regardless of if the feedback is from the ai or a blog example its up to the programmer to evaluate the relative value of what they are looking at. No one codes from nothing for things they have not done before and even then they are likely to start with code they wrote before and start editing. Also ai assitance for coding is not limited to coding. I found ai commenting to be useful as I am more likely to correct an ai’s comment as I go than comment as I code. Its very easy to be like. I will get the commenting in later but when you see something you don’t like, at least for me, then I don’t like to leave it there.

Im so bad I get annoyed when I can’t stream things at standard def and have to do at least 720 as I want to limit the bandwidth im using.

15 machines? Do you use a rack? Seriously though much like the other responder hdr and actually most video things are not important to me and I tend to adopt them only when they are on the most affordable of options. Granted there are certain things important to me that I will go for earlier. Energy efficiency or more environmental disposal wise (have not yet encountered anything that significantly is but it would sway me). Also I have wanted to get organic leds because having very black blacks is a big deal for me. So basically I guess im saying I mostly don’t care about that stuff.

um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.

Yeah my response was directly for your statement that there are no real and tangible benefits of llms. I think how useful llms may or may not be is immaterial when it comes to the repos and they will be used in coding. Wikipedia went a good direction and worked out a deal for them to contribute back and linus was sensible in his response to usage for coding.

I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.

I think you are looking at llms in to large a context. Your issues you have with it are the same as search and if used as a further abstraction of search it is going to carry forward weaknesses. LLM’s trained more narrowly for specific purposes are going to do better if their narrow training data is of high quality rather than throwing everything at it.

im not sure if enterprise interconnects would be banned. So as long as the business has has a local office or endpoint for the vpn they should be able to connect to the enterprise from that without it strictly being a vpn.

There are certainly benefits to llms. Just the more casual interaction is one. This to me very much mirrors graphics as compared to terminal. many many things done on computers do not require graphics and can be done at the terminal but usage by ordinary folks increased with the advent of graphics systems and guis. graphics require more power but are a more user friendly interface. Similarly llms take more power than search queries but have a more user friendly interface. In addition it has generative capability allowing folks without significant talent to do some things they could not before. There are benefits but right now its a matter of if the benefits outweigh the costs. Seriously if this was graphics vs terminal the graphics basically double power usage when doing nothing in particular that need it. You start throwing a bunch of monitors up and it will bring it up significantly and actually using graphics like gaming and video go way more and it keeps increasing as we increase standar resolutions and what is considered normal performance. We would use way less power globally if folks only used computers at terminals and went back to listening to the radio.

no way you could get to the store with only 8 cylinders. what are we? animals!

Linux is definately better in 2026 and I really don’t think it has more driver issues than windows now (which its not like windows has zero if you do a fresh install of generic windows instead of the vendors copy). So virtually zero. They can crop up and I have not seen any but I have seen people online still mention issues. Again not commonly. I personally use zorin because its an out of the box distro that uses the lte and I feel its very stable and functional. Thing is if you are used to mac you either would have to use the paid version to get the gui switcher function, or mess with the settings yourself to get it to act like a mac, or use another distro like elementary os which I believe is setup to behave like a mac. I was a big mac fanboy in the late aughts but went away from it when it went to all about being small and sleak over powerful with many ports along with apple care no longer being legendarily good. They use chromebooks at the schools I substitute and oh how I hate the reverse scrolling.

I hear you but whats to stop them from banning foreign vpns?

If the price is reasonable enough I can see it for gaming in general. Without gaming my laptop can have much more modest specs and I don’t really care about games running in the cloud unlike my documents and web browsing that I would prefer to keep control of.

the egg basket thing is not much of an issue for me. I think having to remake an account is something that is just going to be reality with the federation. Backing up settings is the biggest thing to me to make that a bit less painful.

I have been doing fine with libre office. I mostly do doc and send as pdf. If they ask for word format I save it as such and send it to them. spreadsheet and slides I don’t share. Granted at workplaces I use whatever they give me to use on my work machine.

one of my things with the federation is I would like a login to be able to be used with different things. log into peertube with lemmy credentials and such.

ah yes. going through windows white papers and one says something is impossible but you find the other that says how to do it. fun times.

this is always going to be the toughest as the developer is known for not wanting their things to work or be compatible even with standards they publish.

Maybe. I certainly have not used them all. Honestly it would sorta mean using one specific package manager and such so im not sure if what they are describing the way I read it is really feasable. I use a really easy out of box distro now so I only make a few decisions at install and mostly just hit enter and accept defaults for them.

Sorry. What I meant is it sounds like its suggesting an install interface where you basically choose what you want like you see with freebsd (or did at least back when I was using it which admitadely was some time ago but yes the other bsds). Also I thought the various bsds had different kernels so where not exactly distros of each other.