Oh it’s time for me to complain about people not understanding that LLMs aren’t magical beings containing all wisdom and the highest form of intelligence while conveniently being connected to an API for humans to talk shit to again

I’m not part of the hate crowd but I do believe I understand at least some of it.

A fairly big issue I see with it is that people just don’t understand what it is. Too many people see it as some magical being that knows everything…

I’ve played with LLMs a lot, hosting them locally, etc., and I can’t say I find them terribly useful, but I wouldn’t hate them for what they are. There are more than enough real issues, of course, both societal and environmental.

One thing I do hate is using LLMs to generate tons of online content, though, be it comments or entire websites. That’s just not what I’m on the internet for.

Sounds like half of the process your average Windows debloater goes through every time they update?

I can cook, I love cooking in fact.

I can’t afford to order food every day (price is usually about 5x that of a cheap home cooked meal here) but I totally get it.

When I get home after a fucking annoying day at work, I hardly want to exist, much less exist and spend time and effort cooking dinner.

But since I’m not rich I just eat bread or cook anyway lol

Yeah no thanks

I mean, there’s Scottish English (inb4 someone tells me about Glaswegian being different than $idk), American English etc, so Euro-English might be a tad broad but I’m sure it exists.

And then there’s German English which a lot of my older coworkers seem to excel at… “Ja, also, as you see, ve have here not a problem anymore, ja, and ze dropped calls are removed from this node, okeh?” (real quote from a regional manager)

I know it’s not exactly the point of the article but for a lot of things, I reckon a good amount of ‘innovation’ was pretty pointless. I personally don’t think I ever needed anything that Office 2003 can’t do… (Of course I don’t use any MS office to begin with but you get the point)

I don’t think the video was bad and I’m glad desktop Linux is getting a good amount of attention this way.

But… I feel like he didn’t exactly show windows users what really expects them on Mint (which is a very similar but in many ways better and quite easy experience). This might be off putting to some unconvinced Windows users.

His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.