Either Grok or Co-pilot. Grok because it’s insane, and Co-pilot because it’s just bad.

I tried to switch over to Bottles for my app, couldn’t make it work.

(I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, but Lutris worked out of the box, so… )

Far worse, and this applies to more than programming. If something is broken, I want it to be consistent. Don’t fix yourself, or sort of work but have a different effect. Break, and give me something to figure out, damn it.

I feel called out. I’m not sure which way I’d go.

Just one layer removed from the problem.

“WTF does this comment even mean?”

It’s absolutely a Catch-22. The whole system is designed to need a private transportation source, and how do you undo that? A working public transportation system for more than just select urban areas, places designed for foot and small vehicle traffic, and local centers for basic needs, so you don’t have to go tens of miles or more for them. We all want this, I don’t doubt, but how do you change enough of what exists to make a difference?

Not a manual that came with the game, but back when SimCity 2000 first came out, there was a companion book in bookstores for it. Lots of hints and backstories on development, if I remember. Lots of humor too. It was a great read.

Instead of playing the game of maximizing the cost, reduce the usage. That will have a much larger effect than trying to gain a few cents as prices increase over time.

My dad was born in 1943 and would tell us a story about the corner gas station where the price had always been a fixed 29 cents a gallon since he could remember. At some point, as a kid, he noticed when it went up to 30 cents and realized it would never go back down. What caused the increase, who knows, but it’s funny to plug in 28-30 cents into an inflation calculator and find it’s the same as $4.00 in today’s dollars.

You know what was different, though? Wages. While we do need to use less oil for lots of reasons, including cost, resources, and environment, that isn’t why gas prices are a problem.

My spellcheck doesn’t recognize exabyte and zettabyte yet either. Same issue of common use and scale.

My wife’s laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She’ll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I’d expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

Look up WSL2. You may have to enable it first, but it comes with Windows. It will be slower than running Linux on a dual boot, as you’re running Windows along with the virtual OS. Maybe faster than on a USB.

The first you can control to some extent. Both local and public llms have ways to edit or add to the system prompt, which is what guides the overall behavior. I actually had a local llm do the opposite of what you are looking for - somehow the prompt had been changed to a very simple “You will answer short and concise” without me realizing it, and I couldn’t figure out why it had changed from a flowing, dynamic output to a few sentences.

But it’s not perfect either. Sometimes you want a bit more than a simple sentence, or it might need more information and a short reply will cut off the important things.

As for fixing the second one - to be right more often would mean they understand what they’re outputting, which is what we don’t have yet. I’d just rather have it admit when it doesn’t have enough to satisfactorily be sure on the answer. Which doesn’t happen because they are trained first and foremost to always have an answer, because that’s more marketable than a model that says it doesn’t know.

The heroes we need.

Been using my dad’s MacBook from 2009 (that he had obtained from a pawn shop long ago) as a secondary laptop. Had tried to update the existing OS, but it was too old, Apple had already abandoned it, so I installed Linux Mint XFCE. Now it’s modern again. Slow as hell for some tasks like browsing the web, but it’s the memory that’s the bottleneck, planning to go from the stock 2GB to 4GB or 8GB soon, which will fix that, possibly another SSD later too.

I agree. This is feeding off of a new way to market and use people’s insecurities, selling them a fix that will do more damage. I think we’ve already seen this in the business world with adoption of AI for every damn thing, even forcing employees to enbrace it or leave. And the best ones aren’t even that good. And then there’s Co-pilot, which is worse. So adding another more personal version will pull in more people looking for answers to their problems (caused by a society that’s broken).

The question of AGI and whether one can be personal with it is an interesting debate, and not one that people are happy to entertain in discussion or acceptance at this time. But we don’t have AGI, may never have it, and this is simply a money grab no different than OnlyFans and webcam girls, only there’s no human at the other end that has to get a small part of the profit.

people on Lemmy

It’s funny how “on Lemmy” is often used when it’s been that way even before the internet. Just like it used to be “on Reddit”. But yeah, it’s Lemmy that’s the problem.

The red label isn’t why they’re doing it though. It’s simply a consequence of the actions.

I will concede only in the fact that it made me look like a miracle worker to my parents when I “fixed” their mouse that had stopped working with my magic.

On the other hand, the Christmas I gave them an LED mouse was peak level for all of us.

Wired vs. wireless is whatever works for you, but no one misses balled mice. No one.

I actually do this. I have a small power bank I keep the mouse hooked up to, and when it falls low enough it taps into it. Every few weeks or even a month I recharge the bank up. But wires being a problem will depend on your setup and desk real estate. This doesn’t bother me, but having a wired keyboard would lose some space, so I’m glad for my wireless there. And that’s even less of a hassle, as it’s still running off the original batteries it came with years (and years!) ago. Makes sense, there is very little power usage there being a boring old Logitech non-backlit keyboard.