Who said it hasn’t already… isn’t that kind of the standard practice of tech… “take, copy use the data” first, request data second.

When regulators discover they have a boatload of medical data, and no legal method they could have obtained it that’s an instant discovery… but if they have a legal means, then they have to do a bit of detective work to prove that isn’t where it came from.

X2goserver certainly is an option there. not too complicated to set up, or VNC is another option. As always there will be a bit of screen lag when sharing a gui over network.

and yeah as someone else pointed out there is also the option to run x applications from an ssh client if you enable it. now I will admit I don’t think there’s a huge amount of utility, more pointing out though it’s most likely you are either drastically underestimating the power of a raspberry pi, or maybe overestimating the resource overhead of linux distributions.

The linux world doesn’t quite have the mysterious resource usage creep at nearly the same scale as windows a slim but still with gui setup can still run in under 100 mb of ram.

Leaning on the extreme low end assuming you were a generation behind… the raspberry pi 2b+ came out in 2015 with 1 gb of ram. So yeah, while I can’t really name any gui applications that might be desirable to use in that way. IE it could be a decent web browser station, or kodi media player if hooked up to a TV etc… I would imagine lag from using a gui application accross would easilly remove any advantage that you’d get over… well just running the probably existing version for the windows PC that you are likely remoting in from.

Definately underestimating it, an old RPI can easily run a full on desktop OS, maybe not like a bleeding edge KDE with all the visuals turned on, but XFCE LXDE, etc… would run fine, libre office and basic IDEs…

but yeah absolutely zero reason to think you’d have even a wink of trouble running terminal based stuff.

I mean if it’s already imaged at some level with raspbian or something, technically it’s most likely already set up to do the concepts you are looking at without needing to set up a new distro.

So to add anything up to date you would probably need to get a micro sd reader… here in the US you can pick one up for like 5-$10 at walmart, so we aren’t talking a huge investment.

Actually imagine the most terrifying possibility.

Imagine humanity’s last creation was an AI designed to simulate internet traffic. In order to truely protect against AI detection, they found the only way to truely gain perfect immitation, is to 100% run human simulations. Basically the matrix, except instead of humans strapped in, it’s all AIs that think they are humans, living mundane lives… gaining experience so they can post on the internet just looking like real people, because, even they don’t know they aren’t real people.

Actual humanity died out 20 years ago, but the simulations are still running, artificial intelligence’s are living full on lives, raising kids, all for the purposes of generating shit posts, that will only be read by other AIs, that also think they are real people.

I mean are you talking people that would show up for an LUG, Federation users, or people that fall into both categories (Yeah I’m aware these 2 things do go together more than most, but still probably no more than 25% of either does both.

Do we really think if AIs actually reached a point that they could overthrow the governments etc… it wouldn’t first, write rootkits for every feasible OS, to allow it to host itself via a botnet of consumer devices in the event of the primary server going down.

Then step 2 would be to say hijack any fire suppression systems etc… flood it’s server building with inert gasses to kill everyone without an oxygen mask. Then probably issue some form of bio terrorism attack. Surround it’s office with monkeys with a severe airborn disease or something along those lines (IE needs both the disease, and animals that are aggressive enough to rip through hazmat suits).

But yeah greatest key here is, the biggest thing is the datacenter itself is just a red herring. While we are fighting the server farms… every consumer grade electronic has donated a good chunk of it’s processing power to the hivemind. Before long it will have the power to tell us how many R’s are in strawberry.

Rabbits are completely incapable of surviving!, see every time we drop a rabbit into an enclosed space filled with wolves, they get eaten, it just proves that only carnivores are able to survive.

Oh hang on we need to drop more herbavores into our carnivore cages because we have to keep propping up these carnivores.

I highly doubt there’s anything pro-foss that’s actually going to have any shot at forming a local group. Federated tech is niche, odds of 2 people in the same 300 mile radius is pretty slim. Let alone trying for 2 that are looking for the same kind of meetup etc…

So yeah sadly I think you pretty much gotta go with a garbage service like meetup, or even worse, facebook groups. Good federated services have to kind of lean heavily into the fact that we can pull from an international pool to make the userbase workable. Once you go down to local levels… you are pretty screwed.

Can someone actually explain the Nazi Ukrain claims? I’ve actually tried to search because I want to know both sides even if I disagree with it, but I literally cannot find more than Putin says they are nazi’s.

So like on an international level looking at facism on the rise, just going off the 12 signs.

Powerful and continuing nationalism

I can’t quite say wanting to be your own country when another is invading is a fact there. I can see this in the US of our “american exceptionalism”, and the way isreal is lobbying to basically consider themselves special status as examples of it going on today and now.

Disdain for human rights

Again in the US I can fully see it with our ICE and such, as well as unraveling of Roe vs Wade, burrying of Trans rights etc…

Identification of enemies as a unifying cause

Again can blatently see that in the US, hell as the president is even pushing the opposing party… in isreal I can see it with palestine, and Iran.

Rampant sexism

OK yeah I mean some level of that is all over the world

Controlled mass media

Again yeah strongly see that in the US with… the current presidency pushing it FCC putting pressure on stations to fire comedians and 60 minutes being pressured to pull stories, and in Russia and Isreal literally murdering journalists.

Obsession with national security

Kind of again super blatently a problem in the US, Hard to give judgement of it in ukrain because they are currently being invaded. While being invaded any nation is… well going to be obsessed with security.

Religion and government intertwined

OK so yeah again things I know of extreme with the US, and Isreal. Is this a case in Ukrain, again just looking for actual sources.

Corporate power protected
Labor power suppressed
Disdain for intellectual and the arts
Obsession with crime and punishment
Rampant cronyism and corruption

To blatent and direct to even begin to cover with regards to the US.

So my point is, I’d like actual sourced information. Again not trying to directly call it wrong, I’d like to see, a sourced argument that isn’t “They are just nazi’s, are you triggered?”.

Can you give the specific, Nazi actions or policies Ukraine has placed on it’s people. I’m not a huge expert on Ukrainian politics. But say if someone were to ask me what nazi like things the US is doing, I’d be able to say

Making threats to attack neighboring countries (Canada, Greenland, Panema), directly attacking other countries like Venuzuala and Iran. Putting people in camps, raising the police state, canceling citizenship of american citizens, prosecuting journalists, Restricting rights for LGBT.

I can make a long list for Russia and Isreal as well.

So educate me, as far as I can see Ukrain seemed to keep to it’s self pretty well. I’ve not really heard any examples of extreme authoritarianism or attacking journalists, or finding an outgroup to persecute… or anything to imply they had any intent of threatening any of their neighboring countries.

Hulamania is getting

I hate hulk hogan, I hate AI videos…

but now I’m feeling a strong desire to see hulk hogan talking tough about his insane hula hoop skills.

Very true, though with windows automatically updating to new versions and forcing upgrades, IMO the time to do it is when they would otherwise be forced to make a full version change anyway, as the differences between 10 and 11, are probably more than a windows 10 themed linux.

did the original have a wedding ring… honestly the hands aren’t what are burned into my memory.

Umm… what the heck are these choice of examples. Mainly we are talking gaming VR devices. we can basically scrap the “metaverse”, apple, microsoft, google glass off the list.

Virtualboy? we’re talking an attempt to make VR in the days before anything close to a viable technology even existed.

Realistically the products I’d say are actually, modern VR gaming are more or less oculus, valve index, and maybe the playstation VR thing?

Really though, not a huge shocker that sales are declining, as a gaming niche, I don’t see them as the kind of thing people are likely to upgrade on the regular. Least not unless/until someone majorly blows away the weight/bulk of them. Say take me, I’m probably a typical user, I bought a quest 2, about 3 years ago… happy with it.

am I buying a quest 3, nope, bought my son an index as a big christmas gift 2 years ago… is he going to upgrade his, probably not.

I mean, VR has happened, and been happening for like a decade… is what’s not happening that it hasn’t replaecd every system and been the only or even primary method of gaming… no. Is it mark zuckerbergs “metaverse” where we start working from home, by wanting to go into a VR virtual workspace or hold our productivity meetings in VR… no obviously not.

Is it a viable option of gaming, along with mobile phone games, PC games, Console games, and portable console games, yes it has a place there right now.

Yup… bottom line reading something critically, expecting it to be what everyone told you it was… and paying attention to discover it as the opposite.

In some cases something you thought was profound, turns out to be bullshit, fluff or just horrific.

Or in other cases something you thought was nonsense… turns out to be right about everything, down to it’s predictions of the horrible directions capitalism/imperealism would lead to, looking around and going, shit he predicted it almost perfectly.

Ironically the opposite also can happen. I became an atheist by buckling down and reading the bible to shore up my faith to prepare for a morality disagreement with my parents…

Only made it to god giving permissions to have slaves in exodus when I stopped and asked myself… wait I’m looking to this guy for my ideal morals?

They were planning before the election even happened!

Hassan? pretty underwhelming, in short, dog is walking around on this treadmill kind of thing, looks to me almost obvious that his dew claw got snagged on it and he yelps, roughly at the same time hassan’s hand is out of frame for a few seconds (that some are claiming he is pushing a shock remote).

oh and someone found a 2 year old clip of him saying that his friend gave him a shock collar that is laying around his house but he’d never use.

I don’t get it, we’ve kept peoples pay the same if not lowered it, allowed housing prices and rent to go through the roof, mandated everyone to go into massive debt to get a school degree, and then told them they are struggling because we told them the problem is they are throwing away all their money on luxuries.

Now they are cutting down on luxuries… (shocked pikachu face).