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#251 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-06-30 01:27:16

@aluma My understanding is that pride is an unhealthy confidence  very often in one's self or someone one praises. Possibly in a thing as well.

Thou Shalt not steal however feels more like a warning against greed.

Just my two cents on that.

Pretty sure you shall have no other Gods before me is  a warning against pride.

But either way, when you think only whar you think matters the most or is important despite other prods, hints or evidence, that is foolish.

I have done that many times in the past.

Do not repeat if possible.  Always fight that kind of thinking. That's how humans escape the worst of it.

Otherwise, you become a megalomaniac at best, at worst who knows.

Btw, wasn't intending to take this into a religious discussion.

#252 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-06-30 01:20:35

Did you know count dracula is going to be donald trump's running mate?

Because who else can he count on?

tongue

#253 Re: Off-topic » tl;dr: supervise children around all water, even a half-full bucket! » 2024-06-30 00:57:35

@golinux +100 especially to the arrogant part.

Why else do people hoard insane amounts of wealth endlessly even when they are already billionaires or more?

They clearly have all the power they could already need at that point.

Yes, its that pride syndrome.

Arrogance is always what happens when confidence is unbalanced in one way or another.

I sadly have learned this in my own life after a few decades or more.

Btw, I won't deny I don't have problems with pride myself. I have had many in my life.

Took me a few decades to learn that lol.

How sad is that?

If my confidence is in an unhealthy place I will make many more mistakes than if I kept that part of me in check. Although I still would* make plenty even then.

typo again! annoying lol

wink

A bunch of edits because forgot to say a few things.

#254 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-06-30 00:53:21

@quickfur I would be interested in knowing how many % of t *those* jokes are your own. More than half of the ones I posted are ones I remember hearing somewhere. The rest I came up with on my own.'

typo*

#255 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Fujitsu Lifebook U728 + Devuan 4 » 2024-06-29 07:13:55

@nahkhiirmees did you do an advanced install or a regular one?

I never do advanced installs and I never have your problem. Although, its possible I am missing something.

#256 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-06-29 07:12:14

@quickfur The blacksmith joke was brilliant... you probably have others I missed, but you make so many, I have to wonder where you get them all from.

Either you have a natural talent, or you look them up online and put them on here or a mixture.

tongue

I tend to think not the 2nd option. Either the first option or both makes sense to me.

#257 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-06-29 07:09:02

@golinux Personally think its pride, greed and laziness.  It takes pride to think that you can do anything without consequences that are a problem. It takes greed as you say due to they thin it will make them rich and laziness, because they think they won't need to do nearly as much work once they have gotten it far enough.

Yes they put out work initially, but its so they can be majorly lazy in the future.

Harm comes one way or another.

#258 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-06-29 07:04:25

@JWM-Kit assuming you can trick FB into believing your using something else.

I am not entirely certain if that's possible. I am more than 75% sure FB is playing a game though by claiming firefox won't work.

#259 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Fujitsu Lifebook U728 + Devuan 4 » 2024-06-24 21:56:06

UEFI is a glorified backdoor as it is now.

EFI might have been too, but UEFI is way more vulnerable.

Sad to say, but corporations be dumbasses.

#260 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2024-06-24 21:50:22

@soren dark ambient is my thing. DOOM DOOM2 are good examples of this.

These songs creep me out but I still  enjoy them a lot. Btw, this first track makes me think of "You don't know where you will be attacked from, be on guard on all sides"

https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=8G_f6LCwmsE

This one makes me think of "this is only the beginning"
https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=ffl2ShaWyGM

This one I literally thought subconsciously, when I heard this, "I CANT GET OUT!"

https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=rLvSD5HuIcE

My three favourite doom tracks!

big_smile

#261 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-06-24 21:46:01

@aluma and I doubt its because firefox is not capable of running it.

Its probably just FB refusing to let it.

#262 Re: Off-topic » deb.sury.org now requires systemd » 2024-06-24 21:44:46

I never really use php or apache, but then again, I don't use server like applications... so yeah.

I can't say if anything better exists or not. Or even similar or alternative.

All I can say is, yes... debian is muking with things sounds about right.  All mainstream distros do this tho...

Except maybe Void.

#263 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-06-11 00:50:24

Why did SNL have Will Ferrel as a cast member?

Because they wanted a talking cat. tongue

#264 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-06-05 04:34:26

@golinux well yes, you can be tracked wherever you go online. This is correct. The only place this can be false on is what files exist on your computer.  That's not the level of privacy I find ideal... its mediocre to be honest.

The only place going online doesn't reveal, is your files on your computer.

That's privacy hanging by a thread.

#265 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-06-03 17:25:58

@steve_v I was actually talking about more than just ads in that context. Backdoors for example as well.

Privacy isn't dead but close to it even with every safeguard you put in place possible.

Only libre software
non backdoored hardware computer + router
ath9k wifi card in both.

My goal is more to protest than to get fully privacy. That would be impossible.

I do however think if malicious entities can get into your files on your computer due to a backdoor, etc...

At that point, your privacy is utterly dead.

That is my definition of privacy being dead.

IF they can view all your files on your computer then yes its dead.

#266 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-05-31 02:21:03

@quickfur Even with an openwrt based router?

I have one of those, hence my question.

It also uses ath9k wifi card.

I tend to doubt it is already zero.

Aka, there is some privacy left, if you use linux, coreboot, intel me is diabled type situation with ath9k and your OS has no backdoors.

If that's the case you aren't being spied on by default till you go online and if you have openwrt ath9k router,, another layer.

That's my understanding. However if you go on a non-libre website, then yes, your privacy is trashed on that website even with ublock origin and other precautions in web browser

Point being, you have to jump through so many hoops to have basic protections against privacy invasion.

But then at least you aren't being watched on the OS level with all your files revealed to the web.

Though that's still far from perfect.

This being said, better to starve the data collection beasts of what they want as much as possible.

Its best to protest evil deeds like data collection by starving them as much as you can handle

#267 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Devuan est à la traîne (google: Devuan is lagging behind) ! » 2024-05-28 18:43:18

Steve_v Its always good to derail a thread on any forum for the sake of politics but more so especially if its nonsense!

big_smile

Am I tight?

tongue

#268 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-05-28 18:40:06

@quickfur you can still block ads. that is a form of privacy.

When you can no longer do that, things get real bad!

#269 Re: Off-topic » Firefox is becoming too chrome like. » 2024-05-24 05:03:17

@aluma I hope this is sarcasm because Google doesn't care one iota about anything except money.

Their desire is to shred privacy to death. What's left of it anyhow

I assume this is sarcasm though in which case well done.

Just covering my bases though. wink

#270 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Devuan est à la traîne (google: Devuan is lagging behind) ! » 2024-05-24 05:00:45

@brocashelm that is not doing FOSS a favor in anyway shape or form to be:

A: elitst (which is why I detest the archlinux community for their abuse just asking a question in their irc channel and because it wasnt their distro getting heckled and scoffed at)

B: the demon that is windows needs to die not live forever! Besides it hurts the climate using that garbage os due to data centers collecting constantly among other things.

Point being, your suggestion of going back to windows is not above and beyond, its beneath and towards an endless abyss.

#271 Re: Off-topic » Regarding speed, of processors, » 2024-05-23 05:36:30

@Eeqmcsq thats a good point. And I also wondered, this because how much of 16GB let alone 32GB would I be able to use before it runs hot lol. And remember its DDR4.

#272 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Chromium update ruined my shortcut to second profile » 2024-05-23 05:05:48

Strange... no idea why chromium did that.

I wonder if this happens on firefox.

Then again, modern firefox is becoming too chrome like, so maybe.

#273 Re: Off-topic » Regarding speed, of processors, » 2024-05-23 05:04:26

@Eeqmscsq

That would still be good enough for me. Besides, it probably will not heat up as easily as the I7-3520M. IT doesn't take much to heat that device up lol.

RK3588 probably will not only be better with heat transfer but also battery usage as well.

Even though pocket mnt reform would have a small battery, its screen is small, so... that helps the battery life. Can't say the same for the heat transfer though.

Appreciate your help in this.

Although I still have to wait for him to sell it. big_smile

#274 Re: Off-topic » Regarding speed, of processors, » 2024-05-23 04:46:30

@Eeqmcsq So basically I should expect speeds similar to a 2018 amd processor if I get the rk3588?

That's still better than the speeds I got now lol.

Currently, I have ivy bridge. This sounds like it would blow that out of the water potentially. By x2 at least if not more.

i7-3520M is what I have on this specific computer. 8GB of DDR3 ram also for a bit of info.

Not to mention 7 inch device with that would probably be even faster due to screen size as well.

Which definitely interests me.

#275 Re: Off-topic » Regarding speed, of processors, » 2024-05-23 03:32:22

@Eeqmcsq Actually, more specifically, which AMD processor is that and from what gen and what year was it produced?

And how good is it compared to current laptop grade processors? Or even 2012+ ones

If you could help answer that, it would help me.

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