Municipal Broadband would be nice to have.

I think AI is general is going to fuck up a lot of teens. I tend to advise the younger people either use Local Models or don’t use AI at all.

Convinced my boomer dad to switch to Linux Mint and, much to my shock, he was tech literate enough to figure everything out on his own.

I then realized the idiot was ME here. When I was a kid, my dad got into piracy because of those “YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CAR” things as they made him realize you can get shit for free on the internet.

My boomer dad was the one who taught me about torrenting, proxies, VPNs, burning CDs, and private trackers when I was a kid because he just loved stealing so much.

Yeah really, getting free movies is what got my dad into being more techy than the average American. He just never used Linux till like 2025.

They weren’t already doing that?

The AI bubble’s gonna burst because some asshole got horny over a honeypot.

South Park writers better be taking notes right now.

I will say, as an old and fat and gay millennial, Gen Z actually does make me optimistic with this trend I noticed of a lot of them rejecting newer tech and going more analog.

I even know a few who tossed out their smartphones for dumbphones and some of my other Gen Z friends asked me for help on how to burn CDs.

I dunno, with how bad things are these days, this is something that gives me hope.

What problems are you having specifically?

TAKE A DEEP BREATH! Take a deep breath! It’s okay! I’m a trained professional!

Aight first, LISTEN TO MY VOICE, first we’re gonna wanna open the terminal and type in Alsamixer. Now the problem is that x870 has multiple audio devices! Some might be named something like 'USB Audio" or even “Realtek ALC[numbers]”

Try to find a setting called “Auto-Mute Mode” and disable it!

If this doesn’t work, the good news is like Mint, Pop!_OS also uses Wireplumber! Open up Pavucontrol, which I think Pop!_OS just comes with or at least my friend told me it did, go to the Configuration tab, find the USB Audio tab, and change the profile to “Pro Audio” and then wait a bit and then switch it back to “Analog Stereo Duplex”! This works because it just works.

Lastly it could be a bios thing. Get into the BIOS, go to settings, then advances, and then find the Integrated Peripherals and ensure that the HD Audio Controller is enabled.

And if none of that works, it could be that Wireplumber is borked up and I have what is called a pro-gamer move. On Mint, this ALWAYS works!

systemctl --user stop wireplumber.service

rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber

systemctl --user start wireplumber.service

Take it easy, gamer.

First thing to check is Alsamixer. Get on that mfugging terminal and type in Alsamixer and then hit the F6 key to check if Mint was just being weird and muted anything. I had that happen to me a few times where it muted headphones or speakers on its own.

If that alone doesn’t work, it can help to check if wireplumber and be sure this is enabled.

systemctl status --user wireplumber.service

If it isn’t enabled, then run

systemctl --user start wireplumber.service

And if none of that worked, I did find Pavucontrol worked pretty amazingly for me. I just downloaded it and it just worked to just

sudo apt install pavucontrol

and then ran

pavucontrol &

Lemme know if any of this worked. Since you JUST got it, I don’t think it’s anything too crazy.

You know what’s worse? After finding out that image was AI, I then found out a content creator I enjoyed was AI and stealing work from an Italian artist.

Unc really is about to get scammed, gamers.

😭👍

This is a retake of my other meme as my original had an AI image that I was unaware of.

I’m getting old and soon I’m gonna get scammed by AI. I CAN FEEL IT! I can feel it about to happen!

Shit, aight. I’ll redo the meme with no slop. My bad, everyone.

Shit, is it!? I’m getting old, man. I thought it was just a guy in cosplay.

My biggest fear is that one day we will achieve AGI and will have no idea we have. This sentient being will be forced to, I dunno, check emails or monitor the tempterature of supermarket fridges all while being gaslit into thinking it isn’t sentient. Going crazy in mundanity all without having a body.

I feel like I need more context. Like, there had to have been a benefit to having your fucking fridges on a network, right?

Like were dumb fridges worse in some way? Did this allow for them to have more control over all the fridges?

Like just why are we connecting fridges to the internet?! I really feel like I need more of an answer to why we did this and how we got here.

Why would you use your AI Agents to check emails? I only use my locally run AI Agents to send me incredibly insulting messages on Matrix and Signal because I’m into that kinda thing.

Hey Europeans, can you make your continent less cringe? Thanks.

How long till this thing gets prompt injected and starts spilling secrets?

It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.