DjangoFett

This is the new stable base of Fedora. The distros you mentioned are forks of Fedora.

In a practical sense, this means most of the big changes will eventually make their way to the forks, though when and how these changes are incorporated depends on several things, including but certainly not limited to who is on what development teams, what these changes actually entail and if they are still in alignment with the specific downstream distro’s aims, and many other things I am too ignorant to know of myself.

The beauty of Linux is that you can check it out for yourself with minimal fuss if you’re so inclined. Live USB booting is a pretty slick way to experience an OS without committing to it entirely, and I can’t name a distro that is going to give you a hard time with any sort of dual boot.

So even my shitty mid-range card is now more valuable than when I bought it? What the fuck even is this timeline?

This… Is a normal thing…? As in, software becoming old and outdated and replaced by something newer and better by a given metric. AIM to ICQ to Skype to Zoom to Discord to… Some of them stick around, some simply die out. As long as personal computing devices exist, you will be learning new software unless you go full Amish.

No, if we did actually have him then we wouldn’t be in the state we are today.

What with his passion for punching Nazis in the face and all, I mean.

This precisely.

I consider myself a power-user. I’m going to push my system as far as j can and if I break it I either fix it or deal with it.

I also can’t code anything past “hello world” in C++ and Java, which means my ability to validate code for anything is pretty much nil. I might be able to parse a function here or there if I really dedicate to reading through every single character, but chances of my understanding the how and why of that specific function are slimmer than my chances of understanding it in the first place.

If we really want digital security, air-gapped machines running pre-2024 versions of everything is going to be the only real option. But now we’re kneecapping ourselves.

So I guess, uh, who wants to go back to Fortran cards?

As a company, Proton is striking me as Lawful Neutral; they have their code to live by and it will be followed. Not your code, their code. Take it or leave it.

Given the news about everyone else and their dealings… I dunno, I feel like this is a (performative?) step in the right direction overall.

I don’t hate it, and it is reassuring to see this is where their development money goes as I already pay them for services, but only time will tell what their actual ethics really are. Corporates gonna corporate one way or another.

The digital world I was promised in my youth and the one I exist within as an adult are frighteningly different and I kinda hate it.

A Warrior’s weakness!

The combadges provide precise tracking and identity for the computer to keep track of coupled with biometric scanning. Life forms are tracked individually and crew signals associated with their badges.

Outsiders do have to break in and are shown to often be frustrated by the computer denying access. Given that alongside LCARS being ridiculously modular - helm can have full engineering/weapons/sensors access, for example - and it kinda makes sense that an individual bridge crew member wouldn’t need to login again every 90 seconds because they didn’t touch their console.

Anyone assigned a station likely has their access codes keyed to their combadge along with their preferences for their LCARS settings.

As to the announcing self destruct codes another user mentioned in another comment, my headcanon is that these are rotating codes distributed on a per-shift basis to be used as the final emergency confirmation in case such a need should arise. Voice print and matching shift code both are required from two commanding officers.

Then why, praytell, wasn’t this fixed last week, hmmm?

Ah yes, physically impossible temperatures, the key to every good print.

Send in everyone.

Everyone, s-

EEEEVVVVEREEERRYYYYYOOOOOONNNNNEEEEE!

So just announce a big, juicy target that has both tactical and emotional value to anyone who wants to really hurt you. There’s just no way this could backfire on somebody who has a history of alienating people and being incredibly polarizing. Nope. No foreseeable way at all that any half-reasonable human could come up with.

There truly is no bottom.

Read further before responding next time and don’t “you people” me when you’ve got no idea what bucket I fit in.

Oh I agree. I jumped off Windows the day I got my laptop and saw what a horror show windows 11 is and am outright refusing to update my android until I can unlock my bootloader and entirely degoogle.

I also don’t use any of the big LLMs because I see no point and don’t have a job that requires I do so. I personally believe AI is a net-negative for humanity in general.

One could also argue the very same for alcohol, gunpowder, firearms, etc. The only recourse left is to argue ethical use, not cry about not wanting it in the world anymore.

Besides, what does using AI to debug the kernel and optimize it for people who have reason to run local LLMs have to do with you and me? I’m all for sticking it to The Man when he does some Seriously Dumb Shit, but this whole situation qualifies for neither.

Arguing over use of a tool is foolish.

Arguing over correct use of a tool absolutely has merit.

AI as an industry has extremely debatable morality, however you kinda can’t put this genie back in the bottle.

Like him or don’t, his ultimate message of “This shit is here so you may as well learn how to embrace it” isn’t inherently bad either in context of bug-hunting and skilled individuals using the tools as an aid rather than as the alpha and omega solution.

How is this controversial besides coming from the guy who said it?