love this guy one of my new favourite liberals on youtube since i discovered the channel fairly recently

yeah, it manages to be on the level of like, 2008 youtube somehow which is wild. i guess the fact it's a bunch of kids could be a factor? idk but the algo definitely is kind to hateful comments but simultaneously censors you if you decide to be mean in response. feels like i can't say shit on there but bigots have free reign as long as they don't say bad words. "acab" gets autoremoved lol

its wild how much better Plasma is than Windows DWM. i've heard people say that MS have basically ripped features from Plasma over the years too lol. figures that open source is where actual innovation occurs

badposting is better

i do this all the time with all of my friends unless it's like something urgent. i think it's fine, reject the idea that you have to be on call at all times because of modern communication means.

it's overall been a negative experience for me and I've mostly kept it uninstalled for the last year or so. i justified it for a while because it shows me cool gay people but the comments on so much of it are just awful and i don't have the self control to not look at them

I'm not really interested in any kind of debate about this sorry. you're not being rude or anything I just find the idea tedious, as I said it's clear we just disagree on a basic thing here and I'm fine with keeping it that way

fuck I saw a really good term for this phenomenon on here recently but I can't think of it now. something envy? edit I think it was moral envy

finally switched my desktop this year!

i personally do believe in the human soul and don't think rationalist vulgar materialism can fully explain consciousness so yeah, I guess we may just fundamentally disagree there. it doesn't even have to be something "mystical" though, could just be something totally unknown to science that can never be replicated in silicon. even if you still think it's possible, it's plain that the current extinction event and the technological setbacks/energy crises it will bring is going to prevent much progress being made towards the currently science fiction-level technology and energy required to get even close. far from "inevitable" in my view and ultimately, a total waste of time and resources. may as well say Dyson spheres another thing made up by SF writers are inevitable. energy crises, tech setbacks and population destruction will always get in the way. it's utopian to a cartoonish extent, like hundreds or thousands of years of end stage communism would be needed for this kind of stuff to even begin being feasible. and if we had that then I would hope creating AI slaves wouldn't be very high on the agenda. that's why I think taking it seriously is a waste of time.

my impression is that it's real but haven't looked that deep into it. there's accounts of Stalin being freaked out that his daughter was alone with him iirc? also being real it's understandable that a guy suited for that position would have those kinds of tendencies. im sure it gets exaggerated and dramatised and stuff but it's pretty believable to me.

i think the through line from "sufficiently advanced computer + software" to "conscious brain akin to a human one" is basically made up nonsense conceived by SF writers and propagated as being actually real by tech bros. i don't think it's something worth taking seriously at all

Nobara is so nice switched to it from win10 on my main machine a few months ago. KDE Plasma is amazing too, still prefer i3 on a laptop but don't think I'll ever look back on a decently powerful desktop.

i just stand in the women's room usually (blessed with no american style gaps under the stalls where i live lol)

arch on the laptop, fedora on the desktop 😎

definitely a step in the right direction! it is mind boggling how much this was all blown out of proportion, Awoo had the most succinct take on the whole matter i think.

lies of P. not sure if I like it or not yet, some annoying aspects but it has drawn me in more than any other non fromsoft soulslike I've tried over the years

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