Infelizmente, no instituto federal daqui, o povo tá cagando pra soberania. Já tentei ter essa conversa várias vezes, mas acham que pagar plano da google pra ter meet e docs pra todo mundo é a melhor coisa, e que a gente tem mesmo que gastar fortunas pra publicar em certas revistas.

E sobre ia, o povo aqui tá alucinado. Estão deixando de incentivar ótimos projetos de pesquisas climáticas, processamento de dados, instrumentação inteligente, gestão integrada, etc pra investir todos recursos em projetos “de ia” que sequer possuem fundamentação teórica.

Estou muito desanimado com tudo isso. Espero que em outras instituições estejam fazendo o oposto. Inclusive, penso que essa onda de ia é um dos piores atentados já feitos contra o desenvolvimento tecnológico do terceiro mundo, porque a gente não tem dinheiro e recursos pra investir em meras apostas e deixar de investir em coisas que nos dariam retorno garantido, com embasamento.

Xfce always look incredibly beautiful in other people’s screenshots, but on my system it always look so ugly lol

Sometimes I try to imagine a giant version running around in a proportionally fast speed. That really activates my fight or flight response

But lemmy isn’t marked as private there. Wouldn’t it be the same as mastodon?

Well, latex users reported enjoying the software, so I will give you that credit.

I’ve been questioning the benefits every time someone insisted that I should use latex. Now I have scientific evidence that it won’t make my life better!

Shoo, shoo

Doesn’t work on me, I just shoo them away. Gotta evolve harder if they wanna try manipulating me.

Fun fact: people in Brazil used to cook black beans with an iron nail inside the pot to treat anemia and iron deficiency. They removed the nail before eating, in case someone is wondering. Some people might still do it.

Another fun fact: I remember a research concluding that it’s actually effective.

My head literally exploded with that meme!

That would be reuse, not recycle ;)

But that’s a nice suggestion

Oh, I get it now, it makes sense too

I would really love something like that, or like the phones made by hisense. I love e-inks and they fit very well my phone usage pattern. Too bad I was born in the poor side of the world and will never have the cool stuff

I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. The greatest aspect of e-ink screens is not giving strain to the eyes. Looking at a greyscale phone will just have the downsides of both worlds.

Or I could recycle it

Could you really? E-waste recycling is a great lie made so that people don’t get remorse over throwing away their devices. Electronics are too complex, diverse and full of toxic stiff to be property recycled.

If anyone wants to dive more into this, there has been some projects where people from higher income countries put tracking devices inside e-waste before sending to “recycling”, to find out where they end up. Spoiler: in poorer countries, to either be scattered around, thrown into a landfill, or be scavenged by underpaid people without any protection equipment.

Uber has a pwa available. Would it help you? At least it would minimize privacy invasion.

disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.

Do you have some tips for that?

There are plenty of distros for very low end pcs, but they tend to require more tech skills to use. I have experience with a friend in a similar situation. I installed with mx linux for her and she is liking it. The performance is pretty reasonable and it comes with various tools that make it easier for people with less tech skills. The only extra thing I did was install the 32 bit version of firefox, because it makes a huge difference in low ram devices.

Never underestimate the network effect and how reluctant people are to move to another social network. The masses just follow the crowd, so every big account moving out from there helps take more users away.

The real travel are the friends we make along the way