I’m rocking a kei truck for landscaping and home reno projects, and it still uses more gas than I’m happy with. I’d love for someone to make an electric truck that isn’t a massive behemoth intended to prove something about my masculinity. Just give me a clean energy box bed to haul my lumber and dirt.

Yeah mine was called the [City Name] Tool Library, and it was a non-profit that was independent of our local library. I imagine that they receive donated tools from contractors and companies around the city.

As an example, I googled a random city name (Calgary) and found one for them as well: https://calgarytoollibrary.org/

There are likely tons of similar organizations throughout Canada (and probably your country as well!)

Have you looked at local LLMs? You can download and run them off your own machine - no connecting to an external server. They aren’t any more power intensive than a lot of video games. I downloaded a DeepSeek model and I use ComfyUI to operate it locally

On a whim I googled my city’s library and “tools” and I found a non-profit society that specializes in lending of hand and power tools! This is incredible and I wouldn’t have known about it without this prompt: thank you!

Outside of steam will be a case by case basis. I wouldn’t expect a lot of luck, and it may require that you use a compatibility layer like Wine.

I’m not sure what the google maps export looks like, but no matter how it’s formatted I’m sure that a simple Python script will be able to transfer the map markers over to openmaps. I’ll look into making this if it doesn’t already exist on GitHub. I’d like to transfer my stuff over too.

LineageOS works as well and you can get it running on more phones than Graphene; however, GrapheneOS is superior in terms of security

I genuinely find LLMs to be helpful with a wide variety of tasks. I have never once found an NFT to be useful.

Here’s a random little example: I took a photo of my bookcase, with about 200 books on it, and had my LLM make a spreadsheet of all the books with their title, author, date of publication, cover art image, and estimated price. I then used this spreadsheet to mass upload them to Facebook Marketplace in bulk. In about 20 minutes I had over 200 facebook ads posted for every one of my books; I only had to do a quick review of the spreadsheet to fix any glaring issues. I also had it use some marketing psychology to write attractive descriptions for the ads.

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What was the game plan here? Wisconsin produces a lot of cheese, so I’ll make myself more relatable to the Wisconsin common man by wearing a fucking cheese hat?

This thing is so early 2000s; I kinda love it for that

Bro watched South Park at 14 and said mmm yes that will be my personality

Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump’s actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for… someone

The thing that I appreciated most about Lemmy and my transition from Reddit is how cordial everyone has been. Even if a comment is taken out of context, people tend not to jump down each others throat and assume the worst, or make bad faith arguments full of fallacies. I’ve had legitimate back and forths with people, something that basically never happens on Reddit.

I absolutely agree with you: no one deserves to live in destitution. It’s hard not to feel angry at those who voted for Trump, especially when it appears they voted against their own interests, all for their instructed disdain for ‘wokeness’ and DEI. However, despite this frustration, I find it important to maintain compassion, understanding that their decisions are not made in a vacuum but are influenced by powerful external forces.

The issue is complex when it comes to the motivation of voters. It’s simplistic and misleading to categorize ‘boomers’ as a single, problematic group responsible for political deterioration. These kind of generalizations overlook the fact that all individuals and governments are shaped by their unique circumstances and place in time. More importantly, blanketly blaming boomers distracts from a larger issue: the propaganda machines. Political entities actively work to sow division, exploiting generational, racial, and cultural differences to manipulate public opinion, acquire wealth, and maintain power. We are ALL up against behemoths that have followed us for generations and will continue to after all of us are long gone.

I find this interesting as I’m a beginner with only about 3 months of Linux use under my belt, whereas Ive used Windows since I was like 5 years old, and I found Debian to be a really good introduction to Linux. I was originally recommended Mint, like many are, and I found the experience to be a negative one as opposed to my later experience with Debian. (Note I have no experience with Bazzite or any other distros).

The additional ‘bloat’ in Mint obfuscated from me various aspects of Linux. It insulated me from learning how Linux is different from Windows, and that actually hindered me from understanding the OS. By starting with Debian I got a feel for using the CLI, setting up my drivers, package installer, and desktop environment. And, while those aspects can be complicated for new users, i think its somewhat necessary that they get a feel for them if Linux is going to be recommended as their OS.

As fun as 2004scape is, I can’t bear to go through the slog again all for quite limited end game content. I don’t need raids or even GWD, but 2004scape is really missing out by lacking Slayer and Barrows.

Most of those points are why I mentioned that setting up the iso on a removable drive is probably the hardest part. If you can boot to it then the rest of the installation process at that point is pressing ‘next’ through the W10 initialization.

But I’ll also concede that an average mom and pop likely can’t handle opening powershell to run massgravel and activate windows

So Mint is the ‘distro’, which is actually based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. In simple terms, a distro is a bundle of programs and configurations assembled for you. Basically, Debian is a stripped down version of Mint.

A ‘desktop environment’ is a separate program(?) that changes what your desktop looks like, and they can be downloaded on any distro. So you can try out KDE Plasma on your Mint installation! The one that you’re likely using right now is called ‘Cinnamon’, which I personally didn’t like and turned me off of Linux my first time trying to switch over years ago.

Something cool about KDE Plasma is that you can download themes and make your desktop environments look really cool. For instance, sometimes I like to rock this Windows 7 theme: https://www.pling.com/p/2142957/

Have you ever seen how to draw a circle in GIMP?