shrugs

Second that. AI these days: as if nobody here could create a screenshot from its steam library: like [email protected] already did. I bet prompting AI even took longer to create that shitty version of a steam library.

I find it rather amusing that big servers are optimized to never fail with redundant pdus and fans and the like but as soon as you have to restart such a device, prepare for 10-20 minute downtime.

My take is: before we had ssds so that a shitty configured windows pc could take up to 5-10 mins to boot, that really was a problem. Nowadays, especially were many devices use suspend instead of shutdown and are much faster, not any more.

On the other hand, my fucking smart tv takes 2 minutes to boot and i hate it.

There is a big difference. If a platform belongs to a single entity, you can pressure that entity especially if its profit driven. If there are thousands interconnected platforms that only share an open protocol the most you can do is shutdown a single instance. That's why an open protocol creating decentralized instances is so much different than a centralized platform. It's like trying to ban email or censor speak: not that has never been tried, but that is a whole different cup of tea.

Always has been

I really don't understand why this isn't the norm. Capitalism is a tool. You wouldn't ask a hammer where to hit but it's totally ok that capitalism is allowed to make its own rules.

Without humans, there is no capitalism. Can we please start to prioritize people and ignore corporate crying. They always cry, it maximizes profit.

Fuck em, use their potential to really help society to create real, sustainable improvements. If everyone follows the same rules, it's not even unfair for them

https://youtu.be/KOaeDHeJ80I

It works better of you buy something that has additional positives. Like a new oven and cooking more often or something to do sports.

But ya, I know that feeling.

You haven't ended suffering if you still crave something, in this case nirvana. I don't crave nirvana, I am and enjoy what is there and endure what I don't like. What else is there to do?

I'm not really sure if nirvana is possible and I don't really care, but I feel and understand the logic behind it. It helped me much in the past.

Everyone has its own path. I wish you well

Life is pain. I have felt the same in the past. Maybe Buddhism could help to understand. It did for me.

from https://www.worldhistory.org/Four_Noble_Truths/:

Life is suffering
The cause of suffering is craving
The end of suffering comes with an end to craving
There is a path which leads one away from craving and suffering

Dammit, you beat me to it

Finally, 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop