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GnuLinuxDude

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  • How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

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  • The AI in this case is, for all intents and purposes, using Copilot to write all the code. It is basically beginning to be promoted as being the first resort, rather than a supplement.

  • How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

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  • The linked article is interesting food for thought.

  • How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

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  • It definitely sounds like you’ve already decided to find AI useless regardless of what it can do

    On the contrary. I've seen impressive time-savers be accomplished with it, just as I've seen it fail at times. But it's not about finding it useless. It's about how I hate it, but also changing my mindset to effectively adopt it.

    Second, I’ve found it good at guided code reviews. It is no substitute for a real human review, but adding an AI pass before you open a pull request can knock off some of the low hanging fruit.

    We do this automatically, now, on pull requests

  • What programming language would you recommend for teaching to non-technical people that use a variety of different OSes?

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  • Since you said non-technical I definitely recommend Python. It is easy to install and easy to get going with. It is feature ful. It is generous. You can do really interesting things without sweating details like pointers and segfaults.

    If this was a technically minded crowd, especially students like in high school and in person, I would have said C

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • The proliferation of electron programs is what happens when you have a decade of annoying idiots saying "unused memory is wasted memory," hand-in-hand with lazy developers or unscrupulous managers who are externalizing their development costs onto everybody else by writing inefficient programs that waste more and more of our compute and RAM, which necessitates the rest of us having to buy even better hardware to keep up.

  • Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal

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  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • How did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • And in retrospect it's too bad more people didn't steal from Microsoft so that it failed as a business.

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • I've been a full time Linux user at home for over six years. It's why my username is what it is :)

    I can't say it's flawless. Sometimes you get what you pay for. But in most every significant way it is the better choice.

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • YES! Same!!!!

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • I have to use Windows 11 for work. Maybe this is because of CrowdStrike or something, I don't know, but I often encounter a problem where the main section of explorer, where you can actually click files and stuff, just breaks. That entire region becomes unclickable and unusable, even though the rest of the Explorer window (like the icons on the top part) all still work. So I just have to close the window and then reopen Explorer, re-navigate back to where I was, and proceed from where I left off.

    Never, in the decades I've been using computers, have I ever encountered something as stupid as this with this amount of regularity. Windows 11 is a uniquely bad OS compared to every competitor option, including prior versions of Windows.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • No matter how "cool" it is its primary purpose, first and foremost, is to generate spam. A trillion dollar industry, effectively, in the service of spamming our search results, inboxes, text messages, science journals, homework assignments, and so much more

  • help me wrap my head around bcachefs

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  • As for btrfs, I don’t use it because I’m an adult.

    This is a strange statement, because it's now a mature fs that works. It's even the default fs of the OS you're trying to use. But for the sake of experimentation, I can appreciate wanting to try something off the beaten path. And I generally agree about Oracle and, specifically, Larry Ellison.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • The announcement did not include Copilot? No mention of 300 useless AI features being shoved down our throats??!

    It's wild how by virtue of the fact that Valve isn't a publicly traded company beholden to shareholders, the same Valve which has a history of putting out half-baked goods and which has an always-on DRM client called Steam, seems poised to surpass most of its competitors both in the user privacy and hardware hardware spaces with just straightforward products. They have a product to sell, and that's it. They don't need to micro-optimize for bullshit like seemingly every other large tech company does.

  • help me wrap my head around bcachefs

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  • I hate to reply because I don’t have the answer to your question, just a remark which you may not care for: why bcachefs, especially on fedora server which has a rapidly advancing kernel? Bcachefs is out of the kernel tree. It is just going to be a constant maintenance burden on you to upkeep it with your server.

    Btrfs will support subvolumes, compression, nodatacow directories, and everything else you might want while not being a thing you have to manually keep up with.

    I would also not expect the fedora installer to have any support for bcachefs, because fedora doesn’t have support for it generally.

  • Sort your trash!

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  • I stopped buying BP products because of how terrible they are.

    What was the effectiveness of this? Was it "far more" than, say, regulation by a government?

  • Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections

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  • Propping up their economy with our money, but I haven't seen any news org yet call that foreign interference in an election.

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • Signal is good so far. Firefox is teetering on the edge, but it's also good so far (poor little fox). Lemmy and Mastodon are both great, but maybe that's EZ mode because they're built as alternatives to proprietary social media sites.

    I pay for ArsTechnica and I feel that I get a lot of value out of doing so. And keep in mind, being a paying subscriber of a service does not safeguard the service from enshittification, so that's quite great

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • I recently bought a replacement PC for my dad because of windows 11 (though his old computer was also over 10 years old so it was a somewhat fair upgrade, anyhow). Someone suggested I use Ninite to quickly bootstrap a lot of the programs he'd use and I was honestly surprised. It was genuinely no-nonsense and got the job done. A rare nice thing in Windows...