Its like raaaaain on your wedding day

I wouldn’t 100% trust ai to blindly copy paste whatever it gave me into my terminal, but one of the beautiful things about Linux is the ability for you to get tech help via cli.

I have older relatives that ask me for their problems with windows and I’m actually hitting dead ends with them more and more where due to lack of vocabulary on their end and suffering through windows GUI you can’t really guide someone through a fix. That and more and more I’m becoming alienated from windows and don’t know what’s going on as much anymore.

If they had Linux I could just message them and give them terminal commands and it would be a lot easier for me to diagnose and give them a handful of terminal commands to copy paste. I’d still end up googling it but I could at least make it soooo much less painless then a face call/meeting app interaction where we both don’t know what windows did on the newest update.

Also unrelated side note windows shouldn’t allow refurbishers to sell old outdated laptops with windows 11 licenses if it breaks every update due to windows shitty hardware restrictions. Its like four times a year their laptop breaks and I forget how we fix it everytime.

My point was some technologies are made in such a way that they can only be immoral, or was made in a way where the only use from said technology is to do as much damage as possible. I am not sure we are on the same page.

Maybe in 1000 years we will find a use for all the land mines that are in the ground after wars. Its not the mines themselves that are immoral, its the people that lay the mines that are evil. We should leave the mines because they might serve a valueable purpose later and suddenly start saving lives. Despite the fact that mines are known as the most destructive vindictive thing you can do to acivilian population. They are only made to harm people, and often innocent people generations later long detatched from the original conflict.

If there was a machine that launched baby corpses at our targets, and required the blood of virgins to run and was only used to psychologically traumatize anyone who seen it, would my point be more clear? I could argue that sure maybe the machine isn’t technically immoral if you don’t run it. But we all know why the machine was made for, and I don’t see any reason to try to make a distinction between who is immoral when it seems pretty straight forward.

Sorry I’m one of those insufferable well aclhuuually guys we are kind of on the same page and arguing over words and how to use them when I can barely spell.

Decided to go with the mango 2, didn’t even know there was a second one now.

I don’t know automated turrets that target children in Gaza sounds pretty immoral. I could say the baby skull seeking bullets them selves aren’t nessisarly immoral but its the use of said bullets that makes them evil, but I don’t see the need to make a distinction.

Algorithms that face book used for no reason other than to make you feel depressed to sell more ads feels pretty immoral too. Systems and tools developed to perpetuate slavery, is another one.

There’s so much technology that was explicitly made for evil intent that serves no purpose outside of its original intent, where I feel I can blanketly call it immoral.

Don’t even bother. Between me getting a bigger phone and changing keyboard apps I’m only going to progressively get worse as the predictive text remembers more and more of my mistakes. That and I’m illiterate

No one here is ever going tell you to appeal the ban or return to reddit. If you are looking for advice how to get unbanned or what else you can do this is not the place.

If you are mad and looking to vent, and go off on how much you hate reddit… Then welcome home.

I have a mango but its kind of showing its age, what’s a decent modern one these days?

As someone who’s anti ai this is the usecase I’ve always kind of advocated for with open source models.

Its conflicting because it still seems to be done by frontier models, and I’m not exactly happy with my monkeys paws wish.

I’ve always been against the idea of IP rights and thought all things should be a open source platform everyone can work from. Cars, computers, phones whatever. But I never really envisioned a model that consumed everything and destroyed everything else in the process.

I don’t like the idea of frontier models profiting off the direct theft of other companies work that is also destroying them. Its much different when you or I slap up a github page with our own open source model on our own hardware, and create a project that often we are consumed by and plan on maintaining it. I don’t like a world where now we even don’t get options in software, because even software as a service is a dead end. I don’t want to have to spend 5 grand and monthly fees to claud just so I can vibe code my own apps because no one makes them anymore. Its either that or I’m sifting through hundreds of thousands of abandoned vibe coded apps with almost identical code, besides whatever “unique” features the vibe coder thought they where adding. It will feel like looking for the one alarm app that isnt shit in the google playstore out of millions.

And whatever we make with it isn’t really ours, we are just feeding a machine that needs a exponentially infinite amount of data, who only benifit a microfraction of the population. Just bums me out.

I’m already ready for us to switch to temple os.

The only thing that makes sense is they are suggesting they can attack home assistant servers and use vulnerabilities in the smart home devices as a way in.

From there if your home assistant server has any decent power, or at least a npu then maybe it could do some self replication.

If they used my computer it would take 10+ hours before their ai produced anything worth while, and I would notice it getting hot and unresponsive before that point. They’re going to need to stream a 300gig model or whatever it is to me also and I just dont have the internet for that. Either that or force my computer to use all my free storage to hold the model to run locally.

Sure I guess it could happen but it seems impractical. If models that where capable didn’t require the infrastructure to run a city then I would be worried. But local models are kind of useless, a standard 16 gig GPU is the bare minimum to do things shittily. They want 128 gig vram ideally and then it can shit out code that is as good as free frontier models you would find on duck duck go. And those barely out put quality workable code. You would need an agent running itself for days.

Depends on use case. The way I see it is that if its sensitive or requires specific software I want something stable. When first started woth linux I used Ubuntu things never really broke until the next LTS patch then I started getting programs that wouldn’t update to the newest version, or the version I needed was only in the last LTS.

With gaming nothing of value ever lives on a gaming rig, I expect for it to get messy (with app comp data, cache, proton varaints, numerous windows directories etc) to the point reinstalling feels easier, and I only ever need to download games from gog/steam. But with rolling release I actually see frequent updates for nvidia GPUs and I think they are making actual improvements more and more. I’ve never had an update break stuff on me like it has with Ubuntu has, but I haven’t used a rolling release long enough or in the same way to get the feeling for what people mean by rolling releases are more likely to break your system.

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If its just a gaming PC you really don’t need much outside of the discover store, steam, and a web browser so its fine and probably just a safe move especially if its a shared PC.

Its only really annoying if your gaming rig is your main rig too.

I thought the immutability was the reason it was peoples choice over a distro like cachyos.

My cat is extremely suspicious of the three water fountains we bought for him thinking it was just the design he didn’t like. He also refused to eat from the automatic feeder after it went off when he was eating from it.

I don’t know how impactful those are, and I think a person with access to a decent metal shop could pose more danger.

What is it just the access that’s scary then? As a guy that doesn’t know guns, you often hear things like a potato or a water bottle can be made into a makeshift surpressor or turning a single fire into a sensative rapid fire trigger is trival. So I’m just not understanding why 3d printers are almost entirely linked to making guns in everyone’s minds. When I first got a elgoo that was the first thing people would jokingly ask if I was going to make one.

Like maybe I can understand the argument that access is so low anyone can do it, but even then you can’t just download a gun. The person who is doing this already bought gun parts and knows how to assemble them. This is not going to stop that kind of person from building a gun in any form. The gun is still the metal parts you buy online. A silencer, a trigger mod, whatever is useless until you handle ghost guns.

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I’m not a gun guy but from my understanding of ghost guns you pretty much buy the whole gun online in parts, and you just 3d print a handle.

So I don’t understand why people are so afraid of 3d printing when it really has minimal to do with the final product. From what I can tell you can’t just 3d print a gun from start to finish like its a llm. You still have to buy the actual gun parts from the manufacturer. To me this sounds completely unrelated and like a issue with regulating gun parts.

You can carve a handle out of soap, wood, or buy a solid chunk of plastic and its the same result.

The way the speak of democratizing skill reminds me of how in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” they made us read of school.

Essentially to make everyone equal they have to handicap others who are smarter.

In our world we are moving towards that unintentionally. In order to make everyone equal that means the access and use of all said tools must be equal too.

In our world we are slowly dismantling all systems of production to replace it with llms. In the future the epstine class wants for us no one will have access to Photoshop or Godot they will only have ai terminal to interact with. Everyone’s equal now and has equal access to approved information, and equal access to said tools. Yet there is no opritunity for thought, intelligence, creativity outside of said tool. You are capped by what information you are presented and what capabilities the tool allows you to have. People who have the capacity to think outside the box are now restrained by an artificial barrier with no real outlet.

Sure in reality there’s always going to be a separate carve out on the internet where people will still access non-ai tools. But we are those people lol, and I wouldn’t say the fediverse is nessisarly thriving. There’s something like .01% of google search users ever hit page 2 on search results, people are just going to use what ever ai tool or popular service is trending.