If you just want to change a few lines of code why not just, you know, change them?..

FreeCAD, but (from a pure usability perspective) OnShape is quite good if you just want something done (note my CAD usage is fairly limited).

For a media PC GNOME is goated, specifically their overview! One button on the “magic remote” mouse to easily switch between desktops, windows, control basic settings, and launch other applications is awesome. Generally prefer KDE and did choose it this time when reinstalling the media/coach-gaming machine, but really wish there was anything like GNOMEs overview on KDE.

(Yes, the Plasma overview is awesome, but you can’t launch new apps from it without typing).

Except if the AI companies get what they want, and age/id verification goes through globally as seemingly planned, and they get a convenient “this is safe to train on” stamp on all their data.

The death of online privacy for most/all, better training for the models they use to manipulate public opinion, easier protection against scrapers (can’t have your competitors stealing the things you’ve stolen first) and a sweet deal for the advertisers that can rest easy knowing their ads are shown to real people.

Yay.

“life is of negative value, and that the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality”.

(Disclaimer: not trying to start a fight, I’m just genuinely curios about your perspective of this)

I don’t really accept that anyone truly believe this besides truly evil people, “truly believe” here being “lives according to the philosophy”.

If this is the conclusion for people, wouldn’t the “supremely morally correct” thing to do being to end as many other people as possible before ending oneself?

Life being meaningless because of the vastness of space and time also feels like it’s just a matter of perspective; we’re not significant from a cosmological perspective but why would that matter? We are from a human (/individual) perspective.

You probably don’t matter in the perspective of even human history, but you matter a lot to the people around you, and might even have had a crucial impact on someone who was just a passing connection.

I think that was the reason he gave for using clippy?

“Clippy didn’t spy on you, he just wanted to help”, as a contrast to copilot etc.