Did you get your $0.50 for that?

No idea how I should be pronouncing it though… K-den-live? Kde-n-live?

Yes, that’s how it’s pronounced

PCGamer is officially off my reading list now.

Would a VM not work? Seems like the perfect use case for a VM.

I am not looking for software alternatives.

Then just use Windows or a Mac.

Stop calling it “vibe coding”. Vibe coding is literally yoloing the generated output and then repeatedly reprompting when it doesn’t work. The second you put in a modicum of effort to examine the code generated you are no longer “vibe” coding.

🎉🎉🎉

“The sum if all digits must be 9”

How so? The Arch wikis are considered some of the best documentation of any software. So the “Highs of Knowledge” is fitting.

Ok, next question: what’s an apu and a cute lil pepe on 4chan?

What’s a “froggo” on 4chan? Is it some kind of cred for hackers? But seriously, what’s a froggo?

Yeah… So I read through that, and those aren’t the “pretty serious issues” you think they are.

To be clear, they aren’t inconsequential, but they’re not “serious”.

For example, complaining about the UX doesn’t equate to a security problem. A lower target for the Android API also doesn’t equate to security issues. It can be a contributing factor to security, but if your device can’t even install a lower API then that’s not an issue anyways.

There are some valid points made by the author, but a lot of it is sabre rattling by making those points seem like dangerous security mountains.

Edit: spelling

Many of the secondary app stores just don’t have the resources and tools to keep users safe.

What in the actual hell are you talking about? F-Droid and other open source stores are doing a better job at keeping out malware than Google Play Store itself is doing.

The OS vendor gets to run classification on all of your pictures, documents, and software.

Not on Linux

A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.

No, just basic and regular optimization. There are plenty of talented devs with YouTube channels that have shown that most AAA games are horrendously optimized, and in some cases can see 2x or even 3x+ performance gains with proper optimization.

2 sticks of RAM should do it

I hope so, but your be surprised. I know some devs that basically think LLMs can do their work for them, and treat it as such. They get them to do multi-hundred line edits with a single prompt.

You have no idea the long term impact such a tool has on a codebase. The more it generates the less you understand, regardless of how much you “check” the output.

I work as a senior dev, and I’ve tested just about all the foundational models (and many local ones through Ollama) for both professional and personal projects. In 90% of all cases I’ve tested it has always come back to “if I had just done the work from the beginning myself, I would have had a working result that’s cleaner and functions better in less time”.

Generated code can work for a few lines, for some boilerplate, or for some refactoring, but anything beyond that is just asking for trouble.

Go with Bazzite, not Debian

Well, then Microsoft should stop shoving AI slop into all its products. Windows Agentic AI Slop is something no one asked for.