i was confused for a second why there are three hands but then i remembered that there are two persons in the picture… it is really hot today…

Are you bored? Did you just build a strawman version of your own community to argue about something that is trivially easy to answer for everyone in this community? I am seriously confused. I have never ever heard anyone say that you could turn any distro into any other. That is just obviously not true. And every single question on your bullet point list is equally easy to answer.

When people say that it doesn’t matter which distro you use what they obviously mean is that the desktop environment has the way more immediate and tangible impact on the user experience. So as long as the newcomer choses one of the many distros that have an intuitive installer (so obviously not Arch), are reasonably up to date, have a broad software package repository, and come with one of the major environments pre installed, it really does not matter that much.

In a ship of theseus kind of way i guess you can turn almost anything into anything else :p

yay got my notification today. Reserved on the 8th. Just leaving this here as some hope to the people that haven’t received anythng yet

i am in germany so i don’t think it should be much different for you. I don’t remember the exact time but the system said it was still on the 8th.

seigh? is this a pun i am missing or the most impressive misspelling i have ever seen?

Piker, a liberal political commentator

Yes the famously very liberal commentator …

this whole community is pure liberal rage bait isn’t it? I am not complaining but you guys really do like to trigger

remember if you honk allyou at me i will honk honk if you get any closer u have to honk if if you will if i honk myself want honk if you ever been personally victimized by honk

edit: lol i missed the “honk if anything”

Honestly a bit of bait is good. I have enjoyed reading the discussions that emerged in some of those threads. I see this post for what it is: bait. You could make less provocative posts but even then some people just want to read it as tankie propaganda.

Maybe we should create a community called "tankie memes" for when you do want to go all out and trigger people

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

yeah enough humans don’t know that as well unfortunately. But yeah obviously LLMs don’t understand anything. That’s not how they work

guys seriously ... Science literacy is important. That especially goes for the incompetent editors at the guardian. This is NOT a study. This is a blog post describing that the particular UCL research group got a research grant accepted. In other words, they got grant money, so they can produce research on this topic IN THE FUTURE. Notice, that everything in that post is written in future tense except for the paragraph called "Research to date" and there is NO RESULTS.

Yes of course, this correlation is obvious. That is why there has been an abundance of research done on this topic already. But of course, as is the case with pretty much every field in science, this topic remains incredibly important and doing more research there will always remain important. Research is an ongoing process and most scientific publications are minute incremental improvements in understanding. So everyone who is saying "hurr durr this is obvious, so much money wasted on such nonsense", please shut the fuck up and LEARN TO READ

Sorry for the profanity. Having worked in research, i am quite disillusioned by the common misunderstanding of the scientific process.

well not that shocked

well valve does the whole gambling for children shit so they aren't exactly saints. They are just the least shitty. Also it helps that they are still private so they don't have to answer to investors. But still, the whole skin trading, steam market stuff isn't great

this goes for literally everything. Someone might still experience it as obnoxious and intolerable. Me included

I am with you on generally trying to understand the reasons for a particular behavior. Does not always help with being annoyed by it though. Especially if they apply their world view to everyone else around them and start to judge you for enjoying work/life balance

my goto is “muss ja”

awesome photo! The horizontal and vertical lines form such a strong grid that i hat to zoom in to realize that they were in fact part of the scene.

What gear did you use?

not really working here in germany, no. Even though things like, e.g. health care and public transport aren't as completely broken as in the US, they are still pretty broken and there is no incentive to fix it thanks precisely to the interests of capitalism.

You are confusing LLMs with diffusion models. LLMs generate text, not images. They can be used as inputs to diffusion models and are thus usually intertwined but are not responsible for generating the images themselves. I am not completely refuting your point in general. Generative models are capable of generalising to an extend, so it is possible that such a system would be able to generate such images without having seen them. But how anatomically correct that would be is an entirely different question and the way these companies vastly sweep through the internet makes it very possible that these images were part of the training

turns out the term "late-stage capitalism" is over a hundred years old . It is difficult to argue that it has been working before that.