I’ve had several occasions in my life where I’ve tried to switch to Linux only to run into hardware incompatibilities that would have taken me man-months to solve. Thanks to GPT my primary personal PC, home media and project server is now running Linux and fully functional. I’ve got Jellyfin, NextCloud, Navidrome and Joplin all happy. I’ve also been able to wipe an obsolete MacOS off my 2017-era Macbook Pro and it’s happily running Mint.

There’s a deep irony in Windows being enshittified by AI, while the same AI makes Linux about a billion times more usable. Now I have a leftover Windows micro-PC running a local LLM model, so I can be less dependent on GPT, as long as time isn’t a factor…

  • Seralth@piefed.seralth.com
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    13 hours ago

    There’s decades of information to shift though and AI knows just enough to shift though the chaff.

    Its honestly likely going to slowly become one of the few real use cases for the tech for the avg person. But from a local perspective. Needing a centralized search engine is likely going to become iffy and lower quality even if they shove ai into it.

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      6 hours ago

      For how to use bash, you can easily resort to local models with LMStudio. No internet search needed.