If I max out the ram and ssd space as much as is possible would that be as powerful or more than a Macbook pro of similar or lesser stats?

I'm too lazy to look up Lenovos current lineup of products. But atleast 10 years ago when i was somewhat knowledgable on that matter they already had tons of differing SKUs to water down the brand. The $2000 offerings were normally the T and X series. The business juggernauts. T's for the devs. X's for the departments who wanted a Macbook Air but werent allowed to have one from corporate for reasons(MS contract). I think there also was also the somewhat rare W-series with workstation GPUs for the engineers.

But Lenovo also branded the L and E series as thinkpads. Which were just shitty entry level laptops with the design cues of a "real" Thinkpad. Whats a "real" Thinkpad? Probably some IBM machine with a Pentium 3 processor if you ask an enthusiast.

Anyway, i made half of my post up.

Or they get auctioned off in bulk and some local guy resells them on facebook marketplace piecemeal making a quick buck.

Think pads get ordered by companies in bulk. After a few years, they get swapped out for a newer model. The old ones often get resold to a refurbishing company, and they test them and sell them refurbished for way less money. This happens a lot, so because they are refurbished and there's so many of them, prices are extremely low. I got like 6 of them for 200€ each. It's insane. So that explains the extremely cheap ones.

I could hypothesize that the price jump is because there's a gap between new and refurbished models, but tbh I don't really know and I also don't see that much of a jump. But that's kind of my theory. Hope that helps.

Are you talking about used ones? There are no new ones for less than a thousand.

The aesthetic is not the problem. The problems are numerous and if you don't know what they are I'd emplore you to educate yourself. And if you do then shame on you.

I wanted to be very clear from the start how this project was made, so I disclosed the AI use front and center. I created it for myself and later thought it might be useful for others. I'm not asking anyone else to use it.

I will take your comment as a note that you don't care for the asthetic.

I'm anti AI. But I also know that it is a tool that has its uses. It's too bad corps are fucking that up.

Yes, if what you say is true, I would definitely try this out

a very large portion of this application was developed with heavy generative AI assistance

Yeah we can tell

Agreed, older software that's still around got that way for a reason.

My focus here was more about the guided setup and diagnostic experience. Setting up NUT involves getting about 4-5 different services configured correctly and talking to each other with many different poorly documented configuration files. I wanted to build something that could go from plugging in a UPS, to a fully working monitoring dashboard, in about 3 clicks. I wasn't able to find something that did anything even remotely close to that, so this is what I came up with.

I appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you!

I generally have good success with old software that looks like it's last overhaul was in the 90s... No idea how that's with NUT software... But usually those solutions are very customizable and pretty much indestructible. They've done their job for the last 30 years and unless there's some nasty stuff like a migration from Python2 to Python3 in the way, they'll probably run for another 20 years to come.

GPL is not a political manifesto. It is a license.

I think you are injecting a lot of politics into that entire mailing list because of the social warrior wording. But the man has the right to defend a decision he made... About his software... In a mailing list... About his software. And as a leader it is his goal to keep his team on the same page, so I thought it was really well written: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI.

Why exactly does social warrior bother you so much? Is that seriously all it was to make all the accusations and insinuations in your blog post?

The moment you pick the term “social warrior”, you are already in politics...That isn’t neutrality.

You insinuate that he took bribes, or did I read that wrong to?

Maybe he’s being paid to be nice to a specific company. There is a lot of money in this world, and there isn’t a stack left that doesn’t want to influence Linux.

No?

I can’t prove it, and I hope I’m wrong.

Again, it seems to me like you are trying to discredit the founder of Linux and thus Linux as a whole. I think you are trying to sow discontent where there is none and using the word choice of "social warrior" to do so. I don't see any valuable insight in the entire blog post just a bunch of accusations/insinuations directed at a man I respect. Based on what exactly? Word choice and Marxism? What a fucking load. He does not deserve to have his code, contributions, and decades of work boiled down to 'a political tool'. The philosophical ideas to support your own conclusions are so stretched and twisted that it seems to me like you've invented a whole new way to be afraid of something.

What are you talking about?

Linus contribution is here, I respect then. If this isn't clear.

[…] We are talking about smart people with a genuine passion for hardware and enough time to learn a genuinely hard language. […]

GPL is a political manifesto, so software is political, and the usage of "social warrior" slang goes on a specific direction. Which again is political. And my question. There is nothing regarding the LLM usage, and this wasn't the focus.

So please read the blog post and stop spreading missinformation. You are doing a bad service to this community.

Right... Go ahead... Explain again how you are reducing the over twenty years of work that Linus has done for the Linux community to a "political tool". And yet I'm the one spreading misinformation? Right.

We're all terrible developers because Claude is patching all our slop. Are you intentionally not paying attention to the massive amount of security patching happening this year?

I have a feeling you probably arent keeping up with whats going on, and you telling someome they are a terrible developer doesn't have a lot of weight behind it.

Reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

cool slur

So by your logic, if you cant code better than Claude, you're a terrible programmer. Got it.

Guess I better let Claude code for me then. Dont want to add additional humanSlop code.

Hey thanks for the extra engagement. But you clearly haven't read the blog, which is beyond stupid when linking to another topic.

This is a quote from the blog regarding my respects for the maintainers. And I deeply respect then.

[...] We are talking about smart people with a genuine passion for hardware and enough time to learn a genuinely hard language. [...]

So @one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world if you have EVER read the blog you would know my respect for the project. Stop spreading missinformation.

I NEVER said that the problem was on the LLM usage, on the contrary, my focus is on the other part of the statement. Another quote from the blog, regarding the phrase used.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. [...]
Then he says this…

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side benefit, not the point of the project.

This is NOT some kind of “social warrior” project, never has been, and never will be.1

The first quote is a tantrum. The second one is the problem, and it’s bigger than he seems to realize.

[...]

The vibe coder panic is a distraction. The real trouble is the other half of the sentence

I highlighted the part that bothered me enough to write about it, since you probably need help to understand words in a blog @one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world

So stop the missinformation. Want to attack me, feel free. Do it, I couldn't care less. But spreading wrong or missinformation, this is the point were I think a community can't accept.

Have a nice day, and thanks for the extra link for the blog, helps with the engagement.

I was actually thinking Pivot To AI, who seems to maintain a shitty blog, patreon (of course) and even a Lemmy community (where you seemingly get banned without debate if you disagree with them.. And then abused after you can banned). Rather than doing any actual programming it looks like, they just write articles attacking programmers.

That's actually why I wrote this, as I felt there was no right of reply, and I suspect he was knowingly providing deceptive information for personal gain, financial gain and attention. At the very least, banning someone, and then abusing them after they can't comment/respond is so childish lol

The implication he seemed to be making too (or that his readers seemed to gather it seems), was that the recent changes would mean that kernel code potentially goes straight through AI to the kernel.. And that is a blatant lie that has deviated so far from the truth. There was seemingly no attempt in that article (the parts I read) on educating how the process works

There are so many completely valid arguments that could be made against AI, so, it's completely unnecessary for him to deceive, spread misinformation and bullshit people. Either that, or he needs to actually learn what the fuck he's talking about

Yeah, bad actors like @Shin@piefed.social with his utter nonsense post: Linus and Linux as a Political Tool.

There's a wide difference between being "chill" and letting yourself (and/or others) be raked without consideration.

And, tbh, Linus is not even that old to be able to use that as an excuse. He was born in '69 - he's barely older than I am. Eduardo Artés was born in 1951 and is actively fighting technofascism, fronting everything from social unrest to presidential campaigns.

The Linux kernel has existed for 30+ years. It's not getting slopified any time soon.

Good god.

Systemd is an absolute godsend for people like me.

Destroying trust in the Linux kernel, for one.