cloudless.

……And nothing of value was lost……

Oh yeah baby, Kristi is back on the market! How YOU doin’?

The only “lesson” we are taught so far is to actively boycott anything US-made or US-adjacent. Hopefully we will never again sign up for any sort of “trade deal” of the size of NAFTA/CUSMA either, choosing to partner with friendlier and more trustworthy nations. So - thanks, Donald - you strengthened our national unity and helped us become even more resilient and independent than we’ve ever been.

In the world full of Ed Sheerans, be James Blunt. 😬

There is more to this story, of course:

https://apnews.com/article/china-anthropic-ai-us-amodei-3da458d2c078da3e60900728d59f1ae8

it’s not that he is concerned about AI threat in general, he is mostly concerned about being trampled over by evil foreign AI.

Anthropic = Good, Qwen and DeepSeek = Eveeeeel!

This too shall pass.

Bill Gates is in the Epstein Files. That is all.

Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.

Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.

The answer is always black metal, as raw as you can bear.

so….essentially the perfect antidote to the dimwit on the other side of the border.

“Jeremy Kauffman is an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading the blockchain-based filesharing project LBRY. He is also a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project (FSP), a movement designed to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Kauffman was the Libertarian nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, losing to Democrat Maggie Hassan. He was elected the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2026. Kauffman has been known for his provocative statements on Twitter that have been deemed violent, racist, and antisemitic. His legal troubles include misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration stemming from an incident where he allegedly tried to fight several people while hurling racist insults.”

The nightly entertainment at said establishment was provided by none other than Rickus Rollus, one of the most renowned entertainers in the entire Roman Empire.

Isn’t linuxvox AI slop?

Oh it is? Never really paid too much attention, tbh - they seem to have concise “recipes” to accomplish certain tasks…but now that you said it…

Not to mention Intel provides probably the best Linux support out of the “Big 3”

https://linuxvox.com/blog/intel-arc-linux-drivers/

First three Ari Aster movies: Hereditary, Midsommar and Beau is Afraid. Also, most of Cronenberg’s horror opus (skip the dramas and thrillers)

1. PEELINGFLESH - FFWAS
2. Lorna Shore - To The Hellfire

Then finish them off with:

3. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me

“Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”