recommended some friends to not watch it. Some amazing episodes, perhaps some of the best scenes ever seen on TV, and by far the most upsetting, spit-in-the-face, negligent final season from any show I’ve ever seen. Umbrella Academy wishes it had as bad an ending as GoT, if only for the infamy.

Anyway 3 Body Problem looks really promising and I’m sure the creators, whoever they are, will absolutely nail it…

Sony XM5 earbuds. The most annoying part of them is their feature that connects to multiple devices at once, so I end up fighting my phone (Graphene) or gaming PC (Bazzite) midway through a business call on my work laptop (believe it or not, also Bazzite).

So yeah, their only problem is they work with everything and can prioritize sounds from other devices mid-call. You can just not connect them to everything at the same time, or turn off Bluetooth on the phone n stuff while not in use.

I’m pretty sure you can just buy any device like that (so not Razer, and generally not gaming) and it’ll just work on Linux. Gaming stuff in general usually has a hard time working even on Windows due to absolute dog-shit firmware & software implementations.

I’m not sure there’s many options other than cynical doomerism for analysing this situation. My uneducated guess? They probably already ran out of real world data, and are now forced to produce ridiculous amounts of LLM-generated data to try and continue the training process like this.

Other alternatives I can think of:

• they might be creating multiple model versions and keeping them for iteration metrics
• they might need to ingest a lot more real-world data to continue. Since video has been such a focus as of late, maybe they’re building huge video libraries for the models? Or maybe they’re creating their own real-world data with high detail.
• my most doomer take is that this is the beginning of a vastly deeper authoritarian online state, where a LOT more data is getting collected from EVERYONE and being fed into both new training data for models, as well as knowledge bases for context for models to work on top of.

We’ve known for a while that they’re running out of training data, so it makes a lot of sense to either generate more data with models, create it at big scale without AI, or collect even more data in even more invasive ways from everyone online. There’s literally no other reason I can think of to buy the entire stock of WD drives for 2026 2 months into the year.

You’re zensanto. LadyMeow is LadyMeow. OP, in my context, is LadyMeow, not you. You’re just being autistic for no good reason.

To quote OP:

There are lots of much better electric cars if that’s what you want

Or is this too difficult for you to follow?

OP literally said there’s much better deals anyways. You focused entirely on the financial aspect of the comment, when that was never what was being discussed. Its perfectly fine for people to, in addition to thinking about good or bad deals, think about the moral implications of their purchases. At no point did they say or imply that morality was the only or primary basis for a purchase regardless of value proposition.

Edit: don’t assume I’m a fucking gringo, ew

Just keep in mind he got that far, in part, by not announcing his plans online. This paints a mark on you. Stay safe.