It was a 5-6 years back so I don’t know the current state but I am sure it must great (also I was a Linux noob). It was terribly slow. Like my connection is 250 Mbps but I was getting downloads of like 10 Mbps with the repos even with the mirrors near to me. Every time it updated it like got stuck over there for a minute. I searched on reddit and there were a lot of complaints and the solutions involved the terminal to change the mirrors using nano (and I was scared of the terminal back then) so I just ditched fedora after a year (rest of the system was pretty fast though) and switched back to Windows for a few months then again to Mint.

There I learnt Linux fundamentals step by step for a year & a half and thought I want the latest and greatest stuff. I learnt something like the AUR existed. Installed Arch with archinstall with btrfs, first with KDE Plasma and I got excited and installed Hyde’s Hyprland script (lol) and shit broke pretty quick like in 2 months and I didn’t know how to fix. Went back to Mint, but thought naah. Took me a few days to learn but installed Arch the manual way by actually RTFM and a few YT Tutorials. Stuck with KDE and never looked back.

Sudo gives you slavery right /s

Immutable Distros exist buddy

Arch is goat. My first distro was Fedora. Absolutely hated DNF so then I switched to Mint but didn’t like Cinnamon— felt like I was using Android (I love Android but not on desktop lol). Also I has to wait longer for features. Switched to Arch with KDE and never looked back.

Yes but LTT will define his Linux desktop experience through PopOS which is shipping a very alphaish-betaish DE. A normie will think this how Linux actually is and will never switch. He should have gone with the parent distros or at least a well respected derivative like Bazzite, Cachy, Mint.

But tbh I really wonder how would this even in open source. We can just strip out the age verification part and call it a day.

I don’t why but “This incident will be reported” scares the shit out of me for some reason.😂

both haha

I just want the fucking oil mafia to burn at sun’s temperature. They are such a fucking obstacle and disgrace to humanity’s development. Same goes for the big pharma. All the suffering just because of greed for a piece of paper with £/₹/$/€ on it.

Ok angry rant over.

my own LLM that can be used on my own computer

May I ask how many B parameters does it have? Because the paradox over here is:

1. if it is weak then you will be getting much much worse results than even the Big Models the corpos have (we don’t even know how much tbh), let alone the quality of an actual artist.
2. If you have a respectfully powerful model then your PC might cost thousands of dollars (even by ignoring the price hikes) which eliminates the excuse to pay an actual artist.

America themselves supplied the nuclear tech to Pakistan because at the time India was USSR’s strong ally and considered it a threat. Now ig Pakistan comes in top 10 countries with the most nukes so I don’t think US will try to mess with it now.

Edit: Correction - Pakistan developed its nuclear program by stealing tech from Europe and China helped them.

Human trafficking is the least of the worries in that country lol. The country is a military dictatorship that fuels and funds terrorist attacks in Kashmir. The Prime Minister is just their puppet. After independence and partition, they thought they had a huge threat from India so they invested hugely in their military and still ended up losing all the wars against India. Now they are so much in debt that they have to bootlick America to get the IMF to give them money. Which again they use it to fund terrorist activities in Kashmir.

The entire south Asia region (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) is pretty unsafe for women. Sexual Assualt, Kidnappings and Human Trafficking are a huge problem even for the natives.

I can’t afford to pay for artists

You can afford LLMs right now because all of the LLM companies are losing money on it. If they decide they want to make a profit, they will raise their prices significantly. So you still end up in the same situation. You don’t have much control on what an LLM spits out while with doing animation manually, you have total control or at-least sit with an actual animator to make it look how you envision it to be.

I plan on using AI to turn my writing into a visual animated format for people to consume.

What makes you think that people will respond the same way and in the same numbers to LLM generated animation than if it were crafted by an artist? I reckon that it will be much lower. I see it on youtube constantly. I watched a video about a topic, then I got recommended something related to it from a different channel. Guess what? The script and the animation were so damn similar and the shit they were spewing wasn’t even true in the end. Everything that both the channels made was slop. Sure they spit out more content than conventional methods and got a few thousand views each video and made decent money on it. But they aren’t gonna sustain for long if they want audience retention.

Since then I have been more mindful on what video I click on and going to the extent of disabling recommendations and watch history.

Yes the energy consumption is bad. My main gripe about LLM generated art is that it will not be original. It will use its training data from uncredited artworks to generate it. Art usually is made by humans to express something or convey something in a creative way. LLMs fail at that. What LLMs can actually be helpful at is making learning art more accessible to everyone. Art schools or private art classes can be expensive. This lowers the barrier to entry.

As for you using generated Art is that the it might be really beautiful but it will be very difficult to maintain that style and even more difficult to convince that it is your style. The Artist doesn’t get much recognition with LLM generated art. Using it as a critique also seems stupid because LLMs will aways try to give an objective view on it than subjective. Your art won’t trigger an emotion in it and might say it is bad or “do this to make it more understandable” — that’s where you lose as an artist.

My mom likes to paint as a hobby. What she does it searches stuff on Pinterest (which is mostly LLM Generated). She uses it as an inspiration to do it in her own style and maybe give it some spin. She keeps all of it for herself.

I am the c/fuck_ai person but at this point I have made peace we can’t avoid it. I still don’t want it to do artsy stuff (image gen, video gen) and to blindly use it in critical stuff because humans are the ones that should be doing it or have constant oversight. I think the team’s logic is correct here, because there is no way to know if the code is from an LLM or a human unless something there screams LLM or the contributor explicitly mentions it. Mandating the latter seems like a reasonable move for now.

that’s not a joke lol. governments and businesses actually think like that. Whom are they gonna sue if, for example, CachyOS borks something? Since it being a community developed distro, it doesn’t provide dedicated 24x7 tech support or would quickly patch something because some business’s application stopped working on that distro.

Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.

Topic aside: I want to play resident evil requiem. do i have to play previous games as well? I haven’t played any.

I just have one kernel and one Distro with secure boot. So I directly use UEFI.

I have an idea. Linux should start automatically everytime you boot you PC.