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Helping with complex Terminal commands/shell scripts is basically my #1 practical use-case for AI right now… especially if you use tools like JQ a lot. Saving keystrokes is a lifestyle, after all.

I am also a really big fan of Warp, and was even before they added the AI feature (the editor-style functionality is wonderful). For the record, the AI isn’t always running in Warp, to use it you start a prompt with hash (#) and then ask for what you want and it presents options.

It does not make a meaningful difference at all. Get the keyboard you like best. Personally, I’m a fan of the Logitech G915 (Windows layout) for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and Gaben will leave ownership of the company collectively to it’s employees.

…are they going to apply this rule to Nintendo or Sony…

They absolutely should. Closed ecosystems should be illegal. They are literally an intentional form of unethical, predatory trust.

Oh, did GM just step in it this time. Being stupid and removing important features is one thing, but straight-up defamation like this is another.

Google and Apple’s lawyers must be salivating a river right now.

Debian is my go-to. So long as you’re already comfortable with Linux, you can get gaming working with a tiny bit of elbow grease… and unlike some other distros, Debian is rock-solid.

tHIs gEnerATIOn is sO LAzy, TheY JUST doN’T Want tO WorK!

Remember, Firefox is great and has no dependency on upstream Google code.

Use Firefox.

Only insofar as Heineken is associated with Netherlands.

That’s an easy one.

It means “disassemble all checks and balances, strip the people of all power and authority, and concentrate the power and authority into the hands of a chosen party-aligned dictator or oligarchy.”

Small government doesn’t get any smaller than a totalitarian dictatorship.

Not everything should be a contract. Make the benchmark for contracts to be much higher, such as requiring two notary public or lawyer signatures for it to be binding. Casual contracts in “terms of service” should not only not be binding, but illegal with stiff penalties for trying to sneak in such terms.

If only I could get wifi to work on a linux partition, it would be the perfect linux machine.

You are correct.

Remember kids, the singular is semite, not semete. Hence, sem_i_tic, with an i.

That doesn’t work with AI for a variety of technical and practical reasons.

Two people could, completely coincidentally, generate something that is so similar that it looks the same at a glance… even with dramatically different prompts on dramatically different models.

No, the output of an AI is fundamentally “coincidental” and should not be subject to copyright. Human intent and authorship MUST be a significant factor. An artist can still use AI in their workflow, but their direct involvement and manipulation must be meaningfully “transformative” for copyright to apply in a fair and equitable way.

Agreed. I believe in a strong public domain and militantly protected fair use; AFAIC, all unaltered AI output should be considered public domain. Direct human authorship (or “substantially transformative” modification) is the benchmark for where copyright should apply.

I liked Windows 11 when it first landed, then came the forced updates that continually reinstalled trash you removed… like Edge and Teams. And then came the invasive advertising for OneDrive and other Microsoft products.

I’m running dual boot now with Debian + Gnome on a separate partition, and slowly weaning myself of Windows entirely. The only thing I’ll miss is GamePass.

Chromium is compromised… not just Chrome itself. Anything downstream of Chromium is gets all of Google’s recent malware like adblock-prevention and web-DRM baked right in.

No matter the downstream projects’ goals, they are still working from a compromised upstream source.

Orion is by the developers of Kagi (a paid search engine that is actually as good, if not better, than Google) and has ad-blocking and anti-tracking built in natively. It’s awesome.

The only others I know of are Mac-only: Safari and Orion.

Orion is great. I wish there was a Linux version.

Me too!

I’ve been 29 for over a decade.