I never get paid in gum…

I have one and it easily lasts a week or so.

My Pi2 is my Christmas Tree. I think the older version is discontinued, but they have this one:

https://thepihut.com/products/3d-rgb-xmas-tree-for-raspberry-pi

It’s super simple to put up and take down. :) I have an sd card with the software set up to automatically run the lights when booted. I keep a bluetooth dongle plugged in, and when a cron job recognizes that the bt dongle has been removed it shuts down the rpi. Simple solution and everyone who sees it loves it.

And it’s also no one else’s business if they are adults. Here’s a new title: Does Grimreaper know how to mind his/her own business?

To me it’s more of a boycott of ads, and I am not paying for a service to make that happen, so turning it off is my main option. I am especially perturbed about the ability of companies to advertise and push drugs that require a prescription to obtain. I do have a list of movies to watch from a large dvd collection I have, but I am not in a rush to go through that at the moment.

Creme Soda. Oddly enough the cheapest ones seem to be the best in my opinion.

Yup. The fact that people are checking out on learning and relying on ai to answer for them is going to be a disaster with huge implications down the road. School and the act of being taught isn’t an inconvenience kids, it has a purpose, and relying on technology to do your work is a bad idea.

It has ruined communication.

I like this and want to add something I think will be significant as generations pass. The fact that it encourages or at least seems to normalize incorrect spelling and grammar. I see 'break/brake" being used incorrectly so many times I have started to question it when I am using it now. When things are published normally, there is someone checking for grammatical errors and such. With social media so much text is being “published” with no checking whatsoever and I have a feeling that it is going to start affecting people in ways we haven’t thought of. It also is a little telling in my opinion of how abhorrent our current education system is.

Nice!

I am definitely not surprised at this one bit. As someone who has been programming for decades, there are just parts of the job that require you to think and isn’t just copy and pasting existing code. That is where this technology is going to fail to meet the hype.

I think your keyboard has a speech impediment.

let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI

If their ai is so good, why can’t it rewrite itself?

Hell yeah! And who downvoted his/her treat to themselves? A real turd in the punchbowl eh.

Just as a general rule, I would start checking log files. You can start by searching /var/log for files that have been modified in the last few mins with something like “sudo find /var/log -mmin -10 -ls 2>/dev/null”. That will get you all log files in /var/log changed within the last 10 mins. Then you can tail those or grep them looking for clues. I have done searches of the entire file system looking for log files that were recently modified to find clues. It might also help to send the output to a file so you can view that and scroll up and down rather than just trying to read the output of the find, tail or grep commands. Put a “1>/{path}/filenameyouwanttouse.out” at the end of the command or you can pipe it to the tee command and it will show on the screen and write to the file you specify.

Most auto parts stores have a really nice selection of tools that they will loan out to anyone.

My first thought is a Raspberry Pi with a DAC hat. Then you can wire up some buttons and put it in a case. You could then program the buttons to do the basic functions like play music, skip, volume, etc. You could also use that same concept for an Arduino board and use it to control a computer or pad. My Mom had a muscle disease and it got to the point where she couldn’t hit ctrl-alt-del to turn her computer off at night. She also couldn’t hold down the shift key and type at the same time. I built her an arduino board with a box that I mounted a flip switch that would hold down shift for her as long as it was flipped, and then another button that when she hit it would type the ctrl-alt-del combo so she could do that all one handed. Both the rpi and arduino have pins that you can attach switches to and use them as a keyboard or mouse.

I get that this is a political question, but geez people need to slack up a little… This question could have been asked during any administration. If it’s such a democrat advantage then why didn’t they do it 4 years ago?

Yeah, my point was that the world has mostly always been controlled by the rich disgusting criminals and people who are just now realizing this need to be aware of that. It’s comparable in my opinion to people posting on youtube videos something like “this Elvis fellow was criminally underrated.” Just because something is new to you doesn’t mean it’s new to everyone.

Back on topic, I firmly believe that social media is causing a lot of these mental health issues. People seem to believe that they are the main character for one, and they have an unhealthy obsession with trying to keep up with other people, while ignoring the fact that what people put online is highly edited and parsed. That’s just my theory as an observer from outside. I have no social media accounts other than this one, and if this all was powered off tomorrow I wouldn’t care.

maybe partially because people are realising the world is controlled by rich disgusting criminals.

Maybe people need to read some history books.

New Rush concert announced. That’s how you make an old man cry right there.