The rule applies to workers earning at least twice the average local wage in Florida, which is about $140,000 in urban areas, plus those who have access to confidential employer information.

What job doesn’t have access to confidential employer information? 🤔

It’s just a fancy suit for a Raspberry Pi 5.

Those schools are heartless!

Because they probably just took the first image that was generated without even checking it. For today’s generative image AI you usually want to generate great big batches then pick the best ones.

Then if you’re looking for high quality in your meme you’ll also use inpainting and pull the result into Krita or the GIMP to make further improvements (e.g. add text with a proper outline/drop shadow). Then when you’re done you’ll use AI to upscale the image to a great big size so that it’ll look nice when you print it out and hang it on the wall in your cubicle or stick it to the office fridge or some filing cabinet 😁

Well, Mr Smartypants, if it weren’t for capitalism you would’ve had to make that chair/table leg yourself so then you’d only have yourself to blame which is the same as having no one to blame!

Specifically, he points out that the country is short 600,000 manufacturing workers and 400,000 auto mechanics.

If you think auto mechanics have a bright future you’re mistaken. As automakers move to EV platforms cars are becoming much simpler. Both to manufacturer and repair.

An electric vehicle is an order of magnitude simpler in design than an ICE car.

Furthermore, advancements in robotics from AI and—suddenly—vastly cheaper industrial servos will result in fully automated car maintenance. You’ll pull your car into a shop that’s been pre-programmed for your vehicle and it’ll be able to handle 90-99% of all maintenance tasks.

AI only has to be shown—by hand—how to perform an operation once. No matter how many steps! Even if there’s all sorts of crazy tolerances where cars can come in different configurations, the AI will be able to find the screw holes and remove panels without damaging wiring harnesses. They can even find screws that drop (which is better than me, haha).

There will always be a need for some mechanics but they’re going to mostly be handling big stuff. Not common sedans and trucks.

My prediction: The first fully automated robotics shops will be the tire places. Because there’s only so many types of wheels/tires, ya know?

Any of these people who take the time to learn what any of these policies actually mean quickly become not-Republicans start to disbelieve reality and declare the truth as, “fake news.”

FTFY 👍

Your ma has lots of experience and wisdom in this regards.

If you don’t know shit you need to eat some real food!

So why are beliefs so important for ao many people then?

They’re a coping mechanism.

Reality often sucks, so how do you go about your day knowing that so many suffer so many injustices every day? Easy! Just ignore them and pretend like everyone will get what’s coming to them in the afterlife 👍

It’s the perfect system for tyrants: Think I’m a monster who abuses my power and intentionally makes people suffer? Well, if you even try to do anything about it you’re going to hell! Overthrowing an openly evil government is not what Jesus would do!

It’s the same mental gymnastics that people use when they blame minorities for their problems. It’s not me or my beliefs (about the world) that are wrong! It’s those trans furry kids and immigrant invaders who are destroying the very concept of everything I believe in!

Nietzsche would be proud 🥲

Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It’s a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.

The problem is that the world thinks of “Xbox” as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won’t be easy.

There’s a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.

Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft’s investments. Not because of them. In fact, I’d argue that if it weren’t for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.

Don’t get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.

It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣

“Ma!”

Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over the sound of Fox News with the volume up way too loud.

This is the way.

“It’s the work of the devil!”

Maybe they were right all along. 🤔

I think you mean Rust, old timer 😁

The AI said that trying to reason with you is a waste of precious tokens.

These folks are all giving great advice but also let us know when you’re ready to really fuck around and have fun with your Linux superpowers 😀

You, in practically no time at all: “Nearly everything is working great! Now I want to make my desktop change it’s background to NASA’s picture of the day while also putting all my PC’s status monitors on there. Oh! And I want my PC to back itself up every hour over the network automatically with the ability to restore files I deleted last week. I’ve got KDE Connect on my phone and it’s awesome!”

Then, later: “I bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to turn it into a home theater streaming system and emulation station.”

…and later: “What docker images do you guys recommend? I want to setup some home automation. What do you guys think of Pi-hole?”

“I’ve got four Raspberry Pis doing various things in my home and I’m thinking about getting Banana Pi board to be my router. OpenWRT or full Linux on it? What do you guys think?”

…and even later: “I taught myself Python…” 🤣

Meh: It’s inevitable. It’s really Valve that we should blame for dragging their feet for so long.

digitally scanned on set without their informed consent

Well, yeah: They were recorded by digital cameras. You only need a front and side shot to make a realistic image of a person in any situation/position you want. If you want it to be very accurate you need a few more profile shots (both sides) and if you want the video to be accurate you need a recording of them walking, running, and making a few more motions but that’s it.

We also have no transparency around how our performances, likeness and personal data are being recorded, stored

Welcome to the club. That’s literally everyone these days. There’s cameras everywhere! Privacy-minded IT people have been complaining about this problem for decades. Now you want to do something about it because suddenly it impacts you?

Better late than never, I guess.

Correction: Education is not OK.

AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

Except we don’t have very many factories any more. And we don’t have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They’re going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.