Sadly my company has complete say over the platforms I use when at work. Given their scramble to adopt copilot with little or no obvious benefits and unknown depth of security flaws, I don’t hold much hope that they will pivot to an entire new platform suite on Microsoft’s collapse …

Sort of, except this time instead of it being millions of homes about to be foreclosed on its like 10 multibillion dollar companies, so the real problem is who is positioned to buy those companies when their share price crashes and they need to be sold for peanu… fuck it’s Trump isn’t it? In 2 months we’ll be using MicroTrump Werd to write reports and Tesla Xsell to build spreadsheets, but only when we can navigate our way through a minefield of vibecoded slop and ads for ICE.

I don’t think I’m trying to be obstinate, I just am.

Make up answers about it. The answers might be right, or they might be wrong, you won’t know unless you read the actual data. So helpful …

I think you’re thinking of a search engine, AIs are bad at searching. They just make up a response related to the search term based on their training data.

I assume a guy named Dave is running a sushi shop nearby with some pals?

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a kid riding an actual e-bike, they are never pedaling when I see them …

We have all this border patrol infrastructure and they are still letting literal genocidal warlords into our country

oh I thought you were talking about Epstein, my mistake

I think the answer to A is why it’s relevant, it doesn’t take much to infer why this is horrific, that said … given Bondis apparent lack of soul, I wonder if she has subsequently broken her children in a similar way …

It’s really not that hard to identify the soulless drivel output by an LLM in an email. Nobody writes like that, not even a passive agressive middle management psychopath.

Now investigate him

I work for a large multinational engineering firm and they have been rolling out copilot for a while now. They keep running courses about using AI and prompt generation but never have any actually useful use cases.

The best they can come up with is “summarise this doc so you don’t have to read it (but also read it because the AI gets it wrong) and then generate an even simpler summary and a pretty presentation for your boss so they don’t have to read it and also they’re an idiot.”

After the last course I asked the training delivery team to share the presentation material but they got all cagey like I wanted to steal their IP.

You could also try update the NVIDIA drivers manually from terminal, switching between the closed and open versions of the latest driver can make a big difference. That might resolve your additional drivers access issue. I have found that GUI sometimes takes a long time to open …

Next time you see an error on it run ‘journalctl -r’ in a terminal and see if you can spot anything specific wiggling out. Should be a good start to working out where the errors might be stemming from.

That said there seems to be a few different issues with that machine so its difficult to see how they might be related …maybe a hard disk with bad sectors or trashed ram? You could try reseating the ram module(s) and HDD connections?

Holy moly, that’s a lot of issues. Seems like there’s something else going on with that laptop given mint won’t even boot …

Interesting, what hasn’t worked? Im running a desktop so might be having less issues due to less bespoke hardware.

I ran it on an Intel/NVIDIA laptop about 10 years ago and had a lot of trouble getting the graphics to work well, particularly the Optimus switching. It never felt like it was working properly and graphics were always sub par to what I got running windows. It was a long time ago in computing terms though.

I’m running kubuntu which I find runs well with no issues (Intel with an NVIDIA card) and plays every game Ive tried to play. I chose kubuntu because I’m more experienced with debian based distros and I like KDE, but I do feel like maybe I should have gone with fedora and KDE instead. Can’t really be bothered to distro hop right now though.

Ripping out 50sqm of paving to install grass for my kids. Had to readjust levels, rip out a badly placed brick planter box and the oversized footing for it, adjust retic feeds and install new lines and sprinklers. So far I’ve shifted around 6m3 of dirt, bricks and concrete, not including the pavers. Final step of clearing last few cubic metres of dirt, putting down loam and then laying grass is this weekend. Then I just need to get it to establish in Australian summer …