Had a subscription, unsubscribed 6 months ago. Simplistically:

1. They create bad code,
2. You stop learnng. You want to program? Learn.

Leave it, tos 8 covers my point and yes its a case of my butthurt but its a recent pattern across communities in lemmy atm that seems to have started a nasty attempt thats trying to grow a grassroots campaign, this may not be one. Just reporting for your sake and others to raise awareness based on some social controversy in the distro. We should be lifting distros (and people) up not burning them for fake reasons

Recent research study I read that looked reasonable, it was posted here on lemmy. I’ll try and find it when I have time and edit this post.

Yes, it is.

Read the first line of my post above.

Nice astroturfing attempt

Doubt, highly doubt it.

I use nixos btw

Complete with home manager, flakes, build server and automated deployments, the whole lot on machines from compute stick, gaming rig, hell even a surface. I have never had more free time than compared to arch. updates & config drift are no longer anything I worry about. Save so much time on rebuilds & customisations.

Nixos users never recommend it for new users. I always recommend mint or Ubuntu depending on the person and what they are used to. Seasoned Linux users i don’t even recommend it unless they have basic programming skills.

After that, bring it on, stick through the learning curve, you dont need the documentation. I only needed it at the start for a short period until it clicked and I figured it out. the repo and search has more than enough. In the repo you will find community builds and configs for a wide variety of hardware.

It is amazing, the power of a mature immutable OS, is amazing. Frankly though Ive found the reality of nix the exact opposite: because everything is configured in the one place, updates, and changes in general are so easy and risk free (rollbacks a breeeeze). So i save more time than lose tbh.

Modules and flakes are next level.

Configure ALL THE THINGS!

No, that is not ROI, that would be growth above the normal growth for products and services. Problem being that they are just spinning normal growth as AI growth. Internally, they will not be seeing the growth realised. Billions spent and for what? A word predictor that is benchmarked at halucinating 80-90% of the time. Its simply appauling value when the content users get is wrong 80-90% of time, realised or otherwise. Utilization will be starting out high and falling off a cliff risking deepening reputational damage on the back of the thriving open source community.

Absolutely, Natella (intentional) has commented about the valueless hype for one. The stock value has little to do with short term returns especially considering they have more than 1 income stream. I would expect a correction in 12-24months as openai cash starts running dry and it begins reflecting in their stock value first and foremost.

Right now their stock value is pretty much flat. US market instability may put some serious pressure on the US tech stocks in the coming year, those 10 year bonds are not looking good.

Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place.

Because its more than a bunch of posts, its voice comms and thats more useful. So find a platform that does both and maybe people change, maybe. More likely we will have to wait for IPO and enshitification before that happens.

No, this is a correction after the CEO made very poor investments into an LLM company run by a crypto grifter that’s amounted in little to no ROI. So now it’s either every employee is an AI grifter or unemployed. All other projects are cost recovery to feed the spiral of enshitification.

its very safe to say most PhD scholars are well below the mean on Wisdom.

At this point to Debloat you’d be better off just removing windows. Save yourself the fight and frustration

Sorry I got the wrong PM, yes Whitlam not Menzies. As to the claim of the CIA conspiracy, frankly its irrelevant it is an example of the CROWN power being executed by the Governor General.

Who knows, if the US were still under the crown maybe Trump could eventually be removed, he is certainly on track to create the inflation.

We are lucky enough to have the royals as a check and balance. The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)

Edit: correction it was the Whitlam controversy.

Still a huge swing left in context of the last election.

Safe to say, Australians did not like what they were seeing in the USA. A resounding majority win is huge considering they only just formed minority Government in their previous term.

When you start eluding towards banning democratic parties, you lose all credibility

Foreign anti-interference laws address your first point. If they arent effective, thats easily resolved in parliment.

Don’t conflate foreign interest with genuine opposition, I would be very surprised if there wasnt any. This is the Democratic system working. The hubris of the left is suicidal.

Ruling out foreign interference like astroturfing, genuine Opposition doesn’t come from no where, it comes from suffering in most cases. Failure of elected governments to reflect on their own failure breeds it.