Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@TruthSandwich If we had UBI, that might be true. But since work is a necessity of survival in the modern world, losing work is definitely bad.

More importantly, though, the automation in this example expressly does not benefit society. It increases society's unemployment rate so the owner of the building can reduce his expenses. One person wins.

If it actually benefited society, we'd have seen rents go down when elevator operators were retired, or seen that money reinvested into infrastructure or maintenance.

And that's really the crux of the problem: Automation makes things cheaper and easier to produce... and yet the prices at the supermarkets keep going up.

So, that goes back the original point: Whether or not "benefiting capital" is good depends very much on *who* the capital is. When it's society, it's good. When it's one person or family, it's bad.

Okay, the one thing I really don't like about #Linux so far is that it absolutely refuses to save me from my own stupidity.

Write an infinite loop or stack overflow into your program by accident?

On Windows, the program hangs. You kill it with the task manager and fix the problem.

On Linux, you apparently have a very short window before the problem spreads and locks up the entire OS, requiring a reboot.

In general, the ability for individual apps to degrade the performance of the entire rest of the system unchecked is a real downer.

Damn. To make this work, I'll have to finally connect my Smart TV to the internet for the first time, almost 5 years after buying it.

Not sure I want to take that risk. I like my TV as it is, thoroughly disenshittified.

Ah, right, now I remember why I hooked up one of my monitors to my onboard graphics...

Because, despite the fact that my graphics card has 6 ports, it has a limit on 4 outputs for no apparent reason.

Linux doesn't seem to like outputting through both the onboard and PCI graphics simultaneously, but since the odd monitor out is a TV, I'm thinking maybe I can find a way to cast media to it without it counting as a proper monitor...

@Mrfunkedude ...except that how high you've risen and how successful you are is directly correlated to the reach and ease with which you can apply empathy and kindness.

One of the saddest parts about trying to use #Linux is the number of replies to people seeking help for common problems that expressly say "Just rebuild everything".

Really conflicted on this Tesla bonus issue.

On the one hand, I don't want Musk to get $50B.

On the other hand, the company blowing $50B on something that only creates additional liabilities means I'm that much more likely to be able to exercise my put options.

@tedherman In my case, it was "don't have an insane monitor configuration."

@skye Correct, before they shoot you or someone you care about.

See also: military spending

Okay, now that I finally got it to install and I'm playing for some time, my assessment of #Fedora #Linux is, quite simply:
It's great, when it works.

Now, let's put Linux's famous configurability to the test by trying to get my unique weirdo keyboard layout to work properly (I use Programmer Dvorak, but I like it to revert to QWERTY when I hold the Ctrl key to make ergonomic choices for shortcuts (think, ctrl+z through ctrl+v) still work.)

@jonikorpi Gorgeous. What technique did you use for the outline rendering? It looks great. Very "mappy".