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  No, I vote they *change* it to be just an unpronounceable symbol. You know, kind of like the artist formerly known as Prince. It's a lot harder to complain about a name change if it's not a name!

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  Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn't break copyright! Also those companies: Wait, AI isn't allowed to steal from us!

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  Human digital interfaces aren't a secret, but other things like remote-viewing, etc. have been known about for a long time, and they were *failures.* There's even a whole movie about it called Men Who Stare At Goats. Pointing to a few examples of actual conspiracies or weird projects doesn't mean every claim has validity. It just means the government is generally untrustworthy, but that also means you need to take each claim individually, in practice. You can't just generalize an...

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  Okay. Claims are not evidence. "I read it somewhere" is not even close to substantial, because anyone can write anything they want on the Internet. Without evidence or even consensus amongst experts, it just sounds like a conspiracy theory. The CIA is often the bogeyman, because they do lots in secret, *and* the government is inherently untrustworthy. That doesn't mean they have wireless brain interfaces, however.

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  No they're not. That's just the claptrap the billionaire Tech Bros want you to believe in. "Ooo, AGI is just around the corner! Buy in now to get it first! Ooo!" They just have access to militarized versions through specialized LoRAs and no restraints. It's not anything beyond what's possible for regular people right now, it's just that regular people will never get access to the kind of training data needed to achieve the same results (not that the government shou...

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  I haven't seen any objective evidence that they don't work. I've seen anecdotal stories, but nothing in the way of actual proof.

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  >Windows 10 has been sitting unused on a separate drive... Maybe you could clarify a few things. You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives? If you have Mint on one hard drive and uBlue on another, seems to me what you should be looking at is adding an entry to Grub. I've only ever done this with Limine, but I would imagine it similarly involve...

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  Yep, I think we're of the same mind. I hadn't heard of Addy, so I'm going to have to look into that one!

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  I feel like email is the one option where "total privacy" is either difficult or impossible to get secure, because the relay/service stores a copy and the receiver accesses that copy. If either of them are insecure or otherwise able to be configured to be no longer fully-private (e.g. ProtonMail), your efforts at private email are rendered moot. Something is certainly better than nothing in this regard, but it seems to me that if you truly need secure communication, you should be usin...