Given the nature of most executives, rich fucks, I can’t see anything by dystopian coming from these chuckleheads. If you read their unfiltered and uncensored thoughts (often between the lines of their flowery words), how they see others, and notice their detachment for the everyday person. It’s pretty grim. Makes me wonder what you see.

I might consider it some day…If I get desperate to try Arch. It is an effective user filter just like the “user friendly” Arch distros are, and it does work well from what I’ve read. Except it does have some scary stuff that can happen if you really aren’t paying attention like manual partitioning can…Get hairy. Not as horrifying as Linux from Scratch, but not a pleasant 15 minute max install experience of the distros I tend to favor.

Corporations are already trying and failing to do anything useful with gassed up LLMs, and I highly doubt that it will become useful in the next 5 to 10 years. However, what I do feel will happen is that all the hope posting and gaslighting by the shills, those who’s success rides on massive adoption will do their best to convince everyone to use the shit. Who knows how well that will actually turn out, it’s an open question at the moment. I hope all their efforts leads to failure, personally.

If gassed up LLMs do seep into the gaming industry to the point I can’t avoid it, then I just stop buying games. Spending money on slop isn’t ideal in my opinion. I have a backlog of games that haven’t been tainted by baby’s first lying software, so it isn’t a total loss. I got years of games to play before choosing another hobby altogether, I have adhered to some boycotts for a long amount of time in other areas. Having the will to research products and spend money only on those that don’t offend my sensibilities is natural to me.

I already won’t use Windows because Microslop chose to go hard in the LLM direction and look how well that is going for them. On top of it, I make use of open source software and support projects so that they can continue to thrive, avoiding anything that is stained with enshittification.

My concerns with gassed up LLMs that techbros call “AI” are numerous: Ecological effect, Quality of Media (games, art, movies, etc), how it affects the people who provide us with software and entertainment in general. Gassed up LLMs are being used as an excuse to lay off so many people in tech and gaming spaces. As corporations irresponsibly hired in a boom period and realized they’d have to pay people in so called lean times that aren’t actually lean. The myth of infinite growth has scrambled the brains of the C-Suite and distracted toddler investors, so the profits don’t look so good these days. As they are unwilling to cut off the CEOs who leech off a lot of corporate profits first, naturally the very people who make the stuff that enriches companies, execs, and shareholders…Are laid off first. Thrown into a rabid job market that is falling the fuck apart because rich fuckwits are creating a situation that serves to unilaterally fuck over those that don’t have a financial cushion to fall back on.

This will have a profound impact on the quality and selection of media…Humans are naturally creative, we’ve painted in caves and told stories for most of our life history. Storytelling and creativity is an intrinsic part of humanity, stories feel better when written by someone with that strong ability to tell a compelling tale! Gassed up LLMs mass produce sterile, meaningless slop comprised of stolen training data that doesn’t classify as art to me…Humans do to, but not on an industrial scale like an LLM can. Already, there are sites and instances even on the fediverse dedicated to sharing slop…It’s so bland. I can’t imagine staying interested in buying stories and art produced by slop generating LLMs. I’ll just write my own stuff…Learn how to draw things that exist in my head, that would be a better use of time and money. Creating feels so good, only a talentless techbro or hollow CEO would want to take that away from people to make a quick dollar.

LLMs in their current form use so much water and power, it’s honestly scare how they’ll have to rely on dirty forms of energy production just to keep up with escalating demand. That will have an impact on the local environment and marginalized communities initially and if enough of these irresponsible data centers are created…The scale of environmental and community impact is going to escalate.

We only have one home planet, imagine it being so sullied that human life can’t exist here anymore. To be honest, due to our current antics, I don’t even know if we’ll beat “The Great Filter” and become a sufficiently advanced civilization. We might destroy ourselves first, but at least nature would probably recover after we’re gone and our works eventually stop interfering with the ecosystem.

I don’t feel humanity should be concerned with AI as there is so much we don’t know about ourselves yet. We lack the sufficient understanding of neurology, why consciousness manifests, and how to create machinery that can actually mimic our brain structure. It would take so many generations of humanity, untold amounts of funding, multi-discipline research to produce a true AI. Techbros wanna shill now though, so we are stuck with gassed up LLMs that will probably cause society to collapse or the rich to finally get put to a French revolution style end (if disenfranchised people are feeling spicy enough).

Do you genuinely like Arch? As a Linux enjoyer (Bazzite and Aurora), I never managed to ever get Arch installed.

Always ran into the weird problems that acted as a blocker to installing an Arch-based distro. I might try to get it done someday so I can say, “I use Arch by the way.”

If they abandon AI usage, I’d consider buying from them. Unless they give AI up and get a team of great humans at the helm to develop. They can get fucked, and I will spend my money elsewhere.

I mean, he could always be acting with genuine motives too…As the world would drastically shift if all safety rails were removed. As Trump and his cronies would act with unrestricted abandon in that case, making America a hellish place to attempt surviving in.

LOL Rare win for an AI weirdo…He’s probably standing his ground only because eyes of the public are on this current Pentagon drama.

ROFL Excellent video, very meme worthy and how I think Linux by Scratch actually goes! Also, the casual disdain for GNOME is immaculate (it’s just the most boring desktop that ever lived).

Yeah, ‘overmuch’ is a very useful word, great for shortening sentences! As an avid reader, I do see plenty of words…Rarely, do I use them because following KISS is for the best!

I edited that to: “not like she’ll have to do much, given the state of Xbox”. I was typing faster than my brain could think…It’s been a day.

Microslop is making a number of baffling choices that were influenced by huffing the farts of Satya and other AI fools. Asha Sharma is in no way capable of running Xbox anywhere but into the ground (not like she’ll have to do much, given the state of Xbox). Phil Spencer retiring from Microslop is probably a move he made knowing they are going to continue their downward spiral. Sarah Bond resigning from her position is a curious one. I wonder if Microslop execs talked future plans for Xbox with her, and felt so stunned by their incompetence, Sarah decided to abandon the Xbox division. There are other factors likely involved, but, I doubt we’ll be privy to those details just yet. When the postmortem of Xbox is released…The people involved might talk about, at least I hope so.

As I don’t feel Xbox as a console has a future, my current plan is to abandon Xbox as a platform. It will take time because right now buying an upgraded Gaming PC will be difficult, due to the insanity of hardware prices. For now, I’ll have to simply save my money and bide my time.

LOL I just downloaded the roms and used an emulator. There’s no way I’d re-buy for the Nintendo Switch, only because I am against their current practices. Until they abandon their virtual card system, I don’t think breaking my boycott is a smart move.

I deleted my account after reading the article they officially released…Chat apps won’t get my phone number or ID, they get hacked and compromised too frequently for me to trust it. It’s total bullshit that they are pushing this shit on the world after trialing it in the UK and Australia. Discord can get fucked, it will suck that I can’t follow the development of games that rely on Discord instead of forums or proper fucking documentation sites. Hopefully, more indies will stop relying on Discord (it’s a rotten crutch) and go back to utilizing Forums in general!

Damn, I won’t be buying games on GOG at all until they fully course correct into a better state of being. I will be downloading all of my installers that I care about, because if things are this desperate, they might not have long.

My following recommendations are often pretty easy for new users: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ZorinOS. These distros will give you a chance to become more familiar with linux without getting overly lost in the process. Debian based distros tend to be the best starting place, as they often just work, their approach to Third Party Drivers is sane.

I recommend you steer clear of Arch or Arch-Based distros like CachyOS…If you are just starting out, this will not be a good experience for you. I’ve found that installers of either EndeavourOS or CachyOS can fail in ways you aren’t prepared for, like failing to install the Linux Kernel or failing to allow you to correctly install partitions. Please, don’t listen to those that recommend CachyOS or anything Arch Linux. Unless you are prepared to cry, or are very technically inclined and can figure stuff out fast.

Thanks to this article, I’ve put ANLIFE on my ignore list, as AI-driven games don’t interest me. That headline is horrible, but, it could be parsed after thinking about it. IGN needs to proofread their headlines before publishing. I do agree with Hayao, AI/LLMs are an insult to life, and creativity given the current push to steal the works of artists and spit out slop. Robbing people of the joy of creation, which would make life truly hollow.

This is old news, as the optional ML/AI components have been added to the installer as an opt in, thankfully they understand that there aren’t a lot of people that want LLM garbage. However, it still rubs me the wrong way that they’re playing with the tools that are used to parasitize open source projects and even spam them with slop.

I’m all for Chappell Roan…I’ll stick to her music and not in-app purchases that support Tim Sweeney in any way, as he’s a cursed human being.

ROFL Investors are like distracted toddlers that are so easy to sway. This is so stupid, I can’t wait for the bubble to pop and we can return to some semblance of normalcy.

Yeah, it likely is a combination of outrage tourists fomenting a vocal minority response and other twats+bots are boosting the message. Twitter is such a cursed social site, if it’s not Grok creating CSAM and undressing women for weird and desperate men, it’s stirring the pot with patriarchal propaganda or shitty hot takes.