Near the peak of the NFT craze I was gifted (as part of an initial mint) an NFT, which I turned around and immediately sold for $3k. Last I looked it was worth about $200. That’s the extent of my experience with NFTs.

If we find out “I do not consent” opts out, I’m fine with it.

That’s exactly what it does. I got the prompt on my system, I said no, and it said ok and everything proceeded on like normal.

I believe it.

1. Install Windows 11 on your old Windows 10 machine
2. Discover that between the bloat, spyware, and default settings that keep resetting themselves, it’s basically unusable now
3. Wipe the drive and install Linux in its place
4. Your system is now 3x faster than it was with Windows 10

I’ve always wondered - and figured here is a good a place to ask as anywhere else - what’s the advantage of object storage vs just keeping your data on a normal filesystem?

Also most people who have only used Windows, bought their computers with Windows pre-installed, where the manufacturer loaded a custom Windows image that already has all of their drivers installed and configured. So it’s not just that they’ve never used Linux before, they’ve often never actually installed any operating system from scratch on any computer and had to deal with the setup process.

Not too long ago I was messaging with someone who kept complaining that Linux was taking HoUrS to get drivers configured and how it clearly wasn’t for them because Windows “just works”. Meanwhile I’m sitting there thinking of the last time I installed a Linux distro on a machine it took a few minutes to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers and I was done, while the last time I installed Windows on a machine it took ~4 hours to get all of the drivers loaded properly, including blacklisting the f*****g Windows Update utility so it would stop trying to replace my network driver with a broken version that kept taking down the network connection on the machine, and the insanity of having to update, reboot, update, reboot, update, reboot, update, reboot over and over again for half a day until finally all the updates are actually installed and running.

We tried the first half and they all shot each other, mission accomplished?

Agreed. I’ve also been very impressed with Perplexica (linked to a self-hosted LLM on Ollama). It ties into SearXNG and will perform web searches, dive into the results, and summarize what it finds. Not just the pages themselves, but the specific information on those pages that addresses your original questions, including references which link back to the pages that were used to generate the summary. It’s easy to identify hallucinations when it links to the specific page where it got the information from (though I have yet to experience any hallunications with Perplexica yet).

Fun fact, Edge still has this stupid behavior even on Linux, so highlight and middle click doesn’t work properly since as soon as you highlight it pops up that stupid menu. You have to go into the menu and disable it before highlighting works correctly again.

Signed - someone who is fortunate enough to be able to use Linux on my work machine (yay!) but is still forced to use Edge on it (boo!)