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Have you tried Geany? It's what I use often. IDK about privilege escalation, you may need some sort of fumbling around with xhost.

SFTP is an interesting one, I am not sure how the interaction with filezilla goes. I tend to just use scp or edit files in nano over ssh.

Just use any major distribution. Fedora, Debian, Mint, Gentoo, etc.

All linux distributions are essentially packaging the same software. The choice of distribution is just the choice of what organization packages the software.

> I do everything from programming, to gaming, video editing, browsing, basic stuff on Office, 3D modelling and printing, etc. from this computer.

I do all of that on a single linux installation. Your problem is probably that your first instinct is to emulate your old workflow instead of finding a new workflow.

> MyAss_OS! works best for Steam but FuckNux works best with video editing software and you happen to need both.

There is no real compromise here. If you are running a distro that isn't capable of running everything, you are barking up the wrong tree and probably trying to use some random hannah montana linux maintained by 1 guy.

Monero's RandomX is an interesting PoW scheme one designed to be optimized for CPUs. Here is an interesting read about its design https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/blob/master/doc/design.md

Chia uses a very memory-hard PoW system and is usually mined on SSDs.

I've seen a lot of "useful PoW" cryptocurrencies, but they tend to not pan out. For example Gridcoin is just a Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency with a program that hands out GRC to BOINC contributors.

>One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

How does legal immunity or a media empire affect a dead man?

>Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are not very useful in a civil conflict... Or pretty much any conflict

They don't need a backdoor. They can push whatever update to the OS they want. They have a front door.

So they don't burn their 0day

I guess, it just comes with experience

You don't need to rename it to an html file, just serve it with with the following header:

Content-Type: text/html

No

They contribute a lot to GNOME, libvirt, firewalld and other linux systems that I take advantage of even as a gentoo user.

What trivia? I don't disagree that the AI companies are unprofitable.

These AI companies are paying for the reactors. As for waste, The Department of Energy handles spent nuclear fuel. Protests against the construction of yucca mountain have made this impossible. Nuclear power plants repeatedly sue the US Government for the cost of storing this nuclear waste on-site, because it's the DOE's problem.

And it is a totally artificial political problem. It is not even nessisarially "waste" in the sense that we ordinarily think: there is a significant amount of fissile isotope in spent fuel and countries like france recycle the majority of spent nuclear fuel. We could do the same with the right infrastructure, and it would vastly decrease the amount of waste we produce and uranium we need to mine.

My point is that complaints in these youtube videos you link (which I am very accustomed to, I have been following this for decades) present the argument that AI is politically dangerous, and this is totally separate from these material complaints (not enough water, not enough power, not enough chips, etc.) you pretend are a significant problem.

These are just extrinsic flaws which can be solved (and WILL be solved, if the USA is able to restore its manufacturing base, which it should). But my issue is purely with the intrinsic dangers of this tech, which are not fixable.

Some of the videos you link are just this suburban NIMBY nagging about muh noise pollution. You might as well get a video of people complaining about EMF pollution. The big issue here is that AI is going to take all of our jobs and will essentially harken the end of the world as we know it. It is going to get incredibly ugly very soon. Who cares about what some 50 year old boomer homeowner (who isn't going to live to see this unfold anyways) thinks about some gray building being built remotely nearby their suburb. They should go back to watching TV.

As for me, I am going to campaign to have my local pet rescue society demolished. It uses too much water and space and electricity, and for what? Something I don't care for? Seems unethical to me that I should bear the cost incurred through increased demand for these resources, even though I did not explicitly consent to the animal shelter being constructed.

The amount of electricity we can produce is limited only by regulation, because we have practically unlimited amount of fission energy under our feet. That is what you are seeing now with all of these new nuclear plants being built and de-decommissioned. If that is too scary for you, we also have the world's greatest reserves of shale gas.

I am not pro-AI, and I agree that the market will crash. But what I take issue with is this NIMBY mentality that we should nitpick proposals with a thousand fake reasons for why we can't build anything in this country. We can't do big engineering projects like china because they are too much of an eyesore or they use too much water or they're not zoned correctly.

We can't put up a new apartment block, it's too much of a strain on the local water supply. Okay can we collect more water, invest in a new reservoir? Of course not, it will endanger the tumbleweed population.

We can't let a new datacenter go up because it will cause everyone's power prices to increase. Okay maybe we can produce more power?? No, BECAUSE ENERGY IS FINITE AND THE SUN IS JUST GOING TO EXPLODE ANYWAYS SO WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE. WTF?

Why can't we build things? Because we just can't, and actually it's impossible and you are rude for suggesting we build anything ever. It's circular reasoning designed to placate suburban NPCs.

If you oppose AI because it is ruining art, or it will drive people out of jobs, just say that. Because these fake complaints about power and water are neither compelling nor effective (they are just technological and material problems which will be ironed out in the coming generations).

We can generate more energy, fabricate more computer chips and collect more water, but the impact on labor will be irreversible.

If the industry doesn't fear open-weight models, they should. There is no moat

intellectual property isn't going to save us. it's a flimsy retort, like the water usage complaints

No

it will be behind on security gimmicks

Those DEMOCRAT SOYBOYS are gonna hate this, but I'm gonna say it anyways. Today we're joining the WAR on protein- ON THE SIDE OF THE PROTEIN.

It's an idiocracy bit, the continual flanderization of the USA. It reminds me of carlin's act about how everything we do has to be contextualized into war: we can't just solve homelessness, we have to declare WAR on homelessness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncLOEqc9Rw).

That may be the case, I am not an expert in law. I hope there is some type of repercussion for the cop that point-blanks a random driver.

I just don't hold much faith in the separation of power between state and federal government, it sounds like there has been a massive erosion of this barrier since the civil war and the abuse of the commerce clause and all that.

I am an American, I just don't believe this idea that the law has anything to do with principles or a hard code of rules. That just isn't what I observe in practice, unless the enforcers of the law happen to be totally neutral to the conflict at hand.

The law is enforced based on the general feelings of the people in power, and they will bend principles to punish/reward those that they perceive to be "bad" and "good" accordingly, based on their prejudices.

The idea that "might makes right" is sort of a tautology. What you consider to be right is based on a historical precedent set by the mighty.

I think they may get away with it. Our head-of-state is already describing it as an act of self-defense.

the only thing it takes to be exceptional in most fields is time and effort. there is no secret sauce. There is not something innate that "finance people" have that "computer people" don't, other than a willingness to trudge through boring finance-related crap and vice-versa.

This is all spawned from insecurity that your prestigious degree or whatever can be replicated through independent learning

everywhere

I would like it to have an open bootloader and support for some open source OS

the beauty of machines is case-deep

I have wondered if it is possible to make a mining algorithm FPGA-hard in the same way that RandomX is CPU-hard and memory-hard. Relative to CPUs, the "programming time" cost is high.

Nice username btw.

why even bother with "TV Screens"? Why not just get a big computer monitor instead, like 27" or something

copyleft is a subset of copyright

well now that they're ahead we need to copy

Yes, they're objecting to people training on data they don't have the right to, not just the GET request as you suggest.

If you distribute child porn, that is a crime. But if you crawl every image on the web and then train a model that can then synthesize child porn, the current legal model apparently has no concept of this and it is treated completely differently.

Generally, I am more interested in how this effects copyright. These AI companies just have free reign to convert copyrighted works into the public domain through the proxy of over-trained AI models. If you release something as GPL, they can strip the license, but the same is not true of closed-source code which isn't trained on.