danglybits23

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The book referenced here, "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber is a great (if maddening) read, I would highly recommend it. This article is referencing Graeber's "system" of weeding out "bullshit jobs" built upon in that book.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago

Makes sense, what if she took the vaccine and it killed her? Oh, wait..

These people should be in prison for murder and forcibly sterilized.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Completely enshittifying Notepad of all things is certainly a decision. Of course you have to be logged into a Microsoft account to produce these summaries, which I would assume are then used to train the AI or sell or some combination. I can't wrap my head around why anyone needs this functionality in Notepad, though.

"Besides AI summaries, Microsoft is testing the ability to view your recently closed files in Notepad."

Hah.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's highly suspect since they just announced they don't know if they can continue operations, so idk if i'd trust it lol:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/irobot-sinks-after-annual-filing-has-going-concern-warning-1034472870

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

"Google refused to provide specifics about how its control of search supports national security."

trust me, bro.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As far as flavors of Linux, I would honestly recommend using VirtualBox while on Windows. You can download a preconfigured VM of just about any Linux distro or download whatever iso you want and install in a VM. This gives you some freedom to play around and break things (and you probably will at least once) and get more familiar with the different desktop environments, software installation, command line, searching for how to do things etc.