I am genuinely so tempted to just write my resume in Markdown and make a PDF this time around.

I feel this a lot, especially as someone who enjoys computers and such. Why does my phone not do what I tell it to? Why did we as a society choose that Google should have more say than an end user? It sucks. The one that gets me the most is that you'll try to do things sometimes and it has the audacity to say things are not allowed by the admin. FUCKER I OWN YOUUUUU, WHY AM I NOT THE ADMIN???

I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.

You are absolutely correct, the only way to win is to not play at all.

LLMs are little trickster demons. You can put up guard rails, but they'll happily work around them. You can give pretty granular access on commands they can run, but they're also good at finding the weird solutions that work to get around them. They do this themselves all the time in beneficial ways, it's not always inherently bad (I don't mean thwarting permissions).

The big problem is that the code is non deterministic. Many guard rails are in the non deterministic part. So it's sort of like politely asking it to not do something, versus making it impossible. Like caution paint on a ledge versus a fence. The issue is that if all the safeguards were in deterministic code, it'd be super hard to get anything done because you'd constantly be manually approving, so people don't want that, so this is the problem we get.

Nice! I think I was around 16 or 17 when I first learned about it. My friend brought a Live CD of Ubuntu and we booted a school computer into it. The rest is history!

Go the Oceans 13 (12?) route and just be like "You look like Julia Roberts."

You're saying it doesn't matter except on the individual level, but if you don't want people sharing their actual, individual usage of the word, how could we ever be descriptivist?

People clutch their pearls. With certain topics, a lot of people are incapable of nuance.

Unless a movie says a character's name A LOT I will forget it. I'm so so bad with names. But I hear actors' names all the time. It's that simple. If I remembered the characters' names, I'd use them. I suppose also for more obscure movies that I like, I'd probably use the actors' names if I think other people don't know the movie.

The jobs I have had over the last year have been heavily pushing it, yes.

If it comes with Ubuntu and you like it, stick with it. At least give it a try. Everyone can tell you why they dislike it, but most distro hate/discussion is pretty minor compared to like Windows versus Linux discussion lol.