I’ll add that if you want a more bleeding edge experience, similar to CachyOS, but still within the Debian world, PikaOS is the Debian-based (not Ubuntu-based) analog of CachyOS.

Edit: clarification

Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn’t break copyright!

Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

That’s not how evidence works. If the original person has evidence that the software doesn’t work, then we need to look at both sets of evidence and adjust our view accordingly.

It could very well be that the software works 90% of the time, but there could exist some outlying examples where it doesn’t. And if they have those examples, I want to know about them.

Okay. Same. I’m not asking you to believe Glaze/Nightshade works on my word alone. All I said was that artists should try it.

Okay. I have that. Now what?

ETA: also, you can prove a negative, it’s just often much harder. Since the person above said it doesn’t work, the positive claim is theirs to justify. Whether it’s hard or not is not my problem.

Because it’s hard(er than doing nothing) and takes changing habits.

deleted by creator

I haven’t seen any objective evidence that they don’t work. I’ve seen anecdotal stories, but nothing in the way of actual proof.

On that note, if you’re an artist, make sure you take Nightshade or Glaze for a spin. Don’t need access to the LLM if they’re wantonly snarfing up poison.

I miss that animated logo when loading a new site. Felt like I was in for something awe-inspiring.

It looks like silly fun, but as they say on their own page, they don’t recommend it as a daily driver, specifically because it was designed with humor in mind, not maintainability.

Could be worth spinning up in a VM or giving away on an old laptop, though…

Meanwhile, I read stories from other users here on the Fediverse who had grandparents who got fed up with Windows and installed Aurora; they just figured things out as they went.

So like you say, don’t go too crazy right out of the gate. Get used to the new system, and learn a new way of doing things.

Can’t seem to find the actual article, so I’ll just engage with this small paragraph here.

Capitalism needs to be regulated (or better yet, replaced). Given that the US is currently experiencing the effects of unfettered capitalism (fascism, bribery, oligarchy, price gouging, monopolization, market collusion, just to name a few), I’m for more oversight.

However, the current administration and current Congress are both generally disinterested in actual regulation and, in my opinion, unqualified to implement something like AI-powered guardrails. It’s just the whole “blockchain everywhere” debacle all over again.

Furthermore, who would develop and maintain such a system? There would almost certainly be bids from the usual suspects (i.e. billionaires) who would “definitely develop it in good faith, trust me bro.” They definitely wouldn’t use that kind of access to hamstring the bot that’s supposed to be regulating them. /s

Rather than just putting a bot in charge, how about we just make the wealthy pay their fair share? How about strong legislation that prevents fraudulent transactions and mergers? How about meaningful punishments that deter bad actors, rather than slaps on the wrist that are just “the cost of doing business?”

We don’t need robots and software, we need sensible legislation.

Hmm, sounds like a “Freeze Updates” option should be available per game. I don’t do much modding, but I’ll see if I can suggest that idea somewhere or +1 any existing similar suggestion.

Nyarch Linux

If your games are breaking on update, isn’t that the game devs’ faults?

artificially incompetent

Borrowing that: AI = Artificial Incompetence

CachyOS is great, and it’s my daily driver on my main rig, but I put Bazzite on a laptop specifically so that anyone in my household could use and maintain it. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a good use case for anyone who wants to set it and forget it.

Man, Douglas Adams was a real one.

I’m waiting for it to be inverted.