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  • I ran Xubuntu on a 2011 macbookpro I upgraded to 8gb RAM and an ssd. It runs fine, but it’s no longer good as a daily driver because the architecture doesn’t support decoding basic video codecs we take for granted to watch youtube and so on.

    So it will work, but you may find web-based stuff will make the cpu spike to 90%.
















  • Agreed, you absolutely can find similar complaints about search engines, and there were similar fools back then who relied wholesale on search results and nothing further.

    I’m looking for people who can problem-solve, not just click-click-next use tools. When search engines made life easier, the folks who didn’t try anything past searching google just didn’t advance in tech fields if they couldn’t get it done. The people I’m talking about now are walking into jobs that require thinking while literally proclaiming that they let something else do the thinking for them.

    What am I supposed to do with a tech who can’t get past an ansible deployment because he couldn’t figure out how to find and use the ansible wiki? As I plainly said, it’s not the technology, it’s the culture.

    Your “boomer” take on this isn’t valid because I’m also getting the AI-bro talk from idiots my age as well.

    Last, I’d like to point out that you don’t know what gatekeeping means. Maybe chatgpt can help you.


  • You really just needed to think an extra 10 minutes before writing this down.

    It doesn’t “cut both ways” those are two separate issues: personal health and public health.

    If you think seat belts, fluoride in water, warning labels on poison bottles, bittrex in antifreeze are being foisted upon your personal choices, then you need to reconsider that there are other people than you in the world.

    It’s not that complicated: get vaccinated so you and others are less likely to die when disease rolls around.


  • I’m in my 50s, I’ve been in IT professionally for 30 years, using Linux for 25 of those.

    I hate AI.

    I don’t hate the technology, but I hate the culture of “ez learning” and the marketing. Literally people who have no clue about technology openly saying “wanna bet?” when I say it doesn’t always have the right answers.

    Sure, 19 of 20 chatgpt answers are great, but that 20th answer is dangerously wrong. Like, wreck your infrastructure wrong.

    I also hate what it’s doing to young minds the most, though: the 20 something techs I hire will lean on AI so hard, they have no sense of what to do if the answer isn’t forthcoming, just ¯\(ツ)/¯.

    AI is killing problem-solving.

    Edit: I’m distinguishing AI from ML here, which I do use as a pattern recognition tool.