scrot if you want to use the CLI, (KDE) Spectacle if you need a UI.

FWIW each new install is faster, especially if you write down the “weird” steps.

On a broader and more philosophical perspective, cheating or IMHO more appropriately hacking, is in the eye of the beholder.

Is it really cheating if you respect all the rules? Aren’t the rules actually poorly defined in the first place?

What matters more I’d argue is the social contract, namely is what you are doing detrimental to yourself and or others. For example I lock picked a door just months ago, and it wasn’t my door, and I’m not even a certified locksmith! Well, it’s because my neighbors asked me to as their key was jammed from the other side. So… at least according to them, who owns the house, it was helpful.

My overall point is that this is quite sensationalist, as most of AI “reporting” is (I put quotes around because truly it’s just marketing or PR for AI corporations at this point) it actually is an expected behavior.

PS: reminds me of this streamers few months ago (sorry, no link) who was “shocked” that it’s local AI exited its container to “hack” his computer. Well, lo and behold when you check his actual prompt, he does explicitly request the AI to do so.

Always has been… there is no reasoning, it’s literally just spitting back the most likely answer based on previously seen answers. A 5 years old can do better.

Edit: “AI systems may develop deceptive or manipulative strategies without explicit instruction.” … right, well, guess what, the Web (which is most likely the training dataset for most LLMs) is full of “cheating” strategies. Don’t be surprise if you find a “creative” answer to a problem… when it’s literally part of what you train the model on.

My gosh people… this… this might be the year of Linux on the desktop!

(not even being sarcastic here, the reach streamers have is huge. I bet a lot of their audience is thinking now “Wow… if he did it, maybe I could!”)

redundant

redundant AND prone to failure! What if the robot slip? What if it’s out of battery. Totally non sensical!

Discussion on other lemmy instance https://lemmy.world/post/25708444

Well I (a developer) collaborated with an artist (3D modeler) recently and… I did not ask them to install anything.

Instead what I did is a develop a Web drag&drop page. They’d visit it, drag&drop their model and… see if it worked (e.g. visually or running animations) as they expected. That was it.

IMHO finding the boundaries that are important, and thus how to collaborate, is more important than a unique reproducible environment when roles are quite different.

TL;DR: IMHO no, you don’t, instead find how to actually collaborate.

set up by non-programmers (such as artists) […] requires users to learn i3wm and possibly use the command line

Yes, and I’d argue to also reflect back on (long form) content, e.g. write down notes on books, critical ones, and if you watch a movie or documentary with friends, chat about it with them, reflect on your understanding of the topic, what was good, what wasn’t, develop a critical sense rather than just “consume” content.

Bonus : f*ck noise! Protect yourself when you are learning from distractions. There are myriads of things begging for your attention. Brush them off then in turn shape your environment so that you actually have a chance to learn. Learning is challenging, by definition, so you MUST make sure nothing and nobody gets in the way! Because plenty of people here have a technical side, here is a tool I built as an example https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/src/branch/master/index.js which gives me daily quota of Websites I can visit, or not, and when.

When during your life where you at peak learning rate?

Was it as school? Uni? If so, what did you do differently then? Can you still do it now?

I’ll give few examples that honestly in retrospect are absolutely obvious and yet, few people seem to still do it :

• have a trusted teacher/mentor who can pinpoint your flaw
• do exercises that test your knowledge rather than read and assume you know
• repeat said exercises in with varying context and in increasing difficulty
• take notes (IMHO the biggest) that you gradually structure and index
• use said notes when exercises (which are safe spaces to challenge your understanding) gets tough
• have structured goals, namely you don’t learn about a topic, move on randomly, but rather have 6 months over a topic
• learn regularly, e.g. weekly occurrence on a very specific topic, again and again for months on end
• last but not least, do it as a group, build, grow and sustain a network of helpful peers whom you are learning from but also helping

So… yeah, none of that is secret nor even complex yet most adults seems to leave THE place to learn and somehow forget EVERYTHING they actually learned. It’s nuts.

Also most of that is free. Getting a notepad or a wiki or using documents in a directory on your computer is practically cheaper than a coffee in most places. There is no excuse to note take notes then organize them. Same for regularity and exercises, get a calendar then drill, again.

FWIW that works for pretty much everything, from an abstract field of knowledge, e.g. math, to a physical skill, e.g. welding or ice skating.

you probably don’t want the instance admins handling your payment info

Unfortunately centralized (but I don’t think it’s possible to do that with the traditional banking system due to gateways) but it’s actually very easy to integrate with Stripe.com , as you to integrate yourself might be a day of work at most (source : I did few integration with WebXR as prototypes) but if you, as a self-hosted admin of the platform instance, just want to make it work, you probably only need a working account (to receive the actual money) and you’d fill up only IDs and voila, working.

Now there is also the KYC challenge, not sure how that work as a platform intermediary. Honestly at that point, as someone else suggested with Belgium 2ememain.be better letter user handle that themselves and in Europe with IBAN it’s pretty trivial to pay online, no fee.

Might also be worth exploring https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API

Very cool, thanks for the in depth explanation.

ROCm

I’m curious. Say you are getting a new computer, put Debian on, want to run e.g. DeepSeek via ollama via a container (e.g. Docker or podman) and also play, how easy or difficult is it?

I know that for NVIDIA you install the (closed official) drivers, setup the container insuring you get GPU passthrough, and thanks to CUDA from the driver, you’re pretty much good to go. Is it the same for AMD? Do you “just” need to install another package or is there more tinkering involved?

Impossible to read article. All videos get blocked (privacy reasons, even while “accept all” the 1st video is private…) so I recommend checking instead the article to the research in the description as they host their own videos.

Right… well it’s about “organizing the World Knowledge” … but if for that one has to do literally anything in order to accumulate more wealth, that takes priority.

I’m genuinely concern for anybody who would still have a modicum of trust with corporations the size of Google.

Of course they’ll do anything to increase “shareholder value”, legal or not, moral or not. That’s the entire point of a corporation driven by the stock market.

Yeah I don’t think you’re addressing what I wrote, you’re mixing up my suggestion (to clarify the important part is “or”) with DistroBox then more general comments. Might be that I wrote it unclearly but anyway it wasn’t what I was saying.

FWIW I did run on old hardware with ratpoison and had a blazing fast experience, much more responsive than “top” hardware back then. So… yes IMHO it’s about the wm/de usually, the rest follows. Obviously you can’t run super demanding software, e.g. video editing, 3D modeling, etc but that’s usually rather obvious.

Why wouldn’t Debian run?

Debian is the OS, with its package manager and some applications suggested by default. You can install Debian with X, without X, with a certain window manager or another, etc. So… Debian WILL 100% run, the question rather is WHICH software should you pick that gives the best compromise between ease of use (specific to that person) AND performance (specific to that computer).

PS: to be clear, that’s the same for other distributions. There are distributions that specifically target older hardware and that in turn might facilitate the process but usually if you do check how such distributions are done, they are basically Debian (or NixOS or Alpine or whatever) with a specific package selection. It’s rare (if ever? counter-example) to have anything special that would somehow “boost” performance for hardware, especially here when it’s rather common hardware.

Sure, or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman, especially if there is a Web API available.

That being said, whatever you do, in fine it’s about trust. What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it’s more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe even when the system itself is broken regardless of how and why.