Twongo [she/her]

i don´t necessarily think sources are needed.

people don´t really care: if an aquaintance asks you you can just tell them it´s not your thing. if an employer asks you, you lose either way. the deranged rants are reserved for close friends :) But if you need some evidence: Look into the environmental consequences (fire up those coalmines for LLM prompts), the several studies that suggest only 60% of all answers are factual, the MIT study that shows how the brain atrophies from using AI and the phenomenon called “ai psychosis”

godspeed o7. thx for keeping the good side of the internet alive for a little longer

glad i could help :)

unfortunately not, power wise it only lets you upgrade the RAM.

but those CPU´s are vastly superior to those 2nd and 3rd Gen i7´s you can put into a t420/t430

the german website https://thinkwiki.de/ has detailed information about possible upgrades of every model :)

Thinkpads were basically made for Linux, depending on your Budget you can get a Thinkpad X220, X230, T420 or T430 for small money - perfectly usesble machines and Linux (my experience is CachyOS & Arch) work out of the box.

For a bigger budget i could recomment the T480, it’s still upgradeable.

And for a bigger budget i’d recommend a T14 GEN2

god i love the t420! the only limitation it has for my usecase is gaming which is fine - i use the steam streaming feature when i want to play games like citybuilders in my bed :)

Mint.

Linux users tend to forget that using Konsole even once is overwhelming for even “seasoned PC users”

My roommate is a gamer, spends lots of time on PC´s and knows his shit. But he felt overwhelmed with the CachyOS Laptop i gifted him.

pirated games can be quite ethical :3

ahhh heimat ❤️

I got used to the Workflow of Ableton so I understand the struggle. I got an 8-Track license for Bitwig from a friend which works like a charm. Other than that there´s Ardour, it´s FOSS and ugly - can´t say more since i haven´t played around with it yet but apparently it´s good? idk.

wow_mao did a good breakdown on this in his most recent video.

but on a more serious one: marques bownlee made a level headed video on this: he noticed only 2 basic tasks like opening the door and bringing a cup to the kitchen were done automatically in the clip, everything else shown in the clip was a remote controlled robot. it’s ai needs to learn A LOT of things, like different fabrics, how to stack dishwashers, how to even differentiate forks from knives… now every household has it’s individual items and so on. he compared it to teslas self driving which was actively beta tested by the users and learned this way. but roads are far less complex than a household. and tesla works because they sold millions of cars while this robot will be a 20.000$ beta test for a small amount of people and it has to learn a lot of different thinks on a significantly smaller userbase. then there’s privacy: you have a walking robot in your household which records stuff and sends the data to a server outside of the user’s control.

basically it’s a tech bro pipedream.

nice video though.

glad i could help! :)

i found my way around it, if you have issues where the wiki can’t help you feel free to message me!

Paulaner Spezi 🤤🤤

i’m all for linux phones, android becomes locked down by google, iOS is proprietary and dumbphones seem like an unnecessary burden if you wanna participate in society.

But i oppose the inclusion of any state in FOSS development. The EU is constantly pushing for chat control, Germany uses Palantir and ACTA was a thing. The EU could flip in the next election cycle and make backdoors mandatory or cut funding and cause the collapse of active development which relies on EU funding if their demands are not met.

But i’m no developer, i’m just an active user so i can’t have an informed opinion on that.

What i do: oomscroll Lemmy, take smoke breaks, do “the little stuff” like organizing documents after your lazy coworkers, take a walk, read books and hop on codeacademy. Still - this freedom gets stale quickly because the most stressful part becomes pretending to look busy

I am no expert and can only tell from my own experience: i recently installed CachyOS with KDE, it is an Arch based distro, despite that I, a fresh linux user, think it is really accessible and it worked out of the box. Gaming is not really an issue for me, if issues arise i just check ProtonDB, but that´s really rare thanks to Lutris being pre-installed. You also benefit from the Arch Wiki which, in my opinion, has a REALLY good documentation of any question or issue you encounter with that operating system.

You have to get comfortable with the terminal though, but i think that applies to any linux distro (my only other distro experience is Mint 10 yrs ago)