• mindbleach
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    7 months ago

    … while demanding “NPUs” that don’t really exist, so they can force you to use the AI nonsense grafted deep into the guts of the system, powered by constantly spying on everything you do.

    Or you could just use Mint.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve been easing myself into using Mint, but it’s hard to use any Linux distro when all I know about computers is what I’ve been taught by programming memes. I can easily look up all the acronyms, but there’s only so much I can glean from Wikipedia pages that look like they belong on the VX Junkies subreddit

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        7 months ago

        The trick is to say “[thing] is bullshit!” on a forum site and have people rush to explain why you are an eejit. Way better than Google these days.

        (Case in point: if you use a terminal to do any file operations with a wildcard, use ./* for all the stuff in this directory, instead of just *.)