They found chat logs saying their son wanted to tell them he was depressed, but ChatGPT convinced him not to and that it was their secret. I don’t think books or google search could have done that.

Edit: here directly from the article

Adam attempted suicide at least four times, according to the logs, while ChatGPT processed claims that he would “do it one of these days” and images documenting his injuries from attempts, the lawsuit said. Further, when Adam suggested he was only living for his family, ought to seek out help from his mother, or was disappointed in lack of attention from his family, ChatGPT allegedly manipulated the teen by insisting the chatbot was the only reliable support system he had.

“You’re not invisible to me,” the chatbot said. “I saw [your injuries]. I see you.”

“You’re left with this aching proof that your pain isn’t visible to the one person who should be paying attention,” ChatGPT told the teen, allegedly undermining and displacing Adam’s real-world relationships. In addition to telling the teen things like it was “wise” to “avoid opening up to your mom about this kind of pain,” the chatbot also discouraged the teen from leaving out the noose he intended to use, urging, “please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

Ubuntu 18.04 (2018) -> Manjaro (2019-2021)-> Arch (2021-2022) ->EndeavourOS (2022-present on my desktop) ->NixOS (2024-present on my laptop)

If you are fine with having things on the same OS, look into distrobox. It would let you set up an Ubuntu environment/container on top of your Bazzite install. You could also use something like OSX-KVM for MacOS with GPU passthrough (assuming you use a compatible GPU) which would simplify your setup greatly. That way you could technically have all 3 environments on one OS with one set of hardware but now the only thing being virtualized is MacOS.

(You could also dual-boot with MacOS if you wanted and it would be slightly faster than a VM but also more of a headache to setup)

Edit: Missed that you mentioned Windows but the setup for that would be pretty much the exact same as MacOS except getting GPU passthrough to work on Windows is easier (again, same limitations as MacOS though, and games with anticheats would be able to tell that Windows is in a VM).

The Lemmy backend is also written in rust

The irony of this meme being posted from a platform written in rust is pretty great ngl

which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was

I don’t think I’m alone in saying “light” and “well-optimized” are not words that fit the Windows 8.1 experience.

Mediocre in almost all aspects is the best descriptor for 8.1 and honestly that’s pretty generous given how bad 8.0 was

I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.

Didn’t know it only applied to UWP apps on Windows. That does seem like a pretty big problem then.

I don’t still have a Mac readily available to test with but afaik it is any application that uses Apple’s packaging format. It could also be that it needs to be in the “Applications” folder, but I’m almost certain it isn’t an App Store exclusive feature.

I mentioned Linux specifically because something like this is the hardest to set up on Linux. I (wrongly) assumed that since you were complaining about it not existing, you were on a platform where setting these permissions up isn’t straightforward. App-specific file-acess permissions are on MacOS out of the box as a configurable setting for all applications (in the system settings menu), and I’m pretty sure Windows 10/11 has something similar in its settings menu as well.

Edit: Also, if we’re being pedantic, this is also a setting on both Android and iOS, with Android displaying the option to change access pretty much every time you pick out a file.

Not sure what platform you’re on but on Linux flatpak can limit access to files, and things like AppArmor can do that for any native app as well (though it can be pretty tedious to configure)

I think the problem is that the Matrix Foundation (non-profit org) is being slowly cannibalized by Element (for-profit, VC-funded) which ends up making their costs and profit expectations a lot higher.

Right now this is only impacting the matrix.org homeserver. However, this could eventually end up impacting protocol-level design choices that harm other instances as well. Sure, you could fork the protocol and clients, but now we’re talking about taking up the work that an entire organization had previously been doing. Not impossible if an existing organization like the FSF or Linux Foundation started backing something, but not a great place to be in either.

Edit: grammar

Reminder: Most devs actually care about the things they make. This is a management/timeline problem, not a developer one.

The ghost doesn’t get a gravestone

I have a 7800 xt and that’s about the same performance as the 6800 xt (Thanks AMD for the confusing naming, the MSRP of the 7800xt was originally $150 cheaper than the 6800xt) and if you can find it for similar prices it’s good as well

Did some digging and I think it’s these projects:

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc-rs

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc

This works, thanks!

I don’t think it’s a process ID? I have 2 virtual pipewire devices (one called “chat-mic” and one called “chat-speaker”). Pipewire devices (nodes) also have ID numbers, but they are assigned when the device is initialized on startup and aren’t guaranteed to be the same between reboots

The prison system also doesn’t actually make a net-profit even in the US, it only makes money for specific people (the owners of the private prisons and the systems benefitting off of prisoners’ free labor). The government actually loses billions of dollars per year maintaining prisons 🙃

Is it bad that I already knew what this would print the moment I read the meme?

Entertainment is not a necessity, it’s not like people need it to survive. When it doesn’t move with wages people find ways to make it affordable (e.g. piracy, 2nd hand markets, or sharing physical copies with friends), or they find something else (steam, indie games, etc.). Wages are directly responsible for game prices in a lot of ways, and there are pretty good Steam statistics on this as well (which is why a lot of Steam games aren’t priced with 1:1 conversions in different regions, because doing so would basically price entire regions out of buying games).

Pricing fans out of games is exactly how AAA studios go under. A big AAA game flopping is basically a death sentence for a studio in the current landscape, and if Microsoft isn’t immune to that then Nintendo definitely isn’t.