The bots are there to sell things to humans, collect data on humans, or persuade humans to do things. You want money, power, or to manipulate people into voting against their own self-interests? That’s what bots are for.

Solid mix. I use coconut oil because I’m trying to pretend I’m healthy, but nothing really beats animal fat.

Go with Braindead just for shits and giggles.

Delicious looking grease layer, were you cooking bacon in there?

Your son is almost certainly making a huge mistake, but he’ll be way better off if you’re on his side vs. if you’re estranged. Go.

Is this your first exposure to FOSS? If so, you are in for a treat. There’s a whole world of free, open source software out there for you to enjoy.

Yeah, it’s 100% free.

Maybe XP or 7 based on how snappy it feels? But they’re not really comparable.

TTY is still a thing in Linux and Windows removed that in XP. GUI can vary from classic feeling to more modern than Windows. Package management is leaps and bounds better than Windows.

Windows XP and 7 are a good one to say to Windows users because they’ll remember them as comparatively light and debloated, which is how Linux feels, even though Linux is very much modern.

Windows was doing an Ubuntu-like release cycle on 10 with standard releases every 6 months and LTS releases every 2 years. There was no need for them to release Windows 11 other than branding. They could have simply kept up their scheduled release cadence like every linux distro does.

Yes TikTok, that’s what a ban is.

Any of the businesses that have hopped on the AI train. $200/month is basically the price of a single Indian call center employee. A company can pay for the AI subscription and fire 90% of the call center, using humans only for escalation.

That’s nothing to a business.

I’m neither financially ruined nor unhealthy, so…

I could change it to “anything” and still make the same point.

It’s time for this silliness to come to an end. You must ride a bike. We all must. It’s not a weird fringe form of transportation that only people in Portland and Colorado do. It’s just simply the way we all get around for moderate intra-city distances.

Ah yes, because we all live in areas where everything we need to access is a moderate intra-city distance away.

They got an iOS app?

Nope

I wanted ad-free videos.

Arctic for Lemmy. Also have Peertube app but there’s not much hosted there yet.

That tropes are not bad, and overusing them does not automatically make a work bad.

Lawyers hate this one trick.