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  • nixukty@lemmy.ziptolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldYOLO
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    3 days ago

    Arch has never “broken” on me through my 3 years of using it, but after a while weird issues would start to appear. Like for example my login manager just stopped working permanently and I had to do startplasma-wayland. Ssh agents also subtly broke. Stuff like that. I forgot to enable fstrim and my system freaked out during I/O eventually. These are all technically user error, but I don’t feel like spending so much time on managing my operating system.

    I ended up switching to Fedora and was pleasantly surprised how well it’s setup by default.





  • Fun fact: you probably know that wireless earbuds have a primary/secondary relationship, where the audio source connects to just one earbud, which then relays it to the second. Interestingly, this isn’t the case anymore with Bluetooth LE audio, where the phone manages the connection to each earbud independently. even though the phone does more work, it uses less power because the codec is more efficient









  • AI is quite good at web design now, but it still has a distinct style. Claude in particular LOVES to mix serif and monospace fonts. This isn’t necessarily a guarantee based on just that, but it did trigger my alarm bells.

    The second biggest thing is the language. LLMs absolutely SPAM slightly vague, short phrases separated by punctuation.

    The language on each data point also is pretty repetitive which implies either sub agents were called or the model was asked individually to write something about it in a specific tone.

    The final nail in the coffin was the company that made it, Rise up labs, which advertised all their AI software on their home page



  • I mean it’s still probably beneficial for a lot of cases. Ad and tracking companies want the easiest route, which is just to farm the people who make no effort to improve their privacy (the majority). Sophisticated trackers do exist, and companies like Meta still do literally everything to get any last bit, but for the most part you’ll knock out 90% of invasion with even basic measures and like 98% with greater measures