Pup Biru

to lead you down the right path, yes… llms will lead you down an arbitrary bath, and when that path is biased by your own negative feelings it can be incredibly damaging

don’t do that either… llms say things that sound reasonable but can be incredibly damaging when used for therapy. they are not therapists

why do the oligarchs continue to get all the good things? :(

god makes no mistakes, sure!

he gives us tests and hurdles to overcome, sure!

he gives us the intellect to develop science and medicine which bring us closer to understanding god!

by handling his tests with grace and strength of character, using the tools he gifted us we are gaining a better understanding of his plan. to not use the gifts he gave us to live our lives to the fullest, and assume we know better would be the true travesty

… right?

……… RIGHT???

why endure when you can get friends that enjoy it? hell, find friends that will beg for it!

perhaps, but that could easily be a tie that goes around the sides of the neck and down across the chest to their sides - like a backpack… which is pretty much a necessity

i’ve never understood why there’s not a good option for using one of the plethora of server management tools with prebuilt helpers for workstations to mimic group policy

like the tools we have on linux to handle this are far, far more powerful

you can, but as i said at the end of the comment: you have to do it anyway… you either entirely waste the fuel, maintenance, and pilot time, or you use it for something

in a couple of comments people have said they think it’s “plain old cool” and “a mini air show”

propaganda? perhaps

but people also seem to enjoy it… better than entirely wasting it

not at all - they’re all exactly the same… i’m just noting that there are reasons to do them beyond only propaganda and nationalism

yyyyyyyes but it’s also expensive and thoroughly weird when compared to the rest of the world… so whilst it does serve a legitimate purpose, it’s worth noting those points too

to be fair, that one (afaik) is a legitimate training exercise. it’s useful to train pilots to be at an exact place, in an exact formation, at an exact speed, at an exact time… and if you can get marketing and morale out of it, welllll why not

I’m sure Fedora is full of binary blobs and not-so-free software

fedora is staunchly opposed to non-free software in their default distro … that spat a few weeks ago with OBS was related to that AFAIK

unsure about like signed blobs for “security” services but i imagine they’d be very limited, and optional

rather than sticking a white label on Fedora and call it something else

but for what benefit? no matter what’s trying to be achieved, starting with a very full-featured, robust OS that’s widely used is going to serve you very well… not just technically (less work for the same outcome), but for human reasons

there are loads of guides out there for how to fix fedora issues, few for guix… loads of RPMs that are compatible with fedora, and i can only imagine fewer packages for guix

and then if you’re talking about server OSes - and actually workstations too - managing them with tools like ansible etc… fedora is going to have off the shelf solutions

just Fedora with different theme

well, the actual software and configuration i’d argue aren’t the important part - owning the infrastructure is the important part… package mirrors, distribution methods (eg a website), being able to veto or replace certain packages, and the branding (or regulation) that draws people to it… being able to roll out a security patch to every installation without a 3rd party okaying it, for example

i’d say if it happens it should start with focusing on:

• government and workstation (this is important first to have control and independence over so that government isn’t beholden to the whims of foreign companies)
• then server (maybe - idk really if that’s worth it though; it’s a whole can of compatibility worms and adoption expense)
• then user desktop

though there is the argument that workstation and user desktop are close enough to each other that user desktop should be above server, but i’d imagine it’d be more of a “home user” than gamer situation. i could imagine some regulations around refurbishing old tech with this kind of OS too, and this would be more about low spec machines (that’d help workstations too)

alternative POV: it’s entirely FOSS so there’s little control that can be exerted from its use. it’s also entirely free, so use is extracting value without providing anything in return. by its use, you’re taking resources to maintain, host, etc and providing nothing in return

similar reason to why i don’t use ecosia with an ad blocker: by blocking ads you’re using their resources without giving back and thus you’re taking resources away from the charity

the world is not going back. we waited 4 years last time, sighed with relief, and said “thank fuck that’s enough of that”

… and here we are

the trust is lost; there are no more chances

the “hit em in the fuckin head so they don’t suffer” requirement?

australia has them far more commonly than american land yachts. we call them utes rather than pickups though (ute = utility) and mostly they’re driven by tradies (you can guess that one ;p)

i think it’s also incorrect: the basic premise of arch is minimally configured, do whatever you like… no installer is going to allow a user to do everything they want, so that’s kinda not “the arch way”… it’s not some gatekeeping BS, it’s just not what arch is about, and that’s fine… that’s why there are spinoff distros that disagree and make their own - this is FOSS after all

“as a gay man…”

wait

no, women quite like us

you don’t actually need to fit the whole model in RAM at once: the 70b for example “requires” something like 120gb of VRAM, but i’m running it on my 64gb m1 mbp - it just starts to run a bit slower (still very usable; i reckon about a word per 300ms)