Yes, I’m tired of all this distro thing. Let’s stop giving distro advice to new users. Tell them to just pick any as it doesn’t influence their experience in the slightest.

I mean, Arch is a pretty nice place to start for someone who is interested in understanding how the system works and to get a glimpse of what is system administration. But if that is not the objective, and the person just wants to use the pc normally, then I guess any other distribution will be fine. At this point I feel there really is no point to all these different distributions. When Ubuntu came out it was the great new thing simple to use and friendly to new users. When Mint came out it was the brand new Ubuntu even better than before. But at this point… Pretty much any distribution is usable, do we really need so many?

There’s some 5 arch based that came out past year, God knows how many Debian based and so on. I feel this has become futile. Just pick any distribution, it will be fine: arch may break a bit more often than the other ones, provided you can set it up; pick any derivative if you don’t want to spend time setting it up. Debian may have packages that are a bit outdated, pick any derivative if you want a bit newer packages. Fedora will be in between. Suse will also be in between.

That’s pretty much it: do you want something extremely stable? Debian. Do you want the latest update few hours after they’ve been pushed by dev? Arch. None of these constraints? Literally any other distribution.

Self checkout is only a valid option if you are stealing. No, I’m not going to do your job to increase your profits by having less employees. Fuck those things.

Those are some huge price swings for some chocolate in just a couple months time span. Is it common for products to fluctuate so much in price in your area?

Don’t you do that already? Do you just go to one store and buy meat, fish vegetables, alcoholics, cleaning supplies and so on in the same place?

The fact that the other guy who buys the same crackers, but they know they have to give a $0.10 discount so that he’ll buy a beer with it, is also walking down the same aisle. That is likely what would prevent them.

How would that work? I go to a shop and I know the price of what they are selling. It is not so easy to rapidly change prices without people noticing. There may be variations on vegetables, fish and meat according to availability but everything else has a clear price. Some products do have some seasonality or good and bad years but when I go to the shop I’ll mostly be accounting for those. It would be quite strange to go to the shop one day and buy something for 5€, the following time for 6€ and another time for 4€. You see, if I know this system is in place I will just not buy it whenever it is at an higher price. Moreover, changing prices while shopping is probably illegal. I am not sure about this, but I believe in Europe large shops are obligated to clearly state the price for every product. By changing the price several times per hour I do not think that would comply with such regulations. While personalised pricing itself may be legal, and I’m not sure it is, changing the stated prices while people are shopping probably isn’t. Besides, when I check out how will they charge me? This is 6€, no it was 5€ yesterday, you see the price changed to 6 while you were walking in front of it but it now is at 4€.

I’m sure a big square inside the main square would have a higher surface area than this. Calculations over the top of my head tell me this, but then again, I didn’t publish an article on the subject.

To be fair, this forced friendlies I have found in many restaurants and bars in the US. A very annoying behaviour. But apparently, people over there will complain if the waiter has not been around annoying them by asking if they need something else all the time. Workers are already being forced to put up such a show because customers like it. I don’t think the problem is using AI to check this, but rather that this behaviour is being forced onto workers in the first place.

Who the fuck wrote such a terrible article? What is described is not a problem with AI per se, but rather automation and poor security. AI may be part of that automation system, but this is a trend which started with the dot com bubble and not something new. Besides, the models they reference to check plant diseases and so on are most definitely not the LLMs which have now become synonyms of AI.

Sure, a cyber attack can lock down your production; but it is mostly not AI who generated this problem. It may intensify the problem, but as of now we don’t have many examples in which that happened.

I thought it was mostly Argentinians

Red Hay has helped a lot the Linux system, I doubt desktop systems would be a good viable idea by now without their contribution. Does your analogy imply that you think Red Hat made systemd to eventually break it and thus make Linux not viable? I doubt they could do that without losing all their customers.

I mean, systemd can indeed do a lot of things but it mostly is used for startup and service management. And I prefer systems services to a cronjob.

Do you often cut and join audio that you did not record yourself?