I only have it in the VM but even there I tried all kinds of things like hacks in the registry and all kinds of services disabled only to discover sometime later that it tried to update.

I just set it read only so that it just can’t do that now, anymore. It’s such a virus…

I can tell you’re not working in IT…

It’s astonishing how quickly it changed the field there…

And indeed it’s quite a productivity tool since roughly half a year ago, not that it is fun, to use it all the time…

i know one university having their compsci students now doing their projects using AI.

How to promote brain atrophy…

But I guess it’s difficult for Universities to adjust, indeed…

And yes, I agree, I write less and less manual code, but it’s not fun. Endless context switching is really not promoting flow states, that I had when I programmed for ours… Which I consider what made it fun in the first place.

Well the slopmachine got you hooked, as it was designed to be…

Couldn’t be more different for me though, I’m missing being in the flow for hours, writing code. Now it’s mindless context switching, and burning out because of looking at all the slop (often of others) that’s just unnecessary garbage code… Wondering how this art has been degraded to so quickly…

attempts

right, it’s obvious that they want to be fascists, and so far they are succeeding…

That’s not what I meant though. I meant that the whole system is not yet in a state that I would call fascism yet, or well, at least until this next election which I think is a very good test for the “democracy” there…

And my hope is, that Trump is that unpopular that they will indeed fail to continue with this…

Unlike smarter authoritarians/dictators, he’s not very good so far at this (although ~1/3 of the population is already brain dead, which is in his favor, but probably not enough…). But I don’t know, americans have already disappointed me twice, so it stays hope…

As I said, it certainly does have a lot of fascist tendencies, but I wouldn’t declare it fascist (yet) as long as elections are still somewhat proper, that’s why i said November is an interesting date. I think for this to be actual fascism (also do not devalue the actual fascisms we have/had so far), democracy needs to be almost entirely oppressed. We’ve seen in New York that there’s still at least a little bit of hope, for this to be turned around.

But I agree, it needs a lot of cult deprogramming, and I’m very much concerned about the mental health of the average american…

My last hope for this to be not true will be tested in November, depending on the result, I’ll finally declare USA as Fascism. But even if not, the next presidential election needs to be an entire (progressive/socialistic) turnaround, to stop this continuous degeneration of “democracy”, and there’s a lot of damage of this administration, that needs repair over the next decades.

Depends on whether humidity stays the same or not…

I know we’re fucked. But I refuse to believe that we cannot change. It will still get significantly worse, that I’m fairly sure of. But I also think that at some point for one renewables lobby is bigger than fossil and will actively fight fossilized lobby and that humans will see on a broader scale that we need to change. All of this is already in progress. I doubt doomerism does us any good. I’d agree that global collaboration would help significantly (and to a part this is happening already). Also keep in mind we’re prone to talk about extremes, like capitalism, communism, socialism etc. While a mix of those is more accurate for most states (social market economy). USA is probably much closer to capitalism, but I doubt their system will work much longer it’s too polarized to be “stable” much longer.

So while it will get ugly (and let’s hope that climate scientists weren’t too optimistic) I think we at least may be able too avoid a runway hothouse earth and stabilize the climate to at least human survivability (which is still sad…)

I actually think it might even be worse to not have kids at this point, someone needs to fix all the issues previous generations have created. I’m pretty sure we need human intervention, some kind of Geo-engineering/Terraforming to avoid a runway hot house earth (something like effective carbon capture)… So I don’t think antinatalism helps…

Simply disabling the Youtube app (since at least on my phone it can’t be uninstalled) does the trick as well

I had the same case when the prices weren’t as absurd then, so I just paid 20 Euros extra, not that bad, but now… I will likely this issue again (like he has), because the SSD in question is defective again, I really hope he has success, it’s still within guaranty for some time so I wait how this turns out (until short before guaranty is gone).

But I’m just another off-the-shelf engineer now. I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match.

Funny because I think this is more important than ever. You can produce (ugly) code at remarkable pace now, being able to detect where it goes wrong is a very important skill nowadays.

I still can’t let it loose too much because of all the garbage it still produces when given too much freedom. I’m honestly annoyed that my colleagues use it that much on production code, because it’s so much meh code with hidden (on the surface) inefficiencies and a lot of avoidable boilerplate and duplication.

Then on the other hand I enjoy that it can create scripts (that are tedious to write) and prototypes at impressive speed. Generally prototyping and research has gotten quite enjoyable because you can stay most of the time on the theoretical side of things, quickly try things out or quickly get info to stuff you don’t yet understand enough.

Right now it just makes more sense to not use the API directly, but the subscriptions, they seem to be better priced. Also, Anthropic seems to be more expensive…

How that will look in the future, I don’t know, I’m fairly sure they’re progressively increasing the price, or rather reduce the amount of tokens you can use in the subscription (as they did with gpt 5.5 and claude opus 4.7). The chinese competitors are getting increasingly more interesting. It’s also quite impressive how well small models like qwen 3.6 27B run already on a (not so affordable) 24+GB GPU, unfortunately still far from the quality of say gpt 5.5, but probably comparable to o4 or something like that, certainly usable.

There’s vaultwarden, I don’t think it’s difficult to migrate to that.

So you haven’t had “zero” problems. AFAIK wayland is already usable with AMD since almost a decade or so… (well not every program was supported yet a decade ago obviously, but, at least these kind of issues that Nvidia has/had are non-existing AFAIK).

It doesn’t fix the drivers but for many the installation and set up is where things go wrong. That’s how it was for me.

For me it was never the installation, just the risk after updating the drivers that yet another issue appears (sometimes old ones were fixed though, to be fair).

That doesn’t improve the quality of the drivers though… But you seem to not have had issues yet… Are you on wayland though?

There’s always a new issue. One time I can’t resume of suspending (I think this is still an issue…). Then shutting off a monitor leads to a crash of the driver-stack. I could go on. Just the fact that Nvidia took so long to support GBM properly is a tragedy.

The beginning of time…

I gotta admit I chuckled a bit when I saw where this was posted…

sane person

If you don’t care about getting poorer everyday, well you probably aren’t a sane person. Unfortunately the amount of insane people in the US seems to be growing for some time I guess…