On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they’d found it useful.

One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) “our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence.”

I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.

That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?

That’s why I said older.

But yeah … Sad truths.

And hoodie!

I don’t know that I agree with the take represented in your linked article. If I’m reading it correctly, the primary reason not to switch shells is that those shells might not exist universally. That is a valid concern, but running which fish (as referenced in my original comment) should help to mitigate that risk factor. Scripts should always use a hashbang to specify their desired environment so, unless you’re overriding that, it shouldn’t be a concern.

I agree that you shouldn’t use shells that are not available to you. I don’t think that means you shouldn’t try to change shells if you are unsatisfied with your current one.

I use both and have been happy with both, but note that Element / Matrix have recently announced the intent to add paid service tiers.

I said in another thread about this, he looks like an older Tom Scott.

Interesting, I hadn’t heard that take. I’ll give it a read. Thanks!

You can change your default shell in a few ways. I’ve never used fish, but vipw should open your passwd file, in which you can change /bin/bash to the appropriate path for fish (which you can find via which fish). It’s probably best to only change this for your user.

A possibly simpler option (and one that I don’t believe requires root access) is the chsh command. I’ve never used it myself, so I’ll let this site provide instructions for it: https://www.howtogeek.com/669835/how-to-change-your-default-shell-on-linux-with-chsh/

That indeed is a functional method, but I’m not sure I’d call it more accessible. Unless you mean that more people probably own a pot than an appropriate microwave safe container, in which case, fair enough.

A while ago there was a reddit post about how you don’t need bagged popcorn to pop popcorn. You don’t even need any of them there fancy air poppers. All you need is a glass container and the popcorn itself. And it’s true!

The only part that presented any trouble was finding a safe container with a safe lid - during the process of popping, an individual kernel is super warm, so if it hits a lid that can’t tolerate that it can melt pits into the lid.

Other than that (and making sure you don’t add too much popcorn, that stuff expands like crazy), just dump the kernels into your container, cover it up (don’t forget to vent as appropriate) and then microwave as you would the bagged stuff. Add your seasonings, shake up the container, and enjoy.

It has existed on every Pixel I’ve ever owned under the label “Hotspot.” This includes the one I’m using to write this comment.

Thank you for your assistance.

To be fair, I am shocked… Not to see a Pikachu face in the comments.

I had guessed the nature of the site and “roleplay.” It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed “erotic”; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).

edit: Had left out the word “there.”

… What’s ERP? Or don’t I want to know?

You do now!

In those situations I usually enable 1.5x.

Yes.

The very first time I can remember getting spam, I was approximately seven. It was an email linking to a porn site, not that I understood that at the time; I don’t actually recall what enticed me to click - I think they referenced “playing in a jungle” and that sounded fun. The text said (roughly, it’s been over three decades) “come look at my site! I’m not wearing any clothes!” and linked to a site featuring several scantily clad individuals but, immediately on entry, a lady in high heels and nothing else.

I took the email at face value and responded, informing the surely real person sending it that shoes counted as clothes.

I appreciate the information and that you took the time to answer, but I hate that combination of words.

Still … Thank you for the response.