Not on purpose in the way you are suggesting… he tried it all on his own in earnest, but made a dumb mistake not reading the prompt carefully enough or trying to understand it. But, he only got into that situation because of an error on Pop OS! maintainers’ part. It was an unknown issue at the time until he uncovered it. OCAU thread that discussed the issue at the time

Right, but the difference is that foreign language translators are putting their own reputation on the line on representing the original speaker’s words accurately, because local media will use the translator’s account to make the story. When the original speaker is incoherent, translators have to convey what they are saying in a short time, otherwise they will sound stupid.

“You know, the press is always on me because I say this,” Trump began. “Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? The late great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums, they’re emptying out their insane asylums.”

My translation: 「記者らはいつもこれに追いかけてる、」トランプは述べた。「誰かは羊たちの沈黙をみたか？昔あの偉大だったハンニバル•レクター。夕食に誘ってくれる人だ。病院から狂人を全員放り出してる。」

Leaving aside that the sentences are barely relevant to one another, you can’t even begin get in the translation that Trump doesn’t appear to understand the difference between an insane asylum and a refugee claim of asylum. So translators just have to say: they’re letting out insane people from institutions.

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20250924/k00/00m/030/024000c

I don’t have tabs on Spanish, but I can confirm, the Japanese language has a tough time conveying how batshit insane Trump’s speeches are. It means they end up sanewashing him all the time. This article is about Trump’s UN ramble this year.

Title reads: “Trump strongly criticizes UN, says climate change measures are ‘fraudulent’ in his general debate speech”

It’s been a long time problem since his first term: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-interpreters-donald-trump-translate-struggle-us-president-white-house-speech-talking-style-a7596986.html

I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.

It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don’t have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you’d have to know the package name.

I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn’t succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.

HSR should give this guy bus driver training!

Revel in it. There are moments in life where you feel like you can do anything, and some where you feel like you can do nothing. Just store it in your heart and mind that both exist.

Yeah, could it not be just setting /var/age or /home/user/.config/age to ‘20’ or ‘D’, and just have a function to pass that value to a web browser to bypass every age gate prompt?

Many files copied to an external disk are cached, and not written immediately unless you run the “sync” command.

So when you press the “eject” icon, on most frontends a notification will tell you not to unplug it right away, once the write is complete it will send a “it is safe to remove the drive” message. This can take a couple minutes if you are writing a big file to a slow drive.

Situation Normal:

I mean I think people on average here are more mature, immaturity stands out here more than Reddit, even if there is the same relative amount or more arguing.

I’ve studied NNs and GANs in formal education. I do see some promise in AI, but like most people here it is wayyy overhyped for general use.

Edit: clarification

Ah okay.

In protest, everyone in that school should walk around with rulers, wrappers, bottles and other things sticking out of their pockets to trigger the system.

Essentially this AI is a racist markov chain that can be simplified:

Skin colour = dark -> something in his hand = true -> result = A WEAPON A WEAPON!!!

It is doing good work replacing the police’s job of racially profiling minorities. Very efficient.

So Amazon bad, Costco good?

The two companies are super different in their corporate practices, to their customers, to their suppliers, and to their employees. There is a material difference despite them both being American multinationals. I’m also buying local Canadian foods from them. Grocery chains in Canada are an oligopoly as well, so just moving to Loblaws, for example, would only be a marginal improvement in my view. It’s important to have some nuance in this discussion, and I’m changing my habits a bit at a time.

Yes it is has been difficult to replace it all. I review once every few months what I’m subscribed to and whether it’s worth it. (Airline gift cards alone offset the cost of membership for me). It’s also been tough to keep track of if a Canadian brand got bought by the US in the last few years, or if a US brand produces stuff at a Canadian factory. I’m not perfect, but I don’t think I’m the only Canadian who evaluates their consumption choices and look for alterantives where available. That’s the whole point for me being transparent about where I still am tied to US companies in my last comment, so thank you for raising it.

Yeah I love New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Portland and all the other wonderful cities and natural icons of the USA, but the problem is to get there I’d have to go through the Trump gestapo’s border control. Trump and his cronies have been saying they don’t need Canadians, so we’re respectfully showing what happens when we you take us for granted.

Oh and yeah, Americans are welcome to visit us anytime. We’ll provide you with our hospitality as usual.

Yeah. It’s tough, probably the only other thing you could do is lead by example.

I’ve not ordered anything from Amazon since September last year… cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA. !boycottus@lemmy.ca

Small electronic components, random plastic doodads, SD cards - Aliexpress, Amazon sells the same stuff at a markup, so all I need is a tiny bit of patience to replace my biggest Amazon spend category. In Vancouver there’s no competition outside of Lee’s, but in Toronto I go to Sayal Electronics.

Computer equipment - Memory Express (your local PC parts chain).

Big purchases - from manufacturers’ website or brick and mortar retail.

Groceries - From the grocery store. Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal, and the local grocery store for BC grown other food

Books - Indigo, or the random roadside book shop on Vancouver Island or one of the many bookstores. Or, the public library. Digital books: the high seas. Audio books: plenty of digital storefronts online.

Are there categories I’m forgetting Amazon is used for?

Well just ask what their plans are over the next year, if there’s anything new they wanted to try, even just like a pet project not even a job.

Lazy is a label people paint others or themselves with. It’s not an innate character trait, it can be gained or lost.

Little nudges and brainstorming are fine but I don’t think anyone wants someone else’s vision of their life pushed on to them. What’s more valuable is if you could support them with things they’ve expressed they want to do.

Why are workers so lazy? All you need to succeed in life is grit, a can-do attitude and a small settlement of 230 million dollars!

Well, uh, try training your AI with the lessons learned, and hope it doesn’t instantly pretend it never happened the very next day.

The one value proposition for juniors is that though they screw up a lot, they learn by screwing up. High turnover and curtailing your junior experience using AI are major technical mistakes on management’s part.

It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.