isn’t it fun how every major operating system is vibe coded now

windows is an unstable mess, macos’s new ui is the most broken it’s been in decades, and linux is getting one new vulnerability per day. the future is exciting!

wild to me how many people are upset by “i find genocide unacceptable and won’t vote for anyone who has it as part of their policies”

they treat it as if it’s some kind of insane opinion and not, like, the bare fucking minimum in terms of ethics???

i think that’s true of most people in any generation, honestly. gen alpha isn’t uniquely tech illiterate in my experience, look at all the stuff kids are doing to bypass age verification!

there’s also that all of gen alpha are kids or teens, of course most of them are gonna be less knowledgeable about stuff than adults lol

hmm, if it’s an x86 chromebook i’m assuming you could install linux on it like any other x86 device… not sure tbh, i’ve never done this 😅

if it’s ARM, then postmarketos may be your best bet, it’s typically used for phones but they have many laptops supported as well. maybe yours would work!

i’ve seen stuff like crouton, chrx and galliumOS which are all projects that are supposed to help run linux on chromebooks, but they’re all abandoned as of now so i wouldn’t recommend them.

thank you! ^w^

this phenomenon can be seen in a great variety of communities

that’s a good point. i’m talking about the foss community because it’s what i’m part of and i see it coming most from it right now, but tbh i’ve had car people give me some shit for not knowing some car knowledge i’m assuming are pretty basic to them lol

if they are, it’s not much more than “that thing they heard of sometime”, i don’t think the layperson really considers them as alternatives to what they’re using.

i remember, when i first switched to an non-chrome browser many years ago, my friends kept asking me if stuff like google, google drive or google classroom (which our school used) still worked on it. many people don’t know the difference between google chrome (the web browser) and google (the search engine)!

tbh, i realize that me using “condescending” in the title kinda implies that experts would underestimate, that’s usually what that word means

is there a better word for this? i meant it in the sense of foss nerds being all “if you still use google chrome in 2026 you’re an idiot and deserve what happens to you” to people

systemd/wayland/snap/gnome/uutils/linux

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This is not just the solution to a non-issue for most, and a way to normalize agentic writing — it’s both, rolled into one! 🔥🚀

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there have always been some who cried wold every time new technology has become available, like calculators and computers

and they kinda have a point, really. people got worse at memorizing stuff by heart when writing was invented, and people got worse at mental calculus when calculators when invented.

but they allowed many things that were simply not possible. a calculation that takes me 2 minutes in wolfram alpha could take hours if not days to solve by hand!

ai, meanwhile, or at least the ai we’re sold, does not offer significant advantages (at best it saves a few minutes), at the cost of making us worse at thinking, a skill that is absolutely essential to have… and of course, that’s the point. the tech oligarchs want us to be dependent on their extremely expensive products.

even without that there are people who will be forced to use this, like kids of religious parents

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not exactly a competitor since it’s a music marketplace, not a streaming service, but bandcamp does not allow ai-generated music

marxism-leninism-frutiger-aerism 😎

bad news, ladybird is all in on slop too

but servo should be fine, in fact right now they have an explicit anti-ai policy!

back when i still dual-booted windows, one time i hadn’t used it in ~2 months, and the automatic update was so big it kept crashing my shitty wifi

i literally could not use windows with the internet on or else it would crash trying to download the updates…

for me, it’s the fact that it’s being used as a political tool by the usa to broadcast their prowess, that it’s being presented as a hopeful look in the future all the while the country running this is bombing and murdering hundreds of thousands, and that the companies benefitting from artemis’s publicity are mostly “defense” contractors like spacex and lockheed-martin, aka again the same people doing all the genocide

it’s hard to feel excited about it even tho there is plenty of cool science being done, that cool science stands on a mountain of tragedy and horrors

the consequences of 20 years of “move fast and break things”: people have to replace perfectly good hardware after 5 years to keep up, and everything’s so broken the literal rocket scientists can’t figure it out.

pathetic fascist sympathizers, so they can get the news straight from the horse’s ass