I can chime in for Bazzite. It's imperfect, but I've blown up my fair share of aliens and they make playing your games on Linux really easy compared to anything else I've used. I can even stream the game from my desktop to a laptop in my bedroom via sunshine/moonlight which Bazzite helps you install as SteamLink doesn't play nice with Bazzite.

Depends on what it is.

For phone/PC/media stuff I check if Gamer's Nexus, Louis Rossman, or Rtings has covered them in the past as they are a few of the channels that don't just read press release copy while gargling corporate. Sites like XDA forums can also be a good resource.

For non-tech products, I still like Consumer Reports, but they are clueless tech-ignorant boomers when it comes to anything electronic.

Kagi, which is a bit controversial as it's not FOSS and charges for search does a decent job unearthing comments by actual people using the fediverse or forum lenses.

Depends on what it is.

For phone/PC/media stuff I check if Gamer's Nexus, Louis Rossman, or Rtings has covered them in the past as they are a few of the channels that don't just read press release copy while gargling corporate. Sites like XDA forums can also be a good resource.

For non-tech products, I still like Consumer Reports, but they are clueless tech-ignorant boomers when it comes to anything electronic.

Kagi, which is a bit controversial as it's not FOSS and charges for search does a decent job unearthing comments by actual people using the fediverse or forum lenses.

I drove a small truck at one point. Think a late 90s Tacoma, Ranger, or something like that. I don't want an F250. I don't want a Ram 3500. I just want to be able to haul a bed full of bikes to the MTB trail and help my friends move a washing machine.

That's cool. 99spokes does that for bicycles and I've found it useful in that respect. Would be cool to compare all of the cars I ever had like that.

I guess excessive bureaucracy is in style now.

I'm curious how this would work with visitors. I road trip every now and then. I like to ride bikes in when I visit places and if I brought my class III could I even ride it in the state? I likely couldn't register it as a non NJ resident and if I could, it would be for a year when my trip might be only 3 days.

My bike is insured. Do I have to carry my insurance card just to zip down the block to the corner store?

It just reeks of putting up barriers to discourage and eventually kill a positive movement towards PEVs as a gift to the auto, oil, and civil construction industries.

Not a drop! Let it dessicate and crumble.

Protip, never ask a Phil major questions, unless you want them to pose more questions. I think the very question itself assumes we can even properly define sentience. If we can, why does it have value as a result? Your home computer may not be sentient, but it's pretty smart, valuable, and could potentially have an equally large impact on the world (not sure about intentionality though). It's not that I'm certain no LLM is sentient (though I'm pretty sure) as much as I see greedy people steering the hype to their benefit in order to exploit others. The whole thing is manufactured to cheapen humanity in comparison to tech. I am very opinionated so you may see it differently.

I majored in Philosophy. Though I wouldn't want to be an AI ethics consultant for one of these big companies because I imagine that whatever I write down would have to preserve profits (first and foremost) and then gaslight everyone into thinking it's all perfectly ethical and okay and no one (including mother earth) is being harmed in the process.

You don't need an ethicist if you don't have ethics! /s

I just wish we could put this dumb sentient AI stuff to bed for now. Congrats, you guys built the most powerful (and wasteful) auto-complete. It's not sentient and your marketing doesn't have to be hyperbolic lies.

Yep, if you tell an AI to do something, you are at least partially to blame for whatever it does. They shouldn't be able to avoid responsibility that easily.

That's kind if what Germany told Google. "If you have AI write your search summaries, you are responsible for checking its work and liable for its mistakes.

We should all mean this. Truly the logically dominant date format.

I've been noticing this too. All the cities are like "Oh you're unhappy with Flock? Okay, we'll pick a new vendor."

No.

We're unhappy with being spied on, tracked, and monetized everywhere we go. We want the cameras down whether they're made by Flock, Meta, Axon, or Fischer Price. Put it back how it was.

One $5 donation buys you a decade of nagging donation emails and a bunch of capitulating spineless politicians.

With MS enshitifying Windows at an ever increasing pace and the hard work of open source developers, volunteers, advocates, to make Linux better and more approachable, I won't be surprised at all to see that percentage move up.

"You mean its free and doesn't try to sell me other products the whole time I'm using it?"

My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).

I have a feeling that the YouTube apocalypse will be much harder to watch (as in "more sad/unpleasant") than the Reddit apocalypse.

I'm late to comment, so I may be typing into the void.

I understand the admin's decision to limit their exposure to legal risk. I had similar experiences as a small business owner and you would be surprised how quickly most people's idealism is tempered by the risk of potential legal action. It's totally possible to believe strongly in the legality of something and its benefit to society (in this case piracy) and still choose to limit your own legal exposure. As far as I know, none of us paid to be here, so the polite thing to do is say "thank you for hosting us" and move on if it's not your thing (or just make a second account).

I believe our current copyright/intellectual property scheme is broken at best, and designed to fuck us out of every bit of culture that has ever existed, at worst. Piracy exists because the system is broken and the industry is entrenched and refuses to adapt to customer demands. It screws music fans, artists, and probably the individual low-level employees of many music industry companies and organizations.

Imagine we made this into the privacy key that, by default, launches your distro's privacy settings.

How's that for subverting MS's intent?

I think a few more people "get it" every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.

I looked up a similar article without a paywall:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ousted-subnautica-2-devs-allege-krafton-asked-ai-how-to-avoid-paying-bonus/1100-6536280/

"Krafton recently declared itself to be an "AI-first company," which led Unknown Worlds to issue a statement indicating that Subnautica 2 will not feature generative AI."

The "AI first" shit is pure gold. I love the instant karma. Why are these CEOs throwing their money, reputation, etc. away on AI? Either they are even stupider than I thought, or the tech bros have some kind of massive blackmail machine they're using to take over everything and puppet all the CEOs.