kuberoot

kuberoot , 8 hours ago

Thankfully the AI use is very tame so far, used for stuff like offline alt text generation and offline translation. I'm personally still concerned about copyrights and ethics of the models used, but at least it's directed towards providing specific features, not a magic cure-all.

kuberoot , 7 days ago

"Calling out" gnome for needing extensions for customization seems stupid when those extensions are easy to find, easy to use, and work really well. On the other hand, I have not been able to find a taskbar for plasma that would let me group windows from an application together while also letting me rearrange the windows inside of a group. I know I need to try implementing it myself someday, but I feel like gnome ends up having more options.

kuberoot , 16 days ago

That's not really right, because verifying solutions is usually much easier than finding them. A calculator that can take in arbitrary sets of formulas and produce answers for variables, but is sometimes wrong, is an entirely different beast than a calculator that can plug values into variables and evaluate expressions to check if they're correct.

As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that argument would also make quantum computing pointless - because quantum computers are probability based and can provide answers for difficult problems, but not consistently, so you want to use a regular computer to verify those answers.

Perhaps a better comparison would be a dictionary that can explain entire sentences, but requires you to then check each word in a regular dictionary and make sure it didn't mix them up completely? Though I guess that's actually exactly how LLMs operate...

kuberoot , 16 days ago

Except when you're doing calculations, a calculator can run through an equation substituting the given answers and see that the values match... Which is my point of calculators not being a good example. And the case of a quantum computer wasn't addressed.

I agree that LLMs have many issues, are being used for bad purposes, are overhyped, and we've yet to see if the issues are solvable - but I think the analogy is twisting the truth, and I think the current state of LLMs being bad is not a license to make disingenuous comparisons.

kuberoot , 17 days ago

I think Arch is meant for people who want to learn the software - so that you can also choose, control, customize, diagnose, and fix the software!

That said, archwiki is still a great resource on other distros for when something does go wrong, or when it's not obvious how to do something, particularly when messing with experimental or server stuff.

kuberoot , 30 days ago

Yes, do as I say!

kuberoot , 30 days ago

That's the point of the fediverse and activitypub - posts from one platform are federated to other compatible platforms. I know this also includes kbin, but there's probably other platforms.

kuberoot , 1 month ago

I will happily recommend Arch to a new user... If they're interested in learning Linux, and not dependent on it working reliably, while warning them of the risks and telling them about the advantages.

I wouldn't recommend it to somebody who wants something that just works, but for tech-inclined people looking for a system they are in control (and responsibility) of, willing to learn how to set it up, I think a manual installation is a good experience.

But they will be warned.

kuberoot , 1 month ago

As others mentioned, archwiki is the information source if you want to use Arch, and a great source of information even if using other distributions.

For other distros, I've seen people mention Linux Journey.

All that said, you might not be able to drop Windows entirely - if we're talking CAD software, the Adobe suite, that kind of stuff, you might not be able to find suitable alternatives for Linux. That said, you can always dual boot, or you might even be able to work with a VM.

If you do want to try a dual boot, I strongly recommend setting up the Linux boot partition on a separate physical drive, to minimize the risk of Windows overwriting it... As well as you accidentally messing up your windows install. I'd also recommend using rEFInd as the bootloader, since it's very easy to set up and will automatically show a boot option for Windows.

Feel free to ask questions, I'm no expert, but I'll try to answer when I have time.

kuberoot , 1 month ago

I haven't read the actual proof you wrote, but I think the paradox was shown to, well, not be a paradox multiple times in history. It was thought of long ago, when our understanding of mathematics and physics was more limited, and we didn't have the tools to prove the flaws exist.

It's pretty cool that a problem created so long ago can still be relevant, and that random people find it interesting enough to solve in Lemmy comments though! Keep learning and rock on!

kuberoot , 1 month ago

It's usually combined with a rectangle/window selection, thus clipping a part of your screen into an image/clipboard.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

I think it might be nipples, or something like that

kuberoot , 2 months ago

Not tools like screenshots, screen recording - because Wayland is inherently different, you couldn't make those work in Xwayland without sacrifices.

I think Wayland is in a good enough state to be a daily driver for most (non-NVidia) users, but there's still big caveats to keep in mind that can be deal breakers.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure hotfixes are still being released. It's more so that there are two release streams, stable and unstable, and when there isn't a new unstable release, the unstable stream is just on the same version as the stable stream.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

It's not about it being fast, it's about it only being available for NVidia GPUs. As long as software for things like machine learning uses CUDA, you need to buy an NVidia GPU to use it. A translation layer would let you use the same software on other companies' GPUs, which means people aren't forced to buy NVidia's GPUs anymore.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

Not necessarily, it could be that if they put the work into something else instead they would've made more when you account for the fine, so it could still not be worth it compared to alternatives.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure most people love NVidia, since it's the popular option, generally works, and provides features that aren't available elsewhere, both in gaming and GPU compute.

Of course, most of NVidia's advantages come down to marketing and pushing for their proprietary technologies, while avoiding supporting niche users and refusing to release their code. The thing is though, if you use Windows, NVidia is probably the better choice from an end-user's point of view.

kuberoot , 2 months ago

That's the thing - none of those would've affected you negatively if you've been using Nvidia, so if you're just playing games and not following the news, you're more likely to just hear people complain about AMD this, AMD that, they broke it... But everything works fine for you

kuberoot , 2 months ago

I remember hearing that when AMD surpassed Intel in multithreaded performance, userbenchmark adjusted they're benchmark scoring to favor single threaded performance over multithreaded

kuberoot , 3 months ago

Doesn't reddit already have NFTs?

kuberoot , 3 months ago

Isn't that clickhole? AFAIK NotTheOnion is for non-satirical media reporting real news that sound like they came straight from the onion.