Oh my. It seems you’re right.

Its nice to see the return of the classics!

Is that a magnesium body plate?

As is tradition for thinkpads.

You’re as prepared as anyone ever is. Getting good with a search engine is the best preparation.

Also, if that fails? Most distros have a forum where you can ask for help and actually get it.

Document interoperability? LibreOffice works well, and you can save in all the same formats as MS Office and more.

The learning curve is mostly what the new tools and programs are called. But so much stuff actually works better over there in Linux land - VLC, Krita, Blender, Audacity, much more.

Try things in a Virtual Machine! If you really can’t give up some of your windows tools, you can try dual-booting, but Windows Update doesn’t always play nice with another OS on the machine.

The Palestinian Authority is an Israeli puppet.

Heat is energy as “vibration of molecules”. It spreads to adjacent molecules by conduction, unless we have other interesting things going on. Easy stuff.

Vacuum is the absence of molecules to conduct heat to.

Wait…

For 10 bitcoin I have a bridge ai datacenter in space I can sell you

Last I knew, they switched from Anthropic to chatGPT

Either way, what Im hearing is you can get private access, with some creativity, to anything the US intelligence apparatus knows. For free.

Memory? What’s that? I’m too American to afford remembering anything, all I do is work.

Seems they’re walking it back?

https://abc7news.com/post/anthropic-cannot-good-conscience-accede-military-use-ai-ceo-dario-amodei-says/18651096/

You gullible person, they write the contracts to protect themselves at your expense. For example:

Check your Disney+ contract before going on a Disney cruise. If you use both services, you waive your right to go to court in case of injury or death on the cruise. Potentially for Life.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/streaming-movies-and-tv/new-disney-terms-of-service-have-a-few-clauses-you-need-to-read/ar-AA1zicFJ

First they actually came for the trans people, but the poem author didn’t care to notice because he was a Catholic Priest.

But ya know. Its like that again.

Yes.

Also, Ubuntu is on the governing board for Debian, as a major stakeholder in their upstream distribution. They use the same tools to distribute software.

3rd party repos like PPAs are Sometimes (though not always) compatible with both.

Its how most Distros get started. Ubuntu is just tweaked Debian, with more than a decade of tweaks (and amazon spyware) piled up.

I’m 100% in favor of this. Erode that trademark!

I’m not a Leninist by any means. But on a mass scale, the need to grow for a Capitalist economy? Manifests itself in ways Lenin described as “Capitalist Imperialism”. If you only reach one chapter, the author says that’s Ch7, which becomes a short essay.

Lenin Argues against Carl Kautsky’s assertion that such a prospect looks like grabbing Land. Lenin argues that Capitalism needs no such political arm directly, only ownership of the economy by a foreign body. Eventually investment capital runs out of fertile ground at home and must find new markets to control.

As Russia’s economy stagnated, and the room for investment dried up, much of Putin’s moves were to open other countries to Russian Finance Capital. When that failed, taking new land became the fallback for having new oil and shipping investments. Not just land, but resources as Kautsky discussed.

And here Doctorow breaks down how that looks for single firms in monopoly or oligopoly, specifically in the tech sector, and its drive to constantly " invent new markets". A perfect compliment.

That’s what these data centers are - Empire. They will swallow your ability to compute. Moderate it. Control it. Direct it towards only their ends. Because at the end game, the most value extraction comes from not simply selling you a product, but selling you as a product to other businesses. Enshittification will continue until you can out-bid the corpos for your data sovereignty. Reverse Centaurs are easy to train, replace, and shift. Centaurs? Require actual investment, giving the worker some power.

The need for control? Emerges organically from the consequences of noncompliance. In both the puppet-state in response to its international industrial overlords, or its alternative in direct management by a foreign state. The money must flow, the growth must happen, or the party is over for much broader than their own dinner table.

The growth must happen, or the very laws of a market crush the entire society down to well below this peak. No more growth stocks in growth industries, just cutthroat competition from the same corpos that keep out upstarts… Until some shock ruins somebody’s bag, and we get a chance at something interesting like the tech sector used to be.

Accurate? Certainly. Politically Feasible? That’s another story.

Their name is both a Confederate and Nazi dogwhistle, and Im tired of pretending its not.