This is unhelpful, but... I just don't look at the news. If something actually important happens, I'll hear about it indirectly and go look it up if I care, but I've found that not being tapped into the news (and especially political news) all day every day does wonders for my mental health.
LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There's no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.
I've had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.
OpenAI's models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor... but you know what that won't catch?
"Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!"
GNOME. However, I use ArcMenu and Dash to Panel to get a KDE/Windows style taskbar UX.
Why do I use GNOME then, you might ask? Well, I really like the simplicity and aesthetic of GTK/Adwaita. KDE is too noisy - for example, the built in text editor (Kate) can double as an IDE, when all I'm really looking for is a box I can type in.
Personally, I don't mind this sort of telemetry so long as they're open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.
IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I'd like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:
GNOME users: "GNOME devs don't understand what we want!"
GNOME devs: "Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you'd like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)"
(Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry
I just archived all my Instagram posts and changed my bio to say I was done with the platform, "you can reach me through my website" and so on. Fuck that noise.
Yeah, there really isn't any reason to go with one processor brand over the other. Since drivers and such aren't a concern (like with GPUs) most people just pick whichever one has the most price-effective offering in the spec range they're looking for.
You're confusing polymorphism for inheritance. read is a method on an interface that File implements - it is not inherited from a base class. You can use that File directly, or wherever a Reader interface (or whatever the name is, idk I don't really do Go) is expected.
The AUR is nice and all, but the reality is that most people will be served just fine (if not better) by the more curated repositories. Fedora's bundled repositories are more than enough for my dev work - and thanks to Flatpak and AppImage, closing any gaps is pretty easy.
I wouldn't recommend Manjaro - or Arch/Arch derivatives - to beginners. Installing them usually goes fine (especially nowadays thanks to archinstall) but Arch comes with a lot of quirks and ongoing maintenance burdens that newbies won't be aware of until a few months down the line when their system blows up in their face.
No. The people with a raging hate boner for systemd are just a vocal minority in lots of online Linux spaces.
Most people either don't care or actively prefer it. Personally, I much prefer unit files to hacking away at init scripts or whatever the fuck Upstart was.
Not a Nix user, but IIRC
nixpkgsis actually bigger than the AUR by a long shot.