You using an AI assistant doesn’t train it. It won’t “learn” anything from your use of it.

Yep. There’s lots it can do, but more I wouldn’t trust it with. Useful for certain tasks.

Awesome, thanks for sharing your experiences!

What? No they aren’t hard to move. They’re usually just one file. Copy to your new machine and done.

I did my first ever Linux install on a new build last year. I chose Mint, and the process was very smooth with only a few minor bumps getting up to date drivers for my newish AMD GPU. Since then I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by how limited GNOME applications are in general while also gaining increasing respect for the amount of functionality packed into KDE applications. So I’ve been shopping around for a KDE distribution. Fedora and openSUSE keep coming up, and I think I’ll be trying openSUSE soon. So I guess I’ll be skipping from the bottom left all the way to the top right.

Balatro. There’s just no motivation to keep playing. It’s just uninteresting. Love me some Slay the Spire, though.

the game wasn’t respecting my time

Hit the nail on the head. That’s why I stopped too. And I don’t even mind difficult games; Sekiro is an all-time favorite of mine. But Sekiro is compact, dense, no filler. Hollow Knight felt empty and sparse and traversal was a chore.

I have no idea what kind of life experience you have, but take my word for it as a highly experienced software engineer when I say that MacBooks are a popular choice with professionals in my field and adjacent fields as well because of their high-quality construction, long-lasting battery life, and at its core a POSIX-compatible OS. Yes, the file manager is shitty and all the Apple walled-garden Store nonsense is all Tinker Toy hot garbage, but just install Homebrew and you’ve got yourself a decent package manager and you’re off to the races. Not all “Apple users” are the braindead consumerist zombies you imagine.

“Apple users” such as the IT professionals who live in their POSIX-compatible shell sessions on compact, powerful hardware that lasts all day on battery? OK, buddy.

Mac OS requires more power than Windows? Nah, this meme is clownin’

https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/

I heard elsewhere that anything less than powering down can leave data in memory that can be used to hack your device. So while the quintuple click is better than nothing, powering down is better.

The linked article doesn’t mention whether it can bypass the max attempt lockout or not. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the article you linked does nothing to support your claim.

That said, an alphanumeric password is certainly more secure than a PIN, no doubt.

Socialism is social ownership of the means of production. This ain’t it. This is Turbo Capitalism.

And the heroes were scientists

You have no chance to survive make your time.

Turn off the autocomplete, it’s shit. Do use agent mode for targeted tasks that are easy but laborious. Don’t give open ended or subjective prompts. Don’t ask it to do anything creative or novel. It has its uses. Nowhere near what the snake oil salesmen would have you believe, and probably not worth the unsubsidized cost, but for now it has uses.

Sorry, I just used the single quote key on my iOS keyboard. But you get the idea, no?

Delete line 7 and 9-11. Make the last line

print(line+’+’)

My ranking of package managers on Windows:

1. Chocolatey: the oldest and has the most packages. Packages are AV scanned. Enterprisey.
2. Scoop: Somewhat fewer packages, but easier to package for. More technical focus. FOSSy.
3. Winget: fewest packages, and Microsoft literally stole it from its creator. I’m not aware of any reason to use winget over choco or scoop.