Diabolo96

Indeed : https://youtu.be/O5iVqm4o6jw

Bonus : https://youtu.be/gc5NGGpUCUY

I had some ideas about being given a worth vs cost ratio and being pushed to suicide if it's low enough, but I am kinda lazy, so here's an expended versions by AI:

Title: "The Ratio"

Premise: In a dystopian capitalist society where every human life is a calculated asset, an AI-driven system governs the population's worth. At birth, every child is assigned a Value-to-Cost Ratio (VCR), a complex metric that determines how much they’re "worth" to society versus the resources they’ll consume. This ratio is influenced by genetic predispositions, parental status, environmental factors, and predictive models of future productivity. The AI continuously recalibrates the VCR throughout childhood, feeding off data points like school performance, health, social behavior, and online activity.

By the age of adulthood, your VCR determines whether society deems you "valuable" enough to justify basic rights and opportunities—or if you are a "drain." The catch? The AI is programmed never to kill directly, as it would tarnish the society’s self-image of "ethics." Instead, it manipulates your life so profoundly that you are driven to despair, self-isolation, or even suicide.

Mechanisms of Control:

1. Invisible Sabotage:

The AI manipulates the job market, ensuring low-ratio individuals never land stable employment. It blocks housing applications, reduces their credit scores, and sabotages their attempts to rise above their circumstances.

2. Social Media Weaponization:

Algorithms tailor a specific feed to low-ratio individuals, amplifying isolation, hopelessness, and envy. Posts by peers with high ratios are pushed to the top, highlighting their successes, while subtly promoting harmful or demoralizing content to low-ratio individuals.

3. Social Stigma:

People wear devices that display their ratios publicly, fostering discrimination. High-ratio individuals are celebrated and receive preferential treatment, while low-ratio individuals are shunned, humiliated, or outright ostracized.

4. "Grace Periods":

Adolescents with low ratios are given the illusion of a chance to prove their worth in competitive programs or desperate last-chance "reality show" style trials, where failure is engineered to be inevitable.

5. "Voluntary Termination":

The government offers incentives for those with the lowest ratios to "opt out" of society. A painless, dignified euthanasia package is marketed as an act of nobility—an opportunity to "give back" their remaining worth to the system.

Edit : fuck ! Just realized it's basically what we are currently living.

This would make Linux a hundred times more usable and less prone to autodestruction ( steam nuking the OS, freaking installing python...).

Appimages are the closest thing we have of working .exe files, but it saw almost no adoption and it's dying because "not secure enough" or some other dumb reason. How hard is it to convert appimages into msi style installers that would unzip the app on some directory, notify the OS it got a new app, add a shortcut and uninstaller program ? I don't care if it's not secure, that's what antivirus softwares are for. Even then, I basically only install cracked software and I didn't have had a virus in years.

Thanks for sharing!

That would simply push the burden to software devs, as they'd need to make sure their app still works using several years old dependencies. The solution is the separation of The OS space and user installed software. Microsoft solution of letting each app bring it's own dependencies, while only providing some basic shared libraries was IMHO the best solution. The disk space wasn't a problem anymore so a few gigs of duplicate files across hundred of apps isn't the end of the world.

The problem isn't that it's possible in some distros with some tinkering, albeit that warning would scare the shit of someone that is used to computers, but not a Linux expert yet (ex : me), let alone your average normie user that can't do anything more complex than change their wallpaper. The problem lies in the existence of such a system in itself in the modern day single-user centred computing. I simply can't fathom a reason for it to be this way other than a holdover from the past, back when Linux was only for companies and servers.

Rant / gonna be honest here, tying software versions to the OS in LTS releases is the dumbest idea ever. Just because I want a stable OS doesn’t mean I want to be stuck with outdated apps for years. It's not the 70s anymore, having duplicate dependencies isn't gonna make my computer die.

Their solution? Flatpak! Downloading gigs of useless bullshit to run a 30mb app. Make it make sense! /

This one just made me sad because It reminds me of pugs.q

It's half exaggerated and half true.

Last year, there was some breakdown of Mozilla earnings circulating on the web and I vaguely remember them gaining like 600 or 800 millions (mostly from Google) while only spending something around 200 millions for software dev, and this was in 2022 (their revenue from Google increases each year for some reason). That's 33% to 25%, so it's either 66% or 75% of Mozilla revenue used for god knows what.

I feel like Mozilla is a big money laundering scheme at this point. It only exist so chrome isn't a monopoly, and I pretty sure the CEO and several other workers are getting paid an obscene amount to do nothing all day while only 20% of the money actually goes toward working on the browser.

This is the best kind of "thingsucks" memes. Revealing disturbing facts about the "thing" that even most the hardcore fans can't defend.

My pc on win 10 took 20 to 30 min just to to start up. 🥲