The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026.

“The emperor does not share your optimistical appraisal of the situation.”

At this point it seems simple for Trump to hold on to power like all the other cleptocratic dictators have done. You already have military on your streets and paramilitary forces cleaning the unwanted elements.

I hope you are right and I’m wrong.

Today I asked AI to remove all the lines in a file that had some string in them.

It worked. I felt awful thinking how much power I wasted doing that when I could have just read the man page of sed or awk.

I did, and it was ridiculously easy to do what I needed with a fraction of the power. And I got some nice knowledge to go with it, that I proceeded to add to my aliases file.

I’m not afraid of AI. I have a local instance to play with. The technology is just too wasteful and fallible as it stands today.

Copperplate Gothic.

Just kidding, I don’t have one but would love some suggestions.

I was expecting Comic Sans.

I’m old enough to remember UML (User Mode Linux). I don’t know if it’s still around, but it was a port of the Linux kernel that you would run as a standard user binary.

Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.

I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).

For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I’m looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.

Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.

I’m ready for the return to webrings.

Someone should start digging.

My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that’s enshittification at work.

Bingo.

Go fight for the health system you deserve instead.

If third world countries can have decent basic universal health systems, why is it so hard for you guys?

That’s how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won’t hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.

You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You’ll be ok.

Why should it bother me? It’s not like I have Linux corporation stock. I’m just a longtime happy user.

Right there with you.

The Big Lebowski.

But that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.

True, I’ve experienced that bug.

The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.

With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.

Nailed it.