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Which in your humble opinion is the best Operating System? (Feel free to add definition of flavours or particular builds)

You can include Operating system meant for computers (PC/Laptops) along with tablets and Smartphones.

(Personally I use Windows 8.1, but I still prefer having a barebones FreeBSD system through commandline and/or terminal... something about ...

Hi r/ASCII —
A bit off-topic for ASCII art, but ASCII is the spiritual ancestor of every text encoding, so I figured this is the right room to argue about the bits.
For 30+ years, every encoding we use — ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 — has been built on the same assumption: base-2 binary. We never seriously questioned it.
Shannon's information theory says the optimal ...

Sweet Holy Hullaballoo, sports fans !

The plague vectors are already out there.
Everybody ready for the next round of mask & jab mandates - if we live that long...

Hantavirus latest updates: U.S. among countries searching for passengers who left Dutch cruise ship after 1st death​
The U.S. is among a number of countries wor...

Thought I'd make a "master list" of conspiracies I've read about to track them and see how they evolve over time. I'll try to format them to group them and make them easier to read.
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Plandemic: the idea that the COVID pandemic was planned to accomplish some goal.

-Fauci evil: Anthony Fauci engineered the pandemic.

-Bill Gates 5G trackers: B...

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

EXCERPT: When he asked Claudia wh...