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It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness
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My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
Unpopular opinion, but it's also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it's often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
Example I always give is GiMP. Great team, great software, but also 10 years behind photoshop. Great for hobbyists and slightly above but professionals simply can’t use it as a daily driver.
Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯
This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.
You just did it lol
It's catching, I tell you!
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible
At that point people should just use mint lol
Anything to avoid using linux, eh?
Feel free to use a 20 year old distro that never updated.
I mean to be clear I don’t do it. The only computer I run xp on is an old tektronik mainframe that only has lan access and needs proprietary software to work that only runs on xp
I don’t really count that though since i literally only use it for the one app that allows the logic analyzer and oscilloscope cards to work
There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.
Still not an "easy" experience though.
At that point just use Mint. Isn't it designed to feel like Windows 7?
I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
except for encryption
u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track
Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.
whata wrong with asterisks? they made the text italic as i wanted it to be
The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:
Except for... context? I'm constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you're going too far.
Have you met end users before?
Too many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znG1SKGeDj8
Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
I don't want hallucinations and lies in my open source
It wouldn't be used to fact check you know.
I rather like AI to fold my proteins.
AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don't need that.
Try to separate the AI hype from AI.
AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.
Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.
It's the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it's no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what "intelligence" means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.
Even LLMs have value, just not how they're being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.
I'd love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn't want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.
Stop referring to LLMs as AI for starters
Why? On what basis?
LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It's not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.
It was kind of OK to refer to enemies as AI back then because not a single human (or investor) truly believed that a bot in CS can write text, paint an image, or replace you at your job. Now misusing the term leads to an unnecessary dangerous confusion.
Robotic Arms with AI have been taking over jobs well before LLMs were a thing.
No, no they weren't, not even close. Unless you're using AI in the loosest way possible, including machine learning algorithms that we were calling AI as a joke in the 90s.