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More realistically, that impersonator has created lots of output, and the correct ones are selectively publicized (and few particularly interesting bad answers).

For people who don't understand second and higher consequences, it sounds like a good one

Emotional manipulation is the obvious answer.

Sunk cost "fallacy" helps the scammer a lot.

They start with a trivial amount and build from there. Each time, it's emotionally harder for the victim to accept the romance they built in their minds does not exist, AND the money they paid was not spent on a good cause.

It's much easier to deceive a person when their subconscious is collaborating with the scammer.

I hoped to see a systematic explanation of what the correlations show. As long as we don't have a viable explanation, there is something interesting there to discover. It can be that the statistical analysis is fundamentally flawed. Pointing out a flaw that tricked several serious researchers is progress. If it was because of some other factor (let's assume there are many more elderly people living around those neighborhoods, can't think of a better example now).

It has a low (few percent) CPU usage. Other tabs seem to be less than 1% most of the time.

The "delay to end all delays"

You'll feel right at home with something from Frame.work (writing this comment from my 13" FW).

If they ever sell their 12" version with AMD cpu, I might get one as well.

Encouraged my friend to buy one, his feedback: "best piece of tech in my past few years."

My first serious software was for a sizable goldsmith factory. They keep an incredibly low profile visible from outside, and they get really good at it. Once inside, the amount of gold that's moving around is jaw dropping. After a while, most of the time it feels like aluminum, or any other material. All you see is cuts to be made, welding to be done, carvings, sandblast, etc... It's work and responsibility and everyone is just trying to get it done and make it the problem of the next person.

I was shocked, in 2026, to know how hard it is to find a good tablet. iPad is out of question for me, gifted mine to my gf (the only apple device I ever bought).

Landed on a Lenovo Idea Tab pro, which has so much junk pre-installed that keep installing other malware on it.

We need rules that take companies responsible when they trick people into hands of scammers.

As long as I can't unlock its bootloader, it's not much better than that iPad.

> I'm Tired Boss

> I'm 30 this year, and computers don't have the same level of whimsy and excitement as they once had.

I'm 45 and computers are more exciting than ever. We choose what to get excited with, or oven nothing at all, which happens to most people at some point.

I've never been a die hard fan of Linux, but in the past decade and half found the trade-off for me to favor using Linux.

It's a device made by people like me (umm much better than me in some fields, but the mentality is similar), for people like me.

It does not disrespect me in design, functionality, in PR talk, and my relationship to the system is not adversarial.

For now, my incentives to use the system aligns with that of the system creators.

Did I write this?

I choose tools I use, configure them, report bugs, and occasionally contribute fixes. But when I can't, I work around them, yet never get used to the workaround.

"Habitual mitigation" does not happen in me, and it's partly intentional.

I have created bad software in the past, but when I saw how people work with it, I could not be proud. Learned to look at software like a user, and don't want to unlearn that.

I believe (or maybe I hope) software will be democratized and people will start to demand good software.

> The only say I have is in how I spend my money.

This. I get Frame.work and install Fedora. Use Firefox for everything possible. Once my current phone dies, I'll get a Fair phone, Motorola, or whatever gives me control.

Can't complain if I keep choosing hostile products for some convenience

!!SPOILER ALERT!! in Shutter Island:

When he realizes he's committed a terrible crime, the next day he goes back to believing he's a US marshal. His last words:

- this place makes me wonder...

+ Yeah, what's that, boss?

- Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

This is a sad reality of life, that leads many, to choose a fantasy over reality. How many of us consistently avoid this trap?