Thanks for the info, I’m on linux mint and after checking these out it isn’t immediately apparent from their websites whether or how I could install them. Still think etcher occupies a niche that alternatives don’t fill, its website directs you straight to installing it, it’s cross platform, and using it is very easy, so it’s something that could reasonably be linked to in various install tutorials.

Rufus seems to be just for Windows and dd does not have a gui

All of the media about this stuff has felt increasingly like misleading propaganda to me since 2016, and getting an accurate, unbiased, big picture understanding of what is happening seems somewhere between a lot of work and actually impossible with so many people trying so hard to manipulate you. It is like reality television. I try to tune it out as I can but enough gets through.

I’m glad everyone is finally coming around to hating Twitter though.

Maybe they are planning to find some flaw with the kitten as a pretense to haggle for a lower price

Will they even know if they are throwing it all away?

This has got to be a South Korea specific thing right? I thought game concepts were generally fair game

My reason for cutting red meat out of my diet was that it’s expensive, glad there’s other reasons it’s a good choice too

I think it probably is somewhat less than legal to advise people to break the law, but I like saying everyone should pirate everything so fuck it, they aren’t going to waste their time prosecuting me for that

ohh I see it now

I don’t usually like Meta, but here they used that data to produce open weights models available to the public. That sort of thing is what piracy is for so I support it.

Did the artist mess up with the visible layers here, the guy’s mouth looks very weird

Windows just wants to help you learn about escape characters

hm, yeah probably, I’m just not remembering when it was initially possible

I think it was just a few years ago they changed it to make that even possible

The problem is they would either have to police people from using them, or let grassy areas become bisected by muddy ditches

Depending on what it is, publishing on i2p could just be a way to get it out there initially after which other interested parties would seed it elsewhere

The OP tweet seems to be leaning pretty hard on the “AI bad” sentiment. If LLMs make academic knowledge more accessible to people that’s a good thing for the same reason what Aaron Swartz was doing was a good thing.

I’m so glad I can mostly just ask my Linux questions to AI now instead of hoping I can find someone who will tell me how to do what I want instead of berating my choices and attitude.