If you were 100% specific you would be effectively writing the code yourself. But you don’t want that, so you’re not 100% specific, so it makes up the difference. The result will include an unspecified percentage of code that does not fit what you wanted.

It’s like code Yahtzee, you keep re-rolling this dice and that dice but never quite manage to get the exact combination you need.

There’s an old saying about computers, they don’t do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. They can’t do what you don’t tell them to do.

Oh, God, he’s trying to use pointers again. He can never get them right. And they say I’m supposed to chase my tail…

SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It’s much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.

That’s weird, I have a laptop that probably even weaker (Pentium 2020M with 4 GB of RAM) that used to run Ubuntu fairly ok until about 4 years ago (but it has a SSD).

It’s now running Manjaro pretty well, just can’t compile some Rust-based apps because it runs out of RAM. 😄 But I get them from Flatpak instead.

If Ubuntu went off the rails during these last few years it’s a pity. Anyway, it should not be indicative of how well Linux runs on such a machine, just try another distro.

Doesn’t Magisk have a built-in superuser?

No, Google Wallet doesn’t pass the security check.

Which is weird because I thought Graphene can pass attestation. I can pass it and use Wallet with Magisk on an unlocked bootloader, not sure what’s preventing on Graphene.

Are you using Magisk?

It’s there anything out there that can pretend to be a Chromecast that’s not a Chromecast? And lets apps like Netflix cast to it?

I think the “Valorant” mind set also applies to other software, like Photoshop or Excel etc. The vast majority of people don’t really need to use Photoshop professionally, or the advanced capabilities that only desktop Excel can provide, but they like to think they do. It’s a comfort zone thing, the devil you know and all that.

Yeah you can do that, it’s in the license. You don’t have to “tell someone”, you just have to publish the source.

Do tell, how did Manjaro hurt you?

You must’ve not been around when Mint and Fedora were new.

They’ve been around for about twice as long as Manjaro. They made plenty of blunders.

caused real harm

Lol.

Which kernel was that? Manjaro recommends using LTS kernels.

And here’s some of mine: https://lemmy.world/comment/10439242

I grow weary of Manjaro detractors because the malice is always there. You can’t make up your mind whether you hate the developers or what they do. You hate episodes like the “AUR DDoS” without knowing all the facts, or considering how shitty AUR infrastructure is that if a pigeon landed on the roof it would go down, so in the same breath you condemn Manjaro for “AUR incompatibility” and for promoting AUR and for “DDoS”-ing it. I mean pick a lane.

But mostly it’s just the hate that always seeps through that bothers me, not the content (which is the same inane stuff on manjarno over and over). What kind of person defines themselves by hate for something they don’t even use? There’s a million distros out there, there’s something for everybody. You’re not Inigo Montoya, get over it, Jesus. There was a root exploit unfixed in Debian for a while, do you hate them too? Can you imagine the reactions if there were a root exploit in Manjaro? Is any of this irony getting through?

I also have a Lenovo E16 G1 and it’s great. Everything worked out of the box (Manjaro and XFCE) and that’s pretty much all there is to say about it.

You can’t do machine learning without tons of data and processing power.

Commercial “AI” has been built on fucking over everything that moves, on both counts. They suck power at alarming rates, especially given the state of the climate, and they blatantly ignore copyright and privacy.

FOSS tends to be based on a philosophy that’s strongly opposed to at least some of these methods. To start with, FOSS is build around respecting copyright and Microsoft is currently stealing GitHub code, anonymizing it, and offering it under their Copilot product, while explicitly promising companies who buy Copilot that they will insulate them from any legal downfall.

So yeah, some people in the “Linux space” are a bit annoyed about these things, to put it mildly.

Edit: but, to address your concerns, there’s nothing to be gained by rushing head-first into new technology. FOSS stands to gain nothing from early adoption. FOSS is a cultural movement not a commercial entity. When and if the technology will be practical and widely available it will be incorporated into FOSS. If it won’t be practical or will be proprietary, it won’t. There’s nothing personal about that.

There’s a small but vocal minority that absolutely hates the idea of “Arch made easy”. They think you should work hard to be worthy of using Arch. Manjaro is their anti-Christ. They show up in every conversation about Manjaro. I call them the “Manjaro sucks btw” people. 😆

They usually mention some irrelevant shit that happened years ago. Sometimes they can’t be bothered to type it out and only link to a page that one of them put up. Or literally just say “Manjaro sucks”. Sadly, the irony of being lazy when smearing a distro they consider lazy is lost on them.

Before 6.2 you had to get them on actual CDs which wasn’t an option in many places. Starting with 6.2 they put them online on FTP.

The fact Linux folk prefer to count their market share at 2% rather than be associated with Chrome OS should tell you how far it went off track.

This is the company that couldn’t understand why Google Glass failed so hard.