It’s not that difficult anymore, gene splicing is now something that can be done at home. Probably the hardest part is getting one’s hands on the material. There was that biolab that was just busted this year in Las Vegas.

A clandestine group using a model to aid in developing a nasty disease seems like the most likely uh oh scenario right now. Either that or an accidental scenario where AI was used somewhere it shouldn’t have been.

You don’t need a deity to get decent instructions on how to make a pretty nasty disease in a clandestine home lab.

It’s funny to watch people catch up with what’s been happening for years and what was foreseeable at least since 2020. The moment I saw an early version of chatGPT in 2019 I knew pretty much the whole story, although I didn’t account for the massive infrastructure build out backlash because I seriously underestimated the resource consumption.

Yeah that happens a lot with the model most apps and platforms use. The venture capital today, figure out how to actually become profitable tomorrow. That transition is usually messy.

I used their wifi for my place without a Xfinity cable subscription but you could only connect two devices so I used my old phone as a hotspot and that worked for like up to four devices. It was like $10 per month.

You can buy sim cards from Walmart. Last time I was around I was using ultra mobile, although Walmart had their own brand (can’t remember the name). It was $40 no subscription for unlimited talk, text, and data although I think mint now has a similar plan for $30 Link there’s like a ton of these companies, just go to Walmart in the electronics area near the laptops and whatnot there’s a bunch of sum cards and esims you can get with different deals, I’m pretty sure they also sell mint mobile sim cards

When I’m back stateside I just grab one of those monthly unlimited sims for like $35 and forget about it. Dang, you could probably get away with that $10 Xfinity wifi if you have a voip number although coverage probably isn’t amazing.

I would have to check out the API for Lemmy to see how easy it would be to make a minimal terminal CLI would be to make. I hate making stuff publicly because I usually only want what I need to work, but I could make a repo and see if anyone else is interested in expanding on it.

We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoings.

I used to use WebKit based browsers like w3m and terminal based browsers like lynx. Also used a lot of terminal based apps for things, not really for security but because my netbooks single core atom chip sucked. I noticed though that I essentially avoided cookies, ads, and trackers by accident. I’ve been thinking of going back to a thermal based life. Now I’m wondering if there are terminal based apps for Lemmy and mastadon.

Good shit. Hopefully you backed up anything important before the switch. Generally good to have backups anyway and use the 321 rule to never lose anything. That’s three copies, two different media (hdd & DVD / cloud), and one copy off sight. Although that may be a little excessive for everyone but it will ensure you never lose anything important.

I usually suggest people shop around / distro hop a little. Get a USB, install ventoy, download a few iso’s and try a few different distros on their live boot. There are a lot of different paradigms for a distro, different user interfaces, different kernel compilations, proprietary driver options, audio driver options, package management options and so on.

That said for someone new it is literally just easier to use a more widely used or common distro, usually there’s better wikis and active forums and it’s more likely someone has already had whatever issue you’re having when trying to fix something. I usually suggest Fedora or Linux mint (lmde). Although with flatpaks and immutable OS’s things are getting easier, more copy paste if you will.

Remember, support FOSS and not E-corps

Switch to another OS and 256mb of ram is enough. If you really want like 32mb of ram is enough.

Obligatory, here’s your sign to switch to Linux. For people who do nearly everything or everything online it’s a pretty easy switch.

Yeah it’s just unfortunate market timing with the hardware shortages

I’m still on the side of treating AI development with more caution than less. So depending where you live this could be a very good thing or a very bad thing in the long haul.

Depending on where you live it’s a good thing or a very bad thing.

In famine hoarding is common.

I support their ethos but also can’t justify the purchase.