It’s asking for a password. What do I type? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m new to this Linux stuff.

Come to think of it, one thing I truly despise about the current state of AI is its verbosity. You ask the stupidest question, and the response is always some multipage essay (or longer if you ask nicely) that looks all important but is composed of 90% filler and bullshit, until it ends with “In conclusion, …” followed by the actual answer. Enough intelligence to string sentences together ad infinitum but not enough to provide actual answers that fit the question.

Nerds fix stuff around the house? Girl, I couldn’t even repair that plumbing if I wanted to. This is a job for a professional.

I’m a man, and I’d like to learn how to pink.

I think I already posted this at some point, but Software Disenchantment is always worth mentioning in this context.

Yup. “Strike Russian targets” is not the same as “strike targets in Russia”. Huge difference.

Plus he shot a dog on that show where he played law enforcement.

A+ vice-presidential material right there.

I hereby grant you the title of King Responsible.

Their future mistakes notwithstanding, I can still appreciate the good work they’re doing now.

The polling numbers would be more meaningful if there were credible polls.

The first link works fine for me on mobile (Android, FF beta, uBo).

15 years ago. But I still gotta use Windows at work.

Yes, it is highly controversial, and rightly so. First, an IQ is a number that is based on an intelligence test and intended to measure an individual’s cognitive ability in comparison with a reference population, typically with other people of similar ages and in the same country (i.e., the population that they belong to). Intelligence tests are meaningless for group comparisons such as comparisons between countries or ethnic/religious groups, and doing so represents a misuse and misinterpretation of IQ scores. Researchers are not “biased” against this based on their political opinions. They simply object to the objectionable use of these tests.

Second, group comparisons about intelligence are also problematic for a variety of other reasons, and studies that claim to find group differences tend to conflate them with other between-group differences (e.g., different socioeconomic, nutritional, educational influences, among others). These studies are essentially pseudo-science.

Finally, although genetics do seem to play a significant role for cognitive ability, it’s important to realize that statements like “IQ is x% heritable” are statistical estimates. These estimates are obtained by comparing sources of variance that can be attributed to shared vs. non-shared genetic and environmental influences. As such, any heritability estimate is specific to its social context (e.g., countries). In fact, heritability estimates tend to be higher in more equitable societies, because they reduce the impact of environmental influences (e.g., wealth, parental education), thus increasing the relative proportion of variance that can be attributed to genetics (but obviously genetics in, say, Sweden still work the same as they do in the US).

For a few years, I had hope that Microsoft would become a respectable, user-oriented, even FOSS-friendly company, but they finally seem to have settled on AI enshitification as their main business model.

Didn’t see your original comment, but in case it was something like “women are perceived as more trustworthy than men”, it doesn’t seem like the study you linked to supports this idea, and it considers “trust” at a much broader, non-individual scale.

The size of a large rock the size of a small boulder.

Coincidentally, ignoring political realities to further your personal agenda is also a proud tradition among former-GDR politicians.

The German far-left party (LINKE) has been traditionally fairly pro-Russian and remains so today, because many of its members (at least the older ones) switched over from the soviet-aligned socialist unity party of the former GDR.

I don’t either (despite the fact that I use Arch BTW). The average adult in my country is barely able to use their computer for basic tasks (think Word/Excel, basic internet usage). Having all these people on Linux is a nightmare scenario I don’t want to imagine. I would love nothing more than Linux becoming the norm in the not-so-distant future, but the computer literacy in the general population is just too low right now.

That kind of cognitive dissonance is widespread in minority groups everywhere. Right-wingers have become extremely adept at pretending to be civil, telling them “we don’t have anything against you, because you’re one of the good ones.” And these poor souls believe it, because they don’t understand what the right-wingers want to say, which is “we’ll go after you, once we’re done with your friends.”