“distrust in capitalism and our pseudo-democratic plutocracies, the profit motive to replace the human workforce, the reckless criminal-incompetence of its implementation, and apparent stupidity of the average hairless primate”

I have hair, thank you very much, but seriously get out of my head. The hubris these days is unbelievable.

A lot of people are making well-reasoned arguments about human nature, the nature of a dangerous tool, defining responsible use, and the challenges inherent in any sort of ban.

The points that look the best to me definitely include tagging, but I haven’t seen suggested any method of gatekeeping as to who has access to the means of dissemination of software. Because the damage by the tool is determined by the one who wields it, only people who have established trustworthiness should be allowed to contribute.

It is just a tool, but human nature makes it a net negative. There are a lot of tools like that, and history shows that once the cat is out of the bag, humanity just has to live with the damage that tool causes. There’s literally nothing that can be done to stop it on a large scale, but small communities can always dictate what they will tolerate.

Thankfully the culture of Linux power users (I am not one) is firmly anti-AI. There are several reasons for this, and not all are altruistic, but it’s the right approach to have. Dummies like me have to use it for commands, codes, and scripts, but I’m not going to be submitting ANYTHING to any kind of actual project, because I recognize my incompetence.

I mean, I’m not sure the hysteria is completely unreasonable. AI does pose multiple legitimate threats and should be used responsibly, and not trusted with certain duties. We’ve also seen that the powers that be treat the world around them like a fratboy treats a drunken co-ed (it’s meant to be disgusting), and that the constant growth demanded by the shareholders leaves no room for ethics, morals, or big-picture thinking.

I use AI. I also built my own for simple tasks. I’ve had a lot of experiences with AI at this point, and its generous to say the pros-cons are a wash. The use-cases I and most normies see is AI expediting an already blazing fast enshitification of everything around us.

How’s it compare to Portainer? I hear Portainer is about to be enshitified.

I started with docker desktop on windows for a year. Got tired of resources redlining because windows is greedy. Tried proxmox and just couldn’t get past the setup (don’t remember which part). Anyway, running headless Debian with docker is working really well for about 2 months now. Between cockpit and my codeserver container I can get most anything done through gui. I even installed comai llm on my mint desktop machine to help me with commands.

I don’t understand the tone of this comment. Family link is voluntary. It is lame, yes, and it is just barely useful, but it offers some handy controls if you want to limit what your kid can access on an android device. It would be preferable for me to have a good kiosk mode, but I haven’t seen anything that met my needs.

or just buy a minipc for $130 from Ebay.

It is frustrating though, I have several old phones that are in good shape. It would be nice to give them a job. There might be one or two that boot without a battery.

it happens to every one of them eventually. Wonder what really causes it?

I think there is a way to fool it by soldering a jumper on the battery contacts. Probably varies from phone-to-phone.

Yes. Obviously. Ivan, it’s hilarious you posted this in this thread because it is a top 5 russian psy-op talking point. Did you get your tabs mixed up? I’m shocked the Russians have been able to continue fighting with prolapsed rectums.

Choosing the lesser of two evils by definition leaves you with -checks notes- LESS EVIL. Fuck me is there anyone on this sub more than 12 years old?

russian spammers taking a break from inter-familial sodomy to post on the fediverse.

Still doesn’t make starting a war of aggression okay. Russia is still the bad guy.

not if it is a “mostly peaceful protest.” the cops open the gates then.

I’m still waiting for ICE to learn about the 2nd Amendment. Conservatives are 110% full of shit.

herego

Mental illness and homelessness go together like sex and cigarettes. You can have 1000 days of harmless hobos sleeping on benches, and all it takes is 1 or 2 stark-raving madmen attacking or harassing people to shift attention and spark concern about safety (falling property values because that neighborhood has a “bum problem”)

I’m not saying it’s right, it just how things work.

Edit: I’ve paid high rent to live somewhere and had to deal with panhandlers, hobos, and thieves. Kindness wasn’t a valuable tool. Needless to say it hits different when you are the one being affected.

You silly goose! US Congressmen get the best healthcare. What’s wrong, are you not a Congressman? Sucks for you!