I’d call it the Slop Bucket

Anti-trust is not about seeking perfection, it’s a defense against abuses of power. That’s a good thing unless you like to be abused by the powerful, in which case lick some more boots.

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The version of Neuralink we can afford will be ad supported.

No, jokes. It’s plural because there are many jokes on you.

Greek Salad is mostly fruit.

I remember telling my high school guidance counsellor I was planning on becoming a programmer. She looked at me, head tilted like a confused dog and asked what excited me about Event Programming (as in, planning and scheduling large in-person events).

That was the first time someone didn’t understand what I did for work, and it was about 5 years before I started doing it.

I assume you’ll be using Dragon Medical One. Nuance is a well established organization, with users in a broad range of professions, and their medical product is extensively used by many specialists. The health system where I live has been in the process of phasing out transcriptionists in favor of it for a decade or so.

The only potential privacy concerns a hospital would care about would be if they are storing your transcripts on their servers, because that will contain sensitive information about patients. It will be impossible to get any administrator to care about your voice data.

This tide is unlikely one you will be able to stem, but you could stop dictating and type it yourself.

Thanks for the update Gary.

Yes, often.

We as thinking beings consider ourselves to be constant. The trail of memories leading from our childhoods to today make it feel as though we are still that person who lived through all of those times, but we aren’t. We can’t be.

I have memories belonging to an 8 year old boy in my mind, he had the same name I did and lived with parents who also had the same name as mine, but I am a much older person - older than his parents, even - and I share almost no common ground with this boy. How can we be the same person, when we are so obviously different?

I am physically a different person to this person of my memories, and I can’t be sure he exists or existed. He may simply be a figment of my imagination, a story I tell myself of where I have come from but made up from whole cloth.

Finally, someone will read John/John, my series of erotic John Oliver / Elton John fanfictions.

Yep, I messed with hdajackretasker for several hours a few months ago. There was no combination of pins configurations that fixed it that I could find.

It is the amplifier causing the sound problems, but from my research on this and similar issues with other Lenovo laptops like the Legion, it seems to be the way that Lenovo’s bios identifies the hardware and its pins to the OS. It’s likely possible to write a patch to fix it, but that’s over my head and I got the sense from others who have tried that there isn’t enough information to write the patch without more details from Lenovo, who have been entirely unresponsive to support requests.

They’re fantastic speakers in Windows, so it’s a shame, but I can work this way. In another year or two I’ll upgrade to a laptop with hardware that I know plays nice with Linux.

Ah I should have been more clear. I have a non-Thinkpad Lenovo. It’s an Ideapad, Slim 7 Carbon. I bought it for its gorgeous screen and didn’t really intend it to be a Linux exclusive device but here I am.

Thanks for the suggestion! I tried all three but to no avail. It’s not the worst behavior, I just resort to a less graceful shutdown holding the power button down at the grub menu. Suspend works fine now that I’ve disabled bluetooth wakeup, at least, so I just plug in for a while each day to keep things going.

My laptop came with Windows 11 on it. I installed Fedora pretty shortly after getting it. It doesn’t have working speakers in Linux, and it can’t shutdown - it just restarts on its own - because Lenovo’s Linux support is non-existent outside of a handful of Thinkpad devices.

I accepted the loss. I’d rather use my Bluetooth earbuds when I need them and jump through hoops managing my battery than deal with how hostile Microsoft has gotten towards their customers or their relentless surveillance policies.

“Hire a professional to make your computer stop being hostile” is a more user-unfriendly solution than telling them to switch to Linux. It also only works until a Windows Update re-enables whatever they disabled for you, without notifying you or asking permission.

This was literally the only reason I watched last year. I think I’ll pass this time. The chances of winning are so slim and the event itself is just a long string of advertisements, punctuated by awards.

Trying to get out on a technicality.

I was on that Jury, we were instructed repeatedly on avoiding bias when looking at the proceedings - keep our perceptions of their guilt out of it, only consider what is in evidence, don’t let your emotional response sway you.

I wound up taken off the jury before the verdict (me, two other jurors, and the jury officer tested positive for COVID at the start of the final week of the trial) but everyone else got that same spiel and likely more when it came time for deliberation. It’s rich to say “the jury just didn’t understand what they were supposed to do!” as a defense here. We did. That’s why the Bilodeaus were only found guilty on one count of murder and three counts of manslaughter - prosecution started off seeking second degree murder for all four counts. They both received light sentences for causing the deaths of two innocent men because the rule of law demanded it.

“Cyberpunks” weren’t warning us about the internet - they were warning us about the corporations who will control it, and through it, us. We are trying explicitly not to communicate on that medium by using Lemmy (that medium encompasses Reddit, X, the various properties of Meta and Alphabet)

Science fiction mentioning a technology, even centering around it, doesn’t mean it’s saying the technology is universally bad. The author highlights the dangers, but the tech itself is almost always portrayed as neutral. It’s the people who use it to nefarious ends that science fiction is warning us about.

Like the people who would seek to profit off of the Torment Nexus.