Can anyone give any advice on either having it work or a Linux alternative with similar functionality?

The neat thing about installing Linux is that there are live versions around. Go to the Linux Mint site and follow their instructions on creating a bootable USB stick. Boot from it and you’ll have a working system directly on your computer. You can check if your hardware is compatible and you can also install software there. So if you have some doubts about Orca Slicer, just boot up a Linux and check it yourself on your own machine! It’s really that awesome

The bubble might burst, but there are real use cases for AI out there and therefore you will see AI in use even after the current ponzi scheme has collapsed. You can do great voice and handwriting recognition now and speech generation and that won’t go away.

Not what you’re searching since it has no social components and is not for gym workouts, but I really like Geoactivity Playground. It takes your Strava Export or uses your GPX files and does really interesting statistics with it. Kind of like Veloviewer, but selfhosted

https://github.com/martin-ueding/geo-activity-playground

You are totally correct, but there is something else: There are limits to everybodies agency. If you’re somewhere in a college administration, you can’t reroute those AI billions into housing for students. That’s not going to happen. But you can try to help struggling students with the tools and powers you have and if it’s a parking lot where they can sleep without fear that robbers or police will harass them, that’s good! If you find a way to give leftover food from the cafeteria to hungry students, that’s also great - even if there shouldn’t be hungry students at all.

He’s not talking about designing your own font. He is proposing to use the font you like and just to create this little “bridge” that you need so that the inside of the o is not falling out manually. That is easy to do and there are not that many letters where it is needed.

You are totally correct - it’s important to use precice language

If you want to fall into an online rabbit hole, search for superyacht security. Those billionaires are spending a lot of money on security and they are totally not keen on getting kidnapped by Somali pirates:

According to a source in the industry, the website Business Insider reported that in a recent foiled plot, an armed pirate group approached a superyacht in the Arabian Sea. However, the pirates were thwarted after the captain deployed sonic weapons and electromagnetic pulse beams that caused severe burns as a countermeasure.

When it was delivered to billionaire Abramovich in 2010, the yacht was valued at 350 million pounds. However, after upgrades and the addition of many modern features, the value of Eclipse is now estimated at around 1.2 billion pounds. The primary factor driving the value of the Eclipse superyacht up is its advanced security system, which includes surveillance radar and a missile defense system along with escape submarines.

Yes, escape submarines (!)

https://scimyst.com/explore-the-ultimate-weapon-on-super-yachts-120251/

Privacy and Security. You’re out there where no paparazzi can take bikini pictures of you. It’s easy to secure so that nobody can kidnap you. And take a look at the interior of those Yachts, they are not cramped. Look at this thing:

It’s bigger than your home. It has its own helipad. It is 111m long.

It’s totally infuriating how that goes. Every few years some serial killer is exposed working in hospitals or care homes. Sobody really cares. This news about a serial killer killing 10 is not even headline news. Others have killed over 80 people and nobody really cares, nobody is trying to improve the situation so that people like them can’t kill. But if some migrant harms someone with a knife, everybody totally freaks out.