Nvidia?

I currently have no dedicated GPU, just a Ryzen CPU.

I go CTRL + ALT + F6, wait for the login to show up

Tried that just now - doesn’t work. It seems like all devices are disconnected so I can’t use the keyboard to change the VT.

I’m talking basic aim and safety training.

Again: how do you imagine someone who did “basic aim and safety training” going against five gun-nuts?

Barely. Most are lard buckets

Show me the lard bucket on the video.

And even that’s beside’s the point. A lard bucket can still shoot a weapon, and if there’s five lard buckets, a student, teacher or roofer just has zero chances. Shit, a SEAL wouldn’t have a chance in a situation from the video.

A lot of stuff now happens automagically

Nothing happens automagically. You need to specifically ask Copilot to do something.

makes it harder to see the reasons and structures and language of how it is meant to work

This I also don’t fully agree with. Like I mentioned, Copilot won’t automatically place formulas everywhere - it just designs them but you need to copy-paste them into the appropriate spots.

So, yeah, you’re not writing the formulas, but it’s not like the whole thing just magically appears.

If everyone gets proper gun training, it would increase odds.

I really don’t understand how you people say this without laughing yourselves.

“Everyone gets proper training”? How exactly do you imagine a teacher and a mother to go through rigorous weapons and tactics training? Boot camps? When are collage students supposed to do that?

Police are, you know, POLICE. They train this shit professionally. Especially in the US where departments provide what is effectively military-grade training.

Add to that the fact that not every state allows civilians carrying weapons.

Add to that the fact that weapons cost money to buy, and the people most in danger of getting attacked by the state are also those with the least spending money.

Add to that the fact that without specific training that creates a bond between members of a unit, humans will naturally try to evade danger, not rush into it. Which means that even if everybody on the street was armed, they wouldn’t have done anything out of fear that it might get them killed or wounded.

Add to that the fact that if everybody is armed, police would just start going around in full ballistic gear, with automatic weapons and armoured vehicles - they have more than enough surplus from the military and NatGuard.

I mean to say they are putting these people in literal concentration camps. Not just deporting them.

I know. And that means these people are still alive and have a chance of returning to a normal life. Grabbing a gun near 5 armed policemen is 100% certain death sentence.

Lawyers and non-profits will not be able to do anything to help.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-judge-boasberg-venezuelan-immigrants-e7cca03d3c47b7b443d5374679ff290b

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html

When they came for the jews, people saying things like that is part of why so many were taken. You need to fight. Not sit idle and hope the lawyers work.

This needs to be organised. There are protests happening, it’s just too little, too weak. People need to wake up and start opposing en masse. Weapons won’t solve this when you’re up against the federal forces.

It acts as a strong deterrent for the coward fucks if they learn they can find out when they do kidnappings

I take it you’ve never seen videos of how US police reacts to a perceived threat? A random dude or gal pulling a glock against 5 automatic weapons means zero. It’s not “fight”, it’s just suicide and it’s pointless. ESPECIALLY when they’re not white, because then they end up being “the aggressive immigrant wielding a weapon against our brave police”.

You’ll become better at spreadsheets

Great! Thing is: a day only has 24 hours and right now I need to get better at managing IT infrastructure and business processes, not spreadshets.

If you have the time to research Excel - go for it! Absolutely nobody is forcing you to use Copilot.

So, you’re saying that “suicide by cop” is the better alternative to having hope that lawyers and non-profit orgs help you? Or, I don’t know, you get deported but LIVE and manage to get to a civilised country?

Tell me, how do you imagine a PhD student getting in a firefight with five people and not ending up dead?

Also tell me: do you honestly believe that if such thing happened, the psycho-right wouldn’t spin this as “violent Brown attacks police who bravely take her down”?

Some useless nonsense, like generative AI.

This is a very ignorant and prejudiced take.

AI in Excel is an amazing feature that will help TONNES of people do what they never could It can design tables and write (but not insert) advanced formulas for the user.

Sure, you could say “just be an Excel expert”, but - for example - my daily work is nowhere near Excel. Learning its advanced features would be a 100% waste of time, just to be able to prep a fancy chart every couple of years. So, instead, I can just ask Copilot to do that fancy thing for me, instead of wasting hours online, trying to figure out XLOOKUP, or some such.

Copilot can design a table, and even fill out some data, but it won’t input any formulas. It will write them for you and tell you where to put them, but you have to copy-paste them on your own.

Also, with versioning, even if it did and caused a problem, you could always just roll back to a previous version of the file. Not really an issue.

I can just imaging an AI tool going in the messing one little thing up, and it being near impossible to find the error.

It doesn’t put formulas into the cells. It will write the formula for you, but you have to put it in yourself.

Also, there’s versioning in Office, so your spreadsheet blowing up for whatever reason isn’t a problem at all - just roll back to the previous version of the file.

That’s an average over the 9 hours, so including breaks.