What communities are you using? I haven’t been running into these issues and I’ve been here for a couple of years.

However, there are a few notorious instances and communities that do just that.

That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.

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Why do people buy organic fruits and vegetables?

I care about where the code comes from. I like the community to come together on a good solution rather than have one spat out of unknown quality. I want to both test and have that community working together towards a common goal. Fundamentally, I think that sharing our answers and cataloguing them as developers is a good strategy. Way better than AI.

If AI is ultimately borrowing its answers from open source, wouldn’t it be better to just go use open source? At least then there’s some hope that if people find issues and edge cases that I might get those fixes in the future. Why limit your upside to zero? Like, I can put my entire program in one source file maintained by just me but it doesn’t mean I should. Is this an argument against why libraries are a good idea?

I’m glad you figured it out! Thank you for sharing your solution.

Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.

Alas, I am not a billionaire.

Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren’t individuals.

Sounds good! Basically, the problem I had boiled down to a super old driver no kernel dev wants to touch with a ten foot pole and they’re just kinda hoping it’ll die a death to irrelevancy, but there are a few systems out there that do still use it.

The rest of the design moved on to more advanced architecture.

It’s detectors all the way down.

But of course, as a tortoise, you would know that.

Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?

I had this problem specifically dealing with the way that IOMMU maps devices conflicting with a really old USB root hub. I had to set something like intel_iommu=off for my case.

Would you be willing to share the output of your dmesg ?

I have a brilliant friend who works there. However, only projects that integrate AI are really getting approved.

Not if I use AI to hide my use of AI first!

Enforcing that ban is going to be difficult.

All great ideas! I use Steam already so I think I’ll configure it with KDE to open it in big picture mode.

Yup. I’m not a fan of it, but the laptop was otherwise a good deal and the oddity of having an AI button wasn’t enough to spoil the bunch. Still weird and kind of creepy though.

Back in my day, we had this feature on Windows Vista called ReadyBoost that took advantage of the low-latency of flash media to supplement our slow HDDs. I’m not sure if there was a direct replacement for this in the Linux world. There are filesystems that take advantage of faster tiers of storage, but different latency tier exploitation isn’t something that I know to be readily available.

Today, 2GB of USB flash is next to useless, but I would consider a homebrew rescue system to restore your backups and fix problems without needing to prepare an external flash drive.

Mine behaves mostly as it normally would on Windows. KDE Plasma has it open the launcher, and there are shortcuts using it that mostly match Windows. It’ll be highly DE-dependent I imagine.

Now, what to do with the copilot button?

I aspire to one day be as knowledgeable and well-rounded in computing as he.

I think this is an interesting case study in how it’s difficult to anticipate the needs of the future and not over-engineer a protocol at the same time.