I already WFH, and we don't have a car.

What else can we be doing to support TOTAL WAR?

Disclaimer: I am not a fan of war, it is silly.

For whatever reason, the nice chaps at MS let me have Win10 extended life support.

However, as that's going to pop in a few months, and because my PC cannot be degraded to 11, I finally had a crack at CachyOS last weekend. I'm writing this comment in Firefox on CachyOS right now. So far, so good.

Quite frankly, it's something that I've had in the back of my mind for a while. I last used Linux (I forget the exact distros) as a main OS back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I slapped Win10 on this PC that I made for playing games and getting basic shit done. I use Linux every day at work, but only for servers.

My needs are few, I just need to play some games (Hitman, Cyberpunk, MechWarrior, Beam, etc...), a bit of Internet, some programming, and absolutely zero fucking AI shit. So far, this thing seems to work ok for all of those. In fact, I'm fucking amazed that the games under Steam actually work; a lot of folks have put in a fuckton of work on that side of things, it seems.

Win10 was OK, but I won't be going back to Windows. I can't justify the cost anyway :-)

I do wonder whether this might actually be by design.

Perhaps the research and development of all of this was partly driven so that absolutely anything at all can be disregarded as fake, in the end.

Do people even use the stupid "smart" stuff on the telly?

I mean, our telly is technically smart, but the ethernet cable isn't plugged in. There's nothing on there that's actually useful anyway. I tried the built-in YouTube thing once, but it was too janky to be usable, so I didn't try it twice. The dongle stick things are better. The backlight's a bit fucked, anyway, and I don't really watch the telly myself.

Do the clankers features not burn a lot of their money?

Wouldn't that money be better spent on more useful features, squashing bugs, and paying their people?

Perhaps they get their info from those Hollywood movie films, where space pirates freeze solid when they walk the space plank.

Either that, or these turbonerds have just never used a vacuum flask to keep their hot drinks hot.

That's the thing, isn't it. Regular folks who don't really know how any of this (in the broadest sense) works will have no idea where anything that they type into the computer goes.

Quite frankly, with this sort of thing, it's absolutely the company's responsibility to ensure that their staff are being properly trained, if the company's information is that important. That means either actually investing in their employees, or ensuring that newkids are up to snuff on this sort of thing.

It's probably even worse with the people who've only ever poked a tablet or cellphone; a good number of those won't even know what a file is, let alone shit like sending network traffic to third party servers.

From my own company's "security" training, they do actually touch on this, but only with some very light detail.

I was wondering about that⦠I suppose at some point these LLM dudes are going to need robots on the ground to ask insightful questions at press conferences, gauge the word on the street, and find out the opinions of people whoâ(TM)ve just been killed in war zones.

On the other hand, will the common scum even be able to tell if the newspapers simply use LLMs to make up any old bollocks, instead of using flesh reporters to gather news?

Ahhhh, I remember seeing some of the news coverage back when that Clinton fella got his knob polished by Monica from Friends in their round office.

To be perfectly frank, it would be nice to only have to get outraged by simpler things like that these days. The guys there have definitely allowed their empire to degenerate a little too far :-(