Fortunately this kind of thinking slowly but surely gets defeated, although we still have to fight for every inch of user-friendliness (and even modern security concepts) against elitists.

Unfortunately right now most documentation is still crap for average users, and people who keep repeating bullshit like “it’s better to provide CLI commands because they’re universal” (actual nonsense people keep saying) don’t make it better. The situation is so phenomenally bad that I’d outright assume Mistral AI with “Reflection” on to be more useful to newcomers when looking for solutions (on case a friendly professional or enthusiast isn’t available), because that thing is less likely to provide an outdated command for the wrong distro than a google search. Which is an absolutely abysmal place to be in for Linux as a whole if we want to keep the rising adoption train going.

This. Terminology, unknown concepts (some simply expected to be known, such as standard parameter syntax) and a lack of simple examples to understand all the abstract explanations with (like the way ‘tealdeer’ presents it) make manpages utterly useless to anyone but powerusers with lots of time and an interest in the topic.

Someone saying “RTFM” unironically in regards to Linux is basically a red flag for new users at this point. Not because reading manuals was bad, but because the manuals provided are simply awful. They’re developer- and expert-friendly, not user-friendly.

You go to the damn meme factory and make them yourself!

Or, in case of Linux, you just suffer because the manpages are so god damn useless to average users.

And FTFM. Find the fucking manual.

And perhaps TTFM. Translate the fucking manual either from broken chinese-english or the tech-lingo + missing context information which is almost every manpage on Linux, making it nearly useless for the average user unless you got hours and hours of time to understand all the adjacent concepts and commands.

There’s none that got time but neither energy nor money. I feel left out.

The devil wants some of that Pooptart.

archive.is is your friend.

Doesn’t ChatGPT also use google?

I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn’t have to pull stuff out of its butt).

There’s a lot of nuance to this topic I think. In my (VERY anecdotal) experience men often have thicker hair which tends to be less brittle less quickly. At least that’s my experience as trans woman, around the time my treatment started my hair got slightly thinner and more prone to damage. So it’s probably also a hormonal thing.

“men don’t have long hair” 😂

There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn’t even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It’s one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it’s paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it’s also “better” since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn’t be used as argument.

Paired with the “Thinking” or “Reflection” feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of ‘b’ in ‘blueberry’, wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they’re bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I’d lie if I said I’d never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren’t going down this cyberpunk timeline though…

Edit: I’m strictly speaking about using it as a search engine when it does look up websites FOR you and reads through them, not when it makes shit up itself. Only then the stuff I said applies!

Looks hardly better though…

And when you tell people that (given they are against anti-fascism) they’re obviously supporting fascism suddenly you’re somehow the bad person for saying that.

Are there any technical / mechanical capabilities (outside of its flexibility to produce sturdy springs and such) of PP that only it can provide over other, less environmentally damaging materials?

I’m always trying to stick with materials that are either compostable (PHA) or truly recyclable (PLA, PETG) unless there are properties I absolutely need (like ASA for UV resistance & strength or TPU for flexible & protective parts). I wonder what PP does over TPU or other more common filaments and how it compares in terms of sustainability.

It wasn’t like the movie said Smith was right though. On the contrary.

It’s important to remember that the notion of “humans are the virus” said by Smith shortly after or before this (which is a very popular opinion right now) is inherently ecofascist.

That’s what pacman -Syyu is for. The occasional life support failure and forced bug hunting is part of the experience.