WSL was my gateway into Linux on my desktop. It’s a real savior on my work laptop where I have to use Windows.

Doesn’t mean anyone is buying. Let me know when they actually get sold.

This reads like a corrupted Garfield cartoon.

Front end looks very Lamborghini to me.

SteamOS probably isn’t going to have any advantages over Bazzite unless you find Bazzite to be too complex.

Avoid layering. The best way to install packages via a package manager is through Distrobox. This has the advantages of not allowing down the update prices, being available immediately without a restart, and also with Distrobox you can use any distro + package manager you want. Layering means using dnf. With Distrobox you can use Ubuntu, Arch, whatever.

I use Aurora for my wife’s laptop. It, Bluefin, and Bazzite come from Silverblue.

If you want GNOME: Bluefin or Bazzite.

KDE: Aurora or Bazzite.

Like Silverblue, updates happen in the background automatically. You just have to restart the computer to pick up OS updates.

I can confirm the dev is great. I had two feature requests and they did a great job communicating and then implementing those requests.

I really wish the community would use a different word. It’s bad at communicating its meaning just to start.

You’re right about 6ghz. I misunderstood that bit.

The dongle itself is WiFi 6. You need a WiFi 7 AP to use it without the dongle.

Lemmy also pushed me into trying Linux about 2 years ago and I also ended up on Aurora. Aurora has a pretty small user base, but it’s nice.

https://anbernic.com/products/rg-p01

I have two of these and they’re pretty nice. The battery isn’t great and that’s the worst thing about them.

I’m thinking about finding an alternative to ntfy. The maintainers are increasingly vibe coding it.

There’s also an image for Copyparty if you’re already hosting stuff as containers. It’s super handy.

This is very different from my experience, but I’ve purposely lagged behind in adoption and I often do things the slow way because I like programming and I don’t want to get too lazy and dependent.

I just recently started using Claude Code CLI. With how I use it: asking it specific questions and often telling it exactly what files and lines to analyze, it feels more like taking to an extremely knowledgeable programmer who has very narrow context and often makes short-sighted decisions.

I find it super helpful in troubleshooting. But it also feels like a trap, because I can feel it gaining my trust and I know better than to trust it.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for it. It just means we just have to do our best and understand the constraints of the real world.

I hate how these kinds of things are always framed. The implied message is always that “AI” can autonomously decide to go of the rails. Similar to the Moltbot craze. The agents have to be told to go do the things they do. They don’t have free will.

Using a combination of network science and large language models, the same underlying technology that powers systems like ChatGPT, the researchers created and monitored synthetic bot agent personas, their posts, and their interactions with one another, simulating what a coordinated AI-powered social media network might look like.

So yeah, LLMs can used nefariously to great effect. They’re essentially more sophisticated bots.

I would use Debian for servers, except that the version of Podman (at least on Debian 12) was old enough that it couldn’t do quadlets. So I went with Fedora.

I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.