Nice try, Mr AI.

I’m no detective, but judging by the way they can barely lift a hammer, you’re looking for a bunch of vegans.

You don’t have to be 1337 to install arch, but you do need to be pretty 1337 to keep it running. I use arch btw, but I also use Mint because I don’t always have time for Arch’s shit.

Let me put it like this: Imagine you’ve won this beautiful pristine house full of potential and it cost you absolutely nothing. You can rennovate and decorate and do anything you want with it. Endless possibilities.

Instead, the first thing you decide to do is call up Larry Ellison and invite him to personally come and shit on your kitchen floor. And one day you forgot his shit was still on the floor and you stepped in it and now Larry’s shit is all through your house. And then the phone rings and it’s Larry because he’s been monitoring your house and now his lawyers are suing you for stepping in his shit.

In addition to VirtualBox being a fucking awful piece of software, Oracle is the absolute antithesis of Linux - anti-user, anti-freedom. Why would you put that closed-source, privacy-trampling, proprietary bullshit on your pristine Linux install? . Use KVM virtualization instead, or even a more modern docker-ish like solution.

Finally, some sense.

5 TABLESPOONS of butter? Jesus. That looks awful.

Excellent OS choice - great for noobs and veterans alike.

Why wouldn’t you? OpenRC FTW.

If you’re running Virtualbox on Arch you deserve everything you get.

Back up as much of hugging face and/or civitai as you can before corporations lock it all down.

Lidar. China uses this to track aerosol and carbon dioxide distribution in the atmosphere. Likely some similar US-based scientific monitoring. Almost certainly not Elon - he hasn’t tweeted about it and there’s no X branding.

Linux user for 25+ years here. I’ve tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.

Hey, I have that combination on my luggage!

Don’t get comfy, I used to be fedora, then debian, then arch. Mint + Cinnamon is my final resting place.

The number of times that signing an online petition has prevented the plans of an evil corporation is exactly zero.

Ah, at last someone properly qualified to talk on the matter. So nice to see another graduate from the Kerbal Space Program.

This already exists as ‘Mixture Of Experts’ (MOE) models. It’s how Deepseek is able to remain competitive with a fraction of the budget.

“B as in bdellium.” Or, “B as in subtle”.