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I made a brush that writes my first name, in my own handwriting, in cursive. https://i.imgur.com/gGDbSJt.gif

There are not many opportunities where I can share this and people will understand what I’m talking about. I just felt like bragging. Carry on.

Same. As for distro, for me personally, it should be designed to be usable with one hand, because I crashed and broke my elbow.

For bike users in general though, it should be something …bespoke.

For non-ebike cyclists I think an analog computer would be appropriate. Wait, do those have an OS? I guess it would be a manual system but I gotta check the manual manual to be sure.

but I already have an ebike, I don’t need a car

That’s a scary and good point. Is this eugenics with extra steps? Maybe…

I am disappointed that not one person has used the word “defenestrate” yet.

Defenestrate: The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

This is a word that has started more than one war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

I wouldn’t call anything those 3 have done ‘innovative’ either. Two of them were trained practically from birth (Gorden-Leavitt started acting when he was 4, Johanson was 9) to do a very specific task, repeatedly, rewarded when they do it right, with a costume to cover up the machines underneath. They read from a script, written by someone else. The human equivalent of AI. I’m not a fan of the rise of the machines either but this headline isn’t selling me.

Manjaro is supposedly named after Mount Kilimanjaro and being arch-based, it would be appropriate to have it up on the mountain near Arch but lower.

Perhaps a $path going up the mountain range could be added.

The $path could be called “The Way” so you could put Arch BTW.

A lush verdant field between where the Puppies frolic and the SUSE chameleons’ tree, where the people can harvest ripe Rasbianerries and fresh Mint.

To compare, I was born into a household of Luddites via poverty. When me and my siblings got to high school and homework assignments started to have typing requirements, the family solution was to purchase a used computer that was running windows 3.1 (this was in the late 90’s) which didn’t last long.

Despite my fascination with computers and again due to poverty, I was unable to obtain one for many years into adulthood. I learned about Linux sometime around 2004-5 and reading about people like Torvalds and Stallman and open source and the FSF seemed like a wonderful world of progress I had not experienced. I was given a computer that didn’t work and was convinced I could make it come to life thanks to the magic of Linux. It did not go well.

Thanks to my inexperience, I attempted to download Linux from my local library, where I had 1 hour of internet usage allowed per day. I don’t know what I downloaded but it was not Linux. I think it was a collection of man pages in text files. Needless to say, that was not my year of Linux.

I did not own a working computer until I built one myself, in 2009 at the age of 27. I ran windows, played lots of games, wasted a lot of my time and finally delved back into the Linux world by installing Mint alongside my Windows installation. That was in 2020. The next day, the COVID lockdowns were announced. Then my system wouldn’t boot into either Windows or Linux. The day after that, my internet was disconnected because Spectrum is one of the worst ISP companies ever. All I had was a usb with a Mint live system. I had also gotten my first smartphone the month prior and because Verizon is one of the worst phone companies ever, I was unable to tether my data plan, which was heavily throttled anyways and effectively useless. Learning Linux without internet access or having any friends interested in Linux or computers in general, is not something I would recommend to anyone.

September of 2021 I finally decided to ‘defenestrate fenestra’ or ‘throw windows out of the window’ and switched fully to Linux. My year of Linux I will say was 2024. That is the year I built a new computer, the third computer I’ve built and the third computer I’ve owned. The computer I’m using to type this out. I have not had to change distros or reinstall since then and being self taught in computers, having never held a job in IT, having a developmental disorder, being well below the poverty line my entire life and being someone who has attended college 5 times and dropped out 5 times due to either poverty or disability, it feels pretty good. I am still light years away in knowledge compared to many but it feels good to be able to know what my computer is doing and know that I did it myself.

I still will randomly ‘stat /’ just to see the birthday. “Birth: 2024-02-05 04:54:20.000000000 -0500”. I don’t know if the time showing all those zeros is normal and I don’t care. I’m a month away from my second year with this machine and I am very proud of it.

Why did I type this huge and personal story without being asked? The answer might be the same answer to your question of ‘why did I post this in Linux memes?’

Because someone out there might read it and it might be what they need to give them that courage to finally make the switch themselves. Seeing stories like these with people who feel comfortable using Linix despite the various problems which might accompany them.

Anyways, because this is Linuxmemes, I should mention that I use an Arch derivative, BTW.

I can draw a circle in GIMP too. Like 4 different ways.

Yes ladies, I’m single.

I’m late to this party but other than the quote in the post and article, I haven’t seen anything about Star Labs. I never heard of them before or if I have, I probably confused them with Star Tech. I looked at their website and everytihng seems pretty legit to me. If anyone sees this and has had any experience with them, I’d love to hear more, good or bad. I’ve been looking into getting a new laptop as my current one is from 2008 and saw they have an AMD one which is rare in the laptop world it seems. I might need to make my own post about this.

I still have the slide as default and use it a lot. I have it set to slide when I mousewheel on the desktop and keep my taskbar shorter so there’s always some desktop showing in the corners. When I get frustrated with something though, I hit my key to activate the cube and the animation of it pulling away from the normal view works as like a disconnect from whatever I’m doing. Virtually stepping back basically.

Without the cube, I found I would get frustrated and instead of working on something else I would keep going and ultimately make mistakes and end up more frustrated. If I tried switching with the slide or fade to another project, the irritation stayed with me and I’d mess those other projects up too. The cube, for me, just worked.

I did have some success using the overview, however it was a lot more overwhelming with the way it shows everything, while the cube limits it to what’s on each cube face, without showing minimized windows at all.

When I updated KDE and found that I had lost the cube desktop switcher effect I was fairly put off on Wayland and made a lot of effort to get the cube back in various ways which did not go well. Now that it’s on Wayland, albeit slightly different, I am content with staying on Wayland. I can’t thank the people who ported it enough. It may seem like a trivial graphic effect to some but that fraction of a second that it uses when switching desktops is something that helps my ADHD tremendously. If I’m getting frustrated with a project I can switch to something else and something about that visualization helps me keep everything organized mentally. I use 4 virtual desktops, each with it’s own project subject matter, one for each side of the cube, excluding the top and bottom.

This meme imagary is from the movie Seven Psychopaths. It’s a very good movie.

Not to mention powered flight was invented in Ohio.

Because people were flying the fuck out as fast as they could, Ohio stepped up its game with other inventions: speeding tickets and stop lights.

It’s no coincidence that cash registers, price sticker affixing machines and barcodes were all invented in Ohio too. You can try to leave, but you’re gonna have to pay and it wont be easy. Ohio is also where vacuum cleaners and chewing gum were invented.

Think I’m being ridiculous? Just wait and see!

There’s a variant of three-ring loose-leaf paper binders invented in Ohio. It’s called a “Trapper Keeper”. Think about it…

The inventions of Ohio tell a bleak, dystopian tale if one reads between the lines. Interesting that Ohio brought the world freon and leaded gasoline along with gas masks…

As someone in Ohio, it only requires an ID to watch porn online. I’ve been saving material since learning about the bill.

I can imagine a couple hundred GB will last me awhile. Also after that, I can imagine. They can’t regulate that yet.

That analogy with the pencil is great! Thanks for the info.

Also the ones who think this is something with even tiny chance of being viable in court anytime soon or will persist as an effective crimebuster for any notable amount of time if they do.

The above comments have already covered many possible variations complicating things, due to the settings and positions of how the machine was used to 3d print something. The article claims 3d printing tech has nozzles that have unique signatures. They would (or at least should) need to make sure it is actually unique by cross checking with other nozzles too. Lots of them really, just to make sure.

That might require finding multiple nozzles made in the same batch as the murder weapon, preferably unused, so they could attempt to recreate the crime version, to rule it out. It might be a nozzle manufacturer causing these imperfections where each batch of 10,000 nozzles is made in an extrusion plant or injection mold or done like solder ball grid array or pipefitters and play-doh (i honestly have no idea how they are made lol) and it turns out every nozzle in the first row has the same ‘fingerprint’ that warps the same way with use.

As technology progresses, parts should (but these days, idk) be made with more durable materials, with greater precision, capable of smaller scales or higher complexity and these unique signatures disappear for any easily detectable method. That’s just the nozzles. In theory, that can apply to many if not all the parts.

I mean, Fabs for CPU are currently producing chips at what, 3 nanometers now? I just learned about electron-beam lithography too. The 3d printed smoking gun fingerprinting will be an anacronism before it’s a specialization, in my opinion.

Sure you can! See?

Do GIMP, Krita, Kdenlive or Inkscape use AI? I did not think they did, to the best of my knowledge. Maybe I’m missing something about AI assisted compression and correction, which I admit I’m not familiar with.

Does this only apply to digital media used in mainstream sources or does it mean everyone who uses editing software is using AI?

The truck might have had one of their ‘lifetime’ subscriptions.

Sirius sold lifetime subscriptions. Some people who purchased one were led to believe it was for the rest of their life. Sirius worded it to say it was the lifetime of the device. Their ‘lifetime’ service got cancelled on them after a merger with XM Radio, or they’d replace their vehicle which had a different but still a Sirius radio and could not transfer lifetime service.

There was a class action lawsuit filed. The lawsuit was settled in 2021 (subs had been sold as far back as the early 2000’s) and made ‘lifetime’ refer to the subscriber, not the life of the radio. People with inactive subscriptions could cancel it and get $100. An active subscription could pay $35 (instead of $75) to move it to another radio, each time they wanted to move it. Except that settlement was dismissed in 2022 and it’s no longer possible.

Mailing lists for Spotify and Pro Tools, plus you get signed up for a ‘free’ with an asterisk lifetime subscription to sirius radio that can’t be cancelled.