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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The most important thing to do is backup your data to an external drive. Unless you are planning on dual booting (much more complicated) you will be wiping out the entire drive that has windows on it when you install Linux.

This guide goes through the whole installation process.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mine is usually sheer horror at the prospect of getting that far and screwing up on an international stage. Secondhand anxiety is in the red zone.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago
[–] xyguy@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago

Hopefully more Justin and Tawny than Alex.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

My conspiracy theory is that hes sitting on a mountain of Hillbilly Elegy DVDs and this is his plan to finally sell them all.

But yeah, he believes in whatever is making him money at any given point because hes simply 10 pounds of slime in a 5 pound sack.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago

You're absolutely right. Everyone will be very worried and talk about the importance of security in the enterprise and yada yada yada until a cool new AI spreadsheet software comes out and everybody forgets to even check if their firewall is turned on.

But with that being said, if you have been looking for a good time to ask for cybersecuity funding at your org, see if you can't lock down 5 years worth of budget while everyone is aware of the risk to their businesses.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm willing to invest in a truckload of A&W if that's what it takes.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Amazing behind the scenes from said film.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Can, yes.

Should, maybe.

Enjoy doing, unlikely.

And for sure your home isp has all the email ports blocked upstream.

With all that being said, to call SMTP dead is wildly insane. I do figure it will die someday though. Probably around the same time of universal IPV6 adoption during the year of the linux desktop.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its been taken over by a new artist and its a lot better now in my opinion.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2024/07/12

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Octoprint is what I use. Slicing is probably the thing it woukd be least good at but all the rest is good. And theres an api to write plugins for if youre into that sort of thing.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

I agree with you.

And youre right that the article doesnt focus on the algorithmic hate factory which to me is the main difference between social media and traditional media. For instance, and this is just anecdotal, my grandma who had nothing besides an analog telephone and broadcast tv became just as polarized and angry as someone with social media just by reading and watching Fox news (and eventually OAN and Newsmax) all day. I cant imagine that Facebook would have made it any worse.

The algorithm is probably accelerating the polarization pipeline, but i guess my point was that social media isnt necessarily doing anything new or distinct. Its doing the same thing Rush Limbaugh was doing on the radio 25 years ago, its just on a new frontier.

The 24 hour news cycle was already throwing sensational controversial stories up and speculating wildly if not outright lying about to hold on to eyeballs. The longer you watch, the more commercials you see. Etc etc.

I would love to see a study of social media vs traditional media to see whether the mean time to full polarization changes and if so, how significantly.

Good Ted talk!

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