It’s only getting worse too. The entire US economy is being propped up by AI and crypto. It’s like the sub-prime mortgage craze of the early 2000s. Lots of money going into a system that will never recoup the investment. Either they have to find a way to extract value, or the bottom’s gonna fall out. Just wait for the too big to fail AI and tech bailouts.
That’s a wild take. That’s like saying you’re uncomfortable in the sauna so you moved to the desert.
Some things are riskier than others. The point is that you understand the risk and make informed choices.
I’ve tried a few distros recently in my efforts to migrate away from Windows. I landed on Solus https://getso.us/ for my own personal use and I’ve been very happy with it. I’m a power user of course, but Solus just feels solid to me. No stability issues, no significant driver issues (details below), very easy to work with / low learning curve, no real need for terminal commands or tinkering, and all of the apps that I use on a regular basis are available and easy to install.
They’ve implemented the KDE Discover app in a recent release to manage packages (they used to only have their own package manager by default). Discover combines their own curated repository of apps that are known/designed to work well with Solus along with Flathub so users have options to install other apps, all from one place. I like the approach since it seems to offer increased stability.
The default Budgie DE is just okay. It’s fine, functional, and easy to use, but there are some quirks that I don’t love that make it feel a little incomplete in some small ways (i.e. you can’t really customize the start menu). I’m personally willing to make the tradeoff for the simplicity that it offers overall. That said, they do offer Plasma, Gnome, and Xfce builds. Plasma was my second favorite and I think it might be a better choice for a newbie.
The only problem I’ve had with drivers/compatibility on my modern Dell laptop is jumping through some hoops to get the fingerprint reader working and enabling hibernation which really wasn’t necessary, just a personal preference.
Another distro that caught my eye that I haven’t tested personally yet is ArduinOS https://www.anduinos.com/ . It’s another distro that touts a default DE layout reminiscent of Windows to make it easy to switch. However, it is Ubuntu + Gnome based, so take that as you will.
Nobody asked for this! FFS, can megacorps stop shoving AI into everything. Lucky Charms and scissors will have AI soon enough.
Hey uhhh… about that… they’re planning to occupy just like we did in the middle east.
The problem is that AI halucinates and says things that aren’t true with full confidence.
To me, saying “I used AI to answer a question” is no different than saying “I asked my neighbor. He’s pretty smart and knows about these things.” He might be right 95% of the time but his words should not be treated or repeated as facts without independent verificatfon.
Or put another way, if the top result in your Google search is a reddit post, maybe look at some other sites too.
So to this person stating that they used AI, thank you for being honest. Now we know that your info might need a little more analysis if there’s any error or dispute.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use AI, it’s an excellent tool. Just saying that we need to be mindful of what LLMs really are.
The only thing I can think of is geolocation for CDNs. Basically to find the geographically closest server based on your location.
My favorite is when the sites just block access to IPs in those states instead of trying to comply with the laws with a message that says “Your state won’t let us do business and we refuse to violate your privacy.” VPNs gonna see a huge spike in purchases, and lots of angry gooners gonna start writing their representatives as their favorites sites drop off one by one.
To quote dear leader who is most definitely implicated and ran his campaign on releasing the Epstein files, “Are we still talking about Epstein!?”
And nobody with the power to hold them accountable does either.
Your last point is of critical importance. The populace as a whole is outgunned. Psuedo-militarized police forces and “law enforcement” organizations have us outgunned. Nobody’s going out shooing unless they have nothing to lose. And right now, just about everyone still has something to lose. The goal is to keep the population comfortable enough not to riot on the streets.
There’s a reason they’re targeting the peaceful working class brown people who have families and still have hope that somehow the system will work and they’ll be returned to their family. Notice how they’re not rolling into the ghettos and trying to clean up the latino gangs where immigrants are definitely hiding. These ICE agents are cowards and bullies who pick on the weak to make themselves feel better.
No that’s an orange. It’s what we call the things inside our body.
No, that’s original. It’s just another way of saying “living thing”
Oh, someone finally found the liminal bathroom. How unsettling.
places hands over ears screams “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU EVERYTHING IS FINE”
They overwhelm everyone knowing that 80% of this shit is gonna get outlawed or overturned, but that 20% that gets through is gonna be huge for them.
So is their position that deception via impersonation is free speech?
Here’s my take: Like google, stackoverflow, and so on, AI is yet another tool in your toolbox. It can’t replace humans yet, and in fact it’s a ways off from that if you ask me. Not that it won’t eventually be able to do it, but it can’t yet. You said yourself, there are still elements that the AI just can’t do yet.
I like that I can say “hey AI, here’s what I need” and have it generate what I would consider a good framework to start from. It helps me eliminate the boring, time consuming stuff that I could easily do on my own. Your value comes in that other 20% now. The stuff that requires higher level understanding.
A big problem is that AI is creating technical debt in the form of deep understanding and expertise. You have the benefit of years of experience. You are the guru now.