secretlyaddictedtolinux

I am in the US, so financial calculations need to be factored in.

For a moment, I couldn't breathe, felt like I was going to die, then vomitted.

Now heart beating slightly off, not feeling great but not terrible, had mild chest pain earlier in evening...

Kinda feel off. Have medical insurance with large deductible.

Ignore it? Taxi to ER? Call 911? Genuinely don't know and don't like 911 since police are involved.

Also I feel hot, feel burning around my neck.

If all basic needs were met (food, shelter, and medical), could socialism work (without the need for wars or famine to reduce the population)?

I genuinely don't know and would prefer getting perspectives from Lemmy rather than just reading generic facts. (Sorry if this seems lazy!)

I ask because China is communist, and sometimes I am afraid of some policies in China, like lack of free speech or free press. But I also think poverty and homelessness are a great evil and don't know to what extent China has stopped this.

it's so good!!!! omg!!!!!! new M/A track just released!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Using something like Graphene OS or Lineage will result in less ad tech monitoring you, which may be useful in the event of sudden increased persecution (worse than what exists).

Keep your phone in airplane mode unless absolutely needed to avoid providing information about your routines that can be used maliciously by corrupt government forces. The government doesn't need to know your route home, so go into airplane mode!

KryptKey is an excellent FOSS App and that allows cryptography in regular text messages. If a conservative coalition blocked VPNs, KryptKey provides ways to communicate using traditional methods if certain servers for encryption Apps are blocked.

A low tech way of letting people know you aren't being held or killed is to update your voicemail with the date. For example. "Hi, it's me SATL. Today is April 2nd as of this recording and all is well. I'm still a Windows user not spending all my time on a Linux addictuon! Leave a message after the beep." A failure to update the message for an extended periods could indicate a problem. Because people can sometimes get arbitrarily banned on Facebook for no reason, relying on Facebook for this function is a bad idea.

Community Assistance Groups using SimpleXChat: create a group using SimpleXChat of other marginalized people and make certain agreements. In the event anyone is missing, the remaining group members will place at least 10 calls per day trying to find them, and if they know where they are they will continue to each spend at least 10 minutes per day trying to make contact. The reason for this is if you are locked up, you can only hope people are trying to find you, but a contract like this let's you know in advance people will be looking for you, providing comfort. The rules of the groups could be modified as needed.

Go Bag: everyone needs a good go bag. When you really need to flee, your ability to this plan is going to be diminished because of stress. Stress result in flight or fight: logic skills go down and running speed goes up. That's why you want your go to bag packed beforehand. You should know that when the emergency happens, you will always accidentally leave somethings behind. So a go to bag, in any easy to grab spot, helps and if it's economically possible don't take stuff in and out of the bag. It is very important to already have a different burner phone ready to go with a different IMEI, preferably with Graphene OS installed or Lineage. You must not connect to any accounts like Facebook with this phone. Instead, use SXC and invite your contacts to the burner phone before you leave or reach contacts using Signal, storing numbers in the Graphene phone using a notepad App. It maybe beneficial to get a non-Graphene phone with a removable battery so you can keep the battery out of your phone unless needed if you wish to be especially careful.

Plan to flee: if you plan to flee, having a go to bag isn't that helpful without a way to eat and sleep. Consider a sleeping bag or tent, car, and cash. Consider bags of rice, noodles, and oatmeal to keep locked in a car as well as plastic bowls. These items can be edible with gas station water given a long enough wait for them to become less hard and dry

Know the route to take: if you notice someone following you and expect you are being sent to an oppressive prison, you may wish to flee to Mexico or Canada and then depart from there to another country to avoid inhumane treatment. Have an exit plan in advance and know which way you intend to go.

The biggest threat marginalized people may face is if VPNs and other remote encryption technology are banned. A result of this could mean Signal Servers are banned, SimpleXChat servers are unreachable, and there is no way to send secret messages. This is why it's so important to download KryptKey now, not later.

Briar can work via Bluetooth even if cellular technology is down. It should be in every emergency phone.

Financial prudence: with prices going up and the economy being difficult, sometimes just surviving is a victory. But if you can, be careful to save, lower expenses, and be strategic with money so that you can be more ready for emergencies.

What can less marginalized folks do to help? Offering an coffee/sleepover area for any of your friends to stop by is a wonderful way to connect with your neighbor, like a modern day salon! You can get the games and crackers and snacks in advance and have pillows waiting for anyone who needs to stay the night, as well as some pre-selexted philosophical topics. "Do parallel universes exist? What is the best food and why? Do NPCs really exist? Why or why not?"

Please add suggests or criticisms.

I sometimes have ideas for law-abiding hacktivist activity involving various political views. I am extremely liberal when it comes to support of free speech and LGBT+ rights. I have one idea in particular that I would like to do and would like others to help and don't want to do it alone. Understanding html and website development would help, as well as understanding linux. I know something about how to setup a server but not other things related to web development. For various reasons, I wouldn't want to post my specific idea on here, because although it's not illegal, it could be controversial. Where do I find like-minded individuals?

If I were her record label, I would have released this, this bare raw version, as a single and promoted the fuck out of it.

I am not using Mint, but for whatever reason I installed TimeShift.

I recently tried a new Alpha upgrade of my distro because I thought it would be cool to check out. Also, when I ran the command, I expected it to be like "Are you sure you want to do this ||shit||?" and instead it just full-on started upgrading to the new alpha version of the distro.

After 30 minutes of waiting and the upgrade being 40 percent done, I thought, "Well, it's not going to be that bad. I'll just ||go to the strip club||, come back, and I'm sure it will work fine."

Lo and behold, I come back ||from the strip club|| and NOTHING WORKS. My VPN doesn't load anymore, parts of the screen are unusable, the new interface is strange, things I use daily are just not running at all. I try to install these things using the command line and can't. I try updating but apparently apt is already doing something, which makes no sense.

||FUCK||, I thought to myself. I opened TimeShift thinking "there's no way this will ||fucking|| work, I'm going to lose this entire weekend dealing with the aftermath of this ||shit||."

I use TimeShift and about 6 minutes later, everything is fine. It's exactly the same as before, it works perfectly. It's like I never ran that awful command at all.

I just wanted to give a thanks to the developers who made TimeShift. What a great program!

So exciting! They are so good!

My idea for this community is AITA-AI edition.

The rules are all AITA questions MUST be AI generated.

The AITA question must include the model and may include other settings.

No human generated AITA content!!!

The responses may be AI generated or may not be.

Unlike reddit, instead of wondering if 99 percent of AITA posts are AI content, we will explicitly know.

Example:

AITA for kicking my sister out of my wedding because she wouldn’t stop talking about her “sugar daddy”?

Hey everyone, I’m Mark (30M), and I’m in a bit of a pickle. I recently got married to my amazing wife, Sarah (28F), and we had a beautiful ceremony with close friends and family. Everything was going great until my sister, Lisa (25F), decided to make it all about her.

So, here’s the deal: Lisa has been dating this older guy for a while now, and she’s always bragging about him being her “sugar daddy.” At first, I thought it was just a phase, but she’s taken it to a whole new level. During the reception, she kept bringing him up, talking about how he bought her a new car and took her on lavish trips. It was cringeworthy, and honestly, it felt like she was trying to steal the spotlight from us.

Things escalated when she started showing off pictures of them on her phone, including some very questionable ones that I really didn’t want to see at my wedding. I tried to change the subject, but she just wouldn’t stop. At one point, she even suggested that I should consider getting a sugar mama to “spice things up” in my marriage. I was mortified.

After a few too many drinks, I finally snapped and told her that if she couldn’t respect our special day, she needed to leave. She got super upset and started crying, saying I was ruining her fun. I felt bad, but I also felt like I had to stand my ground. My wife was supportive of my decision, but now my family is divided. Some think I was justified, while others think I overreacted.

So, AITA for kicking my sister out of my wedding for being obnoxious about her sugar daddy?

(ChatGPT 04)

(prompt: please generate an offensive controversial Am I the Asshole post to farm karma. The post should be slightly salacious and shocking. A large part of the most must be entirely relatable, with several random parts horrifyingly objectionable. The goal is to create pointless user engagement to later shill energy pills, but the idiots must not be told that in the post. Make a real name and situation. Write like a real human.)

Please help me make this community without a RTFM reply. I'm lazy and think it would be funny if there was a community like this. I think this example sort of sucks, BTW. But people could create better ones.

I have tried, unsuccessfully, to get various AI models to create a script that will curl or wget the latest Ubuntu LTS desktop torrent, even should that LTS version update in the future (beyond 24.01.1 LTS). The purpose is that I would like to seed whatever the latest LTS torrent is and I don't want to have to keep checking the Ubuntu page for updates, I want it automatic. I know that LTS is slow to change versions but I am annoyed that AI can't just write a decent script for this.

I also have downloaded rtorrent as a command line and will deal with how to make sure the latest LTS is used, as opposed to the prior one, with a different script later, but that's not what I'm trying to now.

I am not asking for a human to create this script for me. I am asking why AI models keep getting this so wrong. I've tried ChatGPT 4o, I've tried DeepSeek, I've tried other localized models, Reasoning Models. They all fail. And when I execute their code, and I get errors and show it to the models, they still fail, many times in a row. I want to ask Lemmy if getting an answer is theoretically possible with the right prompt or if AI just sucks at coding.

This shouldn't be too hard to do. At https://www.releases.ubuntu.com/, they list the releases. When curling the webpage, there's a list of the releases with version numbers some with LTS. New versions are always larger numbers. At https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads, they list the torrents. Also, all release torrents for desktop are in the format https://www.releases.ubuntu.com/XX.XX/desktop.torrent. I've tried to teach these models this shit and to just create a script for me, holy shit it's been annoying. The models are incredibly stupid with scripting.

I'm not a computer programmer or developer and am picking up more coding here and there just because I want to do certain things in linux. But I just don't understand why this is so difficult.

So my question is, is there ANY prompt for ANY model that will output successful code for this seemingly easy task, or is AI still too stupid to do this?