Whats rustling your jimmies?

Lambourne said:

Microsoft has become the malware. There's some microsoft account screen that keeps popping whenever I log in on a new PC at work that takes over your entire screen and it won't even let you tab out of it. Have to go into task manager and kill it.

I played dumb and reported it as a hack attempt to the office IT goons, maybe if I annoy them enough something will be done about it.

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Yeah, I have long resisted the "maybe I should find a linux distro I like and just gracefully walk away from MS" for literally decades now... But I sense the time is soon approaching.

I like the idea of an AI assistant, I even like the idea of having agentic AI which I can task with handling things for me, but I want these things to be self contained, and their internet access be something I can hyperinvasively monitor and control (which is possible).

Lambourne said:

Maybe if the SteamOS thing takes off it'll finally make linux gaming viable. It's the only thing keeping me on windows, all the other stuff like email / video streaming I can do in a browser.

Come tot think of it, I wonder how far we are from "hey AI bot, please take this source code and port this game to linux" and it just working. Can't be too many years off now.

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I think before "recompile this to be Linux compatible" we're going to simply have to live with "Do a micro-virtualization kernel wrap around this executable so it THINKS it's on a windows system".

Yesterday at 6:48 AM, one my friends in my billiards group was killed on his motorcycle by a van that took the right of way when they shouldn't have. He was only 24 years old. Stay safe on the roads my friends.

Kajiimagi said:

Damn bro that's more of a rustle but 'on his motorcycle' means when not if. Neg me all you want but when my wife got side swiped by a UBER driver that 'turned when the app told him to' despite there being a car in the way, the AC didn't even turn off and the seat belts didn't even tighten.

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Motorcycles have that inherent risk no matter how careful you are. Its just a shame, he was so damn young and cut down unceremoniously. I still understand and agree with your point, no negs from me.

This is the third friend who has passed away on a bike over the last 10 years or so.

The first friend who was a decade older than me at the time was stopped at a red light and the car behind him was texting and driving, direct hit... no brakes. Killed him instantly, he had just bought a house and had a baby on the way too.

The second was someone I knew all the way back from preschool. Killed when an oncoming car drifted into the opposing lane around a bend, they were both speeding leaving little time to react.

Just be careful FoH, check in on your buddies and take a moment to step back and actively appreciate those close to you. Life seems slow but it's all too fast at times.