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Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.

Accidentally put grub on the wrong partition on the device, which it was not happy with. Was able to copy some files over, manually boot the OS, and reconfigure grub to be in the right partition, took me about 2 hours? Then I did it again on a different machine, and speedran it lol

I call my server “the server”, “the shitbox”, or “the 36TB”, my pc “the PC”, and my surface… “the surface”. Creative, I know.

In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so… I guess?

English, C++; Z80, 6502, and 45GS02 assembly, some SQL, VHDL, a bit of Python and Verilog, BASIC65, bash, CP/M ED, and a few other odds and ends

I am fully aware, I speak nerd and computer.

The computers speak back. It’s a good time.

I might be going insane?

I’m also ripping off being inspired by another comment.

Poe’s law strikes again?

I… I…

I have no words.

How someone could genuinely believe that is beyond me.

Matrix has flaws as well, use XMPP.

People can also stop saying words and think for a second about the information they’re actually saying first, whereas an LLM just vomits up words that seem to match the pattern of the rest of the sentence. If I were to ask you what 2 + 2 is, you’d stop, run the math in your head, get 4, then reply with 4. An LLM would just start vomiting out words based on what it’s been trained on without verifying that the information is good (or even relevant), and can end up confidently telling you that 2 + 2 is in fact equal to the cube root of 5 because that’s what the data said so it has to be right, for instance.

I’m aware this is a drastic oversimplification, and I think the tech is neat (although I avoid non-self-hosted models like the plague due to privacy concerns), but it’s oversold to all hell, and is definitely not even close to intelligent.

This one on lemmy.today, and my original account with the same username on lemmy.world.