The main use for AI that I’ve seen in my circles is a search engine replacement. Not because AI is a good search engine, but because search engines have largely become useless.

If Mozilla wants to cement their place, create a better search engine. It’s how Google came to control a huge portion of the internet, and there’s now a huge vacuum waiting for someone to replace what we lost.

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As long as you don’t use a DE on it, a pi3 is great for experimenting with server software. I still use my 3b for plenty of things.

Linus himself sees his own behavior as problematic and has put significant work toward changing it. Call it whatever you want, I guess, but just because it doesn’t result in physical bruises doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.

There’s some controversy around him–he has a history of anger issues and it’s impacted his work. But his contributions to the open source community are practically unquantifiable.

Overall, I’m incredibly grateful for him and his work, but still hope that he continues to work on his personal issues and becomes his best self.

That doesn’t sound like it would work. Ben would continue to treat Beth poorly, and your relationship with him wouldn’t improve in any way. Don’t ditch your principles for the sake of revenge.

Either distance yourself from Ben, or try to have a serious talk with him. Be the adult in the room.

Okay, realistically, if Mozilla continues to shit the bed with everything, what’s the future of Webkit browsers? How tied into Mozilla is it? I’m using Waterfox at the moment, will I need to be looking for a new browser in the next few years or is it decoupled enough that we can keep the forks and root out the bullshit?

I guess I would classify features like variable refresh rates and fractional scaling as “advanced”, but that’s fair. I moved from Cinnamon to Gnome because wayland was working better for me, so fair point. I imagine it won’t be too long before Cinnamon catches up, though.

For now, I’m just using a handful of extensions to make Gnome feel more like Cinnamon. Can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of KDE, but that’s just me.

My avatar is a picture of a large ceramic cow in northern Michigan. The cow is named Jillbert.

The name is largely self explanatory.

Fedora is a good option. I’m surprised to hear about hardware incompatibilities with Mint, though. Do you have obscure or bleeding-edge hardware?

I’ll +1 the Ventoy suggestion. Lets you try lots of things easily. Try at least Fedora KDE, Ubuntu, and Mint. Go with whichever feels good to you when you try them out.

Cachy user here. Nope.

Anyone who says Cachy is good for a newcomer is taking their knowledge for granted. Most people getting into Linux for the first time are climbing several learning curves all at once. There are simpler distros that allow you to learn at a more reasonable pace.

The only time I would recommend CachyOS to a newcomer is if they have bleeding-edge hardware and aren’t afraid of a challenge.

My parents got married at the same age (20 and 18). They had 5 kids and are still together over 50 years later.

They’ve also had a lot of things to work through. These days they coach younger couples–not because they have training, but because they can say, “well, what did we do when that happened to us?” Because they’ve had every fight. My parents are the outliers.

It’s not impossible, but it’s not easy either. If you are both emotionally mature and have strong communication skills, you have as good of a chance as anyone. Marriage is hard anyway.

If you want to get married and you have good support networks in place, go for it. But give yourself the best fighting chance you can–read up on how to make marriage work, do some premarital counseling, and most importantly, agree to wait to start having kids for at least 3 years (5 is better). Having kids pushes you to your physical limits and greatly reduces your ability to communicate effectively (did you know that 25% of new parents experience hallucinations at some point due to sleep deprivation?).

So… just the P?

My wife calls them her emotional support tabs.

A couple things we can gather from these sources:

1. Being near a banana is likely a much lower dosage. The BED article notes that eating a lot of bananas doesn’t give linear dosages, as the excess potassium is discarded. And if you’re not absorbing much radiation from it being literally inside you, I can’t imagine you’re getting much from having it further away (even at high quantities).
2. According to the xkcd chart, we receive a yearly dosage of 390uSv from the potassium naturally in our bodies, and living in a stone, brick, or concrete building for a year results in only 70uSv. I’m not sure what the equivalent exposure would be for injecting those materials, but the picture I’m getting at this point is that external exposure to bananas would likely be less fatal than the sheer mass of what would be required to give a significant dose.

Relevant links:

• Banana Equivalent Dose
• Relevant xkcd

Based on the chart, even if you got a full 0.1uSv dose from each of the 10,000 bananas, it would be 1mSv, which doesn’t seem fatal.

Nah, variety is the spice of life. I enjoy raw carrots, and I also enjoy cooked carrots with a light orange glaze.

If your spices are interfering with the flavor, you’re using spices wrong. They should compliment and feature the flavor. If the flavors are fighting, try other spices.

“What’s your scientific reasoning for that?”

“I’m 12.”

The only effective way to utilize it is if you’re not Costanza. A bystander can have a perfect life by observing the Costanza and choosing opposite at every opportunity.

The real question is this: what if our universe is a giant Truman Show, and you’re the sacrificial Costanza that allows another whole civilization to live in perfect peace and harmony?