It’s not impossible. It can be done, it just takes effort. The nice thing is that it’s kind of a snowball effect once you get started with a couple folks.

Same. If I have to screen share in a video call, I suddenly forget how to spell every other word and people get to watch me fix 7 typos per sentence.

Still applies.

*video game flow state*

“Oh, what game are you playing?”

*immediately dies*

Really? Tell me why.

Well that’s a very passive-aggressive way of saying, “No, no one has created a KDE widget out of this, yet.”

I saw the link (despite it being spoilered for some reason), but this is the kind of “omg it’s so obvious” attitude that puts newcomers off the Linux community.

It’s actually fewer steps. Society is just late-stage community.

Our brains evolved for living in groups of ~30-100 people. These communities are small enough to all know and support each other through life’s inevitable struggles. A healthy society is made up of thousands of these smaller, tight-knit communities, not just millions of individuals.

Our brains are not happy alone—not for extended periods. Reducing all our social interaction to anonymous chats (like this one) and passing hundreds of nameless faces does not fulfill your social needs and will leave you feeling lonely.

It is work, and you will encounter people that suck and/or won’t reciprocate, but if you keep at it, good people will reveal themselves. I promise it’s worth it.

Seems cool, but the article is walled behind an account… :/

I thought n’tsync was delayed because when I asked about the release, the devs said it’s gonna be May.

Is this a KDE panel widget?

There is definitely some truth to this, but I suspect these numbers are inflated quite a bit by all the BS LLM-generated bug reports.

I get this sentiment, but the best way to combat this feeling is to build community.

Get to know the people around you. It starts small by just ditching the headphones in public and saying hello (and maybe some small talk) every time you encounter someone. Then start offering and accepting help, plan events, and keep track of their life milestones. People will be so pleasantly surprised when you remember things about their lives.

And you will probably be surprised at how many interesting people you pass by every day while keeping your head down. Over time, some of them will begin to reciprocate. Remember, they are probably also starved for community.

Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.

Omg I remember finding that on Stumbleupon! I’m glad it’s still up. So many classic sites are gone now.

I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.

They don’t own homes, so they are likely less protective of what is built near them.

(Obviously many of them do, but statistically they are less likely)

I wonder how this compares to the percentages of people that want construction of any kind near their homes.

Same. We have more than enough compute for what we need.

If we could kill all these stupid generative AI companies and allocate that compute to actual scientific research, that’d be great, thanks.

There’s only one continent if you ignore water.

Yea, tech “enthusiasts” or people vested are more likely to hype it. True.

Not just more likely. They are the only ones hyping it. As far as I can tell, the average person is indifferent about AI at best, but more frequently people who don’t even follow the tech space are getting sick of it.

The diminishing returns have been a topic for longer and sadly the models do sound like they are still improving though. :(

Maybe, but quality of LLM output is very subjective and hard to measure, so it’s easy to make baseless claims about how “good” they are. I don’t use them, but I hear anecdotally (from people who actually like them) constantly complaining that new models aren’t getting much better. In some cases they feel they are getting worse, as AI is increasingly trained on AI output and contaminating their models.

Remember that these companies are burning through billions of dollars purposefully pushing a narrative that AI will change everything. They don’t care if it’s for the better or worse, because they are trying to scare investors into giving them more FOMO money. That’s it. AI and robotics companies aren’t trying to sell you a product. They’re selling a theoretical future to investors that they will never deliver.