DharkStare

I'm not very familiar with LLMs. How do you install a local copy?

I was working part time as a software developer while a grad student and was assigned under a full time employee. We were the only ones working on that project. I came back after the Christmas break to be informed I was the new project lead because the full time employee i was working under got fired after he sexually assaulted one of the female employees after getting drunk at the company Christmas party.

I decided to go with an immutable distro for my first Linux gaming PC because immutable distros are as idiot proof as you can get. I like that I can't really mess anything up and if something does break, I can rollback to a previous version. I'm sure there are ways to setup rollback for other distros but I'm not a Linux person so I don't really know what I'm doing and letting Bazzite handle everything for me made it a perfect fit.

Everything has been smooth sailing with Bazzite so far.

HOAs can be really good things but have all the same problems as regular democracies, mainly voter apathy. If the members of the HOA don't keep informed about the issues in the neighborhood, don't attend meetings, and don't vote, then you very quickly end up with a few assholes gaining power and doing whatever they want.

Most of the suggestions I see in the comments would also render HOAs powerless and essentially pointless.

The problem with visiting Canada is that ICE might throw me into the gulag when I try to return.

As someone with a Kobo, Amazon's DRM is really annoying especially since a number of stories I read on sites like Royal Road publish e-books only on Amazon.

It doesn't even look that bad. I don't know what he's complaining about

Looks like the start of an indie horror game.

I really don't understand how these people think. A person reliant on government funding and immigrant workers votes for the guy who campaigned on cutting government funding and getting rid of immigrants.

I'm using Bazzite with the Microsoft Wireless Controller and it's working fine with one caveat. The controller requires a firmware update that requires a Windows OS or an Xbox.

Gaming on Bazzite has been great although trying to figure out how to install software on it is a little bit more difficult since it's an immutable distro.

Large corporations would be able to afford to make deals with ISPs to give them preferential treatment so that access to their sites are faster than others. This is good for social media sites whose whole business model is monetizing their users. Things like the Fediverse would be hit especially hard because of its distributed nature.

ISPs can offer further tiers of plans making it more expensive to access websites that don't belong to major corporations bribing the ISPs. All the corporations win in this scheme while furthering the enshittification of the Internet.

Want to use Linux? Accessing those sites is difficult and expensive so why not use Windows instead

Want to use Mastodon? Sorry but that sites super slow so how about Twitter instead.

Want to use end to end encrypted email? Too bad. The connection their servers are super spotty. Better use Gmail or Yahoo for email like everyone else.

The bad sites are likely the ones to not require a fee to access. It would be smaller sites and the Fediverse that would become more difficult and expensive to access.

Why pay to access Mastodon or Lemmy when you can use Twitter and Reddit for "free". It's a scheme that would benefit large corporations over smaller independent services.