This is the TYPICAL AI use case :

• have situation that’s not perfect, but works fine and is understandable (old control panel and some hidden settings)
• improve on the old control panel, create subsections that makes sense, make it searchable, everyone is happy
• someone decides that “control panel” and “old looking UI” have to go, create a cluster-a-doodle-fuck of a garbage mess labeled “Settings”, put only half the old settings in there, and half the time conflicts with other well-established ways to do things
• keep pushing the new thing despite it being so horrendous a kitten litter dies every time it is used
• pretend “there is a problem with settings, but we can solve it with AI”
• ???
• nothing, whatever, definitely not profit

It seems that people keep forgetting we just, did stuff. Changing most system settings wasn’t an incomprehensible chore reserved to the most elite of people. And changing the fringe ultra rare and hard to find setting only happened with half-decent competent people. No need to throw AI at that… unless you dismantle everything that works before, of course.

I swear, it’s not long ago that people were touting that we could finally have decent microtransactions in games thanks to blockchain, despite microtransactions being a very lucrative thing for decades before. And don’t get me started on people saying “but it’s the only way artists can get paid”.

As a collective, humanity is dumb.

We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.

Unfortunately, not many people are willing to step in the horrific realm of nudified fat bastards.

Are they really being replaced with AI or is the curriculum just finished?

It was not stellar before (lots of mistake, broken sound samples, nonsensical sentences, all never getting fixed despite reporting a lot), and it got measurably worse recently (all of the above in greater amount), so, no, it was not “finished”.

Nazi says what?

Presidents should do something, like some form of oath, to uphold this kind of things. And pass a test to ensure they understand all the complicated words.

Well, now you have :)

Yep. I understand the news-worthiness of dismantling the US, but why the fuck do we care for a “meltdown”.

Only those that can’t weather huge price hikes, lack of public service, and defend against supposed federal agent just robing them out.

Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.

Do it quick, lest you end up in a foreign death gulag to top it all.

Yeah, I’m sure China’s trembling at the mere idea.

Why are we talking about them again?

I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.

When I switched to Ubuntu, they just had more up to date packages, and with two releases a year (sort of), stayed up to date with other software, which is a good thing for a system I actually use. From then on, I just stayed on it, because I don’t reinstall my OS until something’s broken. I’ve been moving the same one for a decade now.

If I had to install a new desktop system I’ll probably go with mint, for the same reason : more frequent software update.

Note that this is all for desktop (and some specialized systems). Servers are all running debian, because stability is preferable and frequent software change is not what I want in these environments.

If made correctly (which is hilariously easy), it’s a clean install and uninstall process, support some level of potential conflict regarding files that are shared with other packages/commands, support dependencies out of the box, and with minimal work can be made easy to update for the user (even automatically updates, depending on the user’s choices) by having an (again, very easy to setup for a dev) repository. With the added value of authenticity checks before updating.

All this in a standardized way that requires no tinkering, compatibility stuff, etc, because all these checks are built-in.

Note that some of this probably applies to other system package management solutions, it’s not exclusive to .deb.

Ubuntu support online (I mean, the size of the community) can be useful. And besides the snap and “ubuntu advantage” thing, they’re mostly a more up to date vanilla Debian, which is extremely convenient because, Debian.

It’s obviously good for people used to Debian, but it’s also great for other, because of the regular updates. But in fairness with your point I’ve been thinking about moving to mint since it’s basically a de-snapped ubuntu.

A rusty bucket riddled with holes and the stick part of a shovel is better than snap for running software.

It was explicitly said to not use this outside of VSCode, so, I’m not sure where the surprise comes from.

The problem is that they’re killing competition.

So, they pay to develop a product, for themselves, explicitly says “it’s only for us, shoo shoo”, and when they decide that their product, that they pay for, and provide for free to their user, should not be used by other, it kills the competition that did not do anything except take the product for free despite being told not to?

I’m not on the side of Microsoft for most things. But if doing nothing but taking someone else’s free product qualifies to be competition that should be protected, we’re having problems.

It’s ok, they’re well known to go against useful advice anyway.