Konqi the KDE dragon would like a word.

I'm not sure I was giving Lucas credit for this. I suspected he came up with a character outline and then the other writers/director/Oz came up with the specific language style.

I always thought Yoda was speaking in a Japanese style rather than "backwards". The Jedi were inspired (in part) by samurai and I assumed Yoda was representative of a wise, old samurai who had forsaken his warrior ways to live a peaceful life in exile.

As I recall, Japanese tends to place the verb at the end of a sentence, which is semi-backward from English. So instead of "I went to the store" the Japanese equivalent would be "To the store I went." (Or maybe "I, to the store, went.") Which seems to match Yoda's pattern of speech.

"No one knows why."

This is so lazy on the part of the writer. Of course some people know why. The FBI knows why. They just aren't saying. The missing guy didn't vanish into another dimension, he was abducted and the people who abducted him know why they did it.

"But it's a deflationary currency, and the value will just continue to go up. " It's not deflationary. This is a common point most people get wrong. It just inflates slowly. Currently at the rate of about $70 million USD per day. If people don't buy up that much supply, the value is more likely to drop than rise.

This is annoying. I have one Kindle that runs (mostly) well, except that its w-fi stopped working after a couple of years. It can't connect to networks, which feels like a bonus sometimes as it doesn't force updates anymore. I've been transferring books to it over USB. If that doesn't work in the future, then I don't have any reason to keep buying books for it.

You can download anything you want from the Google Play store while running /e/OS. The platform doesn't include any Google proprietary software or services by default, but nothing prevents you from installing them. Glad you think this one is a winner.

I think AI can be useful, but I'd never _trust_ it. I'm always going to double-check its output, whether that is the AI writing a shell script or providing research on a topic or trouble-shooting an issue. I'm never going to blindly trust an auto-complete bot to get it right without verifying what it is saying for myself. That would be silly.

I suspect the more people trust a tool (especially one as unreliable as AI) the more they lean on it instead of their own critical thinking. And the less critical thinking they use, the more they rely on the AI bot. So it likely snowballs.

I've had a few people send me work or reports that were clearly written by AI, and a big obviously flag was the factual errors. When I asked people about the false claims they admitted AI wrote the reports and they didn't bother to fact-check. When using AI people tend to turn their brains off, and it really shows. I've encountered so many factual errors in other people's work, due to trusting AI, I can't imagine relying on it.

So I end up using the technology less and my own research more. Which probably means I'm exercising my critical thinking more.

Aren't "Yes" and "Sometimes" the same? And "No" and "Never" the same? What's the difference between "No, I don't use cash" and "I never use cash"? There are still a handful of places near me that use cash only or prefer cash. So I guess I'm in the "yes/sometimes" camp.

"The latest statement from DistroWatch, which now prefers posting on Mastodon, indicates that Facebook has lifted the DistroWatch links ban."

This a bit misleading. DistroWatch never had a Facebook page, so it's not a matter of "preferring" posting in one place or another. DistroWatch merely pointed out that people weren't any to post links to its website on Facebook.

DistroWatch did open a Mastodon account during the Facebook ban to give people a social media platform where they could interact and share news stories. But there was never an official DistroWatch account on Facebook.

Most people don't run Linux for ideological reasons and don't see any contradiction between using one and the other.

I'm not the parent poster, but I had a similar reaction. It's not the DRM specifically which is the problem.

If I go with Amazon I can read any e-book in my web browser, on my e-reader, or probably in an app. I can access it anywhere. Yes, it has DRM on most of its books, but that doesn't introduce a practical limitation because I can read the book on any device - laptop, tablet, e-reader, etc.

With Bookshop.org they only allow readers to view their books in their proprietary mobile app or in a web browser. This pretty much kills the option of reading on an e-reader. Which means the device I specifically bought for reading digital books can't be used with their service.

Now _some_ of the Bookshop.org titles do not have DRM (some Amazon books don't either), but there is no filter for finding them and no option for removing it. Which means their service is effectively incompatible with e-readers. While Amazon's service, for all its many faults, works with e-readers.

He does effectively control the Supreme Court. About a third of the judges he put there and they've consistently voted for whatever he wants. Most of the judges are Republican so they are not going to oppose anything the president does.

This is nothing new. When I first started in the workforce, around 25 years ago, we saw the same thing all the time from early millennial and GenX applications. Lots of people would get a job and not show up on the first day, or show up and quit before the end of shift. This isn't news, this is just how it's been for decades.

It's not surprising either. With hiring processes being so long and slow, lots of candidates will get other jobs before their start date. I've known a few people who were waiting _months_ for a confirmation and start date, and took work elsewhere.

If companies aren't going to complete their hiring process in a sane amount of time then they shouldn't be surprised when candidates ghost them. They have better things to do than wait by the phone.