The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]

Don’t think I necessarily believe things or don’t believe them based on one assertion by someone. I am able to hold it in my mind with a certain confidence level attached. Of course that doesn’t really answer your question, only kicks it to “how do you form that confidence level?”

Have you considered casting zone of truth?

The relevant comparison between Linux (FOSS in general) and Veganism here is that we’re at the stage of acceptance where the ceiling is how many potential allies who would immediately “get it” when presented with the idea. Making people talk about Linux/Veganism more is effective, even if it means being as loud and obnoxious as possible (all publicity is good publicity!)

Yes, creating one Vegan is ten million times more desirable than creating one Linux user, but like most “radical progressive” ideas; I think one does more to reinforce, than steal breath from, the other.

I’m willing to bet the average FOSS advocate is significantly more likely to be Vegan too.

Lathing a judge literally saying we have to let AI companies steal any IP they wish because we can’t allow an AI gap between the US and China.

It could be that only the installer has issues. If you’re dual booting have you tried launching the already installed program from your windows partition?

Otherwise I would try launching the installer from the wine command line to see if it gives you a specific error there.

You can set up a command to transcode into AV1 once a download completes. Would that help?

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I’m talking about the difference between having $0 and $1000 in your bank account vs the difference between having $1,000,000 and $1,000,000 +$1000 in your bank account

He insists that $1000 is $1000 and it has no difference in its effect on your life whether it’s your first $1k or your 1001st $1k

I argue that if you had $1million you wouldn’t even notice if $1k went missing, and if you did spend it, you would spend it on a fancy bottle of wine that costs 10x as much as the $10 box wine, while not bringing you 10x the happiness of the first, or like you mentioned, you would invest that money and it would give you passive returns.

Trying to explain to someone I know about the diminishing returns of money. He insists that your first thousand dollars is worth the same with regard to quality of life as the same amount of money, when you already have $1million in the bank. He’s no trust fundee so I can’t comprehend how he doesn’t innately understand this.

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We love our emoji! On hexbear I type : followed by the keyword of the emoji I’m looking for. I don’t know how it works on other instances.

Its definitely possible and even trivial to do there are a thousand ways to encode just a few bytes of data undetectably in a video and nothing but motivation stopping them from using every one every where. I think it’s plenty mundane and even trivial for what they get.

There exists a technology that takes elements in a picture, like a bird in the background, a character, a glass of water, etc and moves them just a few pixels. You can encode a lot of data like that and it’s undetectable given just one example. They can encode your unique user identifier 1000 times in even a short video. A camera is bound to pick up at least part of it each time.

I guess put money you would have spent on streaming sites on hard drives and data horde before they stop you.

Support libre software and projects like Firefox and invidious

IPFS is an internet protocol that lets you the user help host things that you consume in a communal way, using some hard drive space you don’t need right now, but I wouldn’t recommend it yet because It has glaring problems. It’s a better future vision for the internet but there are a lot of crypto bros involved trying to inject capitalism where IMO it isn’t necessary.

You can’t really get away from TPM computers for long I don’t think.

In short; I don’t even know

Sorry, I realized I had a lot to say so I made it a main comment lol

That’s a passing grade (I think?)

Too bad the great internet borderwall of America will prevent from accessing Chinese memes soon.

@hello_hello@hexbear.net please rate my unhinged rant

Their endgame is hooking directly into the TPM chip on your phone/computer to ensure you can’t bypass ads, just like netflix, hulu, etc have done. Then the only recourse will be ripping all their videos to another hosting platform which they will then try to argue is a form of piracy.

This TPM bypassing will eventually be done by essentially pointing a camera at a screen (modern TVs have encryption baked in so even the video in transit is DRM protected), at which point the video hosting companies will bake in small differences/invisible watermarks that uniquely identify which user’s account (which is linked to a real person who can suffer legal consequences) the video came from. Then we will have multiple cameras pointing at like 100 screens with an AI mixing them together to try to remove the differences/watermarks, at which point the hosting companies will create their own AI to counter and mislead the “piracy” AI

This is also why ISPs took away your ability to run a personal server on your home computer using NATs, firewalls, and dynamic IPs instead of just transitioning to IPv6.

Also websites are going to start blocking firefox citing low user counts but you know what the real reason is

I 100% believe this will happen because making commodities do as many as possible between any given creator and end-user just so they can provide more “Services” no one asked for and thus extract more value for not actually doing anything is like the only trick capitalism has left.

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My 13 yo cousin won’t install or let me install an adblocker on his phone and it’s killing me because he keeps complaining to his mom that he needs YouTube plus or whatever it’s called, but then I say “sponsorblock is free” and he says “oh I’m used to the ads” aaaaaaaaaaaaa why is he like this?

I hope so too! Hey do you get chinese computers for cheap over there? Here in the states we can’t buy xaiomi or Huawei products anymore and there are a few nice looking ones.

Yes and emudeck will set all your emulators up for you and you only have to drop the roms and bioses in their respective folders

/SNES /GBA /PSP etc.

It handles all the controller bindings and adds all your roms directly to your steam library complete with cover art and organized by console into folders.

It’s a pretty capable PC for the price too.