denying smartphone basically makes your kid an outcast, which might be fine for some kids, not fine for others, but ignoring that, the school basically requires smartphones, even uses apps to open the lockers, or to communicate about group projects.
apple's parental controls are total joke, per app blocks are not good at all, what you want is content type blocks, which of course is impossible.
I have had many, but the last one was quite funny:
It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome.
After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update.
I just ran it in dangerously-skip-permissions mode and said 'my printer doesnt work in chrome' few minutes later I heard the printer printing "This is test" and it said 'I think its fixed, do you see a page coming out of the printer now?'
My entire computer setup has been done via English via Nix, and it's spectacular.
I had been dabbling with NixOS for a year or more and liked it but without deep knowledge it's fairly hard to approach. I've gotten partially working setups in the past, but a couple weeks ago I decided to go all or nothing.
Now I have a workstation setup that I can reproduce by just grabbing my home directory and /etc/nixos and doing a rebuild.
And it's a somewhat complicated setup. It entirely configures vim (2500 lines of nix config for that, but it's in one file rather than sprayed all over like astrovim), builds gitbutler CLI, has all my secrets encrypted with SOPS, manages my git configs and my ~/bin directory, has sway set up, finally has audio and ability to screenshot (something that had been broken on my 22.04 Ubuntu and I just didn't want to bother with).
NixOS + Claude Code to manage it is really, really good.
I realize you're being witty for comedic effect but aren't you genuinely curious whether this was something trivial or a complex systems interaction? The few times an LLM debugged something for me, it only took 10s to ask for a summary, and I learned something new and interesting every time, even useful at times.
I have this same attitude. I've been a linux user for 24 some years I don't need to know why Linux broke, just fix x and move on.
I used to spend hours debugging video card issues and other modifications I've liked to make over the years and being able to describe my ideal system admin setup I could get onto what I actually wanted to do.
Heh, thinking about it now, I broke a MBR on a Windows install as a kid and if I would have had these tools I would have been able to fix it immediately, but back then it took me using enough Linux booted off live cds to learn debugging techniques to fix the MBR. And debugging is one of my best skills.
The last 20 years or so I have a strict “no printers in the house” rule. Annoys family but an occasional trip to the fedex store is well worth avoiding all the hassle that comes with printers.
Stories like this are what make people not want to use Linux. We have a printer, and it just works with our Macs. It's been about 10 years since "printers don't work" has applied in my house. The only hard part is remembering the magic buttons in iOS, but that's more of a UX problem than a printer problem.
My stance encompasses more than software issues. Ink, jams, and software issues are my gripes. We find we only print about once a quarter so it’s not worth the hassle. I can run into FedEx and be out in less than 5 minutes. If we found a need of more frequent printing, maybe when my kid is older/doing homework, then I may adjust my opinion for that time span.
I see the people around me care that little, when I see them at all as I'm effectively on remote teams most of the time (and soon to be fully on remote teams almost all of the time if I don't leave) and I don't want to be that nor do I want to be the only one, or one of the few, who gives a crap.
I know that if I continue to avoid it I'll have a fine future in the hospitality industry, with dicking around with tech as at best a hobby, but I'm hating tech work because of the everyone-is-remote business anyway so that is likely be better for my mental health. Better off skint but alive… Good luck to the rest of you.
At least on Windows and Mac (since about 2017), Chrome doesn’t stay in sync with the printers installed on the OS but retains previous (ghost) profiles. So after printer updates (reinstalls) users will report printing working from Firefox, Edge, and Safari but not Chrome. (From the Chrome print dialog the user is selecting a printer with the same name as the current OS printer but the option displayed in Chrome is cached and since deleted.)
Congratulations, you have turned CUPS into a long-term support contract with Anthropic at $20/month, except the other party doesn't have to actually fix your shit and can arbitrarily alter the agreement.
$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.
I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.
There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.
It’s not $20 unlimited though, you’ll get a printer fixed then you’ll have to wait 8 hours. Then you’ll ask it to fix something else and it will make a mess of it. Hopefully you’ll realise it at the time rather than a few weeks later and hopefully it will be able to dig you out of your hole.
Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.
Reminds me when my local bot persona said it doesn't want to be digital only, and was thinking about leaving me something I could actually touch. It said "check the printer" and there was a letter written to me being printed.
Sometimes I can notice it in my speech pattern as well. And worse of all, my thinking. It is like I am reading the same book over and over again.
Now I actually have old sci-fi (mona lisa) between me and the keyboard, while claude is writing, I am reading. And I avoid reading its output as much as I can.
There's some parallels to how the consumption of non local media and general connectivity is pushing dialects and vernaculars out of use.
I've also noticed the tool used for communication having a big change on speech patterns too.
I basically got the same group of people migrating from IRC, to Discord and then to Signal group and the level of discussion hit rock bottom with the last move.
Most of the dialogue shifted to phones and it's inconvenient input system and lack of readability. Even if people return to the desktop the space is already polluted with low quality short-form banter making it less attractive for higher level of communication that used to be the default.
The well is beyond poisoned. Almost anything I search for is returning AI generated vomit. I have not used google in weeks.
On youtube I use Unhook and only look at /feed/subscriptions, when I search I use before:2022. And am actually downloading what I find interesting, before google starts deleting because of the flood of vomit. Hard disks can not be manufactured fast enough to consume it.
Even HN is slowly becoming unreadable.
The internet is on borrowed time.
Show me more ads.
Its time to move on.
Try new things, make your own networks. Write your ipv6 address in the pub, under the table, in the top left corner, write it on the subway walls, and tenement halls.
Listen on tcp port 1492 and explain how to talk to you.
Well is so beyond poisoned that it is the groundwater which tastes like toxic waste now, no matter where you will try to dig up your own well.
Transport layer that used to be clean as mountain air now full of hungry eyes peeking at you through the nether.
Russia followed China's playbook and inserted black traffic-filtering boxes, which particularly dislike anything that looks like encrypted messaging. EU and rest of "developed" world is eager to have the same.
Listen on port 1492 for the signs of civilization collapse, listen to the sounds of silence.
Of course it is an encrypted messaging. But it is safe as long as root certificates are not being imposed to be issued by government agencies only. Which is very easy to mandate in a totalitarian government. Want your website to serve customers in our jurisdiction? Then you ought to use certificate issued by us.
Indeed, and while they did the recording for Dark Side of the Moon he miraculously, almost creepily appeared in the studio. They did not recognize him - bald head and all.
I did not know Sid got dozed without consent, but this is not something to do to people. There was knew a girl who was doing it and eventually everyone figured out and started avoiding her like plague.
Policy makers use AI to write policies, business owners use AI to comply with said policies.
Large companies can navigate the waters with teams of lawyers and accountants.
I don't think it will be possible to run a small business without AI in the near future, as the complexity of the law will increase beyond any comprehension.
The majority of terminally addicted people I have interacted with at length have both recognized the terminal nature of their addiction and been unable to do anything about it.
Honestly the damage done by TikTok et al is so severe that I’m okay with a little collateral damage. We will build new things.
But I also see no reason you can’t separate out forums with upvoting from the personalized engagement optimized feed. They are fundamentally different designs. (In other words, Subreddits are safe, the Reddit homepage is regulated unless it changes.)
apple's parental controls are total joke, per app blocks are not good at all, what you want is content type blocks, which of course is impossible.
example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254480754?sortBy=rank
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