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  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • I guess? I only use Google at work though so not too familiar. But still hits my issues with llms, also it’s forced in Google I believe.

  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • I’ve unfortunately noticed that as llms have gotten more traction that search engines in my experience have gotten worse. Sometimes I have to do like 2 or 3 searches to get the exact right articles that actual relate to what I’m looking for. In the contrary llms are great for asking a question directly, and figuring out exactly what you’re looking for and then going to a search engine and doing some research on your own. It would be nice if there was a way to somehow combine the two without the ridiculously egregious environmental and intellectual issues with llms.

  • Can anyone explain why?

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  • There’s part of it but also anecdotally a lot of us are aware that alcohol in pretty much any quality has negative effects and therefore don’t drink at all. There’s a lot less pressure to drink than in expect there was for other generations, it’s pretty normal for me to meet other people who prefer not to drink.

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    What's a good slur for people who are all-in on Big Tech / surveillance capitalism / data-harvesting?

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  • US dollar sinks to its lowest level in four years

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  • Thanks for the response. So what does an individual do in response to impending inflation? Convert money to assets? Convert to a different currency?

  • US dollar sinks to its lowest level in four years

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  • For what purpose?

  • Does anyone have any advice for young adults that are struggling in life?

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  • As a fellow young adult who feels like they’re still figuring out wtf is going on I’ve found having outlets is good. It’s certainly not as easy to have free time where you have the mental energy to engage with something even if you want to but spending time and commiserating with others or doing a hobby very casually is good. I definitely struggle with letting some of my hobbies that I used to be extremely competitive/highly skilled at decrease in importance and having my ability reduced slightly. I don’t think there’s really a 1 size fits all answer.

  • Listen up, fellas

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  • Honestly at this point I’d take it. I mean seems like an absolute win.

  • After the US attack on Venezuela, will Cuba’s economy survive?

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  • Do you mean this literally? When did this happen?

  • You wouldn't want Premium for free, would you?

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  • lol this is untrue, I use iOS mostly because Google sucks. I also use macOS, and Linux, and I like open source. Unless you use grapheneos the android and iOS debate or moral superiority for either side is pointless. Plus Google is going the way of Apple slowly anyway in regards to open source

  • But think of the landlords!

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  • 500k? Dang that’s a bargain!

  • They don't pay me enough for this

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  • How about “upstream changes without telling you”

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  • What would a modern Middle Ages look like i wonder. I feel like tech and modern weaponry makes it much more ominous

  • Wasting your life because you just can't let it go

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  • Every time I go to work on a personal project, “ah yes this could be rewritten more optimally” and then proceed to make no progress.

  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • The issue is that qt looks out of place on gnome and vice versa for gtk. You don’t see the issue because you don’t care about ui consistency as much as i do. That’s totally fine. We’re different people with different opinions. That’s the great part about open source. Yes I understand these people have lives outside programming, I do as well. I’m appreciative of the work that people do on many of the big projects and tools that I use. But that’s not going to stop me from wanting or hoping that things will get better. I of course would like to have more designers involved in more open source projects. Also in regard to funding where do you think it’s gonna come from? If people don’t want stuff like a way to develop for multiple frameworks then why would there ever be funding? The only way to get stuff is for a lot of people to want something and to work towards it. Me advocating for this has nothing to do with “demoralizing developers.” Again I’m not going to those devs and saying “rewrite this” I’m simply advocating for things that I think would be beneficial. There’s no reason I can’t do that. I’m not sure why you’re trying to gate-keep my opinion behind “how dare you not be thankful, go and write it yourself!” We can disagree about how much we think it’s important but I’m still going to have my opinion.

  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • Yes go and write them is the usual response to these and I understand the sentiment. But also one can’t rewrite many many complex apps by themselves. I understand people wanting to do whatever they want sure. My point is it wouldn’t be an issue as much if there wasn’t as much fragmentation. If it was easy to write for both qt and gtk at once then people wouldn’t have to complain about one or the other all the time. In order to have an actual change it has to happen as a community not as an individual. It’s great that people can write stuff in whatever they want, I like being able to try out different frameworks. But sometimes unification across the desktop is something some people want. I don’t think you can just invalidate what I’m saying with the just go write it then. It’s not like I’m going to devs GitHub’s and raising issues saying “write this in gtk right now!!!” And for the record I have the same problems with proprietary software too. I don’t use windows really except for work but it looks like dogshit and a cobbled together mess.

  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • Depends on your definition of winning. Lots of foss projects that look ugly and are not designed with ui in mind because it’s made by devs who are used to doing lower level stuff. Plus the fragmentation of qt and gtk. Winning would be easily building applications that could be native across DEs and actually look nice.

  • Heinously Unethical

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  • Yeah one reason among many why many black people (and maybe other poc?) don’t trust the healthcare system in the us.

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • Fedora for sure, generally pretty up to date, lots of users so you can find articles pretty easily, and it’s a lot more stable than Arch BTW