Same. When I install Linux I do a minimal install and then add only what I want. I am usually doing something weird on install so this is frequently the only way that makes sense.

My ideal OS is one that is just some minimal base that is enough to run a package manager and perhaps a small diagnostic suite and recovery. And everything else is a package on top. FreeBSD, some Linux distros, etc come very close to that ideal.

Free software isn't about killing kittens, it's about the users of the kitten killing software.

Linus' pragmatism about licenses is misplaced because Linux would not have succeeded under a different license.

True. We should have hanged every last slave owner. Those would have been ends worth fighting for.

He was paid to think, but not very hard.

If you think very hard then you stop being a cop

That's true, but a) that's crappy and b) they used to offer more, and the actually good OSes used to offer a lot more and still do. Unixes and Unixlikes other than OSX still generally allow you to install pretty small subsets of the OS.

You claim you can read but you still wrote that after reading my comment. Are you a bot? No, wait, even a bot wouldn't have come to that conclusion about what I wrote, which was about the opposite of what you pretended it was about so that you could pretend to have a valid argument, as usual.

Yeah, let me just step out of my car and listen to this report on where I'm supposed to drive while I'm on the highway with thousands of other people, you fucking muppet.

You're conflating your unrealistic bullshit with a valid argument.

Again, you are a fucking muppet, we already have laws like that. For example the laws which have protected access to POTS phones for people in remote locations which the telcos are now trying to get out of despite the obvious public safety interest so they can save a dollar. And that is exactly like the automakers taking away AM radio on a specious basis because they want to save a few dollars per vehicle. Fuck them and fuck your disingeuous corporate cocksucking behavior. It's embarrassing to see you do it every time.

While it's soldered in SSD for many Mac models, so a post-purchase upgrade is generally not practical. And while the pricing is a little steeper than NVMe, closer to 40 cents a GB, that still puts the 12GB into around $5, perfectly in your suggested range. Perhaps people buying a 512GB Mac should consider a 1TB Mac (~$200 more) if they are concerned about space wasted by the OS install.

Cloud storage is not equivalent to local storage. Not in how applications use it. Not in performance. And not in availability. The two are apples and oranges.

I generally believe the end-users should decide what is installed on their computer. But most OS vendors do not offer full customization. It seems like every major one likes to put their pet projects into a device meant for general use. And power users with unusual use cases complain that the general purpose consumer device is not finely tuned to their special needs. So maybe people should consider running an obscure Linux distro if they are unhappy with bundled software found in essentially every mainstream computing device for consumers.

You cannot argue that without arguing that she is mentally incompetent to make legal arrangements and should therefore be under conservatorship. She agreed that the operators of the service would review her input and would comply with the law.

Oh look, this misleading bullshit was posted by someone whose name begins with "mac", what a shocker. Apple devices overwhelmingly don't have socketed storage (that is, almost none of them do any more) and they charge far more than the average for storage, and the average has gone up a lot to boot.

More importantly, your OS vendor shouldn't be pushing bullshit you didn't want and don't need and makes your system less secure without your permission. That's some Microsoft shit. Apple is no better than Microsoft now.

AI is fundamentally different from that, because any asshole who can do a little woodworking can make a working printing press.

The money people are always cowards, and with good reason. There are a lot of us, and we are hungry.

I'm gonna blame oppressive religion for those wars, not someone writing about that oppression, thanks

That's exactly what should happen.

For once this is a happy story about AI which occurred through the user's ignorance. They were stupid enough to think they wouldn't get reported because they were talking to an automated system.

In a first world country this either would be a story about a woman being reported to the police for a threat by their therapist, or it wouldn't have happened in the first place, because she would have access to mental health care instead of trivial access to firearms despite being mentally incompetent.

Are AI services inciting desperate acts? Maybe I'd agree with the statement a different, and less loaded, word than "inciting" was used.

One of my gripes with the AI industry is these chatbot models are designed around engagement. They prey on human behavior and the elderly, young, and those with mental health issues are especially vulnerable. I don't believe that the AI agent itself has any intent (it cannot) nor does the company that owns and trains the AI likely have any specific harmful intent to "incite" something beyond engagement and purchases.

We're in the unregulated phase of humanity's adoption of learning computers as a daily part of society. We're basically at the same level as the early industrial revolution where we thought it made sense to put children to work in coal mines because they are small and fit in the carts. For whatever reason, we took 100 years of philosophical, ethical, and moral debate and flushed it because we saw a little bit of profit. Humanity has time and time again proven to me that we have learned nothing.