Yeah. That’s the difference people don’t seem to understand.

AI is perfect for stuff that’s just made up bullshit anyway.

We’ve made their point…a person can survive fireball by making the three death saving throws. Exactly how a fine pile of ash and dust can!

I had a job like that early-ish in my career.

I taught myself so much random tech stuff while I was being ignored for 8 hours each day.

I still love that boss. They were great.

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I’m just realizing that’s probably how Miles emerges as a miracle worker in DS9.

The screenshots sell it well. That’s some funny stuff. I’ll check out the demo.

I’m ignoring this problem, myself, right now.

Whenever I run certain flatpak commands, it nags me about a setting I haven’t bothered with yet.

I would share that message, but I’ve been ignoring it.

Makes sense. Google has been replacing skilled engineers with tail-eating AI regurgitation engines, which are getting progressively worse as they eat their own shit.

But I’ve been told those regurgitation engines are about to get really smart and replace all skilled labor.

So maybe it’ll be fine.

Or maybe, as we’ve already started to see, more and more useful stuff will only be available via the Internet wayback machine, until they kill it.

But what if someone else’s government creates the Torment Nexus before ours can?!

Yes, a degrading phone case can do that.

I’m enjoying the screenshot series. Thank you!

thanks for your help.

Sure thing. Feel free to keep us updated. I hate to see anyone have to use Windows longer than they want to.

Silence! Or we may wake it from “Normal” mode!

The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.

“The pirates code… Be more like… guidelines.”

Yeah. It’s not hardware, then.

I would try searching “black screen <bios version>” with any name and version number you can figure out about your bios, next.

If you can get it back to booting from install media, I would do a full reinstall.

There’s recovery layers (such as grub shell) that ought to kick in if this was just a display config issue, so I’m thinking corrupted install files is more likely.

Also, do a careful check through your various BIOS settings - search each one with “Debian 12 <setting name>”, to find out if they work with Debian 12, or need adjusted. Debian 12 supports most boot security features, that I have encountered, but I believe there’s still a couple out there that have to be turned off.

I suspect your next practical goal will be to get the (presumably failed) bootloader install replaced.

Edit: Tried to add a lot of specific thoughts as search term leads.

9. Don’t truncate passwords for verification.

It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.

Edit: Fear of other’s stupidity is the mind killer. I will face my fear. My fear will wash over me, and when it has passed, only I will remain. Or I’ll be dead in a car accident caused by an AI driver.

Who could have possibly predicted this?! (Sarcasm)

We’re not nearly as far into “find out” as we will be.

cannot have an active Hulu subscription, or an active or canceled Disney+ or ESPN+ subscription.”

It’s just a concession that they have no idea how single sign on works, and haven’t been able to hire anyone who has any idea, either.

Anything Cox claims about their speeds or service should be treated as absolutely bullshit until proven otherwise, and even then taken with a grain of salt until the proof has been closely examined in court.

I’m sure they already have, and I see no way leaving their defense to a hallucination-prone AI could be a problem for them…

So the good news is you’re probably not bricked.

I’ve had similar, and had to work through getting my bios into the right state to get the screen to load, and then escaping grub into a grub recovery shell to debug.

Edit: Do you have access to an alternate/external monitor? I would want to try another monitor, just to rule out a hardware failure, too.

However useless and abandoned Xitter looks today, we must remember that it is full of bots whose sole job is to make it look less abandoned.

For any advertisers or Xitter users relying on “reach” reading along - however bad Xitter looks, it’s actually much worse.