Copying an old Waterfox logo. They really are going downhill.

I’m… good with this.

That’s assuming Copilot could form a coherent report to send back to them.

I’ll be glad to give more info. I’m not sure where to find the logs to tell you what VLC is doing. See my other comment on the comparison of a browser - I want it to use VLC as if I was browsing websites where it just loads into the existing window.

I’m trying to get any new video I click on to play in the existing instance of VLC after running a first video. Not in a new instance. If VLC is open no other video will ever use that instance. It’s like if you load a new webpage in a browser but have to either close the existing browser window first or load into a new tab or window, and I find it difficult to believe that’s an accepted behavior.

It’s “Build Trigger Warning”, aka experimental. It will likely break everything.

It’s weird to group Mint with Arch. I see Mint as the best intro for a Windows user, hardly similar to Arch.

I use Ubuntu btw. I don’t care what anyone thinks, it’s working great and that’s all I wanted from an OS (yeah, looking at you Microsoft).

That’s one way to tell time on the internet. The other way was while gaming and looking at the rise and drop of online players.

The protomolecule was out there anyway, just a matter of when. Same plot as in Alien(s), it’s almost like this is what corporations do.

Great, they went crazy with the find and replace and redacted all the math and physics work that went into figuring out the Epstein Fusion Drive. Now we’ll never get off this rock.

I admit I opened it larger, and it hit me. Duh.

Dawkins’ book “Climbing Mount Improbable” is a great and easy read to introduce the idea of making something complex and seemingly designed for its purpose a much more probable thing to happen if broken into small changes over huge amounts of time. And it’s like 30 years old, so probably outdated with more and better evidence now.

There is an old Youtube video by cdk007 (that’s still up!) that tackles a related fallacy, where finding a watch on the beach implies a watchmaker because nothing complex can evolve. He created a simulation using watch parts and evolutionary rules to show complexity does arise with the right conditions and enough time.

“Intelligent design”

Oh, I don’t think so.

Is that phrase even used anymore, or did it run its course of insanity and die off?

“Fraction of a dot”

It’s true of a lot of things. If you compare it to woodworking or auto repair, you don’t learn much by just doing random cuts or undoing and reattaching a part. Having a purpose helps the understanding and retention of that knowledge. And the opposite is true too - a skill or knowledge can fade if not used regularly. I hate going into old code, or for that matter working on part of a car I haven’t messed with for a while. I have to relearn and remember what I knew before. Sometimes it comes back fast, sometimes I have to retravel the road of looking it up.

The one with a darker crust on the bottom does suggest a cut, but damn, that’s some good work if so.

My question is, how? Assuming it’s not AI, of course. The dough is going to rise, so how would you allow for that?

Even captured a bit of the Bix grin.

Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.

Mint is one of the more “Windows-like” versions of Linux. The deal breaker for Linux usually isn’t the OS, but what software you’ll run on the OS, and often a crucial one will be MS Office and compatibility with the proprietary junk that comes with it. If you need just a spreadsheet and word processor and they don’t have to be 100% MS compatible, then LibreOffice will work fine (even ON WIndows). If it’s other types of software, then see if they have a Linux option, or if there’s success in using Wine or Lutris to run it on Linux.

Linux won’t be without some learning curve, but it’s not nearly as steep as it used to be. I spent years occasionally playing with dual boots of different distros but not really using them, but last year found some things that would run better on Linux (I started by using WSL on Windows but it’s so slow because of what it is). Now I’ve all but completely remove my Windows partition, everything important is now moved over to my Ubuntu and I do not want to go back now.