AKA move my entire Arch setup to Nix during exams
smiletolerantly
joined 7 months ago
I was fully on board until, like, a year ago. But the more I used it, the more obviously it came undone.
I initially felt like it could really help with programming. And it looked like it, too - when you fed it toy problems where you don't really care about how the solution looks, as long as it's somewhat OK. But once you start giving it constraints that stem from a real project, it just stops being useful. It ignores constraints (use this library, do not make additional queries, ...), and when you point out its mistake and ask it to to better it goes "oh, sorry! Here, let me do the same thing again, with the same error!".
If you're working in a less common language, it even dreams up non-existing syntax.
Even the one thing it should be good at - plain old language - it sucks ass at. It's become so easy to spot LLM garbage, just due to its style.
Worse, asking it to proofread a text for spelling and grammar mistakes, but to explicitly do not change the wording or style, there's about a 50/50 chance it will either
- change your wording or style, or
- point out errors that are not even in the original text in the first place!
I could honestly go on and on, but what it boils down to is: it is able to string together words that make it sound like it knows what it is doing, but it is just that, a facade. And it looks like for more and more people, the spell is finally breaking.
Yeah. I've had zero problems hosting my mail on a bare metalachine in a datacenter. They arrive just like they should, plus it's just so freeing to host it yourself.
(Actually, the only time I've been able to fully let go and scream while crying as an adult was when just so happening to be next to a torrendous river. I could not possibly scream loud enough to be heard by anyone. It is so freeing to just scream everything off your soul. 10/10 would recommend. Sorry for kinda off-topic.)
OK, obviously this is just...fucked.
That being said though. I live in an apartment complex and am shy / do not want to bother people.
I can't count the number of times I've been crying / sobbing but held myself back from full on screaming into the void to relieve my soul.
Mayyyyybe this would help? Still fucked though.
Store path names starting with . are now permitted, fixing some home-manager issues.
Oh hell yeah
"What survives survives, what doesn't doesn't."
Ah, good news in regards to gaming, esp. Steam gaming!
Steam invested quite a bit of energy into "Proton", essentially a new kind of compatibility layer. If you remember tinkering around with wine and winetricks from years ago, that's basically gone nowadays.
For most games, just go into the Steam settings for that game, and under "Compatibility", check the box.
Then click download, and play. That's it for most games 🎉
Also check out protondb.com - it's basically a community-sourced database cataloging how well Steam games work on Linux.
Good luck on your Linux journey, and feel free to ask questions if something comes up! :)
I have always been pro-privacy, but in a kind of lukewarm, "I wish someone would do something about this" way.
What has finally pushed me to ditch services from large corporations over the past couple of years is not really a concern for privacy, its a drive for self-sufficiency.
As basically the last stepping stone, as of a couple of weeks ago, my email, calendar and contacts are self-hosted, and it's just... So freeing.
Start with Linux Mint. It should be a very pleasant and straightforward experience right out of the box, and is just in general very beginner friendly. I recommend to create a live USB (basically, download the ISO from the Mint website, then use something like Balena Etcher to put it on a USB stick). You can then boot off that stick, and try Mint out to your heart's content, without risking your Windows install or data at all.
Can I ask, what are the programs you wager you'll have to emulate through wine?
👀 (to both of those statements)
Do you have a link to that Iain M. Banks post?
His work made me extremely optimistic about the future at a time where I really needed it, and is what got me to enroll in an AI-centered study course (thank fuck I dropped out and enrolled in something else).
I have so many feelings on this.