You’re absolutely correct on that. For the sake of the thought experiment and trying to keep to the spirit of the conditions, my dandelion ball device is internally, a purely mechanical device. The chemical and biological reactions related to growing dandelions and natural wind, all of that I consider external to the device.

Because you say mechanical that does might preclude chemical reactions…

At least a basic level of a real world self-replicating “device” in an abstract sense, you can “grow” some crystals given sufficient substrate liquid.

I think it is theoretically possible, and may be easier to realize at a microscopic scale since you can get a sufficient amount of liquid that can be considered a ‘functionally-infinite’ space and the device can more freely float around without having to worry about needing complex dextrous parts to put things in the right place.

A loose ball of dandelion seeds I put together would be my idea of a simple self-replicating ‘device’ that operates mechanically, in the natural world, at a human scale that I think meets your criteria. It floats around in the area and if there are dandelion fields where it goes, it can pick up the seeds, and if it bumps into a random obstacle in the landscape it will break into parts that can pick up other seeds. The only logical aspect of the device is how many seeds it is comprised of, and there is not a set sequence as to when it will break, because it just depends on where the wind pushes the ‘device’ into in the landscape.

Addendum: Condition 4 is hard to get around with my example, I can’t guarantee that when it breaks apart only dandelions that weren’t part of the original part would formulate the new part. Seems overly perscriptive if you count using its own constituent part to make a new part, then repairing itself up again as contravening that condition.

We should go back to the 8 frame wristwatch from the old Mac days. 🕛🕑🕒🕓🕕🕖🕘🕚 perhaps that will save resources.

Got me good there.

Brb baws imma just do a quick lil dd command in prd

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?

I like that there are a variety of apps and services for different tastes and needs. On services, I like that Pixelfed and Loops exist to fill Instagram style niches for people even if it’s not my cup of tea. Jerboa is a no-frills Lemmy app and that’s how I want it, but I appreciate that there are many others with a plethora of features and styling choices that suit people, and are not forced to a single kind of experience.

If this doesn’t lead anywhere, we’ll probably have to wait until 2029 when a competent governmental department free of corruption could possibly appear.

Was Lenovo one of the companies who signed 4 year profit gravy train contracts with one of the big 3, return of the RAM cartel? This kind of statement might suggest they did.

Welcome to Lemmy, thanks for the post detailing your experience and glad to hear you’re getting your family onboard too! I think you’ll feel right at home with the Linux nerds and tech privacy wonks here.

I wanted to consume the content instead of just being fed it.

Like you, this is the basis of a lot of my motivation to try and then stick with these FOSS programs, but perhaps differently than you, it also guides the extent to which I feel comfortable continuing to use some proprietary software and algorithms. I’ve committed to interacting with technology on my terms, even if I have reduced but not fully cut myself off from big tech.

As the RAM apocalypse continues to plague all of us, it’s only fair for users to continue using the more efficient Windows 10, instead of the memory-hogging Windows 11.

Win 10 isn’t even that memory efficient and still slams the heck out of plattered disks. Not that I recommend an HDD over an SSD for boot drives, but it was usable up to Win 8.1, and even today with Linux.

Funny, relevant and well made.

I think there are dead networks, like Twitter, YouTube comment sections, facebook, TikTok etc.

I just have to create my own networks or participate in different networks than the mainstream where there is sufficient human activity and limited bot activity, and wherw there is bot activity it is clearly delineated.

What’s the threshold for a tag?

Just add context as a top level comment or in the body text area. Someone can come in to clarify if the poster is missing it.

Even for a poster sometimes it’s not obvious if there is any AI in the project. Example: Lutris, dev said they are adding Claude commits and will be scrubbing mentions of the tool from PRs. Sometimes AI is discussed but rejected.

It’s easy to tell when a whole project has been vibecoded, but the grey zone of an existing project that may or may not have had slopcode added, is tougher for posters to discern.

The function I used most often aside from the usual sequence is Alt-SysRq-F. This runs oomkiller to SIGKILL what would appear to be the process hogging the most memory. That was usually enough to get control back from an agonizingly sluggish system caused by hitting the swapspace. I didn’t need it anymore after I upgraded to 48GB of RAM.

Another way to remember the classic mnemonic, it’s “busier” in reverse, after holding down for a second the Alt and SysRq keys (which may require a function key combo on some keyboards).

You should check ahead of time whether the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq is not zero to be sure the Sysrq functions are enabled. If not, then in /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf you can add the line kernel.sysrq = 1 to enable all features, or a higher number to enable select features.

Does it say more about the AI or about the NSA systems? What genius lets AI anywhere near these systems?

In current day tech, East Asian characters are taken from a combined set called “CJK unified ideographs”. When regional variants exist, the language it renders as depends on the font of the user’s device.

There was a recent example that came up: 骨(bone) has the little square on the left in Simplified Chinese and on the right in Japanese. With Hiragana it’s more obvious because of all the curvier letters, but with kanji only phrases even smartphones tend to mix it up.

I can’t tell between Hungarian, Romanian, Bosnian, Albanian, Czech or Slovak, because I haven’t really studied any of them or know any words. In the Cyrillic field, Belarusian, Russian, Ukranian (except for the existence of ï), Bulgarian, Serbian I probably couldn’t be able to tell you what faced with a random paragraph of text.

There’s a cabal of rich people, some of them potentially pedophiles who are pulling the strings in society… except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he’s been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released…

https://lemmy.ca/post/7243839/4029041

I already wrote about what’s different back in Oct 2023 in response to a complaint reminiscent of yours. Most important bit:

That’s what you will have to deal with in the de-centralized model, and I think it strikes a decent balance of allowing open communication, resisting overall censorship while still allowing some groups to censor out what they consider bad vibes.

OP asked “why WOULD someone” use it, not why should. I think their question was answered appropriately.