What's this guy talking about? How old is he, being born before cars were invented?

This guy is getting high on his own supply.

You seem to know a lot about what someone who won the lottery should do 🤔

Wanna hang out sometime?

I totally agree with this.

Whenever I see people criticise AI, it's usually because the company steals copyrighted content, with the aim to replace the people they stole from. Or the environmental impact of training and running the data models, which is awful. And, both of those reasons are good enough to not like AI, in my opinion. But, I feel like I never see people talk about the fact that all the answers it gives, is being filtered through a private corporation with its own agenda.

People use it to learn, and to do research. They use it to catch up on news of all things!

Like others have mentioned, Google has already been doing this a long time, by sorting search results they show to the user. But, they haven't written all the articles, the blog posts, the top 10 lists, or the reviews you read... until now. If they've wanted to, they've made certain things easier or harder to find. But, once you found the article you were looking for, it was written by a person unaffiliated with Google. All that changes with AI. You don't read the article directly anymore. Google (or any other AI) scrapes it, parses it however they want, and spit it back out to the end user.

I'm very surprised that people are so willing to let a private corporation completely control how they see the world, just because it's a bit more convenient.

I mean, that's the whole problem with how AI works, isn't it? (not considering the ethical and environmental impacts). It CAN work sometimes, but can then randomly choose to send the wrong text to the wrong number. It's completely random, and you can never know when it decides to do something other than what you tell it to do.

It's like having a personal assistant that is sometimes competent, and sometimes a teenager in a mood. And it has no worries about being fired.

Doing nothing is way better than running random commands suggested by AI, or anyone for that matter, if you don't know what it does. I've seen AI suggest to run rm -rf ~/, which is obviously never a good idea.

I use i3. Pretty bare bones, so it took me a while to get productive with it. But it's all exactly how I want it, it's all mine.

Yeah, sorry for assuming it's obvious. Maybe I've been around Linux people too much xD

AngryCommieKender is mostly right. It would delete every file and directory in your home directory, which is the Linux equivalent of the Users/ folder on Windows. It's where all of your Documents, Pictures, Downloads, config files, and the likes are stored.

I'm not sure it's a protected action, since it's not the actual root of the computer. But, I've never tried, so I don't know :P

But now you know for next time! Everything is a mystery, until you figure it out.

I use NixOS for the atomic updates that I can roll back to at any time, so I can more or less never completely break my system. And even if I somehow manage it, I can just do a fresh install and apply my flake to get my entire setup back.

The drawback is that it does not follow the filsystem hierarchy standard, so a lot of scripts and binaries does not work out of the box. It gives me quite a bit of friction, but I'm sure that is a skill issue.

My desktop started by being inspired by a lot of Linux YouTubers, and I've gradually modified it to fit my needs.

I'm using Hyprland, Ghostty, neovim (btw), Rofi, waybar.

But, I'll have to check out Niri after reading here.

Valtteri Bottas!

Cool, hope it continues to grow!

I guess this entirely depends on what country you're from. I'm a developer, and I constantly have to deal with ignorant bosses. They push me to write code faster, sacrificing proper planning, architecture, and testing. Then I'll be the one sitting up all night fixing a broken release, because my code doesn't work.

As the professional in this scenario (the one who knows how to develop software), it's my responsibility to make sure it's done right. My boss isn't supposed to know how to do it, so it's my job to let him know.

Of course, you still have to have your bosses permission to do it, so I totally agree with OP putting pressure on the boss. It's important that the boss knows what's at stake, and it's OP responsibility to make sure he does. But at the same time, it's important for OP to know why the boss doesn't want to upgrade, he might have a good reason, or at least it would be easier to argue against.

Again, it probably depends on the country. I work in a country with high job security, but it might be different in other countries (not the responsibility, but the danger of doing your job properly).

It has to one of these two for me, hard to pick: The Chersonese soundtrack from Outward or Fear Not This Night from Guild Wars 2.

The Outward one hits especially hard while adventuring through Chersonese!

Edit: typo

LazyGit and GitKraken. I try to use LazyGit as much as possible, but a few things are easier for me in GitKraken (as I'm more used to it).

Nice :)

Hyprland is a window manager (or actually a Wayland compositor if you want to be pedantic) , alternatives would be i3, dwm Niri, etc. A window manager is a more basic alternative to desktop environments like Gnome and KDE Plasma. It requires you to set up more things yourself, which is what most of the other things solve.

I use Rofi as an application launcher (it can be used for a lot more things as well), it basically does the same job as the Windows startmenu.

Waybar is a statusbar, can be configured to display anything really, but it usually displays the date and time, application tray, active workspace, RAM and CPU usage, battery level, etc. It basically does the same job as the the Windows taskbar.

Ghostty is a terminal, alternatives are Kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, foot. All operating systems come with a pre-installed terminal like Windows Terminal on Windows and Gnome Terminal on Gnome. But, you can change it out for some improved functionality.

Neovim is a terminal based text editor. New and improved version of the Vi and Vim text editors. Very steep learning curve, but very fun once you learn it. :q to exit the editor, if you ever feel like testing it.

Same here, played a bit of DS2, but never really got into it. Started on DS3, but got tired of that pretty quick as well. But when Elden Ring came out, I got really hooked on the games. I finished Elden Ring, then I played through DS 1, 2 and 3. And then a few more playthroughs of Elden Ring with different builds. I've started a bit on Sekiro, but jumped over to Lies of P when it came out. The plan is to play the new Lords of the Fallen, when I'm finished with Lies of P. It's really satisfying to beat a boss after a few hours of learning the patterns.

Very nice!

I know right. xD I just have to learn things one at a time as they become relevant, otherwise it's too overwhelming.

After a quick search of conky, it seems to me that it solves a different problem than waybar does. Waybar can display stats, but that is not its main purpose. Since you use Cinnamon, I doubt you need waybar or Rofi, as Cinnamon comes with pre-installed alternatives for them.

I should have mentioned before when I talked about window managers, I was mainly thinking about tiling window managers. They are really good for a keyboard centric workflow, so if you like using keyboard shortcuts, they're worth a try. Ideally, you'll spend less time moving windows around with the mouse, and less time trying to find the window you're looking for.

But, we're all different, of course. To each their own. To keep to the trodden path is definitely a good strategy for a stable system :)