i feel like people are misunderstanding your point. yes, generative ai is bullshit, but it doesn’t need to be good in order to replace workers

this confirms what i just said in reply to a different comment: most cases of ai “success” are actually curated by real people from a sea of bullshit

this summarizes most cases of ai “success”. people see generative ai generating good results once and then extrapolate that they’re able to consistently generate good results, but the reality is that most of what it generates is bullshit and the cases of success are a minority of the “content” ai is generating, curated by actual people

some deb packages add new repositories to the system, so there’s a possibility that just installing a deb package will ensure updates keep coming. if i recall correctly, that’s what zoom does

wasn’t this a thing already in kde 3 or 4? or i’m hallucinating?

it’s akdemine, actually

is this official policy? i usually update my tumbleweed installation with discover and when i tried updating from plasma 5 to 6 from the terminal, the plasma session was killed and so was the update process, leaving the system in a broken state

figma balls

just updated to it in opensuse and it’s pretty solid, but wifi doesn’t work for some reason. it can see the networks but it never connects

amazing. it looks like a nuclear meltdown

it’s interesting how the move away from the gpl is never explicitly justified as a license issue: instead, people always have some plausible technical motivation. with clang/llvm it was the lower compile times and better error messages; with these coreutils it’s “rust therefore safer”. the license change was never even addressed

i believe they have to do this exactly bc permissive licenses appeal to libertarian/apolitical types who see themselves as purely rational and changing a piece of software bc of the license would sound too… ideological…

so the people in charge of these changes always have a plausible technical explanation at hand to mask away the political aspect of the change

it’s been a trend for a while unfortunately. getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now. there are also the developers that think permissive licenses are “freer” bc freedom is doing whatever you want /s. they’re ideologically motivated to ditch the gpl so they’ll support the change even if there’s no benefit for them, financial or otherwise.

I don’t think there’s any useful way to put it to regular use for yourself, but you could:

• install debian on it and keep it around in case of an emergency. turn it on once in a while to keep it updated (doesn’t need to be that often, it’s debian)
• use it on the go (no worries about it getting stolen)*
• use it a place where you wouldn’t use your main laptop as to not risk damange (camping, hiking, on a trip, etc)*
• install a friendlier linux distro and give it away to someone who doesn’t have a computer (a 10yo cousin maybe)
• give it away to someone who has a computer, but doesn’t have a second one and might be happy to get one to play with

*though i imagine the battery is not in good shape given your “beaten up” description

unrelated but why is that window so massive?

https://wayland.social/

this is likely to keep as much people on windows as possible in an effort prevent people from being able to disable (or not have at all) things like location tracking, telemetry, etc. the us govt is probably going to crack down hard on “terrorist” threats (aka socialists, palestine supporters, and even anyone moderately critical of us imperialism), so they’re gonna need all the information they can gather about people’s online activities

maybe it’s the same reason some banks don’t work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage without your consent

it is absolutely recommended to keep any system that has access to the internet up to date. i don’t know why people keep saying it isn’t

is merkuro supposed to be a kontact/kmail replacement?

i wish i didn’t need a terminal emulator

in the meantime, emacs is a decent replacement