Yeah, but it’s not good infrastructure. It’s not sustainable, it’s privately controlled, and it’s destined to be enshittified. Infrastructure needs to be well thought out and publicly regulated, AI is the opposite.

Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that’s just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don’t think about it.

But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.

it’s a spectrum

I know a thing or two on how it actually works and I found the post funny. I know it doesn’t make sense but it’s still funny.

Edit: to clarify (because it seems like you missed this point?), it’s about the recent downtime of AWS and of Cloudflare a few days later, each of which caused a huge portion of the internet to be inaccessible. The AWS downtime was caused by a DNS error (as ever), and I’m not sure about Cloudflare but it might be as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection?wprov=sfla1 the “Root cause” section might explain it well for you.

1000℅

Surely you mean 1000‰ (1000 per mille), not care of. How did you type that, anyway?!

That’s kind of the problem that targeted ads are intended to solve, in theory.

Without ads, how else are you going to discover stuff? How does an unknown startup make people know about its product? Word of mouth can only get you so far, and if you don’t have the reach you’re locked out.

Targeted ads make advertising cheaper, because you don’t have to waste money advertising to people who aren’t even in your target demographic. It’s supposed to make it possible for newcomers with a good product to establish themselves in the market without starting out with an astronomical marketing budget.

But as I already said, it only works in a dream. On TV or on billboards, you only see the huge budget ads. Coca-cola et al. But on the web with targeted ads, you get spam ads. So many fake products, scam websites, get-rich-quick schemes, etc etc, that the advertising space itself is devalued because just by having your name there you look like a scammer.

But what choice is left? If you’re a new company making a cool product, how do you make it so that people know about it? For a lot of cases, targeted ads are the only affordable option.

In a perfect world, I could appreciate the concept. At the end of the day, I do need to buy stuff, and I’d rather know about the available options. If I’m definitely not going to buy diapers but I’m definitely going to buy a new keyboard in the next month or two, I’d rather see keyboard ads than diaper ads.

But that’s only in theory. In practice, “targeted” ads are invariably sleazy scams. You bet I use uBO.

Thank you, I have now been unwooshed

… four?

Good point, I edited that in :)

Look, I happen to know what this is but I really hate posts that just assume everyone knows what they’re talking about.

So for everyone else: this is the newly announced Steam Machine, a gaming PC/console that will run SteamOS (Linux) (or any other OS of your choice) and overall looks freaking awesome.

I use both btw

Woah. Sir, this is trademark infringement. You’re only allowed to use that phrase with Arch.

Yup, Cinnamon is slow on Wayland support, but they’re getting there. Eventually.

Don’t think about a pink elephant.

Police, this guy right here.

Even your title isn’t the true beginning. Before the terminal, there was just a printer. Teletype, was it?

I followed a number of guides to try to get it to work. Including doing that. No dice.

I still think it’s probably user error on my part, but I’m still shocked there was no command to effectively “force run an unattended upgrade now” to test that it works correctly.

The OP did it in the wrong order. First do update to refresh, then do upgrade to install.

There are even better ways built into the shell, but I can never remember any of them. I also never thought of history|grep, I think I might actually remember that one. Thanks!