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I was using E16 years ago and liked it but eventually switched to Gnome (2, I think), after waiting for E17 for too long.

What made me quit was the wait. All the other DEs at the time were releasing new versions frequently but Enlightenment took forever.

I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.

We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn't do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.

So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.

I quit last month. I couldn't take it any longer.

I hated school because there was a bunch of kids mocking and laughing at me for most of it.

I guess some popular kids had good times by pulling my pants down or constantly hitting my chair during class. They must reminisce and miss those times, when they were laughing with their peers.

That must be why Google’s greenhouse emissions went up 50% in five years. ChatGPT's legendary efficiency.

Keep defending those power wasting glorified autocomplete. In no way are we doomed as a species.

We can just continue tu pump more and more into the air. "AI" will surely find a solution for that anyway.

I usually do. This was from my google news feed, which opens in Chrome. I could have opened it with FF, which has uBlock origin, but it's not worth it.

I just got mildly infuriated when this crap appeared.

I though this was the place for this but apparently not. I'll delete the post and never try posting anything on lemmy again. Have a nice day.

Rice. I know it's common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I'm from.

I'm a francophone and tried to explain that France is not "dépaysant" enough for a vacation and the closest word I came up with is "exotic", but it's not exactly what I want to convey.

Und dann es gibt wann und wenn.

I'm a native French speaker that learned English in school, and we had to get used to words spelt the same but with a different pronunciation and sometimes a slightly different meaning.

Don't worry, you'll probably get used to it.

It probably consumes as much energy as a family house for a day just to come up with that program. That's what happens.

In fact, I did a Google search and didn't have any choice but to have an "AI" answer, even if I don't want it. Here's what it says:

Each ChatGPT query is estimated to use around 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search, with a single query consuming approximately 3 watt-hours, compared to 0.3 watt-hours for a Google search. This translates to a daily energy consumption of over half a million kilowatts, equivalent to the power used by 180,000 US households. 

However, an area where "AI" can beat Atari is is on energy consumption. "AI" will consume much more energy only to be mostly wrong. What a feat!

I'm not a cable expert by any means and can't answer all the questions, but I can tell you that the protocol used by cable is called DOSCIS. So it might guide you into some of those answers.

And the coax cable itself doesn't go very far now because it's connected to a fiber network somewhere in your neighbourhood.

TIL that the US makes their prisoners pay for their food. I mean, obviously.