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Grimpen

@ Grimpen @lemmy.ca

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  • What's on your "Everyday Carry" USB stick?

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  • I've got a 15 year old SD/USB combo card on my keychain. I plugged it into a TV around 6-7 years ago because there were a couple of kids movies on there.

    I also know I have some Portable apps on there, but probably a little out of date

  • Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?

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  • This has been my experience. I used Fedora for a while years ago, but rpm was already second fiddle to deb. Plus, I was already selling into my "old man distro" so I kept ending up with some Ubuntu version.

    I did recently Manjaro and Linux Mint, but ended up with Ubuntu again, although this time Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE!

    No shade from me though for going with Red Hat.

  • Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

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  • Probably, but I think that every month that CDL went unchallenged was slowly building a precedent. I wonder if they had stuck to CDL if we'd still be waiting for the publishers to blink.

  • Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

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  • During the pandemic, Internet Archive very publicly announced they were relaxing their one physical copy per digitally loaned copy.

    I think of they had maintained their 1:1 CDL method, the publishers would still be uncomfortable to be the one to sue first, especially since there was a decent argument and IA would have been pretty sympathetic.

    Their pandemic policy was effectively not substantially different from a shadow library., and just set up a slam dunk case for the publishers.

  • Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

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  • I think if they hadn't abandoned the CDL modern during the pandemic, they could have kept it going indefinitely. Even if it wasn't likely fair use, it might have been. More than that, it would have been bad press for the publisher to make the first move.

    Abandoning CDL during the pandemic was just waving a red flag and giving the publishers a slam dunk case.

    I think if IA had just held the line with CDL, they could have over time just effectively established a precedent. Lost opportunity.

  • MacBook Air owner?

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  • 100% agree. You're not selling the hardware anymore, leave it in an unlocked state. Same with games.

  • An Estimate on the Total Number of Xfce Users

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  • Yep, can confirm. I used Xubuntu primarily for years, and never had an account on the official XFCE forums or Git, because why would I? I'm just a user, the software is very stable, and stuff tended to just work.

  • Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version

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  • Just started using Thunderbird again a couple of months ago. Like it! I never really stopped liking it, just stopped using it because all the webmail interfaces and "appification".

    Was just trying to get K-9 Mail working on my phone again (after years of using umpteen different apps) and it's not as smooth as I remember.

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • I stopped distro hopping around a decade ago, and just use default Ubuntu LTS releases. No shade from me.

    I'm not going to pretend that Ubuntu is the coolest, hippest, trendiest distro around, but it's good enough, stake enough, and gosh darn it I'm just used to it.

  • I'm relatively unfamiliar with Linux. I'm getting a ThinkPad T460 and want to install Mint on it. Is there anything about the T460 I should know?

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  • I'm with you.

    I sort of petered out distro-hoping 10-ish years ago, I've just used boring old Ubuntu LTS ever since. All the Unity/Gnome/KDE, Snap/Flatpak and systemd stuff I've successfully ignored.

    I have no doubt that there are "better" distros out there, but Ubuntu works.

  • Which terminal emulator do you use?

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  • #1, whatever is default. The main advantage of the terminal is that it's just a terminal, fundamentally the same terminal since the dawn of computing.

    Having said that, I do sometimes install a non-default terminal. I haven't seen any of them mentioned:

    cool-retro-term It looks like an OG CRT! What other terminal emulator has this killer feature?

    Byobu Technically a front end for tmux, but it gives some useful status info and multiple windows.

  • Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

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  • Hmm, maybe I can use it for the Compose key instead or Right Alt…

  • The anti-Trudeau hate farm based out of Cairo

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  • I read the article, and it seems that the YouTube channel "Street Politics Canada" is run by a company called Geek Labs, run out of Cairo, Egypt. Also, the editor, "Emily T" is presumably Emily Torjusen, an American woman who moved to Cairo and works at Geek Labs.

    Of course the people forwarding these videos on Facebook don't care.

  • I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉

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  • AI has been the name for the field since the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956. Early heuristic game AI was AI. Just because something is AI doesn't mean it is necessarily very "smart". That's why it's commonly been called AI, since before Deep Blue beat Kasparov.

    If you want to get technical, you could differentiate between Artificial Narrow Intelligence, AI designed to solve a narrow problem (play checkers, chess, etc.) vs. Artificial General Intelligence, AI designed for "general purpose" problem solving. We can't build an AGI yet, even a dumb one. There is also the concept of Weak AI or Strong AI.

    You are correct though, ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc. are not AGI's, they aren't capable of general problem solving. They are much more capable than previous AI technologies, but it's not SkyNet (yet).