Microsoft thinks they did the ol’ extend, extinguish, etc. by funding The Linux Foundation, but they actually have been paying for their own execution.

Yeah, I’ve used systemd-less distros on desktops and servers for 9 years now. I know systemd can do cron related work too, but it’s harder to come up with comedic wordplay around it. Yet another reason to not use systemd, lol.

certbot? cronjob? certcronbotjob…croncertjobbot…certjobcronbot…cronbotcertjob…

Wait…just now!? Lol, even in online tech circles where people are completely willing to throw their morals in the trash in exchange for a job, it’s been well known for quite some time now that Palantir is the tippity top of “sell your soul for money” place to work at. This was long before Thiel was in the news and Palantir was selling data and tech to ICE.

Why would it be surprising that you sold your soul to a bunch of fascists, and if you’re already working there, do you have even the slightest shred of morality left to even say a word about it!? Apparently so, but talk about drinking the company Kool-Aid. Damn…

It’s good…and bad. I dunno. I asked ChatGPT to update some basic CRUD functions in client side javascript a couple days ago so that it followed a UML schematic more accurately… and it just took my entire code base and wrapped it in a single class…and that was it.

So then I was like no, here’s some sample classes from the UML and here’s some properties and how these methods map to these functions I wrote before, get it?

And then, yeah, it did the thing I wanted…so…cool? I mean, sure, you can call it skill issues with prompting, but man, I’ve been coding with this thing for some time now, and sometimes I’m just like, “I miss stack overflow man”…and shit…I never thought I’d ever say that.

Sure, coding was slower, and maybe you didn’t find the thing you needed to fix your problem, but that friction taught you so much and you made friends (and enemies) as you tried to get an answer to your problem. Now we’re all missing out on that and just making the AI sort of kind of not really better.

Nice try, but the legend of Windows 11 is just that, a legend…a story we tell young children when we want them to behave themselves… right?..

Along with every other technology related problem. 👏Done and done!

I’m a self taught web dev whose only had a single fullstack job under their belt, some charity coding at a nonprofit, and plenty of group and solo projects.

I’ve used ChatGPT mainly to code and also teach myself Calculus as I get ready to go back to school and get a CS degree to hopefully help my chances at getting some work. I’m not saying as a tool on its own, LLMs aren’t useful.

But I do use these LLMs with a severe sense of guilt considering:

• The plight of Kenyan workers who got paid almost nothing to have their mental health absolutely violated while setting up initial training parameters around abusive/sensitive training material

• The many teens who have committed suicide while being influenced by LLM advice

• The massive amount of land, water, and power that is being utilized to put it all together

• The massive amount of carbon emissions that the data centers that power these LLMs releases into the atmosphere, exacerbating an already dire climate crisis

• The massive amount of scraped data that was stolen without anyone’s consent in order to train it

• The fact that our entire world economy seems to now rely solely on AI companies and NVIDIA’s stock price going up ad infinitum even if their economic metrics make no sense at all

• The exacerbation of the already existing education crisis where both students and teachers are offloading critical thinking skills

• The destruction of the useful search engine, which honestly feels preordained by the ensuing enshittification of search due to invasive advertisement/marketing strategies

And honestly that isn’t even scratching the surface.

So yeah…I got some guilt using this crap. But hey, at least I got to live another day in the torment nexus.

EDIT: Removal of massive doomerism rant towards the end there.

It depends on where you got the game and how familiar you are with Wine, Proton, DXVK, etc. And yeah, the command line is kind of helpful for most things Linux, including running pirated games.

I got a pirated version of Cyberpunk 2077 running on Linux. I had purchased the game on Steam, but hated that when I was offline I couldn’t play and even though Steam has an offline version, I figured fuck it, I’m tech savvy, how hard can it be? It was…not easy, but not the hardest thing I’ve done on Linux. I pretty much followed this reddit guide.

I’d look for a different launcher than Lutris these days since the Dev started introducing AI code into his source, but there’s options in that regard and really, the big thing is understanding Wine, Wine prefixes, and Proton.

I haven’t done this for most games as I just like to purchase my games these days, but it was a fun challenge. I have no idea how difficult this is on Windows as its been almost a decade for me Windows free, but hey, if you’ve got the gumption, its not too hard.

Ah I see. Very interesting! Thank you.

Fair enough. Why not tack on rm ./.* as well to that list? Lol. Sorry, I’m truly just curious and not trying to be a smart alec.

Fair enough. Then why not cd .., rm ./dir_name/* ?

Oh god…why would you not just cd .. and rm -r the directory name?

Agreed. Sadly an endorsement from Meta and/or it’s various subsidiaries is more of a condemnation than any criticism.

That’s fair. And I generally agree with you. I’ve installed a lot of different distros at this point, and I ultimately enjoyed installing and maintaining Gentoo, which is the distro I ended up with after years of using Artix. So it’s not like I don’t like learning new things and customizing an installation from the ground up.

My original comment was just pointing out that it’s not always a fun or positive experience to learn something new about Linux because something broke or you missed or misunderstood some part of the documentation.

For me, 99% of the time, I’m down to learn something new about computers. Heck I’m getting a CS degree right now, I better! But I’d be daft to think that’s the mindset of most people, and even I have my limits.

The con is more like:

You must configure something you never wanted to know anything about, but I guess today is a learning day…again…

I prefer an alias that actually reflects my feelings.

alias didistutter="sudo"

Gentoo, OpenRC, BSPWM, Nvim, Librewolf, Ortholinear Keyboard.

Y’all don’t come back now, y’hear?

Yes, all the power to do any form of large computation needs to be traceable and rented. You will own nothing, rent everything, and be happy with it.