The big question is this: did social media cause all of these problems, or just reveal them? These feelings have existed in humanity long before social media came to be, but remained under the surface because of societal pressures, resulting in things like ulcers and emotional breakdowns.

Anyone remember Forum 2000?

As old-skool as it might be, there are some advantages to this over Notion.

• The content is stored as plaintext files, and formatted in a way similar to Markdown. This means that there is no risk of wholesale loss.
• The content is stored locally, and shared using SyncThing. You own the data, you host the data, and there's no risk that a policy change or paywall will be erected to force you to play ball.

Admittedly, mobile use isn't as easy as Notion, since Emacs does not like to cooperate with mobile devices (and I'm not a fan of Termux), and while Orgzly might be useful as a task tracker, it's not so good as a second brain. But these are not so big a problem in my case.

I think I'll stick with Org Mode and SyncThing.

I wonder how long it will be until they start complaining about how an arrow in their knee stopped their aspirations.

ChatGPT may not be the most reliable about giving answers to questions, but it still has value when studying.

For example, I'm currently seeking to reach a higher level of knowledge in Python. I use ChatGPT in four different ways.

First, I ask ChatGPT to provide a list of topics that are required to master a specific area of knowledge. So, for example, I have "procedural programming in Python," "modular programming in Python," "object-oriented programming in Python," and "functional programming in Python." The results show some overlap, but that's fine. Then, I repeat the question to further break down the topics.

At this point, I have a pretty comprehensive outline to work from. For each item in this outline, I ask for a summary of the topic. Admittedly, this is where wrong information is a risk, but that will be filtered out as I continue to study.

I then ask ChatGPT to generate 10-25 exercises (depending on the ubiquity of the topic) that cover that specific topic (making sure to specify that I don't want them to be answered). With this, I now have a list of topics to study, an idea of what I expect to learn, and a list of exercises for each topic to use toward that study.

Then, while going through the exercises, I will ask questions when I get stuck. If it gives wrong answers, that will become apparent when the exercises continue to not be solved, but at least, it's a start.

I have to give it to ChatGPT... not a bad answer!

That's not the only future. I am currently focusing on learning programming by using ChatGPT to generate exercises to practice with. I've never had an easier time learning than this. For example: "Please write a list of topics covering procedural programming in Python." (List includes ternary operations) "Please write 25 tasks that must be completed using ternary operations in Python"

Who are the customers? Most of the time, we're not the customers, we're the product. The product doesn't get to vote.

I wonder how this will affect those Linux and Mac customers who use Wine to enjoy their games? Not holding my breath, here.

Hard drives everywhere are screaming in terror at the thought.

I don't know about anyone else, but I currently have 1000+ games, and half of them have never even been started. Sooner or later, it just gets to the point where you just decide that there is no point to buying more.

The point is that Steam is putting time and money into expanding the Linux gaming platform, even to the extent that they have their very own operating system (SteamOS) based on a Linux kernel, and are actively developing the workaround for Windows games (Proton).

You do not do these things if you want Windows to dominate the desktop. This would be a waste of money that would better be used solidifying their already-significant hold of the PC gaming market in a similar way to Epic, EA, and Ubisoft.

Steam? The same Steam that actually has a distribution of Linux as an operating system for a gaming console? The one that is supporting Wine development? That Steam?

The argument seems to be one of story (which is clarified by the process) vs style (which is corrupted by the process). The question becomes, which is more important to the viewer?