Oh yeah! I’ve always heard good things about OpenSuSE, just never tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl on my other old laptop.
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Even with the explanation, I still don’t get it either. I have some questions:
- What is a boy kisser meme?
- What is good or bad about being called out in reference to one?
- Who was doing the calling out or being called? Was OP called out by Krita, Krita by OP, or some third party calling out one or the other? Or maybe a third party was called out by Krita?
- What does this image have to do with Krita or the other OSS projects in the background?
Feel free to assume that I am old and not hip to what kids are doing these days.
That’s pretty much it. The most obvious difference between Debian and Fedora is that Debian uses apt with deb files for package management, while Fedora uses dnf and rpm files.
Arch can be great and you can install whatever desktop environment you like, but there are just too many concepts for the average new user. Making a USB install stick is “difficult” enough to make a lot of people give up.
Debian is great, and my personal preference but it tends to be a bit behind on the latest hardware support, particularly for laptops. It’s easy enough to install whatever drivers you need, but again that can be just one thing too many for a new user.
Yeah, vanilla Fedora comes in both KDE and Gnome flavors, with good hardware support and a large community. For noobies, a good, familiarish desktop environment and comprehensive hardware support are really the most important things for them not to immediately bounce off.
The typical advice is:
- Mint
- ElementryOS
- Fedora
- Pop!
- Ubuntu (unpopular with Extremely Online people, but is pretty good at the Just Works for normies)
- Debian Stable for older hardware
As someone who builds a computer, installs whatever seems like the most stable LTS distro at the time with the longest support period, and only switches to a new one when the current LTS expires, I’d like to thank all of you for being my beta testers. Your support means the world.
I’m more of a Zmodem guy.
Never doubt the power of nerds arguing over their specific interests to make something amazing. Wikipedia is arguably one of the greatest achievements of humankind, entirely powered by nerd fights.
Fek! Kial mi forgesis la plej bonan flagon?!?
If not the UFP, maybe the Klingon Empire?
Or:
- A state flag, from a different state. New Mexico has the best one. Or if you live in New Mexico, Minnesota’s new one is pretty good.
- Any of the Our Flag Means Death flags. Or all of them.
- The flag of Antarctica
- A US Pride flag
- A red flag, or maybe a beige one
- New California Republic
- Debian swirl flag
- Church of the Subgenius
I think I'm currently doing both, for two similar projects. The first is pretty clearly slop, but solves my problem in the short term, while the one I'm working on is a much more general solution.
Oh, ok thanks! I’ve been wondering about the split 2.5/10G switches I’ve seen and wondered why. That makes a lot of sense now! I’ll take a look at them again.
Almost every tech company I’ve worked at has had a “Investors are coming, dress up” day. And when asked what “dress up” meant they said, “wear one of the more recent company branded t-shirt/hoodies we gave out”.
Yeah, I have deep reservations about the various AI companies, the environmental impacts of the industry, and many of the other issues that people are bringing up here. And, I have still found a few very practical uses.
My partner was fighting with their insurance company about getting reimbursed for several thousand dollars of medical expenses. After a couple of rounds of rejections I had them send me the paperwork, insurance information, and rejection letters and then asked ChatGPT what we should say to get them to reimburse us. It came up with a letter that had the right legal mumbo jumbo to convince the insurance company to agree and pay us. Yes, I could have hired a lawyer, but the legal fees would have eaten up most of the money. And I guess I could have gone to law school, gotten a specialization in insurance law, and figured it out myself. But that also would have cost more time and money.
I still think “AI” is overhyped and has a lot of ethical issues, but there are also some very practical uses.
I think there is quite a bit more subtlety than that.
Yes, just asking an LLM, even the latest versions, to write some code goes from “wow, that’s pretty good” to “eh, not great but ok for something I’m going to use once and then not care about” to “fucking terrible” as the size goes up. And all the agents in the world don’t really make it better.
But… there are a few use cases that I have found interesting.
- Project management, plannning, and learning new languages/domains when using a core prompt as described at: https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/coding-with-llms-can-still-be-fun/
I like to add:
- Do not offer to write code unless the user specifically requests it. You are a teacher and reviewer, not a developer - Include checks for idiomatic use of language features when reviewing - The user has a strong background in C, C++, and Python. Make analogies to those languages when reviewing code in other languagesas well when I’m using it to help me learn a new language.
- Reviews of solo projects. I like working with someone else to review my code and plans at work, particularly when I’m working in a domain or language that I don’t have experience in. But for solo projects I don’t have someone to give me reviews, so asking a coding LLM “Review this project, looking for architectural design issue, idiomatic language use, and completeness. Do not offer to fix anything, just create an issue list.” is really helpful. I can take the list, ignore anything I disagree with, and use it for a polishing round.
I feel that there is a great joke comparing the apparent mental health of people who develop file systems and statistical mechanics, but the narcolepsy is hitting just a bit to hard for me to figure it out right now.
Always offering gum and tic taks to everyone.
I once heard someone say that Debian is like the sound Dads make when getting off the couch. I’ve never felt so seen.
(I absolutely run Debian, lol)