despotic_machine

Oh yes, Jeffrey Sachs, who's 2023 hot take on the Ukraine war so appallingly inaccurate that 340 of his economist colleagues wrote an open letter condemning him for it. They stated:

Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts and subjective interpretations, and propagate the Kremlin’s narratives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230806172854/https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/20/open-letter-to-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/

When your world news comes from youtube, chances are you are getting the wool pulled over your eyes.

Lost or spammer?

Recently read this guy's posts here - good stuff on this topic:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156951112

This most recent article is about LLM's specifically, but the previous articles deal in more fundamental terms with human agency in the modern tech world. Definitely a good read IMO.

Fair enough. I've done worse in my time as a keyboard jockey.

Why don't you use chained commands, or better yet simply create an alias that chains down/up, then use the alias instead?

I personally never bought nor have used a smartphone, and always use VPN services. I stopped focusing all my time on my IT career, work minimal hours now, and bought a small piece of farmland where I spend as much time as possible offline and outside. Just me and the police drones and spy satellites. 😆

Is processing the audio being played back to add subtitles active?

Not sure where you are confused. If any part of this feature is active by default I will disable it.

I'm ready to deactivate it if it comes with any active component.

I am not going to entertain your attempt at rationalization.

I'll just say this: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

My unsolicited advice:

You cannot control the actions of others anymore than you can dictate their behavior. Work on your reactions. That is what you can control and improve - for you.

Two things you can do to see if it is software/config related:

Test a live USB of the same Mint version.

Create a new user and log in to that account and test it.