16
Another month, another chat-thread [General chat thread] (pawb.social)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/furry@pawb.social
48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The next episode of our monthly chat + feedback thread.

No matter what topic, if you want to talk about it then just write it in a comment :)

Last month was uneventful for me, so I don't have a comment this time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (28 children)

I am so glad to have swum into this new furry based Lemmy instance! It has been a nice change of speed for me...Since my recent awakening to an Anthrosona that I have not thought about for 43 years. Which is a Basking Shark, a rare thing in the community, I've noticed! On that front, I have been writing a bit to figure out the true nature of my Anthrosona (which is my account name, btw).

Anyway, some things have been happening for me: I am taking a Python Certification course so I can learn Python and actually write code (which won't be rickety and flimsy). On the gaming front, I've been playing a mix of Vintage Story, some shooters like Metro 2033 Redux, replaying Cyberpunk 2077 (as a trans man V).

Another thing: In the wake of some bad tech news (more open source peeps are wanting to use or are using AI in the dev workflows). Instead of being sad, I just changed my whole email provider (from Tuta to Posteo). Kicked LibreOffice out of my productivity loop (using Apostrophe, a Markdown editor and Bibisco for writing), as my needs aren't particularly complicated I am not noticing any holes in my current choices.

Tried to install Gentoo Linux on my current solo laptop, alas that failed, so I had to stick with Garuda Linux (Sway Edition, BTW). It's still a pretty nice set-up but...I wish that I wasn't so weirdly goofy when it comes to doing more complex installs. Perhaps one day, I will install a slightly more complicated Linux distro with an unslopped init system. ROFL Perhaps trying to install Chimera Linux is more my speed as it is far simpler than Gentoo and not slopped up! I would just have to learn to work with musl libc.

I also voted today, that was nice, and it makes me happy to do my part in making sure that things don't become worse. Things have been mostly chill with the exception of some stressful feelings here and there, but nothing that I can work through!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 28 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (23 children)

    Never heard of this type of shark before, but in the shark category I've seen quite a lot of people use a shark / hybrid shark fursona. But anyway, welcome to the community.

    Good luck for your course, I hope you will like it. I didn't know you could chose trans-man as a gender in Cyberpunk 2077.

    I saw this trend happening, I don't know what to think about it. Why did you choose to changed fril Tuta to Posteo ? I use ONLYOFFICE instead of LibreOffice, but otherwise I just type everything in markdown (I use Beaver Notes), even before posting long comments / post / message on anything.

    I use to have Lubuntu before switching back to Winslop (for academic reason), in the mean tile I tried different distros (mostsly Arch based) and when I recently switched back to Linux, I started with CachyOS before breaking everything and now I use Bazzite (I can't be trusted with too much power).

    Oh nice, that's a great job, especially considering that where I live only 40% of people actually vote. The main reason to why people don't vote is because they don't know who to vote for. Nice that things have been chill, it's always a good time when nothing bad is happening.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 23 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)

    Never heard of this type of shark before, but in the shark category I’ve seen quite a lot of people use a shark / hybrid shark fursona. But anyway, welcome to the community.

    Basking Shark is rarely talked about, as they aren't scary, they are gentle giants that only accidentally can hurt a diver. They tend to be very passive, dive deep, and breech the ocean's surface like whales (for unknown reasons). A fascinating species as they are one of the few that are filter feeding sharks. Thank you for the warm welcome! I thought about being a hybrid, but found myself quickly realizing that I feel exclusively shorky (mostly a gentle giant).

    Good luck for your course, I hope you will like it. I didn’t know you could chose trans-man as a gender in Cyberpunk 2077.

    Well, it is more about emulating the trans man experience as he...Hasn't had bottom surgery but top surgery that was the vibe that I was going for! You can choose mismatching gender expressions. But still be considered technically male or female.

    I saw this trend happening, I don’t know what to think about it. Why did you choose to changed fril Tuta to Posteo ?

    Tuta expressed an interest in AI and using it in the workflows, forgetting that programmers before them have used handwritten automation to automate boring repetition for other aspects of their project. They just want to use AI and I find that to be nasty AF. Posteo, because of their commitment to being Climate conscious, won't ever have that heel turn. So I chose them instead.

    I use to have Lubuntu before switching back to Winslop (for academic reason), in the mean tile I tried different distros (mostsly Arch based) and when I recently switched back to Linux, I started with CachyOS before breaking everything and now I use Bazzite (I can’t be trusted with too much power).

    At the beginning of my journey, I learned to break stuff and fix it...So I can be trusted to use Garuda Linux Sway Edition, BTW (Arch-Based) it is less prone to breaking. Unlike CachyOS which is known (according to my Linux peeps I talk to regularly) to experience kernel panics and other weird issues. Bazzite is nice too, but they are liking the whiff of AI that they are getting. Which is a shame, I prefer to stay away from slopped distros. Right now, it's a weird time for Linux. I hope we get through this rough patch.

    Oh nice, that’s a great job, especially considering that where I live only 40% of people actually vote. The main reason to why people don’t vote is because they don’t know who to vote for. Nice that things have been chill, it’s always a good time when nothing bad is happening.

    My small town/city is pretty chill so it isn't often a target of tomfoolery...So the voting went smoothly, I happened to research everyone before going to vote because you can pull up sample ballots beforehand. I take my time and get informed...Because MAGA and GOP use uninformed voters as weapons. I do not want to be a weapon to be used. I will work against those types any day of the week.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 22 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (21 children)

    That's interesting facts about shark. I heard that most of them wouldn't hurt humans unless they are threatening them.

    Oh I see, yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be a game with a lot of possibility as you can modify your body through the game.

    I see, can be very annoying. Although, Infomaniak do have a commitment to climate and yet they still have their own AI chatbot.

    There's two different version of Bazzite from what I see, one of them have been vibecoded from the open-source code and the other, is, well, not vibe-coded apparently. That's what I saw online.

    I only take an interest in politic once I get the posters to convince you to vote for someone. Otherwise I don't care about it at all and prefer to avoid it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 21 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (20 children)

    That’s interesting facts about shark. I heard that most of them wouldn’t hurt humans unless they are threatening them.

    Well, there are a few that you'd have to be concerned about like tiger sharks, bull sharks, oceanic white tips, occasionally great whites (if you happen to look like their preferred prey). Generally sharks don't attack people unless it is mistaken identity, one acts as prey, or you invade a shark's personal space and don't know to back off in time. Others will eat just about anything because food is scarce or in the case of tiger sharks...They will literally just eat anything because their teeth aren't specialized for any particular prey. Humans are on the menu, if said human is not careful.

    Oh I see, yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be a game with a lot of possibility as you can modify your body through the game.

    One thing that I love about Cyberpunk 2077 is the flexible nature of the character creator, it's powerful and cool. Has a lot of nice choices for how you shape your actual in-game character. Even though, you never see your character outside of certain situations as this is a first-person game.

    I see, can be very annoying. Although, Infomaniak do have a commitment to climate and yet they still have their own AI chatbot.

    There is a thing called Greenwashing and I feel that Infomaniak is engaging in that, wouldn't surprise me as this is one of the many tactics that corpos use to peddle their filth. Posteo actually gives a shit by being committed to not using AI at all, and not allowing users to use so called AI Agents with their service!

    There’s two different version of Bazzite from what I see, one of them have been vibecoded from the open-source code and the other, is, well, not vibe-coded apparently. That’s what I saw online.

    That is news to me, as they were put on a watch list about being slopped and there being no alternative...So that means, that I might need to investigate it. However, I couldn't really use an immutable distro anyway. As common container dependencies that make it easier to run software in mini-distros...are slopped. Things like Podman, Docker, are using Claude and other chatbot prompt slop to develop. Which wouldn't ever be needed with projects of their nature. It's just tragic that they get a whiff of AI and are addicted.

    I only take an interest in politic once I get the posters to convince you to vote for someone. Otherwise I don’t care about it at all and prefer to avoid it.

    As much as I would prefer to ignore politics, that will catch up with me and others that I would want to be protected if I am not careful. So, I tend to participate by engaging reasonably and avoiding overwhelming myself. The nature of politics is woven deeply into human culture...It's not something that can be ignored, without consequences as politics informs a lot of worldviews, workplace practices, even open source projects. Look at the wildfire spread of slop within the open source scene.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 20 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (19 children)

    Well, guess I still am a good snack 😅

    Well, I don't mind playing fpg with great character customisation, it's like irl, you can customise yourself and yet not see it except in certain situation.

    I don't know if Infomaniak is doing greenwashing, I haven't seen environment association complain about it. I reminds me of the search engine that plant a tree after a certain amount of search on their engine.

    Well, even if Bazzite turns out to be slopped, I won't really change it as it's very plug-and-use and I had no issues (besides the recording issue), but it's not just Bazzite apparently. But what I'd like is to see the implication of AI in the project, and how it's used. We do need transparency on this end.

    Yeah, I do agree with you, the issue is that no group satisfy me and you easily get insulted for participating in one. So I stay out of it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 19 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (18 children)

    Heh, we all are snacks situationally out in the wilds where we aren't native! ROFL

    Yeah, character customization is just lovely, the more robust the better in my opinion. As being able to express a hidden self in a video game is also a nice thing to be able to do. Or just be someone different than your normal self.

    On the matter of Infomaniak: without doing proper research on the matter, it is a hedged guess on my part. All I know is there is no ethical use of AI as it is trained on stolen data, AI powers surveillance capitalism, and is actively being used in a movement to disenfranchise skilled laborers and creatives due to a profit motivation by the ultra rich.

    On the Bazzite issue: That is your choice, I only mentioned it to get your opinion on the matter. As you know where I stand, I won't repeat it.

    Yeah, I don't get insulted easily; but I do get annoyed when minority groups are attacked needlessly because they are being used as a target for pushing political agendas. I pay close attention to what is going on due to this, making sure people are getting needlessly pulled into the crossfire.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 18 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (17 children)

    Yeah, I really like this part of gaming

    From what I saw, Infomaniak use the heat generated by data centers to heat up buildings. Also, on the funny topic of profit motivation, there's been a recent trend where people use generative AI to reverse engineer software that need subscription to make them open-source and available for free. But yeah, there's also the darker part where people are getting replaced by it. I don't like the fact that it's used for surveillance and is trained on stolen data, but it's not just capitalism that use it for surveillance (e.g : China).

    For Bazzite, the confusion comes from multiple things : there independent projects and tools developed by community members that run on or integrate with Bazzite that are vibecoded, but the code for Bazzite have been reviewed multiple times. Its official GitHub repository shows approximately 8,400 commits, with a large number of contributors and pull requests, which would be very unusual if it was vibecoded. Bazzite uses established Linux component (based on Fedora Atomic) and its maintainers announced collaboration with the Open Gaming Collective in January 2026. Some tools created by the members of the community that are associated with Bazzite are indeed vibecoded, but it's not the case for the distro.

    If people were not trying to be unrespectful but would talk to each other in a peaceful way, we sure would get way more less issues.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 17 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (16 children)

    Yeah, character customization makes me happy...Gets me immersed into a title.

    I will have to look into Infomaniak myself, as I am still uncertain about them myself. A company can do good things to mask the not so great things going on in the background...I won't make up my mind yet. Honestly, I just view the GenAI vibe-coding of software to be slop, the use of the hard work of others (often scraped from open source projects) to fuel a not healthy movement in open source. I will not be touching a single one of those tainted warez, a funny note is that the corpo made and peddled models are already coming out with restrictions to stop people from doing this. Because, that would mean corporations would be facing the consequences of their own actions, as they have abused their customers for years. It does give me the ick, but, this is a natural consequence of tech that was pushed to market way too fast without actually considering the ramifications of doing so. China and other countries are essentially doing a nasty surveillance and likely cyber-crime related stuff true, but with their own economic system powering it (despite them losing money on AI).

    I feel very much like a Luddite in many respects about technology; I can't see anything good about the current state of so called AI (really gassed up LLMs), it's causing too much damage and that our political systems cannot fully restrain because politicians aren't able to keep up with or are being bought by the technofascist elite. I think that I will never see anything positive about the tech, even if they do clean it up. As...The ability to exploit, manipulate, generate so much nastiness within a short span of time is disturbing.

    Unfortunately, there are also a lot of projects that do indeed have some elements of vibe-coding/or LLM-assisted programming. The Linux Kernel itself is being tinkered with using LLMs, that spreads a taint to every distro by default (at least those who use the mainline kernel). Even systemd is being developed using LLMs, most distros incorporate that init system within them, so that also is another source of taint. Which is why I had been trying to install Gentoo, while they do use a slightly older kernel...Their default init system, OpenRC has a no AI commitment. I might try to find another distro that is at least a bit easier to install and without systemd so I can feel less awful about using Linux. Maybe, Chimera Linux (and eat the musl libc tax). The reason why I say taint, is because I worry about the code being generated, how it cannot be properly licensed and it will add technical debt over time. People might not be able to explain or understand that code in the future when LLMs will possibly be abandoned.

    Not a good look to be honest, with Bazzite I found two instances of direct use of Copilot. Copilot Use One, ujust commit and Copilot Use Two, feat(portal). I could probably find more if I tried, but, they are clearly eager to use Copilot for things that a person can easily do. It would just be 'boring'. This is the direct distro which is built using ublue-os (the foundation of Bluefin and Aurora immutable distros too as Bazzite is directly related to both of them), fundamental parts of Bazzite being affected by LLMs (often called AI). But again, I don't use Bazzite, so no skin off my nose.

    Yeah, I think kindness will go a long way towards making life easier. Just having low cortisol discussions. Like, I hope that I am not talking in a charged way in this case. I am sharing what occupies my mind on occasion. ROFL Ugh, it is a strange time to be alive.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 16 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (15 children)

    You really think that corpo putting restrictions are gonna stop them ? China make far more efficient models than them that are open-source, it's just a matter of time before prompter use an open-source model to do it (that's if Sam didn't take their RAM). In some instances, I'm happy to see companies facing what they've been pushing for turning back to them, even if I won't be using vibecoded software (cause from experience it's not reliable and full of mistakes). I just want the AI bubble to explode and genAI companies to close the doors (except for the one that actually are useful, but their super niche and nobody know about them, plus it probably won't be what you think about).

    I think the development of LLM should have been stopped long ago. This way we wouldn't have something that put humanity in danger and we could have find a use for it as its performances would be very restrictive (no be able to spy on people and need a lot of guidance to be useful while saving on ressources).

    I thought that what Linus said about the use of LLM for Linux would have helped to keep away this kind of thing.

    I have no idea what those use are about. I'm not a tech nerd, the best I do is HTML. I just hope they won't be using LLM to make future updates and develop the system. I still need it to be reliable and not cause issues on my hardware (compared to my previous experience with Arch lol).

    It's hard to tell with text, which can be both be a good and bad thing. I try to understand text with the least amount of emotion as I don't want to think wether the person that sent the message was sangry or not. So far it has worked well, but sometime it needs a lot of energy and effort to read objectively. Also, it always has been a strange time to be alive.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 15 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (14 children)

    While Corpos are pretty desperate for LLMs, putting enough roadblocks, costs, and other barriers in place will deter them. The profit seeking fools will chase a new god to bring them everlasting wealth, as they always have. Eh, China also makes unsafe models and ones that lie about confirmed points in history that China doesn't like to acknowledge because it goes against their narratives. Propaganda through tech, but to the LLM lovers, their models are efficient and do run on lower spec machines easier. The bubble will burst because they can't sustain the momentum and financial investment that they've poured into this. It isn't making them money, it costs them money. NVIDIA is the only one who has actually made any profit out of this, because they sell the hardware needed for Data Centers. NVIDIA then invests in the ChudAI companies to keep them floating just above the disaster line. However, the parasites are panicking because not enough people are paying the prices needed to keep this whole sham afloat. They are hemorrhaging capital at a rate which makes investors wary.

    Yeah, I think LLMs should've been used for their original purpose: The processing of language, understanding how it is used, etc. The current usage that the corpos are using it for are...Disturbing and honestly aren't going to help humanity overall, its just a big grift and that makes me sad. They are trying to find a way to channel skill into their hands and deprive the skill of wealth, it's become a Torment Nexus of disenfranchisement, spying, misinformation, disinformation all in one. A very useful thing for those with ill intentions, malicious actors immediately leapt upon those things and wreak havoc with gassed up LLMs.

    Linus, was naturally wrong, I think he is probably in the early stages of AI induced psychosis...It hasn't reduced his ability and technical skill yet. But I fear it will in time, the more he trusts gassed up LLM outputs. It already shows with his mandates for Kernel Development, it is open season for technofascists behind AI.

    Personally, I am more of a troubleshooter, that does have a kind of ability with figuring stuff out (reading documentation + reading the error messages) who is also learning Python, I will learn C as well. I have been using Garuda Linux (Arch-based, BTW) it's pretty solid and wonderful, save for the bane of systemd. I can't say that it isn't problem free for me, as I have a lot of small but resolvable issues (often taking no more than an hour of reading and a few minutes of pinpointing and implementing the fix). However, immutable distros are fairly solid too, it is just a shame that Bazzite got compromised as well. But, it is what it is. As long as it doesn't completely become a vibe-coded mess like Bluefin is transitioning into, you'll probably be fine for the time being. For me, I love them because there were ways of doing the same things you could on regular distros, so it was as if you were just using a regular distro (but you aren't). I think from a security perspective, they are really good. But the container dependencies need to be unslopped before I decide to install one again, because I don't want to have any AI touched thing on my computer.

    HTML is nerd sphere stuff, so you can't sell yourself short, it's just human readable like Python is (which Python can easily integrate with HTML for web stuff).

    Yeah, when I am typing rarely do I actually feel pressed or angry, I am just trying to state my opinions in a way that someone else can understand. Thinking with clarity and peace is honestly helpful to this end.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 14 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (13 children)

    I do hope their bubble will burst, a lot of people are saying it's happening, and I hope so. But if it's happening, it might last for long. And I think Nvidia is in a bad position since the reveal of the CEO of the company has cheated on his wife with a Chinese spy.

    What you mentionned, funningly enough, reminds me of Linus takes on privacy. And yet every privacy conscious people use Linux. But yeah, I'm scared of LLM ruining Linux.

    Yeah I do understand your point. I don't really like to read entire logs of messages and prefer to know where to look and how to understand it.

    I was saying that cause to me and most people I know, HTML is the most basic thing when it comes to programming, I've never really learned python even though it's easily understandable.

    I listen to metal, often it helps to get the anger out, my sounds like a paradox but it does work for me.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (12 children)

    Their bubble was unsustainable from the beginning, it was doomed to fail...But it might have bigger consequences than they'd imagine. Someone might suffer worse than others in this case. NVIDIA is probably the best in terms of cash flow, a small scandal like that won't hurt them terribly, despite it being worrying. I doubt he ever invited the spy to his actual office. And if he did...Well, that would be a real problem.

    Yeah, Linux can actually be useful for those who are seeking privacy, as there are configuration options which can help protect it. While LLMs might ruin the mainline Kernel and most distros through dependencies. There are independent distros doing their best to act as a wave break! There are microkernels and other alternative kernels that can be harnessed to lessen the damaging blow that an old dude that has lost his fucking mind can do.

    HTML and CSS might be basic, but they enable the whole pretty display of the web...Simplicity can be powerful and you shouldn't sell yourself short just because of that.

    Yeah, it takes time and effort to read, to pick out the pieces, etc. It's a chore but...Eh, I just wanted to present it to you. To show I wasn't just talking out of my butt.

    I love metal for that very reason, any music that matches the negative mood I feel, it relaxes me. It's a healthy vehicle for my emotions that I cannot express, lets them be channeled out in a peaceful way that doesn't disturb anyone!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (11 children)

    Yeah, they were for the AI team from the beginning, of course they made a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprise if the spy went to Nvidia's office tho...

    But then, it would be dangerous as the mainline kernel might get a lot of vulnerabilities fix that might not be the case for the microkernels, unless there's something I'm missing of course.

    I don't know, I should really put my head back into HTML and finish my website before I publish it online.

    Yeah, I understand, I like to read documentation, except when I can't understand them (which happen 80% of the time). It's part of the reason on how I can't fix things myself.

    Metal and dubstep are seen as violent, so I'm used to people not recommending those styles to calm you down as it "drives people violent" (not sure about that, at least I didn't dig into it). But I do listen to rock and lofi more often than I listen to metal and dubstep.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

    Yep, NVIDIA were behind it, as they saw a chance to gain capital, prestige, investment, power, etc. Tale old as time shit.

    Fixes can be applied to microkernels just as much as the mainline kernel, the difference is that not as many people would be needed to maintain a microkernel. The scale is smaller and manageable, bugs, critical issues are easier to see and diagnose. Complexity scales down in that case, the Mainline Kernel is massive and complex, makes it harder to work with which is why there are so few large kernels out there as it takes a lot of manpower to maintain them.

    Yeah, I feel like you should when you are ready to do HTML and get your website online!

    I like to read documentation too, I also sometimes understand it after giving it a few reads. Looking up unfamiliar words. I am used to implementing fixes in my distros by now (previously Windows as well, where it was harder because the Windows Registry is fucking shit). Arch is basically easy mode at this point. I encounter very few things that I cannot fix easily. But my installed software and dependencies isn't that complicated so...It is easy to manage.

    While Metal and Dubstep are seen as violent (the lyrics can sometimes be) I don't feel they are inherently. They are just charged forms of expression, passionate, which gives them an edge that most forms of music don't have. I listen to almost all forms of music outside of most rap and country. I like Orville Peck for Country, and a select few rap artists, but not many.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (9 children)

    I still remember when Nvidia said they were gonna stop carrying about gamers, I got scared that AMD turns into Intel, but no, they still don't have the monopole and Nvidia still continue to make gamers' GPU.

    I see, I do hope the best for every kernel. One day Linux will be the perfect kernel Linux is the perfect kernel, just need it not to turn into shit and be secured.

    I did HTML before, I just haven't practiced in two~three month, which is concerning when you want to make a website. I don't even remember what I have to finish on my website.

    For Arch it's a good thing that the wiki and documentation is complete and well explained, but when I want to fix something, sometimes I just don't want to spend 2h or 3h reading docs and trying to fix it. And sometime asking people for help is also one of the biggest loss of time I did.

    I don't listen much to rap, sometime, but not often. I probably listen more to metal than I listen to rap. And I don't listen to country at all.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Yeah, I remember it to which is why I basically decided to say, "Screw NVIDIA!" and basically can't be bothered with them anymore. If they can easily forget what made them popular due to a temporary gold rush...They can get buggered when the gold rush dies down. AMD is...Doing AMD things, classic not taking advantage of the situation and being cool AF. Instead, they are being weird as always. But at least we have open source drivers for their hardware so I don't find it as concerning as with NVIDIA. Intel...Well, I don't know about that one, they are being weird lately too.

    Yeah, I think there is a chance for every kernel but the mainline, until the AI bubble bursts, and the technical debt gets to be so great they have to simply reset the whole damn thing to fix it. The outliers are going to be a lot healthier because they aren't being developed using AI filth, and instead people power. Carefully, at a pace that makes the most sense for the team at hand. In languages they are familiar with. There will be no perfect kernel, but there will be good to great ones based on use case.

    Hmm, well, a refresher is always in order. I tend to do have an episode that leads to accidental forgetting to do the thing. I also document my stuff well enough that I know where I actually stopped in case of a long gap in-between what I was working on does happen. Maybe a good practice so that you may recall stuff in the future.

    Yeah, Arch is pretty good about that...With more experience, that troubleshooting gap can shrink. I dunno, it is up to you on that one. I won't try to convince you of anything. LOL Asking people for help can be the greatest boon or bane depending on the group.

    Yeah, Rap is a rare genre listen for me, the poetic element is mostly tainted with topics that don't particularly communicate interesting ideas or experiences to me, these days. Country is really only Orville Peck, as he is one of the few, that I can stand to listen to. He sings about really fascinating subject matter, that transcends the normal genre barrier for me, so this curious shork listens.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (7 children)

    I won't buy Nvidia stuff in the future, unless it's the least expensive (like it was the case for my actual computer). I did heard about a Chinese brand that's gonna try to sell in the western, the performance are not top of the line but worst it for the price.

    Yeah, still wish for the bubble to burst very soon, even though I doubt it will have an effect on people that use local LLM... (maybe it will, I don't know)

    I have lots of comments, that's not the issue, I understand myself...I just need to reread the entire code to understand what I mean. At some point I'll have so many comments that my code will be brain dead to understand 😹

    The only help I asked is to fix the OBS issue I have, but I doubt anybody will ever see my request at this point...

    Rap tend to be about, well, dehumanizing topics, so not very good for me. I should give it a try then 👀

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Yeah, that is the choice I decided upon as well. Just don't buy NVIDIA. I will likely settle on Intel and AMD because they both have open source drivers.

    No, it won't affect Local LLM use, but it will destroy the most offending usage which is corporate LLMs that power unsavory things, that has a knock on effect on the limiting the damage to open source.

    LOL Good luck, seems like you have a task ahead of you!

    Hmm..Yeah, OBS is something I haven't worked with firsthand so I have little knowledge on how to fix it personally. So I couldn't say either way. I might have seen it but breezed by it because immutable distros complicate matters a bit too much to make troubleshooting particularly easy.

    Rap does tend to be dehumanizing in subject matter, you just have to find the rappers who are rapping about topics that matter. Like breaking cycles of oppression, cool shit, etc. Hard to find given what is boosted by the music industry at the moment. I think Orville Peck in terms of country is the best (only starting point) he is so fascinating in terms of a singer/songwriter.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (5 children)

    I just want to go full AMD, multiplication of drivers = multiplication of risk of issues.

    At least that's a good thing.

    I do, indeed.

    It's not just OBS, but it's because it's on OBS that I found out about the issue.

    At the moment it's not the type of music that people do like, I hope it'll change.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

    Yeah, it is good to commit to a particular vendor to simplify your set-up so that you don't have...Driver conflicts which could be simple to difficult to solve. In my experience NVIDIA hasn't been the root of most of my difficult driver problems, it was always Windows (when I used it) providing me the wrong ones because a Microsoft chud believed they knew better than me. ROFL

    Yeah, it would be good if Corpo LLMs collapsed hard, fast, without mercy.

    Oofta, yeah, that is why I am keeping a strict schedule on my own education with Python so I don't get lost.

    Oofta, I didn't read too deep...But, I do hope that they fix that issue on Bazzite, as you might have to wait for a fix if you haven't already reported it to the Bazzite team.

    I think it is a mix of expectations and what people are conditioned to like, as rap started out with very different roots. It goes far back as the West African practice that combines: historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician into one person! Sad that current rappers are singing about the darkness, pain existing within communities instead of the hope, a desire for direct action and change.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

    Yeah, Winslop is called Winslop for a reason...

    I should commit to the same thing

    No, I didn't report it 😅

    Oh yeah, I did find some rap that wasn't being negative, but they aren't popular artist, so people don't know about them

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Tell me about Winslop ROFL, I used it for too long before being guided to the light of Linux.

    Heh, it is all about figuring out what type of schedule works best for you!

    Oofta, I would get on it!

    Yeah, it is hard to find but worth it. I really like some of the stuff that Bob the Drag Queen does. Amazing singer!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Same

    That's true

    I'll think about it

    I'll check their song too lol

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Heh, I am in heaven with my Arch-based distro...Peace has been found. Ugh, every time I have to touch the workplace computer which is Windows, I cringe.

    Indeed, that is always the fun part...Time for experimentation on learning schedules!

    If you wanna get a fix for it, you better put in a bug report for it...Oh oh oh!

    Yeah, I think you would like Bob the Drag Queen. She's mostly unserious and has great taste in fashion (but is of course woke as fuck in the best way).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    I am so glad to have swum into this new furry based Lemmy instance!

    Welcome to our cozy little community; glad you found us :)
    And please don't hesitate to create own posts about whatever Furry related. Being the one mostly flooding this comm gets a bit awkward with time ':D [this message is also for everyone who reads this comment]

    I also voted today

    Good and important action as a citizen ^^ Hope the US will develop back upwards in the future and that at least the bare minimum of justice is served.

    I am taking a Python Certification course

    Nice, learning programming can bring you many satisfying moments when a program or even better automation of tedious tasks work. ... after hours of cursing why the computer is doing what it is told and not what you want it to do :D
    (me suppressing rant about Python and weakly typed languages in general)

    Also coding never becomes less rickety, just rickety in a more sophisticated way.

    Cyberpunk 2077

    This week I noticed by accident that a new season of Edgerunners got released. I'm looking forward to watching it as I liked S1 (once I have the time for it ._. ).

    Tried to install Gentoo Linux on my current solo laptop

    Reminds me of when I was bored in online classes and started installing Gentoo in a VM. Took quite a while (because if Rust for Firefox) and in the end it didn't boot because I forgot to include the driver for the virtual disk in the kernel :D But I was able to change the type of virtual disk adapter and it did boot and run.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Welcome to our cozy little community; glad you found us :) And please don’t hesitate to create own posts about whatever Furry related. Being the one mostly flooding this comm gets a bit awkward with time ':D [this message is also for everyone who reads this comment]

    I will do just that, just taking my time on getting acclimated, making myself known on the instance!

    Good and important action as a citizen ^^ Hope the US will develop back upwards in the future and that at least the bare minimum of justice is served.

    It will take time to unbugger our current situation, decades likely but with constant effort and the will of the people working towards it. This issue will be solved and hopefully everyone in power responsible for this travesty in US Politics is going to be punished for their part.

    Nice, learning programming can bring you many satisfying moments when a program or even better automation of tedious tasks work. … after hours of cursing why the computer is doing what it is told and not what you want it to do :D (me suppressing rant about Python and weakly typed languages in general)

    My hopes are that it is the gateway to other programming languages like C, that will allow me to work with my computer and tell it, "No, this is what I need you to do. I want to use Python for web stuff/interacting with HTML and C eventually. As I have plans to shore up my own WM or customize Sway more to my liking!

    This week I noticed by accident that a new season of Edgerunners got released. I’m looking forward to watching it as I liked S1 (once I have the time for it ._. ).

    Haven't watched the show, at all, but I hear decent things about it. I have only interacted with the Tabletop lore and Cyberpunk 2077 game itself! So, I am excited to try the new content for the game that is related to the Edgerunners animated series.

    Reminds me of when I was bored in online classes and started installing Gentoo in a VM. Took quite a while (because if Rust for Firefox) and in the end it didn’t boot because I forgot to include the driver for the virtual disk in the kernel :D But I was able to change the type of virtual disk adapter and it did boot and run.

    At least you figured it out, I think Gentoo is going to be my final boss in terms of distros, once I have a PC that is strong enough to create a VM for Gentoo. I will practice in a virtual environment until I am comfortable doing an install on bare metal. As last time I tried, I got to kernel creation but...Failed. This time didn't even get past the Stage 3 as something was wonky AF. Dunno what, could've been anything.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    My hopes are that it is the gateway to other programming languages like C, As I have plans to shore up my own WM or customize Sway more to my liking!

    That sounds like very good motivations.

    But why exactly C and not a different low-level language like C++, Rust or Zig?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    C is used as a basis for the Sway, the window manager I am using. I don't care for the syntax of C++, Zig is a bit TOO picky for me at the moment as a novice to be bothered with. That one can be a third language after learning C if I really see a need for it. I am ignoring Rust because one can already create memory safe code, it is just a matter of writing it into your code. Error handling and making sure it is graceful is an art. One that I plan on learning how to do without Rust.

    Ultimately, another reason why is because I can create my own modules and other dependencies for the things I plan to create. As...the sloppening in open source is here, and in order to fight it, I need to use a language that is flexible for writing your own dependencies and modules.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent