Eh. There’s plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he’d been given unlimited internet access without also being a public figure).

And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don’t run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.

Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is,

Musk wasn’t always as completely off his hinges as he is right now, and I feel like at least half of the reason he got as bad as he did, is because he is constantly, 24/7/365, surrounded by yes men who do nothing but say how great and smart he is (and he has the money and power to ensure this always remains the case)

Like he was always a bigot and kind of a dumbshit, but he didn’t become unhinged until a few years back.

Which is why I think a hypothetical middle-or-lower-class Elon Musk would be just.

… A mediocre internet user. Holds some bigoted opinions. Gets into fights on webforums and social media. Has a low-level job in tech doing something no one cares about for a company everyone hates.

(I think they are asking about what level of wealth he’d be born into in your imaginary scenario – I wrote my post assuming ‘my own’, which is to say ‘comfortably middle-class parents in a rapidly crumbling economy, not poor per-se, but working class nonetheless, and pretty much guaranteed to die poorer than his folks’)

Statistically?

Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.

He’s very autistic, but if he weren’t a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn’t be there. (Although being from South Africa, he’d probably still be a massive Racist)

This means there’s a 93.4% chance he’d be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.

🥚-xactly.

Slavery 2: It won’t matter if you’re black or white

If I may be a centrist about this.

OP is being silly wanting a year-cutoff. Geeenerally people who are whole-hog on AI are very proud of that and will yell about it to the four winds. And even if they didn’t, reputation is a real thing one can rely on for knowing who are the goodies and the baddies. (… though if they do feel that’s the only way… 2023. That’s the date. November 2023 is when ChatGPT became something the public could use, and the floodgates opened for businesspeople wanting to replace all artists with robots. Before that, Generative AI was used mostly either by scientists for research into AI itself… Or by internet dorks like me for shitposting. It wasn’t good enough for anything else either way.)

With that said, y’all are being unreasonable to them too: Literature is art, and when it comes to art, “I don’t like the way it feels” is more than enough reason to not want to engage with something. If OP says “I don’t want to touch anything AI related, I don’t care if it is quote-unquote good” then that should be a complete sentence, and require no belaboured justification whatsoever.

That just proves my point though

The down votes are from internet strangers

I’m an internet stranger

Friends would presumably be people who share in your interests and outlooks and so would be willing to help you figure such things out. At least mine are.

You could start by switching from strangers to friends.

Strangers on the internet have always been unreliable. AI just adds to the stench.

I love pretty much every animal depending on how I’m feeling that day.

So here’s one pick from each major category I can think of:

• Cnidarian: Portuguese Man-o-war. I just think they’re neat.
• Worm: Leeches. They look cool.
• Mollusk: Blue-ringed octopus. Dangerous boios with pretty colours
• Arthropod: Ants. Eusocial insects are so cool!
• Fish: No
• Amphibian: Any large toad. They look funny.
• Reptile: Tegu, they’re like the cats of reptiles.
• Bird: Corvids in general. Crows, ravens, etc. Playful smart cuties.
• Mammal: So many choices… But I’ll go with Raccoons. They have grabby little hands and funny lil’ masks. They are ADORABLE.

batcat

It’s like cat but better. Great for when you just want to look at the contents of a file, without loading a whole text editor.

Oh also, tldr

My procedure for learning how to use a cli command goes tldr page -> --help if the tldr fails to help me -> THEN the full manpage

Lutris is just for organization, and managing the Wineprefixes. I don’t even use it as an installer per se. I install manually with wine and then point Lutris to the right prefix and game executable.

Anyway, the steps outright skipped are:

• Having to unlock the FS for writing and set up SSH and (…) – This is a security liability if you CARE. I don’t, I just think it’s more effort than necessary.
• Transferring the game folder from a PC to the Deck, since you just. Do it all inside the deck itself.

It’s no big deal doing either of those, but I find it less of a hassle.

My procedure for pirated games, on both PC and deck is:

• On terminal, create a prefix by using export WINEPREFIX=. Like /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/pfx
• Run winetricks -q corefonts – The fonts ensure the installer won’t have any rendering errors, plus running winetricks at least once forces wine to create the prefix’s folder structure.
• Run the installer from the same terminal session, just doing wine Setup.exe
• Usually install to /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/game for organisation’s sake, but this is unnecessary and requires dealing with Wine’s handling of your unix folders which is always slightly annoying.

From here, you could launch the game directly through Steam, but then Steam would create its own prefix, and some games require fiddling around with the things installed on the wineprefix (or with envvars or…), which is why I use Lutris as a middleman, as it ensures the game will run on the prefix I created, and if anything is missing, I can winetricks it. Lutris even offers a ‘create Steam shortcut’ option to make it all look neat on the Deck’s console mode screen.

Most of these steps can be skipped by installing the Lutris flatpak on the deck itself and using desktop mode (… Plus an external mouse and keyboard) to set up your pirated games directly from the deck.

Additionally, if you’re smart about it you can use syncthing as a ghetto “cloud” solution to synch your progress between PC and deck.

Vimwiki & syncthing

Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.

The awkward controls make it unfair.

… But then, IDKFA works

Which MEANS

An AI could totally cheat this.

Thank you.

Thanks. I’ll do some exploring.

Tendi.

Escroto, mas compreensível. Obrigado.

Sure, sounds fun.

Like I’d most definitely fuck something up, but I’d have a good time doing it.

No keep going, I like what you’re cooking.