I love the vertical task bar in KDE. It does exactly what I want it to, and that’s so refreshing.

Sadly I’m in this boat. We use Oracle database and have stored procedures all over the place. For us, the cost to convert everything would probably be huge.

I’d love to switch to PostgreSQL.

There are subjective reasons to not like Mint just like there are for every distro.

I, personally, would not use Mint. But it’s great for a lot of folks.

There’s nothing wrong with Mint and there’s never been a better time to move to Linux.

There is a better way. Instead of compiling when you launch the game, you can enable background processing of shaders. This will happen while you’re not gaming. If you don’t do other stuff on that computer while you’re not gaming and it is turned off or asleep instead, it might not help.

I had some issues with Bazaar, but it’s easy to switch back to Discover or back to Bazaar.

People think I’m crazy to not claim free games from Epic. I don’t, and won’t even have an account on that cursed platform.

I would suggest against self driving cars for this very reason. The kind of thing in the article is not a hazard while driving.

The kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive. Software has gotten a lot more complex over the past couple decades. And just because it came on physical media and could not easily be patched doesn’t mean that it didn’t have bugs. Far from it.

I have a used 2017 Chevy Bolt that I absolutely adore. I bet I could pretty easily disable the OnStar if I was so inclined and paranoid about it somehow getting updates. But I doubt I need to do that.

And take years to learn how to use well

Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft. Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you’re gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, “Yo Sora, make me a movie that’s like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements.”

Who cares if people make AI “slop” when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?

Because that’s all that it’s good for. Every year it’s, “Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It’ll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro.” And every year it does get better, but it’s still complete and utter garbage. It’s still slop.

And even if it’s not slop, LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media. Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech, it will always be that. LLMs just work that way. It is a limitation of the technology.

If you can’t see that, then you truly don’t understand what this tech is.

Smart phones record exceptionally high quality video. Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.

People who want to make stuff will find a way to do it.

Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.

People don’t need AI slop at all. At least meat provides sustenance.

Not trying to put myself or my own worries above the obvious travesty and senseless murder.

I’m just sharing my perspective and not making any political points.

You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.

People who don’t have the drive to make things without AI well never produce anything of value with AI.

And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.

Meat, whether you think it’s moral or ethical or not, serves a need. People need to eat. People don’t need AI slop.

It’s kind of like saying, “Well yeah I leave this 50kw diesel generator running 24/7. It’s way less environmentally damaging than meat. No, I’m not using the power it generates for any real purpose, but who cares, it’s environmentally friendly!”

I fly a paraglider. I was paranoid about getting shot before the Hamas attack on October 7. This just worries me more.

It’s all so sad.

Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don’t have any reasons to move to something different.

The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.

Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.

Death is not specific to individuals.

My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.