It’s my IDE of choice, I love it!

Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

Thanks for your response. Yeah, I think the issue isn’t the technology, it’s who controls and owns it.

I doubt it would be anywhere near as controversial if it were all fully open source and run by public organizations and communities that were interested in bettering the human experience and reducing mundane work vs maximizing profitability.

I think you’re reading too deep into what I was saying. Perhaps I wasn’t being clear, my bad if so.

I’m not against AI tools to assist people’s work. Using them for grammar/spellcheck, code completion and automated testing, artwork help for filling in repetitive background details/textures, automatically removing background details in pictures like dumpsters or people photo bombing, etc.

What I am against is the grifting, the near religious devotion by tech bros to AI replacing humans in all areas of life, and the fact that the groups and companies controlling almost all of the development of this tech are multi-billion/trillion dollar corpos that don’t make all aspects of their tech open source and are 100% motivated by profit.

It’s all connected, the reasons why it can’t do basic logical reasoning are the same for why it can’t replace human art.

It’s because neither of those activities are mere pattern recognition and statistical inference, which is all LLMs will ever be.

Of course they don’t, logical reasoning isn’t just guessing a word or phrase that comes next.

As much as some of these tech bros want human thinking and creativity to be reducible to mere pattern recognition, it isn’t, and it never will be.

But the corpos and Capitalists don’t care, because their whole worldview is based in the idea that humans are only as valuable as the profitability they generate for a company.

They don’t see any value in poetry, or philosophy, or literature, or historical analysis, or visual arts unless it can be patented, trademarked, copyrighted, and sold to consumers at a good markup.

As if the only difference between Van Goh’s art and an LLM is the size of sample data and efficiency of an algorithm.

Matrix is great, but yeah, you’re gunna struggle to find really active communities depending on what you are focused on.

I can get a few of my close friends on Matrix, but the real issue is most of the FOSS and tech communities I’m a part of are on Discord.

It’s rapidly enshitifying though, so might not be long before I leave it for good.

Did the same for my parents earlier this year. I downloaded a Windows 10 theme for Mint so it felt and looked more Windowsy for them.

It’s been great for them. One piece of advice, make sure you sit down with your grandma after installing it and have her do everything she normally does on Windows.

Make sure all the shortcuts and bookmarks are in the same spots and called the same things.

I’m so excited for the AI crash

He’s an old time Linux guy who went off the deep end and became a conspiracy theorist. He’s one of those people who cries about things “becoming political” just because people decide to make a statement about being inclusive of LGBT folks in their code of conduct.

He’s also been caught just straight up lying about things in his various “investigations.”

Here’s a long video on some of it if you are interested: Video on Lunduke

I know right! It feels like one of those rare true win-win scenarios where all parties involved are better off by the change.

This has always confused me for years since this “debate” became part of public dialog.

Why don’t we just have all non-gender bathrooms? A friend of mine used to live in an apartment building where the common area had 4 non-gendered bathrooms.

Each had a fold-out changing table, a single toilet, and a sink, so everybody was accommodated. Men, women, non-binary, trans folks, a parent with their baby or young child, and disabled people because the door was wide enough for a wheelchair and the toilets had support bars next to them.

Fully inclusive to everybody, and nicer than the typical restrooms because they were totally private.

Jellyfin for only music streaming would probably be fine, if it’s just you using it. PiHole would be good, you could probably get a low impact distro on there to run Docker containers, but only pretty light services on it.

DM me, I got a few bridges to sell you.

About to build my first really nice homelab NAS for Jellyfin, archiving, etc. targeting between 30-40TB if all goes well :)

lol, fixed it now :P

All the times where we narrowly avoided nuclear war.

For me, Mint offers everything good about Ubuntu without any of the bad.

That being said, I don’t hate it, but I also don’t recommend it ever to people. The pitfalls that can come up from Snaps, plus the default layout of Gnome, are reasons why a brand new Linux user might struggle with it unless they are already somewhat of a techie.

For ex-windows users like my parents who aren’t tech savvy, I just install Mint, set up their shortcuts and desktop icons, and away they go, happy little penguins.

There’s the enshitification we know and love! Freetube for desktop and Tubular for mobile is how I’ve been watching YT for over a year now, and it’s great!

For another useful resource, this site is really helpful for decoding what cronjobs are in plain language.

Cron Job Translator