How about just using Debian and not WSL?

But this is paying for a service that’s used to obtain content, not directly for the content

But those children will have their education and esrly healthcare paid for by the people they eventually pay for the retirement and healthcare of

Maybe. But I have a feeling it’ll be a dumb single mistake that’ll make someone say “ah, shit” just before we’re wiped out.

When the Soviets trained anti-tank dogs in WW2 they did so on tanks that weren’t running to save fuel: “Their deployment revealed some serious problems… In the field, the dogs refused to dive under moving tanks.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

History is littered with these kinds of mistakes. It would only take one military AI with access to autonomous weapons to have a similar issue in it’s training data to potentially kill us all.

Possible or not I don’t think we’ll get to the point of AGI. I’m pretty sure at some point someone will do something monumentally stupid with AI that will wipe out humanity.

It’s the perfect crime, I’ll be unable to post about it on Lemmy.

Duck, duck, duck, duck… hngaaaah!..

Duck, duck, duck…

If anything the arrow is pointing to the entrance of Craig, not the exit.

Torrenting is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of Usenet.

Exactly. I’m not worried though. There are so many alternatives these days.

Yea I got very worried when I misread that at first.

I could be wrong but isn’t it essentially impossible to pirate modern versions of Adobe Creative Suite products as they’re now cloud based, meaning the only versions you can pirate are around 10 years old?

For me it was the Simpsons when I was a kid and a relative would record it off satellite TV for me. It just carried on from there. I started recording stuff off TV myself, recording music on audio cassettes and eventually copying VHS tapes.

Then I got a PSX console and my parents “knew a guy” who burned games.

After that I heard about Napster and started downloading MP3s on the family PC. When Napster was shut down I moved onto other apps like Kazaa and Limewire.

Then I got a DVD burner. At first I just copied DVDs but when I got broadband I started downloading torrents and burned the files to DVDs.

About 10 years ago I started storing those files on a NAS. Planning on moving to Jellyfin in the next few weeks.

I use a wyse terminal as a torrent downloader and samba server. I stored documents, including my CV on there until recently but started thinking that might be a bad idea. So now I sync those documents between my devices using Syncthing and will soon be installing Jellyfin on that wyse terminal.

I grew up in a small northern town. Most of the people in my family and that town are fairly racist, mainly because they haven’t encountered many people who aren’t white British. There’s a lot of closed mindedness in the UK sadly.

Hello fellow media pirates…

I agree with every single bit of this but felt like I was being attacked the whole time I read it. Maybe it’s PTSD from asking questions in Linux forums as a kid and getting ripped into with long replies. Does anybody else feel that way?

We had a tool that had WOL as an option amongst others but it never worked.

Used to do service desk for a large company. During covid most people insisted on remoting to their desktops. If they shut down the machine rather than logged out, we couldn’t turn it back on remotely and obviously we couldn’t send people out. Had fun explaining that to a lot of people who wouldn’t believe it.

Some of the desktops had recently been switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The shutdown and log out buttons are in a different order on 7 and 10. Had two separate people ask me to move the order. Couldn’t get over to them that we couldn’t do that.

Why is that? Likely because you’ve been conditioned to fear other drugs more than alcohol.

It’s rare but untreated opiate withdrawal can kill - “Between 2013 and 2016 there were 10 people ranging in age from 18 to 49 years who died from heroin withdrawal in a U.S. jail.” - https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/withdrawal/deaths/

Untreated alcohol withdrawal is likely to kill.