You are deluding yourself if you think that books are immune to AI slop.

Enshittification is coming for all things. It’ll take a lot of careful human curation to keep finding the value among the deluge of crap.

You can do a lot of things.

Depending on your use case and curiosity you will eventually hit the boundaries of the sandbox, because as you said it is not quite Linux.

I was expecting Comic Sans.

Stargate SG1, a beer, some nachos and nobody else home.

I had an old Sony Vaio that I used as a home lab for a while. You can run some docker containers for Pi-Hole, Jellyfin or Home Assistant.

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.

Legendary. Bear in mind that a lot of The Pogues’ lyrics are about getting hammered.

I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).

For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I’m looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.

Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.

I care enough that the words “I care a lot” trigger a song from Faith No More to start playing in my head.

Someone should start digging.

I’m surprised at how much more methodic and organized I’ve become. Taking notes to get thoughts out of my head helps me reduce brain clutter.

Turning chores into pleasurable activities (podcasts while cleaning or cooking) also helped.

I’ve also grown more patient with other people’s actions. People don’t usually act with malice, more often it is just plain inability.

Also, very little fucks remain to be given.

Thank you, that was a good read.

My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that’s enshittification at work.

That’s how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won’t hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.

You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You’ll be ok.

I’ll bring wine.

No, thanks.

I’ve been using it since about 1995 and the only uses for ClamAV I had were as a mail scanner for a mail server with Windows clients, and as a file scanner for a Samba server with Windows clients.

If you keep your system up to date, don’t install stuff from random sites, and don’t run as root all the time, you’ll be ok.

Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.

True, I’ve experienced that bug.

The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.

With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.