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  • This is exactly how I got into Linux .

    Had some… Life troubles.

    Started over.

    Needed computer.

    Local community employment/outreach/social support place had a volunteer run computer place in the basement (they also had a bike place, and a cafe or two, and some apartments, and they were the best community org ever…).

    100$

    I bought 2 over a couple years.

    I’m pretty sure they had xubuntu.

    Over 10 years later I still have both. And I just put mint 23xfce on one and use it as my living room media player - dvi to HDMI projector.

    I have no need for a lot of stuff. I make work what I can. And I keep it working as long as I can however I can.


  • More than likely the app package that is irritating you is called:

    com.android.wallpaper.livepicker
    

    Or something similar.

    Without knowing your android aversion though, I can’t say for certain.

    To check for the package using ADB

    adb shell pm list packages -a live
    

    This will show you all packages which have the word ‘live’

    You can disable it using ADB using the command:

    adb shell pm disable <package name>
    

    You can also use a GUI tool like Universal Android Debloater

    UAD-ng

    As always, backup and use caution.





  • Oddly, I’ve never read Fahrenheit 451.

    Read the speech. Spot on. And i love the writing style. Found the pace of my internal audio sped up and down with the way he spoke. Reminded me of Harrison bergeron in a way.

    Will definitely read the book.

    Yep.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (it almost seems obvious, if not completely insane):

    All the media we have been presented in our lives, has been propaganda and prophecy.

    Behavior modifications and warnings and desensitization of what the future was to be, now is.

    Some of it dumbed down the masses and washed their minds free of thought - hello marvel cinematic universe, fast and furious, reality TV, Facebook, idiocracy, etc

    Some sent signals through the fray - Vonnegut, Bradbury, pkdick, Asimov, Huxley, Orwell, idiocracy, etc. But especially SciFi/speculative fiction writers.

    On the whole, it seems all the dystopian futures have merged.

    I sometimes half jokingly comment to myself 'I wish people would stop writing our future like this. Maybe someone could write us a happy future."

    Or maybe it’s our collective consciousness fulfilling its collectively accepted belief that the future can only be what we’ve been exposed to.

    After all,

    “One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years.”

    Thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia.

    “Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.”







  • If a program is given a set of instructions, it should produce that set of instructions.

    If a program not only does not produce those instructions, but gives itself its own set of instructions, and the programmers don’t understand what’s actually happening, that may be cause for concern.

    “Self aware” or not. (I’m sure an ai would pass the mirror test)

    People seem to have no problem with the term machine learning. Or the intelligence in ai. We seem to be unwilling to consider a consciousness that is not anthrocentric. Drawing that big red line with semantics we create. It can learn. It can defend itself. It can manipulate and cause users harm. It wants to survive.

    Sometimes we need to create new words or definition to explain new things.

    Remember when animals were not conscious beings just driven by instinct or whatever we told ourselves to make us feel better?

    Is a bee self aware? Is it conscious? Does it eat, learn, defend, attack? Does it matter what we say it is or isn’t?

    There are humans we say have co conscience.

    Maybe ai is just the sum of human psychopathy / psychosis.

    Either way, semantics are semantics, and we ourselves might just be simulations in a holographic universe.