LostWanderer

Oh fun, just the cursed reality that Technofacists wanted.

I do wish he had instead years ago, handed off the project as he has lived long enough to become a villain. ROFL

I feel like it should be a bit stricter, as it is so easy for LLM generated code to hide errors and present the output as something that seems valid (when in fact there are a lot of pitfalls involved). LLMs and the chatbot features they possess often act in tandem to deskill the user of them, they become disconnected from their craft, gradually become more confident in the outputs of prompt slot machines. There is a political movement behind the push for the use and normalization of LLM use to cause a mass disenfranchisement event for skilled workers and creatives.

It’s just a very uncomfortable reality to face. Calling it “AI” feels incorrect in my opinion, it is just a prompt slot machine remixing the training data that humans either willingly or unwillingly (collected through scraping attacks) contributed to the model. Which can often produce very weird results. Just recently, Linus caused an issue by using an LLM to vibecode something and went on vacation dumping the problem in the laps of contributors. Mind you, this is a person who is supposed to know better but caused a massive problem. This is a scary time to be alive.

Enjoy, its such a good turn of phrase!

To me, its tragic for exactly that reason; the vibiot, is lavished and rewarded with attention, when they don’t even understand the outputs from their prompt slot machine. So when they get bored or confused by their projects and chase the next craze…The person that should’ve gotten the accolades for understanding and maintaining their work, is forgotten still. I don’t like this timeline, its a stupid time to be alive.

Which is entirely tragic, because LibreOffice is good, I respect hand coding more than the products of a prompt slot machine.

Yeah, Microsoft removed the Start Menu and added full screen tiles, that were widgets that updated with stuff (like news). I don’t remember when the two 2 control panels things happened, Windows had always been a mess to me up to that point. It could’ve been sooner or later, because Windows was built with legacy support in mind.

Honestly, 8 and 8.1 weren’t bad visually (technically a whole different matter). I wouldn’t mind making my WM resemble good old Windows 8, but actually has a sane technical base of Linux underneath it.

Oh, Fedora updates have been known to break stuff occasionally and that honestly blows! I do hope you’ll be able to figure it all out in the end because that seems like this is going to cause you a terrible troubleshooter headache. As the issue seems so arbitrary yet it is a major issue, at least the SMART data itself is fine but…Damn that is a crazy issue to have to diagnose.

I generally find O’Reilly and No Starch Press books about Linux to be really useful! It’s a perfect way to learn the fundamentals, personally I haven’t gone too deep into computers yet. As that is going to happen when I learn more about C programming as it will be important then! Right now, I don’t have to go too deep into computers, as I am learning more about Python. So my Linux learning tends to relate on how you manipulate the system via terminal and fix weird ass problems that can happen sometimes!

LOL Rawdogging Linux is INSANE; I did it through a bit of a cycle of reading, using my system, learning more. I still broke my systems but the fun part: I had a second HDD so all of my important bits were safe typically. I distro-hopped for years, mostly moving between openSUSE (older version and Tumbleweed), Ubuntu (started when it was 16.04), Fedora, Mint, Debian, Bazzite, Aurora, tried Artix briefly (the community is lacking). Finally settled on Garuda Linux, btw! Found something that suits my needs and I have enough knowledge that I haven’t broken my system once…Heh, good times!

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Ridiculously easy to use and quickly get back into a working system! I used it first with openSUSE Tumbleweed, after the adapting to how it functions, it was easy to use. Something I cannot live without. Edit: I had to change some text because those 4am thoughts weren’t lining up right.

ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should’ve). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn’t matter so much so…I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.

Yeah, I do think that people can and should use whatever. As long as they are fine with the shortcomings of said OS, and it still works well with their workflow. I am starting to just give a shit about what I am using and only protesting the worst garbage big corpos are pulling (I pay attention to what is happening on other OS). Yeah, Linux is everywhere, as it can be made to be small and useful. So while one might use a MacOS or Windows device, they rely on Linux to connect to the web. I like Android because of the Linux Kernel underneath it all, but, I really would like to get a phone that is open source…Heh. One day, perhaps. As I use a Samsung at the moment.

LOL This person is a bit unhinged, and cannot recognize that Linux distros are viable for just about everyone who wants to manage their computer. And not have a big corporation interfere with what they can and cannot do with their computer. Cheaters, criminals, and all sorts use a variety of OS.

I just happen to be a geek that enjoys Linux, specifically, Garuda Linux. A great distro.

Yeah there is also the social aspect to consider. Which can provide a tech support system aside from Valve’s, and in general connection with others that happen to have a Steam Machine or other Valve branded device!

Personally, I understand the appeal of the Steam Machine, it’s also cheaper than a standard prebuilt which helps. The fact it can basically be a nice, cute form factor machine is great! There is room for optimization in the future to make it run games and shit better too.

Personally, I would rather buy a prebuilt over putting a computer together myself because…While I can get a distro installed and use the package manager and command line to set stuff up. I am ever afraid of actually plugging and screwing things in. As my goose on the loose energy is LEGENDARY for causing random fuck-ups. Random sneezes, itches, all manner of odd occurrences will distract me to the point of not being able to reasonably complete the build correctly. I can change thermal paste, and do little things. Nothing as big as making my own computer from a bunch of parts boxes.

Edit: I still might try and fix my busted BIOS PC anyway, but, first I will get a mini-PC that will be a guarantee that I can play some games that I have been missing out on.

Rolling is not for the faint of heart; hell openSUSE Tumbleweed is certainly an update everyday (though they have fairly stable pushes). I really love Solus because they have a designated day of the week when they update and perform tests before pushing their updates out!