ExtravagantEnzyme

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[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

Well, this was the case maybe 5 years ago, if not 10+ years back. Linux Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and ElementaryOS can all be run via a GUI. Additionally, you're comment about programs is baseless. If you switch from Windows to Mac guess what will have to happen, you'll have to start using similar but not the same programs. However, using a VM or Wine isn't hard whatsoever thanks to YT walkthroughs. It's 10 to 20 minutes of guided clicking and then you're running Windows programs on Linux.

96% of the top 1,000,000 servers online and 100% of super computers run Linux. But people are creatures of habit and when compounded with a statement like this riddled with half truths, it only makes most folks more hesitant to switch. 4.1% of PCs run a common Linux distro, 1.9% run ChromeOS, and 6.4% run an "unknown" OS, which is widely believed to be Linux as well. So 12.4% of PC's run some form of Linux and with the SteamOS release around the corner, this will breach 15% for sure. But okay, we're a bunch of loons who like owning the equipment we bought and enjoy the financial + security + privacy perks of open sourced software. If nothing else, I hope you feel better. Take care!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 41 points 5 months ago (12 children)

The irony with Microsoft business decision here seems limitless. 10-14-25 is the date Windows 10 will no longer be officially supported. This just so happens to also be the date for International E-Waste day as well as KDE's birthday. To me this is hillarious and makes me wonder why the hell Microsoft didn't do even a tiny bit of looking into what else takes place on 10-14. Hopefully this will help 2025 actually be the year of the Linux desktop we've been waiting for!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Ok, conspiracy hat on...Maybe Snowden was the only NSA contributor with the sole purpose of making tracking citizens harder!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Support Sugar Bowl and Mount Rose over Palisades/Squaw or any other big mountain corporate resort in Tahoe. Those are the two independently owned and operated big mountain ski resorts in the area. There's others too, but they're much smaller and not exactly comparable to the corporate resorts.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My favorite question to ask folks like RFK these days after saying "I did my research" is "Nice, where was it published?". Their look of dejection is refreshing, especially after citing well respected and established research proving the contrary. It's the little things which make life worthwhile!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Most likely an infrastructure issue due to the massive increase in network load. It's finals week for many college students, plus the iOS integration and Sora. Definitely a solid 1, 2, 3 punch OpenAI wasn't ready for it seems.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're not wrong there, hopefully the pathogen is sequenced soon and researchers start working on an approach to prevent further spread and treat those already infected.

The fact the numbers are like this in a remote area of Africa demonstrates when it gets to a more dense population, it will only get worse. More viral infections means more mutations. A virus will always mutate, it's how they survive. These mutations almost always result in a novel version of the virus better adept to spread in the host's population. There's also a good portion of these new versions which are no longer infectious as well. It's basically a numbers game for the virus.

But Disease X by definition will always start in one specific area, then spread throughout the population.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Disease X is actually a concept. In academia, Disease X is covered in infectious disease focused courses, it is a placeholder concept referring to a pandemic pathogen which has not yet been characterized. Its purpose is to encourage proactive thinking and research about pathogens that could cause a pandemic. To see the term thrown around is pretty wild, but hopefully it's a bit of an overzealous or incorrect use of it. Not even sure if there's enough data available yet to classify it as Disease X, but it's R~o~ value is steadily on the rise, which is always concerning for a novel pathogen.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 91 points 7 months ago

Ya, and the reason I've never been in a car accident is cause I'm a fantastic driver, not because I've never owned a car...

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

The research paper is available through OP's link

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Here's a snapshot of the data from the research paper:

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Sounds more like a parasite than a heterotropic organism. If you were in the GI tract, it'd be a heterotroph, which means you'd be a one time use. But since it's consistently exposing you to situations where it's the main beneficiary, seems like it's parasitic and just taking you for all it can without much care for the repercussions.

 

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