I knew he had said problematic shit, but this is disturbing.

I'm really glad that you're enjoying Linux, and I'm doubly glad that your hospital found a solution to keep their system running smoothly!

Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that's the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.

I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it's germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

"Imaginary numbers"? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

Everything is going according to plan.

Cody Doctorow wrote a short story about a group of newbie hackers doing just that.

I'm just gonna leave this right here:

We live in the Attention Age and the world runs to a large degree on emotions. This is fine, everything's fine.

Most substations are defended by a chain link fence with maybe some barbed wire at the top. There are plenty of tools that could disable them, both firearms and otherwise. I can't speak to how many you'd need to take out to collapse the national grid, but I can tell you that region wide problems can be caused with an attack on one or two. Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable.

Mint's Nvidia support has gotten A LOT better over the last few years. You can try it out and see how it goes. Message me if you want help with that.

Enshittification comes for all things eventually. "You'll own nothing and like it."

And it's only gonna get worse from here.