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Opening my inbox these days

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Okay, the funny thing about this one is, not that I agree with breaches of privacy; I really didn't give a flying fuck if the male or female nurse saw me taking a shit or piss after surgery. The only thing I have to hide is how much I don't give a shit about most things.

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Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

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Honestly, learning things one way kind of sticks with you. I've also done a lot more ---I wouldn't say advanced--- maybe just above basic stuff in excel that I just don't want to relearn how to do it differently; like making auto-fill using a csv database, and yes I'm lazy but hey I only worked 2 hours out of an 8 hour day.

I use libre for everything else, though their spelling correction is annoying. Don't you dare use a British English spelling sigh.

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Is it just me, or do people seem less vibrant today?

I mean it's simple.

Everyone is worried even if they don't say so.

Technology has been shoved down our throats. Now there's llms; this is referencing something simple like getting bot calls on a daily basis for a pretend "human" to get transferred to "John" with a thick Indian accent.

It's hot outside. I remember having to wear a jacket in the winter, and now I want to take my skin off.

Video games were fun or challenging; now they're pay to win.

Playing in the backyard isn't cool anymore because 'gotta keep up with the other kids on their phones and so forth.

Depends on where you're at; anger? High levels of CO2 cause that. The fun factor about global warming that isn't often discussed. Having parking lots of cars at stop lights makes this worse. It gets worse when stores cut back on AC and filtration.

The political spectrum is well on a spectrum; so the confidence is gone there.

All of these aspects exhaust people. Especially advertising on every corner.

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Best actually practical use cases for old tech?

So there was this fiction book series I read about cybersecurity. Old tech is the ultimate security in the story, it's creepy how parallel it is to today. You would have to take some extra steps to make it secure but you would be out of the radar of the majority.

The whole premises is like how Macintosh was considered being secure was because nobody wanted to waste their finding vulnerabilities to it since it was such a small batch of users. Of course that changed. But you can use what you have as dedicated forks for certain functions as a layer of security. W11 is going to likely have more vulnerabilities compared to W7 since no one really uses it anymore. Or even LTSB/LTSC forks. You would have to be on a list if you're getting attention.

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Costco Is Now Rationing Motor Oil Because the Global Shortage Is Getting Real

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sadly it's not. everyone caught on. in 07' it was great. here take my kitchen oil for free so I don't have to pay someone to dispose of it. the filtering systems and storage didn't cost much. conversions were easy but they still did a lot of engine damage. now where it gets complicated is citations if you're caught using it (tax bullshit) and well it's hard to mask the smell of French fries driving down the street.

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TIL that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just published a report on what AI is doing to education

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This has been going on for a while. Even before llms. When I was younger, I was actually educated as in trying new things and learning about them. Then came the proficiency test focus of leave every child behind. Then came in gutting classes and programs to only focus on tests and sports. Then came the charging money for sports. Then when I worked in education; it got worse. You would have kids that are 14 that can't write two sentences; can't write an email without auto-correct; struggled to read, it looked like someone smacked a keyboard to try and write something. And so on; it's just the next level of going downwards.

It was sad to see that students with so much access to tech became so ... I don't even know.

When I was thirteen I was writing programs, using pretty much any multimedia software, beta testing games (how to get free games for 500), tweaking the lawnmower engine (to mow the lawn faster, that pesky governor lol), and so on.

So you're right, this won't change, maybe when it backfires it might. But this is creating a huge void, not even a brain drain anymore. There's going to be a general malfunction to society. I mean it's sad

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Steam Frame Release

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I'm kind of surprised they don't do hybrid controllers yet. As in the experimental kind used for prosthetics. Combine that with an EEG headset. Sounds like fun to me. Then again setup time would be a pain.