Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!” (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It’s a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)
Yeah, I was tinkering with a 16 year old Iomega NAS, and put Debian on it, which was an old Debian to fit the 3.x kernel in it. I needed to add a few packages but was getting odd errors. So I figured lets try chatgpt, since I’m just killing time with this anyway, and I have an image saved for quick redeploy.
Some stuff was good advice and progress, then it claimed I couldn’t get one thing installed because I needed a newer version of apt. It led me through how to find the apt releases and fins appropriate version. Downloaded that and installed it, it gave an error about something not supported. Chatgot then told me to run a specific command, which gave a massive warning. Chat says all, good just proceed.
It unistalled my working apt version and left me with a broken new one.
So I paste the result in and chat triumphantly tells me I did it and solved the problem. Lol
Now there’s no apt or way to download anything LOL.