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And even for those of us who might have the means or the marketable skills to get citizenship elsewhere, that only changes the tradeoff into creating new family by leaving all existing family.

It seems like a huge pervasive part of modern culture is that success and fortune equal never having to get your hands dirty, never worry about the details, and never learning to figure shit out because you can just pay somebody else to do it (or ask the "AI" to).

Obviously some amount of specialization and delegation is good. That's how you get a society.

But to just exist passively is something else. It's bad for us, and I don't mean that as a moral judgment. Nobody needs certain skills to justify their existence. I mean it in the clinical sense, like that you can be sedentary with more than just your physical body.

It legitimately feels like he is trying to outdo all the others in the administration in mustache-twirling-villain dark side points.

He's like some kind of extra-privileged extra-vain prep school Biff Tannen caricature.

Yeah it would be really nice if the media could distinguish a bit better between "actual expert at thing X that has done it for a long time and gives a shit" versus "people/corporations that started with tons on money and think they could end up with slightly more by misleading fans of X and building the infrastructure to efficiently enshittify it"

edit to add: I was supposed to quip at the end of my post that oh yeah, the media and journalism are "products" that are no different, and in fact worse. Look at who owns the big outlets. gross.

This is just as true in my non-computer hobbies that involve physical systems instead of code and configs!

If I had to just barely meet the requirements using as little budget as possible while making it easy for other people to work on, that would be called "work." My brain needs to indulge in some over-engineering and "I need to see it for myself" kind of design decisions.

Yeah, it's a very broad umbrella term.

I'm an engineer on a team that designs new products and fixes old ones. I'm happy to joke about the advertising & sales departments being the dark side of marketing, but when it comes to creating a product that is useful for our end-users, other facets of marketing are absolutely essential. The ideal, after all, is to have whatever ticket I am working on be traceable back to a customer need.

Heck, the product is pretty niche so even when I am chatting with our service technician about whatever crazy stuff customers are seeing & doing in the field, you could justify calling that marketing. It's customer information making its way to future design decisions, even if that decision is actually being made by an engineer rather than the Product Manager.

The dow is 50000

It was...

And we can make so much money when oil is expensive too!

Real galaxy-brain stuff. ~/s~

It's so versatile too. I could see this hanging on the wall at work with "git push" or "./build.sh" under it and it would just make sense.

Probably wouldn't pass the HR sniff test but you get the idea, lol.

PC OEMs could totally ship their machines with linux installed, or even with multiple distros to choose from at first boot. And one of those options could even be Windows 11, the user would just need to enter a key or buy a license after booting up.

It's just a question of motivation. Do they think their customers want it, and do they expect Microsoft to make their life more difficult if they try?

Honestly now with so much of the civilized world looking to break dependency on US tech, I hope that Europe sees a big push towards mainstream off the shelf linux devices.

For most of us on Lemmy, buying a PC with no OS installed is like buying a car with an empty fuel tank and/or battery. It's ready to preform at 100% in about 10 minutes.

For most other people, it feels more like buying a car that's completely missing an engine/motor/battery. They don't even know where to start, even though in the case of the PC the process is many orders of magnitude simpler.

Tangent: crediting Claude with co-authorship? wtf?

I can totally see the mega-techs trying to push that in EULAs, but for an individual to do it seems strange, even though there's a kernel of honesty behind it. It also seems risky as far as OpenMetaMicroogleAI finding future loopholes to steal your shit.

This dev talks like they are doing everything else the right way, as far as reviewing and understanding the code regardless of its source. In that situation I'd look at blocks of LLM-generated code the same way as ones copy/pasted from stackoverflow or 3rd party example code. At BEST you have "here's something that might work" which is nowhere close to actually being done if you're any good. (insert joke about "it compiles, ship it!)

Well obviously, but what I want to know is if the USA being the BFG-9000 of Israel was a planned goal of the whole Epstein "honeypot for powerful psychopaths" operation or if it was just convenient timing.