Sounds pretty good until you realize it’ll be Claude generating all that code.

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Before capitalism, people used to only kill as many animals as were necessary to feed them, all while ensuring they don’t suffer needlessly and respecting their natural habitats.

Under capitalism, animals are just resources to be extracted and turned into products and profits. The conditions of this extraction may vary slightly, but ultimately this is never going to change under a system that fundamentally removes humans from nature, as well as focuses on accumulation of capital above all else.

If you purchase meat from these companies - you very much do.

If you don’t want to - there’s an extremely obvious solution available.

Ultimately all manner of meat consumption in industrial societies amounts to genocide and torture. All we’re doing is slightly negotiating the degree of suffering inflicted.

This is generally great news, but even better news would be if it had like 12 users after launching.

Show Tim Shittey that everyone hates him.

How about we wipe out Nintendo?

Yes, I did make a Mistral account. Forgot to mention that I tested all of the mentioned chatbots on free plans, except Copilot, which I had the highest tier plan for, as part of my job. Needless to say, even on the highest tier Copilot performed the worst. Congratulations, Microsoft.

I do appreciate Mistral being European and maintaining better values than American competition. That’s why I feel bad rating it so low. Although as you said, many tasks that LLMs are useful for don’t require the cutting edge at all.

In fact, Mistral Vibe (I preferred the name Le Chat, but oh well) is probably more than enough for most people. It’s just that availability of much better models makes it look worse than it is.

There’s also the question of system prompts. ChatGPT has been known to work considerably better with a good prompt setup, to the point where it’s not one of the worst chatbots anymore. I was only testing the defaults. It’s entirely possible that setting the right system prompt for Mistral improves it noticeably.

At the end of the day, however, if I can run a small, open-weight model locally with comparable results - using a huge, cloud-based and closed model makes no sense to me. I’m not connecting to any cloud unless I really need to.

Alibaba is releasing Qwen 3.8 27B in a little over 3 hours from now, so I’ll have to try that too. Though I’ll probably wait for fine-tuned community releases to make a more detailed comparison.

True, it’s always important to be careful with chatbots, even when used for simple tasks.

From my experience, they work fairly well when asked to explain code or error logs. For reference, I mainly tested Gemini and Deepseek. Apparently Claude is the best for coding, but I haven’t really tried it yet.

Personally I’d avoid both Mistral and Copilot. I used to work on Copilot, so unfortunately had a lot of exposure to it. Tried Mistral for a while too.

These two are the worst LLMs I’ve used so far. Honestly probably worse than local Qwen with 27-35B parameters. I feel a little bad hating on a European company, but unfortunately it’s way behind competition. At least from my testing.

If you really want to contribute to some projects, the first step would be to take a course in that project’s programming language. There are many decent free courses on YouTube, and even more fantastic courses for very cheap on websites like Udemy or Skillshare.

Next, you’d probably want to keep learning the language (e.g., by solving LeetCode challenges), read more about programming and software development in general, as well as check out another course or a tutorial about the specific frameworks/libraries or even just paradigms that the project works with.

A good starting point is FreeCodeCamp on YouTube. Courses there are excellent for the proce of 0€. If you have difficulties with anything - you can always ask a chatbot. If you opt for courses on something like Udemy - you can always just ask the instructor and they’ll usually respond within 2 hours, timezone permitting.

Linux Inc. does not spend billions of dollars ensuring you have no options but Linux.

It also doesn’t exist, so that helps too.

Wow, thanks for the in-depth explanations. I think I get it now.

You did mention ‘political compass’ in the description, but I’m guessing many people and I interpreted it a little differently, since the chart itself focuses on corpo vs non-corpo.

About LineageOS (and by extension Waydroid too) - maybe you could open issues about the connections to Google and point to the specific ones. Perhaps the devs would be entirely willing to change which servers LineageOS connects to by default. And if not, then maybe they’d explain why or how.

When attempting to click the link to see for myself, I still find that the artix forums are inaccessible, and so I can’t see for myself.

I was able to access the forum without any issues. Tl;dr - it looks like an off-topic discussion turned political; many mentions of neonazism, Marx, Lenin, and western propaganda. Then someone started throwing shit at an Alpine Linux dev, who happens to be trans. At first they didn’t clearly state the ‘issue’, but I’ve been in many transphobic groups in the past, and I can tell you that’s exactly what they meant. Later someone else said they were eating and upon seeing the dev’s picture feel like vomiting. This is where I stopped reading, but the thread goes on for several more pages.

That’s basically what it boils down to. The entire thread gives strong far-right and transphobic vibes, although not everyone participating demonstrated such views.

It should be noted that I have no idea who the people posting are. Some of their comments suggest they’re Artix Linux devs, but I can’t verify that right now. Maybe when I’m on a bigger screen later.

This might be the best looking and most comprehensive tier list of anything I’ve ever seen.

Although I have some concerns, mainly with the 3 bottom tiers, it’s still more reasonable than most tier lists I’ve seen.

As for my concerns, perhaps someone will be able to answer some questions:

• Why are Artix Linux and Waydroid ‘dubious’? Especially Waydroid, as it’s not an operating system. The other two I’m unfamiliar with, or at least the logos.
• Why is LineageOS ‘borderline’? I’m not aware of anything dangerous about it. It’s not far from Graphene, just for a lot more devices.
• I’m not sure Android belongs in the bottom tier. Or at least not yet. As of right now, you can still use it as an open OS, and it’s great for devices such as handheld gaming consoles. I’ve also never seen age verification in Android yet.

Microsoft could have done this for years. The only reason it’s doing it now is because almost all of its new games in the last 10 years flopped terribly.

PSA: if you live in the EU, you may be able to get a refund for your unused Windows license after buying a new computer.

• https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250529-01.en.html
• https://en.refund4freedom.org/

My hands are about average size, maybe just a little smaller, and I do in fact have difficulties reaching the thumb sticks.

It’s not a major issue. I’ve had my Deck ever since original LCD launch, and absolutely love it. But playing on something like the Legion Go S is noticeably more comfortable.

Overall, it’s probably not about hand size, but grip and preference. There are many people with small and weak hands who say the Steam Deck is perfect for them. And there are also people with big, strong hands who say that it’s a little too big or heavy.

See, all it took was removing CDPR from the picture. As soon as squeezing maximum possible profits stopped being the only priority, development of a Linux client began.

Steam isn’t open source either.

Not exactly. Almost nobody uses Denuvo Hypervisor Bypass, because of security concerns, and because for now it’s only available on Windows. Although apparently a version for Linux is in development.

Denuvo still usually guarantees a few months of no cracks for a game, which is plenty for publishers. They mostly care about that early period, which is where 99% of marketing goes into. Which is why you can see many games losing Denuvo a while after launch.

Whether or not it actually offers any monetary benefit is an entirely different matter. Most or all reliable research on the topic suggests that video game piracy almost always has a positive impact on sales. After all, legally purchasing [a license to] a game usually offers a more pleasant experience, with playtime tracking, achievements, screenshot sharing etc.

When somebody who’s never used Linux writes about using Linux.

How much did you pay for that? I might be interested in something similar.

30W is plenty for a smartphone or powerbank. I usually charge mine at sub-20W as not to stress the batteries too much. The phone still charges to full (or 95% to be precise) in an hour. I’m in no rush.

Now if it could do 60W - perfect for all mobile devices. Everything from a smartphone to a laptop or a big handheld console.