Interesting because I just got Wikipedia as the first result for a query (“commander keen”)

This becomes a bit more morbid when you consider that “teach kittens to swim” is an euphemism for drowning them, at least in my language :/

I’ve run LLMs locally before, it’s the unified API for digital assistants that would be interesting to me. Then we’d just need an easy way to acquire LLMs that laymen could use, but probably any bigger DE or distro can create a setup wizard.

Fellow Gentoo user here, personally I find that most of the time, it doesn’t really take extra time once it’s been set up. World updates do take ages, but they can be done in the background. Most of the time my config doesn’t break anything.

Imagine a standardized API where you provide either your own LLM running locally, your own LLM running in your server (for enthusiasts or companies), or a 3rd party LLM service over the Internet, for your optional AI assistant that you can easily disable.

Regardless of your DE, you could choose if you want an AI assistant and where you want the model to run.

Youtrack is nice and can be self hosted but costs money beyond 10 users.

Do you use E2EE for all your chats? I think nearly nobody does.

Signal or at least Telegram or Viber. Fuck WhatsApp, I’d like at least my messenger app to not belong to Facebook of all companies.

That’s competely sensible if you ask me. Though there’s also nothing wrong with MITing your programs if you want to. By making the source available, you’ve already done plenty for the users.

While you’re correct, that’s funny because as a developer using a framework like dotNET, MIT gives YOU more freedom. At least for anything statically linked where the GPL code would end up as part of your binary and force you to GPL your own code I believe.

Family sounds more likely in this case. Two adults and three kids could be like 50 euros for tickets unless the kids are small enough to sit in your lap.

I figured tbh. I was being snarky and reminding that Linux is the real alternative to Win 11, not Win 10

Can Linux not handle the big.little architecture as well?

The slippery slope is a fallacy only because there’s no proof things will go one way or the other. You can use slippery slope to say ridiculous things. E.g “if we let gays marry, it’ll be pedos next” is a good example of the fallacy whereas “if we let private corporations spy on us for a good reason, they’ll expand their powers to extract even more profit” is not, but either way, you need to know the context (which is that corporations serve to extract maximum possible wealth and have no morals).

Yup, both work!

Are they going to ditch it though? As I understand, they don’t need to ditch it as long as USB-C charging remains an option.

For charging alone, Magsafe is objectively the better choice because it snaps in and out of place, so it’s both easier to insert and won’t pull your laptop off the living room table if your kid or dog runs into the cable. For docking in your dedicated workspace, you’ll still use USB-C attached to your monitor of course, it’s excellent for that and Magsafe doesn’t do data.

I remember a long discussion about correlation vs causation re being a criminal and drinking beer

Fucking love the game, will have to play again.

They themselves are almost certainly not getting paid for the user data. Rather they might use Google analytics and such to know who the target audience for their products is. So they could pay for better ads.

Running Kingdom Come: Deliverance while doing a world update in Portage. Have at it!

Now why is there an EA launcher icon in the taskbar? Well, I was going to take a screenshot of Mass Effect LE, but EA launcher decided not to cooperate with me, probably a Proton update or something (KC:D was also having a brand new crash till I switched over to Experimental). I was too lazy to look up the process ID and kill it because I’m going to reboot when I update my kernel anyway.

Go Kubuntu if you want Ubuntu and Windows-like. Otherwise, Mint is a solid choice for a Windows user too, I believe Mate and Cinnamon both are very similar UI to Windows. Sadly Mint only does LTS versions now, but maybe that’s for the best if your GF isn’t super into tech?