😂 It wasn’t until I was finished typing out my comment that I realized I was doing the classic Lemmy thing of just wholly ignoring OP and ranting about something tangential.
I may not be able to control myself but at least I can acknowledge my poor behavior!
I can’t help you so I’m going to rant about something not related.
Gramps is great once it’s up and running but it’s so frustrating that you cant add a person and just add a residence or wedding date or birth. Noooo, you need to create the events and locations first and then create the person and link the events to them.
Which is basically the opposite way humans think about lifetimes. I would kill for a feature of “Create new birth/wedding/etc event” from the person page.
stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?
It absolutely is!
You: “Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe…”
Them: “drop it one banana”
I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing that out.
A standalone forum is an interesting choice in 2026 when ActivityPub forum software exists.
Looks like there is a Piefed and Lemmy.world community too.
Yeah the best option is the old PC you already have. Unless you’re transcoding video or into LLMs it will be more than enough.
I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now
Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.
Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.
It’s great we have so many good options these days.
On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.
…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…
Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap
That’s a great point, I suspect you’re right. Also the Internet wasn’t something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.
Granted there’s no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now…
THANK YOU. I’m always saying this. People always say they miss the “old, weird internet” but it’s still there and still active and still growing. But these people choose to spend their time on 2-3 highly addictive apps and complain about it. Nobody is forcing you to download Tiktok dude.
That’s assuming the hypothetical superintelligence is willing to do the bidding of billionares. But I’m not sure how the billionares would control something that is smarter than them and also doesn’t rely on money to stay alive.
Glad the subheader is “Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.”
There’s just still not a lot of evidence that LLMs could take a substantial number of jobs away, unless your job is spam, advertising or propaganda. Corporations are blaming AI but there just isn’t the evidence to support the idea that those fired workers are anything other than normal downsizing (that conveniently help fit the narrative and boost the stock price).
IF an AI gets invented that actually begins making humans unemployable, the economy as it exists wouldn’t be able to withstand it …who would pay for things if there are no jobs? Why provide goods and services for money if nobody can pay for it? Even being a billionare would be pointless because if everyone else’s economic value is zero they can’t be compelled to do anything with your worthless slop money.
There are nice friendly frontends for this, Yunohost or CasaOS spring to mind but might be too simplistic if you already are familiar with Docker.
Out of the box support it’s going to be Bazzite or CachyOS. Both great options but I lean Bazzite because of it’s immutability.
The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.