First, read my text fully before replying.
But additionally I have a brain and can use it to double check:
In example 1. I just build it blindly because it’s a game and it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong. But it ended up being correct.
In 2. the math result was not far off from my guesstimate and I can confirm later, it was correct.
In 3. it gave me a source and I read the source. Google did not lead me to that source.
When I let LLM write code, I read the code, then I test the code.
LLMs are great. You can tell them a problem with words and they figure out what you mean and solve it.
For example, I was playing a factory building game and didn’t want to do a spreadsheet for figuring out the optimal amount of which building I have to place to get a wanted result. I told the LLM, copy pasted the wiki for each building. It did some differential equasions and gave me a result and a spreadsheet.
Same with math, describing the situation and problemis much easier than thinking about which formulas to use and how to chain them.
Same for researching info online. Recently I googled for half an hour, crawling through shit articles, reading 50page PDFs, none of which contained the detail I wanted, before giving up asking an AI and clicking on the source it quoted to get my reply. Maybe my search terms sucked, maybe I can’t ask the right question, because I don’t know what I don’t know, but the LLM was able to get it.
Are the problems I described already “solved” more efficiently by other means? Absolutely yes!
Will it be faster and easier for me to throw it at an LLM? Also yes!
Thats not really their conclusion. Thats the Rosetta Code ranking. Table 4 is the one that has summarized results of many tests and includes a lot more languages.
If your target audience says too lazy didn’t read - I think the bit that applies like a rule of thumb to most cases is more relevant and has a higher practical knowledge value than the intricate details or an “it depends”.
(Similar how you can just explain gravity with newton instead of einstein, to make it short, even though it is less precise or technically false)
I’ve been backing up my OS and my personal files with borg to my NAS.
Saved me a weekend of setup and config editing once before, when my drive failed.
Or do you just remember all the config changes you did and type them out from the top of your head? And all the apps you have installed? It’s over 300 apps and 100 config files for me.
The OS is tiny compared to personal files. It doesn’t make sense not to back it up.
tldr:
opinionated tldr:
What did you do before the reboot?
Why not let her try in a live booted environment first?
If I understood correctly the laptop is not there yet, but surely there is another device available which can boot from a USB stick?
It’s no campaign. There is just a lot more (percentage wise) unfiltered trash on there.
My arch linux with KDE only uses 500Mb ram after boot and I have a handfull of apps in the autostart. So I would guess with some explicitly lighter desktop environment you can be well below 100Mb
If you have a chance to add an ssd or nvme you could allocate a decently sized swap partition and let the OS handle the rest.
Maybe you won’t be able to watch full HD youtube in big fat chrome browser, but otherwise it should work just fine I think.
I had a remarkable 2 for a year and was very dissatisfied with how hard it was to modify or run custom scripts on it. Then came the subscription stuff and I ditched it.
Bought pinenote and even though I’m no linux developer, I’ve set it up and it works very well. Been using it for 3+ years now.
The build feels cheaper compared to remarkable, but the hardware spec is much better. And the best part is I can just run syncthing or kdeconnect or any linux desktop app on it and it’s great.
Yeah thats the point I was trying to make.
Why is it talked about so onesidedly when it is actually multi-facetted? The blog to me reads like: “there are legal reasons against AI and there are fanatic reasons against AI, so we yive you the option to disable it (but actually it’s totally great as we all know and agree).”
I wish they’d addressed it in a more nuanced way or not at all. Just saying “It is now a config” would have been enough, but they went out of their way to point out only the subset of the arguments that can be easily dismissed.
Guess they have a product to sell that rides on the succsess of AI coding.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study
Nobody ever adresses that using AI might actually be less efficient (while feeling more productive to the users)
Use pastebin to share them
I think they mean making ALL corners not round.
The config is only for the bottom corners.
Next week in klassy : write code to un-round bottom corners.
/j
they laugh.
All the old people are fucked and have to fumble with (from their pov) alien technology (a smartphone).
At least thats what I’ve heard from the family of friends that live in Germany.
The one I installed, obviously.
They claimed there will be no CSAM because of the given reasons.
I wanted to highlight that those reasons do not actually prevent it.
My tone might be harsh (the sarcasm at the end definitely is) because I see this as a marketing push for their crypto platform. “marketing” - as in they will be making money from users, so it is in their interest to tell lies or ignorant half-truths, to make more users come over.
Any normal platform tackles this problem with proper moderation. Platforms that make money, often hire moderators.
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