Except I was doing what's called 'speaking from experience', which means I was speaking about my experience. Which you then decided to weigh in on as if you know a damned thing about it, or me, or even pain in general compared to the four specialist doctors I've seen on the subject. So yeah, when you start slinging vague opinions and generalizations about something I have lived for 20 years I'm gonna have some shit to say and you're just going to have to accept that I speak in absolutes because I am the authority on my situation. If you have any actual experience or expertise to share on the subject then I'm all ears, but if all you want to do is whine because somebody knows more than you do about the nonsense you're talking than you do then I'm gonna go do something more productive with my day.
Yeah, that worked for copyign stuff over, but I need some kind of cloud backup service that I can drop files like my passwrods.kdbx file or my writing projects on to ensure that they are backed up. I have since discovered pCloud and have been very happy with it so far.
I just installed Nobara in a similar setup for similar reasons a few days ago after having several bad experiences with Pop, Ubuntu, and Mint. I wanted to move away from Ubuntu-based distros and Nobara seems like it's focused on gaming (frequent updates, etc). It's been.. I dunno if great is the right word, but pretty good. I run into difficulties of some variety with almost everything I do (can't install battle.net in lutris because it hangs at 45%, lutris can't log into epic games store, etc), but I've also found solutions for them without too much trouble and the games that I have managed to install run great.
So that seems like more of a lack-of-understanding problem, not an 'LLMs are bad' problem as it's being portrayed in the larger thread.
You should check your sources when you're googling or using chatGPT too (most models I've seen now cite sources you can check when they're reporting factual stuff), that's not unique to those those things. Yeah LLMs might be more likely to give bad info, but people are unreliable too, they're biased and flawed and often have an agenda, and they are frequently, confidently wrong. Guess who writes books? Mostly people. So until we're ready to apply that standard to all sources of information it seems unreasonable to arbitrarily hold LLMs to some higher standard just because they're new.
Also for skillets you can just buy ceramic. As long as you don't let them sit with food on them they stay pretty non-stick for years.
My point wasn't 'google is more expensive than chatgpt', it's that 'google is also expensive, just not as expensive as chatgpt.' It's probably safe to say that no one has ever just done one google search or just asked one question of chatgpt, so the one-use cost is practically irrelevant compared to the average or collective use case.
Reagan was in the 80s, but yeah, 100% agree. But I mean someone was going to fuck it up sooner or later, cause this country has always been by, for, and about the rich, and it was pretty clear the rich weren't very happy about how hard it was to get even richer back then.
I agree with all of that except the end: it's definitely still greed, it's just become easier to other your fellow man so you don't even have to hate him, you can at best briefly consider his existence as you pave over him on your way to whatever absolute moral certitude you're pursuing. That's the true banality of evil: greed makes dehumanization so commonplace that advocating for awful shit to be done to your fellow human being isn't even widely seen as evil anymore.
I've tried PopOS 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and 25.04.
PopOS mostly worked but almost none of my games worked, they acted like they weren't being hardware accelerated by my GPU when they launched at all, and every time I tried to update the driver the install process hard-locked my system and when I rebooted it it came back up with no video driver at all. I was finally able to get one driver version to work, after doing about 10-15 install/reboot/unfuck cycles (the 555-server closed source driver.) I tried a couple versions of the open source drivers and they didn't work either. I also had this weird issue with (I think it was) pipewire where my sound would cut out at random and the only way to get it back was to go into the sound control panel and toggle between speakers and headset repeatedly. I noticed this especially when joining a voice channel in discord, but it would just happen out of the blue too.
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS installed fine but whenever it boots the monitor goes into standby with a no-signal notice. The system seems to be running, ctrl+alt+del reboots it, but I can't even us ctrl+F2-6 to get a curses terminal where theoretically the video drivers shouldn't matter at all? When I tried to install 25.04 (on the assumption that it would have a newer video driver) I booted on the USB key and even the installer didn't work, same issue: monitor goes no-signal.
In case it matters, my specs are: Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz 8-core Gigabyte Vision OC 12 RTX3060 w/12GB VRAM 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM Multiple SSDs, some SATA, some NVMe in M.2 slots, but I've only ever installed linux on my BPX Pro 1TB NVMe drive that's ~4-5 years old.
Here's some general life advice: if your body (especially your heart) starts doing things it shouldn't be doing you should probably talk to a doctor. You have insurance, this is what it's for. Hit up your nearest urgent care.
Edit: I'm gonna go ahead and add this because I've now had two people tell me how ignorant I am of the US healthcare system: I am a disabled American in my 50s who has been dealing with serious medical problems my entire life. I understand the 'system' far too well. But I'm gonna state what is apparently an unpopular opinion in this community: being dead sucks a lot worse than having medical debt.