I spent some years in classrooms as a service provider when Wikipedia was all the rage. Most districts had a “no Wikipedia” policy, and required primary sources.

My kids just graduated high school, and they were told NOT to use LLM’s (though some of their teachers would wink). Their current college professors use LLM detection software.

AI and Wikipedia are not the same, though. Students are better off with Wikipedia as they MIGHT read the references.

Still, those students who WANT to learn will not be held back by AI.

I know what “circle jerk” means, but I don’t know what “leftist” means.

I don’t think it’s properly definable at least here in the US.

This is probably one of the problems.

When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.

I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.

NOW we’re talking!

“This sounds like a your carrier problem, not an eSIM problem.”

This is true, and we the consumer have no control of the carrier decisions. With a physical SIM, we have at least a little.

Not OP, but great question. A lot of discourse seems to imply that we should already know.

Historically, there were groups that identified that way for very specific reasons (against European monarchy in Central America for instance).

In the US, at least, these concepts are quite loosely defined, and I’d even argue, undefined.

I’ll accept it! 😊

“Far center extremists have hacked the power grid to make LLM’s more understandable. Click the link to learn how to protect yourself.”

You mean…Satan?!?

Someone who is technically oriented and persistent; with a desire to get an understanding of the lower structures of the operating system, would be a great candidate for Gentoo. Regardless their familiarity with Linux.

Don’t. Not yet at least, since you’ve picked a distro.

Remember when you first started using Windows? All that new learning?

Remember that this is new learning again. Take your time to understand things, and like another poster said, d don’t blindly copy and paste.

Since you’ve picked Mint, utilize their community as there may be “Mint specific” solutions to many problems.

Good hunting!

If I could give only one reason to use Gentoo, it would be the community.

Anyway, if you choose this route, read the handbook through like a book first. Get an idea what you want your endpoint to be, then start.

Touch grass.

You tried flightgear yet? While not as pretty as MS, the physics, the controls, the thought…

It’s a great sim, and Linux native.

And Windows isn’t telling them. That’s part of the issue. If Cortana could tell them “this boot was slow because your video driver missed an update necessary for other system packages. Would you like me to show you how to fix that now?” that would be a win for your typical user.

I don’t believe this is a new concept. IIRC, the same claim was made around 20 years ago.

I suspect these things go through cycles like everything else.

We should definitely be paying attention when the developers of critical infrastructure begin to burn out.

Tell Bruce I said “hey”.

I need to make a minor correction:

While the protocol is technically open source, self hosting a signal requires recompiling the client to connect to the host.

It’s not federated.

Signal protocol is not open. Should be removed from your list if you can’t adjust.

You’re right, but it’s more nuanced than that.

The EU is like a Hydra. Some heads are consumer facing, others are population control facing.

Success would mean distracting the control heads while wooing the population heads.

No easy task.