I appreciate your mentioning the downside. I am way too much of a tinkerer for a read-only root to be acceptable for me, but I'm glad you found something you like.
bitcoin mining hasn't been profitable for a long time. Like, a decade or so.
We're only in the first three months. Jesus.
If you want to advance humanity through free libre software, look at the FLOSS movement; that's kinda their whole thing. Releasing a small piece of software on GitHub and providing some decent documentation on it is a nice thing to do.
Also, yeah, programming with an llm can speed things up, but you have to know enough to recognize when the llm is hampering you and you have to just roll up your sleeves and code the damn thing yourself. They're improving, but they are still kinda stupid and they lie.
An immutable distro would be a good choice. They are distros designed to be more resilient against failure. For a gamer, bazzite is a solid choice; otherwise, silverblue.
There's always Ctrl+R
I suspect the real reason they are doing this is to condition the students to accept oppressive and unjust surveillance in future workplaces.
Everyone feels like the economy sucks. But stock buybacks and ai have been great for the 1% who have the means to manipulate the stock market. Everyone else should just buy less avocado toast or something, I guess.
Honestly, this article, like many other articles just like it, is just gaslighting.
Sounds like a lot of hot air coming from the guy who bypassed congress to float an extra $106,000,000 so the IDF can use more guns and bombs on civilians.
I used to be a vote blue no matter who, afraid of Trump fascism, but a statement must be made that this is not okay.
It makes me feel sick that Biden is sending more money to Israel, with no conditions, knowing that all of that money will be used for genocide.
It's also upsetting (but not surprising) to see so many Israel apologists on social media.
bluesky is not that great. I can't recommend it.
Like, the 2012 model? That should work. Xubuntu would run nicely.