Incidentally, this is a perfect example, because the automotive industry ran a series of ad campaigns to change public sentiment after cars got more common and children and elderly citizens started dying in the streets.

Nintendo is working equally hard to change public sentiment against the innocent.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

Shit. I didn’t think this through well enough. Can I change my answer to yours?

Exactly. So there’s no way to measure the exact egg that was first born to a species we would not recognize as a chicken.

(Edit: Warning: Only bullshit meant to amuse and fascinate follows. I’ve been watching too much “SmartyPants” on DropOut.tv, where they try to make each-other laugh with serious sounding silly presenations.)

Further, we might each choose a different arbitrary egg and declare that eggs parent “not a chicken”.

But for this question, that doesn’t have to matter.

If we can all agree that something in the ancestry of the modern chicken was not a chicken, and agree that it was likely still birthed from an egg, then we can conclude that that egg came first.

Even if we cannot agree about which exact egg hatched into the first chicken, or which exact animal was the first chicken, we can agree on their relationship such that we can agree that any selected “first chicken egg” came before any selected “first chicken” to be born from it.

The hardest part of this proposition is whether we can agree that the first chicken was born inside an egg. I propose that it must have been, by our own definitioms, because we widely agree that chickens are born from eggs. Not by any intrinsic property, but simply by our accepted definition of the word “chicken”.

So any hypothetical chicken-ancestor we choose as the “first chicken”, but not born from an egg, we should not be willing to call “first chicken”, after all.

So we must proceed forward in time from that failed choice of “first chicken” until something sufficiently chicken-like is born from an egg. Then we can call that animal our “first chicken”, and examine it’s relationship to “chicken eggs”. We will, by our method of searching, always then find that the “chicken egg” that our “first chicken” hatched from, came first.

That’s a sell cue, for any shareholders reading along.

Oh! You meant Moore’s Law is asymptotic!?

Yes! That is key to the joke I was making.

When I say Big O, I’m talking about the slick jazzy anime about rejecting true love and living with heartbreak because we believe a lie about our own superiority. This is always true, no matter what the discussion context. If I happen to say anything remotely relevant to mathematical Big O, that is just a deeply weird coincidence.

Sweet.

Fantastic summary. For anyone wondering how to get really really valuable in IT, this is a great write-up of why my top paid people are my top paid people.

Write more robust code.

Sure, I could read a book about best practices and Big O…but…What if we just table the idea for a few iterations of Moore’s Law instead?

As a SteamDeck player, does this mean I can start saying I use Arch, by the way?

Ubuntu was a big part of my path to full time Linux use. I adore everyone who has contributed to Ubuntu.

But also, Snaps are bullshit, and are why I replaced all my Ubuntu installs with Debian.

Canonical doesn’t get to pretend to be surprised by the backlash for pushing an unnecessary closed proprietary platform on their freedom seeking users.

I still adore everyone at Canonical and in the Ubuntu community, for all they’ve done for the Linux community. Y’all still rock. Thanks!

Real world experience can help, but what we have now is also too stupid to recognize when it’s succeeding or failing. It just greedily gobbles up inputs and feedback indiscriminately.

There’s currently no way to know if the necessary advancement, to advance independently of humans, is 2 years or 2000 years away.

Even so, nature tells us that advancement probably isn’t coming at all. It’s not needed, so long as there are billions of humans available to partner with.

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

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

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?!

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.

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.