The AI we’ve had for over 20 years is not an LLM. LLMs are a different beast. This is why I hate the “AI” generalization. Yes, there are useful AI tools. But that doesn’t mean that LLMs are automatically always useful. And right now, I’m less concerned about the obvious hallucination that LLMs constantly do, and more concerned about the hype cycle that is causing a bubble. This bubble will wipe out savings, retirement, and make people starve. That’s not to mention the people currently, right now, being glazed up by these LLMs and falling to a sort of psychosis.

The execs causing this bubble say a lot of things similar to you (with a lot more insanity, of course). They generalize and lump all of the different, actually very useful tools (such as models used in cancer research) together with LLMs. This is what allows them to equate the very useful, well studied and tested models to LLMs. Basically, because some models and tools have had actual impact, that must mean LLMs are also just as useful, and we should definitely be melting the planet to feed more copyrighted, stolen data into them at any cost.

That usefulness is yet to be proven in any substantial way. Sure, I’ll take that they can be situationally useful for things like making new functions in existing code. They can be moderately useful for helping to get ideas for projects. But they are not useful for finding facts or the truth, and unfortunately, that is what the average person uses it for. They also are no where near able to replace software devs, engineers, accountants, etc, primarily because of how they are built to hallucinate a result that looks statistically correct.

LLMs also will not become AGI, they are not capable of that in any sort of capacity. I know you’re not claiming otherwise, but the execs that say similar things to your last paragraph are claiming that. I want to point out who you’re helping by saying what you’re saying.

Containers are better than any other option, so of course they’re being used! I’m gunna use containers even harder!

They’re making their own phone now. It’s not going to die, at least not in that way.

Up 1% for the day

They’ve been running on that PR spin since 2023.

To each their own I suppose. CoMaps is great for me, and I’ve never used carplay.

and wasn’t an hacked android rom

If it’s missing data (such as locations) that is the issue, then you can update the map yourself and help others migrate at the same time. Every little bit helps, even if you don’t plan on fully moving over. I’ve done over a thousand changes to my local area and it’s actually more accurate than Google Maps in a lot of the commercial areas. You don’t have to do a thousand things though, like I said, every little bit helps.

Of course, it doesn’t help for outside of your area if you only do changes locally, but if enough people were willing to update the map, things could change.

I use M-DISC (not all blu-rays are M-DISC) for backing up important documents.

I doubt it. Even the article claims that there’s been no news about layoffs since July. No mentions from laid off engineers online either.

July isn’t “days before”, unless you’re really stretching “days”

Yes, especially if it’s your first distro and you haven’t learned habits from non immutable distros. Distrobox and flatpak cover most, and technically, you can install other stuff with rpm-ostree, at the cost of some space and longer update times the more you layer on.

Supported by the Linux kernel, so it works out of the box.

Yeah, I doubt this is true. At least a few laid off employees would have said so somewhere, and the “journalist” even says that there’s been nothing about layoffs since July.

Just what the world needed, another nationalist nutjob.

I believe some of them may be for wifi? I could be wrong, though.

Edit: From the article:

2 x M.2 2280 M-Key slots for PCIe 3.0 x1 NVMe SSD

3 x M.2 B-Key slots with PCI 3.0 x1 or USB 3.2 for a 5G module (there’s also a nano SIM slot)

2 x mini PCIe 3.0 x2 slots for WiFi cards

I picked unRAID to be able to mix disk sizes. It also requires little maintenance in my experience, so that’s also a plus.

Flatpak works just fine, as it installs to the user directory and not any immutable part of the filesystem. Any non-flatpak apps can be ran in distrobox.

I love distrobox.

The immutability is the main difference. If something gets messed up, on boot you simply change to the previous image and you’re back up and running again.

I use Duplicacy, personally. All you need to backup is your home directory since it’s immutable.