So, I get that, I was commenting on the exaggeration of this guy’s ai stance and the assumption that ai had something to do with this mistake. Additionally, I was commenting on how common these types of things are on Lemmy. You owned up to your immediate mistake here and that’s good, but my other points still stand.
with him being a lover and a loud public advocate of it.
I googled the guy’s name and as expected, I found him suggesting ai is good for finding bugs now, unlike in the past. No quotes of him praising its use let alone across the board.
I am generally against AI but what exactly is the point of opposing it to the point of denying it has any use whatsoever, exaggerating anything anyone says remotely in favor of it, or in this case making up harm that AI hypothetically may have caused? Doing things like that is just destroying the credibility of opposing AI, and I see this kind of approach to it constantly on here.
No, Linux is not “vibecoded” now. No, Torvalds is not an AI simp now. Yes, there are some uses of AI that are probably worth the downsides (which anyone can see and should admit to). Binary thinking is not productive.
How are you using pacdiff? I hadn’t heard of it until now, and the man page didn’t help me.
I appreciate this level headed response. I tend to agree with you all around, and I think that no other humans on earth are more equipped to manage the use of AI than the team of mostly altruistic people who brought us OS choice. I find it hard to believe they will completely botch it or learn no lessons. I too dislike AI but I also recognize it may have some uses. Thinking it’s all bad, imo, is binary thinking. I think AI may end up being a net negative for humanity honestly, but 1) we don’t know that yet 2) the Assholes capable of regulating it dgaf. Regulation is really the only tool we have. Blind rage is not a tool in any scenario, including this one.
So given that “Linux goes all in on AI” is a steaming pile of bullshit, can someone tell me which YouTuber I can avoid moving forward? Probably should go ahead and block whatever this website is. But I’m not clicking that clickbait/ragebait link.
I’ve seen some rage bait and people spreading falsehoods about Linus and his outlook on LLMs… but what personal gain is there to be had? I would’ve assumed all the misinformation I’ve seen is just doomerist outrage.
Ubuntu does some things people don’t like, but as a first distro I wouldn’t agree that those things matter much. Especially considering that it’s by far the most supported distro. Most Ubuntu support/info also applies to Ubuntu based distros, like pop os, which I also would recommend personally. Distro choice both matters and doesn’t, with the caveat that it mostly matters what it’s based on. Ubuntu based is going to give you all the easiest software support.
Any more right wing lies to spread?
Yes exactly! And exactly!
It’s people like her who make life worth living. People who solve hard problems that need solving (or sometimes don’t even need it) are the best people.
What snarky point are you making?
Fedora is great but I did hit some really annoying snags a couple of times. Ubuntu is easiest and generally is most supported. I don’t like snaps and some other Ubuntu things so I go Ubuntu-based instead, with pop os. I really like it.
They are nor real.
Great! Glad to see… Oh wait it’s not 2021 anymore. Huh… weird.
I update my system often and believe it or not reboot more than once every couple years ;) I’m clueless about all these details I just know from a user perspective I had some annoyances and breakages.
I am not familiar with AppManager at all.
You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher
I’m just curious how you think this would have happened. Did I install it, not use it for months, never update my system, then start using it?
I am not sure it matters why or what issues I had, but I had a few, enough to look for an alternative. In fact my experience with AIL is part of the reason I avoid appImages. They just don’t seem to work well in my experience. In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me, citing reasons that don’t seem relevant to my use case, about details that never seemed to impact me. I just know I tried to use AIL for a couple of years and had issues multiple times, the last time resulting in breaking an app. So I stopped using it.
All I know is appImageLauncher gave me a lot of issues so as soon as I found an alternative I tried it and haven’t had an issue yet.
Edit: apparently having an experience gets a downvote. Pretty whiny and weird thing to do.
Okay, well gear lever lets you add command line arguments which get saved in the config so that should work easily. I will say it’s odd to me that you say this is needed for a specific OS, let alone often. I have never used that flag and I’ve been using an Ubuntu variant for ~5 years now. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong or anything, I’m just surprised because that seems to defeat one of the main purposes of appImages. The whole security/safety model seems to be sidestepped if you use that flag. I tend to only use appImage if it’s my only option because flatpaks seem to work better in my experience.
The workaround is to leave that cancer