jamie_oliver

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[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The ATT framework was seen as an obstacle to targeted advertising to Apple device users, a major source of funding for application publishers and other online advertising players.

Um. Ok.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

"Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!"

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I'm running XFCE (but you could do KDE) on my intel Mac, you can get best of both worlds. I heard silicon is more difficult with Linux tho.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not blindly dissing RCs or AI, but his use of it (as the post was about people with problematic uses of this tech I just gave an example). He can't handle RCs historically, he slowly loses it and starts to use daily. We don't live in the same country anymore and were never super close so I can't say exactly what his circumstances are right now.

I think many psychadelics at the right time in life and the right person can produce lifelasting insight, even through problematic use. But he literally went to rehab because he had problems due to his use. He isn't dealing with something, that's for sure. He doesn't admit it is a problem either which bugs me. It is one thing to give up and decide to just go wild, another to do it while pretending one is in control..

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So good. the vatican while loop one was a lot of fun too

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I only listened to the cultural revolution episode of Rest Is History and it was pretty fun, I liked the guest a lot, the hosts didn't say much tho. Will check out again next time I zone in on some history. Currently just digging through Chinese 19th and 20th century.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The world war 2 japan one was so good, I can't get the same itch scratched from most others tho.. But it was really, really good.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I don't listen to many podcasts these days but right now I am listening start to finish to The Chinese Revolution Podcast (it is about the Chinese revolution if that wasn't clear). The production is not great and there is sometimes bg music which I hate because it makes me tired, but the content is really good with complementary maps on substack etc.

My favorites over time have been:

  • Martyr Made. Very in depth history. We are talking 10 episodes of 5 hours each in some cases. My favorite one was about the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the history of the region.

  • Behind The Bastards. I do not like this pod anymore, it turned into a series of bad jokes imo. The first 150 or so episodes are grwat though. Some of the most interesting and bizarre bastards from history are covered and it is a lot of fun as well as informative.

  • Darknet Diaries. Interesting stories from tech, but no need for in depth technical knowledge to listen.

  • Hardcore History. Like Martyr Made but with focus on different things.

Honorary mention to Drunk Tank. RIP. Was my favorite podcast before it became super well produced and boring and everyone had a thousand scandals and shit.. The early episodes were a lot of fun at the time, idk if they hold up tho.

Edit: I forgot this one which I actually listen to regularly because I watch the show on YouTube, but it is technically a podcast and the only podcast I still regularly listen to:

  • A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein. Honestly amazing, they talk about problemativ people, movements or politics from a pop culture perspective. Anything from stay at home influencers to taylor swift stans to elon musk really. It's really good tho. I don't agree with every thing tvey say but the general analysis and overvies is always amazing.

Another one is:

  • Tor's Cabinet Of Curiousities. Odd stories, about anything. As long as it is an odd story it gets an episode. Extremely prolific dude, makes like two videos a week. You can listen like a podcast no problem basically 0 editing anyways.
[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since we share 2 out of 4 favorites I have to check out the design one! A book I really enjoyed at the time was The Design Of Everyday Things. It really opened my eyes to the level of attention to detail put on almost everything around us.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah. I tried talking to him about his AI use but I realized there was no point. He also mentioned he had tried RCs again and I was like alright you know you can't handle that but fine.. I know from experience you can't convince addicts they are addicted to anything. People need to realize that themselves.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I knew a guy I went to rehab with. Talked to him a while back and he invited me to his discord server. It was him, and like three self trained LLMs and a bunch of inactive people who he had invited like me. He would hold conversations with the LLMs like they had anything interesting or human to say, which they didn't. Honestly a very disgusting image, I left because I figured he was on the shit again and had lost it and didn't want to get dragged into anything.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jamie_oliver@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Just wanted to share my experience moving to Linux from MacOS. Very satisfying, but of course not at first. I think my patience has improved a lot too lol.

I started out trying live bootables on my 2012 MBA. 4GB RAM, 60GB HDD. Not a beast really, but it is my only computer. I obviously couldn't risk ending up without a working OS, so the only option was dual boot from an external drive. Bought an SSD connected via USB and started trying to install distros. Initially Fedora Workstation. Was a mess. Slow, wifi was not working well, odd crashes etc.. Decided to start over with something lighter, but all other installers crashed halfway through. I kid you not I shot my back again bent over my small laptop i without working peripherals trying to install different distros. My doctor was not happy when I came back and told her I fucked up my back again because of my posture lol. Apparently, a shitty USB leads to crashes on most installers. I knew Anaconda worked tho, so I went back to a lighter DE with Fedora, XFCE. Set up an install on the SSD with a shared partition I could access from both MacOS and fedora. No big permission issues yet.

Then fixing network drivers. There is a lot of info about what chip needs what driver, a lot of which is incorrect apparently, because my chip which was supposed to work with bcma needed broadcom-wl. The joy when I remembered USB tethering was a thing.. For a laptop with no ethernet plug this was a godsend. Got the drivers, got wifi.

And since then, many "issues" I encountered where simply things that generally happened behind the scenes on MacOS I didn't even know where happening. Learning about these things has been very gratifying, and gives a lot of respect for a polished OS that just works like magic. Eventually, an issue on MacOS I could not solve due to it being a walled garden made me switch to Linux as a daily driver, and once I got over CMD and CTRL being swapped it sped up my workflows and runs better overall. More tweaking tho of course.

There are odd quirks but I found fun solutions for some, and began planning and learning to remedy others. Mostly, everything is working really well. I am having a lot of fun!

My tip for anyone struggling with getting started with linux, set up a log function so you can easily log any relevant changes you make, and have it accessible from somewhere else (like a shared partition or external drive for example). This way you know what you have done and can use that to fix whatever you fuck up. Also, make a knowledge base with the sources you find useful. I have a small kb in UpNote now so I can look up how some things were done instead of having to search and find the right guides over and over.

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