It’s not a hard problem to solve. It’s not hard to see the reasoning behind a desire for self driving cars. Anyone who lives outside of a big city in the US knows this.

Roads are already present. Traffic control is already present.

Tie the goddamn roads to the goddamn traffic control and have it coordinate the cars. The cars input their destination, and have radar to stop the car to prevent accidental collision.

The problem is people don’t like that they can’t get to their destination faster, they don’t have the freedom of choosing their exact route, and they can’t just rev their engine whenever they want.

It’s not mass transit, but it solves the final distance problem.

No, that’s silly. You’ll both be campers at “Liberty Rehabilitation Camp!”

Ah, so obviously you gotta just take off your boot, brilliant!

3. And in your backyard!

In my experience? If you are going to do the formal classes and work that lines up with a certificate, might as well do all of it and get it. It can’t hurt.

At the same time, there is no real reason a cert is better than experience. It’s more of easy proof of the date that you learned the technology, so it stuff has changed it’s easy to show you the new stuff.

That’s exactly what I said without saying it.

People like choice, but people don’t want to have to spend time choosing or learning.

That’s why I mentioned Arch - because of the tie in with the Steam Deck. Nice and easy for gamers to make a connection to.

What becomes the difficult sell is that people, in general, don’t understand computers. It’s the bane of my existence. Any Linux distro requires a basic understanding of how computers work. The Windows PC and Apple products were successful because they required no learning and the user was relatively protect from messing anything up.

The Steam Deck was successful because it took that same approach. It just uses a variant of their Big Picture mode users are already used to.

Linux, by it’s very nature, is not something that can be widely adopted by consumers. I think that’s why Apple and Windows (hell, even Google with Android and Chrome OS) can get all the invasive technology to the user they want, and force users to adopt even more invasive things. Because people just won’t learn anything else. And that’s not something any of us can do anything about.

I have a crazy idea.

What if y’all get together, and make a guide on an easy way to switch to idk Arch, since Valve is working with it.

You know, so that they don’t have to spend a lot of money, and don’t have to worry about losing all their data, and hopefully so they don’t have to learn everything about Linux so they can enjoy using it right away.

Ha, I almost believed that was realistic rereading it.

There was nothing like it.

However, that weekend I got ill. Ended up in the the ER with IV antibiotics, they couldn’t see it on an X-ray, but I hand pneumonia. Thankfully those antibiotics cleared it completely in 5ish days but damn, there’s not many times when you get taken by ambulance from one doctor office to another lol

Weird. I checked with my brother too, because I remember this episode.

We both remember very specifically that the moral of the story was being afraid of something small and harmless can prevent you from enjoying anything else.

This is extremely true of fear. The other mantra I remember that also says this is from Dune (a little paraphrased): “I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will let it wash over me and through me. And when it had gone past, I will turn the inner eye and see that along its path there is nothing. Only I will remain.”

Man was that recovery ever weird.

Those damn silicone tubes coming out was the single strangest feeling ever lmfao

Yeah you get my drift.

Nah, hard pass on that. Next thing you know you’re having conversations with her, and then you take her to a fancy restaurant completely forgetting she doesn’t need to eat and it creates a mess everywhere.

That’s when people find out you spent hard earned cash on a Lucy Lou sexbot and can’t figure out how to judge you: based on your loneliness, sexbot creepy factor, or the fact that you brought a sexbot to a fancy restaurant and somehow expected it to put something it’s not familiar with in its mouth.

You know, at $2k you can get a decent sex doll.

A 5090 will definitely out perform my 2070 super

Neither option looks great to other people. Which one gets more bang for my buck?

If the current leading theory of dark matter being a fundamental particle means that there were “two big bangs” why would the dark big bang have to appear second?

So it turns out when people say “I just threw up a little” online, they may be telling the truth.

This is all sorts of disgusting

No, in my case I was told I smelled really good

No, I got it right on duck duck go too. I wonder if they have something filtering out junk now

I like that idea better

But this is Lemmy we have a lot of cat people