Your exchange makes me think about the chinese room thought experiment.

The person inside the room has instructions and a dictonary they uses to translate chinese symbols into english words. They never leave the room and never interact with anyone. They just translate single words.

They don’t understand chinese, but the output of the system (the room) gives the impression that there is thinking behind the process. If I remember correctly, it was an argument against the Turing test. The claim was that computers could be extremely efficient into constructing anwsers that seems to be backed by human consciousness/thinking.

Nvidia CEO says you’re “Insane” If you don’t outsource the act of thinking to AI owned by big tech assholes.

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I see it just as positive vibes. It’s someone throwing a bottle in the ocean hoping it will reach someone who might the message inside it.

I can totally understand the other way around though, it can feel invalidating like behing told that sleeping 8 hours, meditating 15 minutes per day and eating well will solve every single of your problems when you have to deal with a crippling condition every single day of your life. It can be infuriating.

I try to focus on the non-verbal narrative and tell myself that it’s just a person sending positive vibes in their own way.

I backup everything I like and not just porn. It could become a lost media someday. There are so many things I wish I could find from the napster/kazaa era, but for most of them I sadly had to give up.

People trying to shame us encouraging people switching to a OS that respects our privacy from the shit show Microsoft has become makes me roll my eyes every single time.

We pass so much of our time in front of a screen. Why not do it while retaining our freedom as much as we can? Sure, if you must use it for work, it is what it is, but Linux is definitely something worth learning using no matter what your technical level is.

If you can navigate through Windows with some degree of confidence, you absolutely can use Linux effectively. You can go full GUI no problem if you want to.

Linux is so easy nowaday. Yeah, some niche things might require some digging around, but that’s nothing compared to the bullshit you have to accept from Microsoft.

If it’s not for work, I’m sorry but use Linux or stop bitching. The correct answer will always be don’t use the trojan OS.

Dance Dance Revolution 3rd mix. It sounds stupid, I know, but hear me out. I really sucked at this game at first. My friends use to play every weekends at the arcade, so I really wanted to get better. So I really trained hard and became the best player in our group. People gattered around the arcade when I was playing. I was good enough for tournaments.

Now when I face something difficult, I’m confident I can overcome it if I really want to. I wasn’t like that before. Thanks Konami.

In my opinion, it’s not as bad as people claim it to be, but It’s far from being great as well.

I think it was easier to watch when it came out, but from memory I enjoyed it. I remember thinking the show was kinda accurate regarding nerdy references (compared to other movies and series of the time) and I thought it was cool.

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Look at them groveling like fucking ferengis around the grand nagus.

Yeah, that is fair. I personally don’t know much about VR so I wound’t know.

I admit it might be a a bit more complicated when it comes to make VR or things like a racing wheel work without having to dig around.

Dude, you need to chill. Why not take a break and unclench you jaw and fists for a while?

This conversation doesn’t deserve this level of blood pressure.

I never had a single issue so far. Actually, performamce is better on Linux every single time for me. I finally got rid of Windows since I have zero use for it. The only problem could be games with anti cheats.

I’m always surprised when I hear people claiming they work in IT and find Linux to be complicated. I just installed Fedora on two of my friends’ machines. Both are cluless about computers and they are doing perfectly fine. Now for basic tasks including gaming, a granny could use it without much issues if any.

When was the last time you tried Linux? If it has been a while, you might be surprised how it has changed recently. Proton made everything so much easier.

I’m not a technical person by the way; just a normal dude who uses Linux now.

He’s litterally an alien.