Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.

Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.

You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.

The top secret way to defeat trump - one single cast of mend buttcrack.

That’s ok, it’ll take them a while to write them out by hand, and they can really think on what utter clowns they are while they do it.

Back to hand written manuscripts only!

See, that’s probably the most reasonable argument I’ve heard in an online post.

There are also some good tips here about being more ethical in your meat purchases (essentially, avoid over purchasing and wasting meat, learn your labels to avoid cruel producers, if you have the luxury buy from local farms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk

Agreed, so when are we getting clear glass doors, and can we take all these curtains down?

To be fair, the site is absolutely hilarious.

If it gets swallowed as training data it could easily poison an entire generation of models. Indeed, someone amoral could feed misinformation in and have it amplified…

I wonder if we can convince the bots that deleting system32 fixes any problem.

The article site itself is a good example of what’s wrong with the internet.

The guardian used a “pay or ok” model for cookie acceptance.

Archive link to avoid that nonsense: https://archive.ph/pHNdt

The comments section:

Sure, might be a good pilot scheme for work that is societally enriching, but not necessarily profitable.

The internet has many strange rules, one of the unwritten ones is “if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to find titties”.

No matter how you hard you try, you’re not going to stop this phenomenon. You’ll just push kids to sites that refuse to comply (usually the dodgy ones), or inhabit grey areas (a lot of streamer content counts as softcore), or they’ll get Nd a workaround (current VPN situation), or they’ll just gaslight an AI model into generating porn.

Trying to block access isn’t viable as there is always a work around, what is needed is someone sitting down with a kid to put it into context. That’s not the job of the government, that’s the job of a parent.

I’ll put this thought out here for anyone saying “they voted for Brexit”.

Given the age divide on that vote, most folks who voted for it are enjoying retirement, or are just plain dead.

Brexit is a root cause, however simple corporate greed and mismanagement are also a huge factor of the UK’s dysfunction. Keep in mind, most of our large companies are owned by the US or countries in Europe (so the profits vanish overseas); a lot of our housing acts as an investment for the wealthy of other nations (driving the cost of living crisis); we’ve also got the “north/south” divide, where all the wealth and investment stats in and around London.

We’re also exiting over a decade under a party who see poverty as a moral failing, and voted in a party that lacks the balls to make the changes needed to begin reversing these issues.

So, all things said, there’s a lot more at play than just the act of national self harm that was Brexit.

So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.

If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.

In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).

“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”

“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”

Modern academia in a nutshell

Teaching people excel:

I wonder if there will be a bus promising an extra £350 million a year for the NHS if Trump colonised Greenland?

Scary thought, given how badly Starmer is doing, Farage might gain an even louder voice…

Windows on an external drive isn’t officially supported if I remember right. Your screenshot seems to support that.

Honestly, I’d be leery of installing an OS on an external drive as they tend not to age well with heavy use.

Are you trying to necro a laptop with a dead drive? If so, depending on the model, it might just be worth replacing the internal drive so then you can go ahead with your dual boot plan.

Also, quick tip, install windows, then disable fast startup in windows, then disable safeboot in your bios. Otherwise, when it comes time to install mint, you might hit issues with windows saying “NO, MY DRIVE”.

If you install mint and get no grub screen, just boot mint with your live usb and look up repairing grub - should be nice and easy.