I'm curious what usage secnario you have in mind where that's a serious concern?
But besides that, you could run it in a podman container and use the secrets feature. That will not only store the password slightly safer, it will sandbox the executable from the rest of your system.
Ublock has a feature to disable javascript by default. There's no better way to use the internet in 2025
I actually have no idea, but whenever he pops up I see people bring out the vaguely pointed pitchforks. I figured I'd point that out to avoid those people derailing the discussion.
I haveb't looked into this particular group, but usually it's patents. Someone owns a patent for the tech required to implement the standard, and they "license" it out to anyone who wants to implement that standard. Obviously, they won't agree to terms that hurt their ability to collect rent on their patent. Qualcomm is famously guilty of this in the modem space.
Does that seem stupid, to adopt an industry standard that requires patented technology to implement? That's because it is, and were we a sane society we would invalidate any patents that become an industry standard, but we're a bunch of idiots with a billionaire cuck fetish.
Don't use Mint or Ubuntu, use Bazzite. It actually is "just works" with the added benefit of "you can't break it". It's perfect for both beginners and experienced users who are looking to do work rather than tinker with their OS.
And if you have a graphics card (which you probably do since you mentioned gaming), Bazzite comes with Nvidia or AMD drivers preinstalled, so you don't have to do anything extra to get it to work.
But if you really want to follow the YT influencer Linux memes, at least go with Ubuntu instead of Mint. Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but ~~worse in every other way~~ less reliable (edit: toned down the exaggeration)
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. By "the commenter" do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?
Also,
For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward
What's a "negative reward"? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don't believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.
But even if it wasn't, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn't print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of "simulated progress" was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).
Lua is cozy, like a nice, warm dumpster fire.
Just call it something else 🤷
You can write a python script that procedurally generates email addresses for a given domain, tries emailing them, and if the server doesn't return an error saying the account doesn't exist, add it to the database.
It may take a couple of centuries/millenia, and you might have to deal with anti spam measures, but you'll save $165/mo
Discover is probably the worst app in the entire KDE suite. It's the only aspect of the Linux desktop that frustrates me, and I'm nearing 10 years of full time Linux desktop usage.
Oh, you accidentally opened Discover? Now you gotta sit and twiddle your thumbs while it updates/downloads a bunch of stuff very slowly with no way to interrupt it. It also locks the system package manager, so you literally cannot do anything else package management related until Discover slowly decides to finish doing something you never asked it to do.
Define "ultimate"
Pis are neat, but they're not particularly great at anything, and they in fact suck at most things. They're toys except maybe for some very specific use cases (for which anyone reading this doesn't fall under).
You can find something more powerful and useful for $200. Just buy a used laptop, and you even get a battery, screen, and touchpad (neither of which come with the pi)
Apply, get the job, then just have an AI agent do all the work for you