I have recently realized that a sum negative knowledge situation can exist, and this is a thing with “AI”. The work the AI does may actually reduce the useful knowledge. It’s like you have built a working fusion reactor, but have zero knowledge how to replicate it or able to explain why it works.

The point this happens to a person, means she/he can’t be trusted with the tech and should stay far away from it.

The negative knowledge pit can be so deep that some people are unable to escape from it, and start confidently believing in the (AI injected) garbage like it’s their own thoughts…

Cinnamon situation currently on arch feels such that it might break at any time, and in fact has recently. :-( I have absolutely loved the simplicity of this DE, but the breakages lately are worrisome. I’m considering migrating from cinnamon to plasma, but the added cruft that comes with the Plasma DE does not impress me. There is some tension; I have contributed to KDE projects, and I prefer KDE apps over gnome/GTK.

How well does plasma wayland tolerate unresponsive apps? I need to be able to keep graphical apps in this state for possibly an hour at time, as I run them under a debugger.

chuggles - I’m in danger - of data loss.

I burnt the “trustworthy life-left” of a 256GiB NVMe disk in approx 6 years by writting 25 TiB onto it. :D It still works, but doesn’t hold any important data.

I however do fear the day one of the 1TiB spinning rust disks, in RAID1, die. I created the array in 2020 but the disks are nearly twice as old. (~12 years) There is stuff from WinXp era on those disks that I as a young wipper snaper once developed - irreplaceable.

Holy fuck this made me laugh my ass off. (btw, if make any videos My Winter Car I’ll be watching because that is an accurate description of my life at the moment.)

I yesterday logged into my very old and dead M$ account. Holy fuck the experience of forced ads, timed pop ups, and thank good all of this fucking sloppy shit will be now deleted on my part. I’m not going near that diarrhea shit anymore unless paid.

I’m dum founded why we are even considering overseas services, there is a literal datacenter boom going on right now. There are many local, including massive ones like google, hetzner providers.

AWS, or cloud in general, is an money extortion service in practice for very large customers.

Current AI is a dead end, it’s less intelligent than a fly brain, which by the way can solve mazes with just 160,000 neurons, remember where the food is after hours of discovering such, is self replicating, and is a generic intelegect.

Good, so the bland cavendish will never die and we actually learned something from the first mass-extinction event of more flavorful bananas. (the old more flavorful essence of the dead variety is still fckn. everywhere.)

Just try find and track the price per kg of a good, and you are in deep shit. Its some times hidden, after several “get the app”, “two for one” just to find out the good is fucking more expensive if you refuse go though the privacy invasing hoops. What the fuck happended to “Limited time offer until this actually cheap batch is sold out!”

Initially, x86 CPUs didn’t have a FPU. It cost extra, and was delivered as a separate chip.

Later, GPU is just a overgrown SIMD FPU.

NPU is a specialized GPU that operates on low-precision floating-point numbers, and mostly does matrix-multiply-and-add operations.

There is zero neural processing going on here, which would mean the chip operates using bursts of encoded analog signals, within power consumption of about 20W, and would be able to adjust itself on the fly online, without having a few datacenters spending exceeding amount of energy to update the weights of the model.

This is a kind of part you want a single metallic-crystal of… anything less would we subpar and jesus. So no uncontrolled cooling of the cast for you. (or the rotor can decide this is a good day for a extra slow spin and no-flight.)

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After using dnf a bit:

• All the default answers are backwards to me, so dnf quite literally ignores my input.
• dnf search did not show, by default, if a matching package is already installed.
• Perfect perhaps for newbies, since dnf asks you trice.

yeah… arch is not leaving me anytime soon. The option to makepkg from source a few custom packages is very neat.

Now, provide an example that you cannot, is impossible, to translate into French.

And I’ll accept your claim of unknowing is better than knowing.

Just do sysrq+s, sysrq+c (triggers panic) and flip the power switch for instant power off.

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I lazily type part of the thing I want like “sys” and then ctrl+⬆️/⬇️ and sudo systemctl start libvirtd etc. appear like magic.

Every technology invented is a dual edge sword. Other edge propulses deluge of misinformation, llm hallucinations, brain washing of the masses, and exploit exploit for profit. The better side advances progress in science, well being, availbility of useful knowledge. Like the nuclerbomb, LLM “ai” is currenty in its infancy and is used as a weapon, there is a literal race to who makes the “biggest best” fkn “AI” to dominate the world. Eventually, the over optimistic buble bursts and reality of the flaws and risks will kick in. (Hopefully…)

Sure it’s terrifying, but you can start a sparky plasma show in a resilient enough container and keep it going for hours and the microwave won’t break. (except maybe overheat.) The microwave will be fine as long as the arcs don’t reach the waveguide cover. (which would risk burning/shorting the magnetron.)

I have done the microwave grape plasma trick myself and started an arc in a microwave. The current between the two objects goes through a very narrow point, which is enough vaporize the contact point to plasma. This then can grow as the microwave continues to pump more energy into the spark.

hardmode: I did a fresh install on a HDD that is on verge of being dead. Every-time this thing boots it’s a miracle. Somehow dd blanking the disk, plenty of smartctl offline disk surface scans and finally putting btrfs with data in DUP profile resurrected the HDD. I have run btrfs scrub daily or else the os install may bitrot and well… expire. :D

Edit: Todays catch, I was too late and now I have fix 3 files:

Error summary:    read=112
  Corrected:      109
  Uncorrectable:  3
  Unverified:     0

So this is it. The enshittification has reached slowlorris levels.