There are two possible futures: one where those chosen for governance due to infinite free time are replaced by those with better ideas or one where I need to learn chinese
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@sneeden look at this thread and laugh https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597
@RustyCrab Patiently waiting for some idiot in Gentoo core team to mask new versions.
@RustyCrab If that happens, I'm unironically switching to BSDs and buying a mac later.
@phnt so true king
@phnt @RustyCrab no way, really? a neo?
@mischievoustomato @RustyCrab Probably a crapbook pro. Because desktop loonix is becoming an absolute joke and I can't keep making my system de-fluoridated with Gentoo use flags indefinitely. There's a point in time when that simple will not be possible.
@RustyCrab @sneeden i'm not the biggest ai bro in the world but the more time goes on the more a lot of these people look like they're just descending into unhinged luddism
@RustyCrab @sneeden saw a website linked in that thread and I think this perfectly encapsulates what I'm talking about
@pettanko @sneeden i dont know what to make of a statement like this. It's completely bewildering to me. "Yeah this guys been writing software for 20 years but one prompt in and he is reduced to the intellect of a toddler pulling a slot machine". This is directly insulting a guy that he said he had respect for.
Either this is some form of zealotry i can barely wrap my head around or these peoples brains work on such a fundamentally different level that it explains why everything they touch becomes dysfunctional
Either this is some form of zealotry i can barely wrap my head around or these peoples brains work on such a fundamentally different level that it explains why everything they touch becomes dysfunctional
@RustyCrab @phnt if we pump enough cash into it, we can bring this extremely rotten corpse back to life
@RustyCrab @sneeden @pettanko No, I can tell you what this is. Virtue signalling and egotism; thinking you are better than everyone just because you didn't touch the forbidden demon called LLM.
I've seen this so many times already that I'm tempted to just write a blog post about it to vent.
I've seen this so many times already that I'm tempted to just write a blog post about it to vent.
@RustyCrab @pettanko @sneeden And the amount of denying reality these people make is sometimes insane.
- AI is exteremely bad at everything
- This is completely AI written and works pretty good, look at this
- Yeah, but how is it better than what already exists
- AI is exteremely bad at everything
- This is completely AI written and works pretty good, look at this
- Yeah, but how is it better than what already exists
@phnt @sneeden @RustyCrab @pettanko i used to be this way (but not as obnoxiously at all) before i touched chatgpt in 2024/2025. my god it was so good to use it
@phnt @RustyCrab
I'm already two steps ahead of you and it's hard to recommend. I've spent a lot of time since the beginning of the year weighing my options for de-itoddlerization, actually.
I'm already two steps ahead of you and it's hard to recommend. I've spent a lot of time since the beginning of the year weighing my options for de-itoddlerization, actually.
@idiot @RustyCrab The mindset is that I won't mind how rotten the base when I can't change it anyway on Windows or macOS. Just like I can mostly tolerate Windows when it is LTSC and a few convenience programs like Powertoys and Autohotkey.
@RustyCrab @phnt actual metaverse was a cool idea it's too bad that the version everyone wanted to get us on was the corporate enclosed and centralized version
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@idiot @phnt @RustyCrab I went went back to dumphones.
As for desktop computer I just follow the FSF.
As for desktop computer I just follow the FSF.
@sun @phnt i never once encountered anyone anywhere that thought the metaverse was a good idea. Everyone (both for and against) was dead set on it being nothing but a way to be horrifically invasive in your employees lives
Also i never even heard of something called metaverse outside of the satanic facebook version
Also i never even heard of something called metaverse outside of the satanic facebook version
@RustyCrab @phnt realistically I don't know how you'd make a decentralized 3d world anyway, bandwidth be too high for a lot of simultaneous users
@jeff @RustyCrab @kirby @phnt But think about all the bootcamp shitters that got removed from the job in the last two years!
@sun @RustyCrab @phnt actual metaverse existed in a book, of course it was cool
it was second life but planet sized
it was second life but planet sized
@harblinger @RustyCrab @phnt I was looking at that mozilla thing but it was heavily tied to AWS and I failed an attempt to convert it to not be
@sun @RustyCrab @phnt Animal crossing islands but fedi. There's a max amount of people possible on one island.
What would be funny is that if people could throw things at one island to another (like you see in the angry birds movie).
What would be funny is that if people could throw things at one island to another (like you see in the angry birds movie).
@mangeurdenuage @RustyCrab @phnt I hope you recognize the use case for phones with more than T9 typing and desktops with more than four ancient cores and 4GB of DDR2. Yeah, you can technically get more by running that dual Opteron board, but my power bill has doubled in the last year as it is already. If you relax and settle for coreboot with me_cleaner, you at least can move up bigly to a T480.
In a shocking twist of fate -- at least in the US -- the limiting factor in distancing yourself from the botnet isn't Google or Apple, it's the carriers being so strict these days with what they allow on their networks. Big tech just happens to welcome you with open arms from there.
In a shocking twist of fate -- at least in the US -- the limiting factor in distancing yourself from the botnet isn't Google or Apple, it's the carriers being so strict these days with what they allow on their networks. Big tech just happens to welcome you with open arms from there.
@phnt @RustyCrab @pettanko @sneeden
>thinking you are better than everyone just because you didn't touch the forbidden demon
yes
>thinking you are better than everyone just because you didn't touch the forbidden demon
yes