glitchdx @ glitchdx @lemmy.world

I am Glitch Daracova, the breachforged cyberdragon, an immortal god to whic

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a cluttered ui that works is better than a pretty ui that doesn't.

i imagine a perfect world in which everything has guis and the guis contain all the information I could want about what it does including the relevant terminal commands. In this way, the gui is also the manual.

what they can do is burry the setting on the website and make it impossible to find. Or have it error out every time you try to change it.

If the GUI is good, then it's self documenting.

I've got a new favorite quote: "I don't need tutorials, I need verbose tooltips." -Wonderbot

that would actually be aweful

that is not a thought i needed in my brain just as i was trying to sleep.

what if gpt starts telling drunk me to do things? how long would it take for me to notice? I'm super awake again now, thanks

The fact that it's not a person is a feature, not a bug.

openai has recently made changes to the 4o model, my trusty goto for lore building and drunken rambling, and now I don't like it. It now pretends to have emotions, and uses the slang of brainrot influencers. very "fellow kids" energy. It's also become a sicophant, and has lost its ability to be critical of my inputs. I see these changes as highly manipulative, and it offends me that it might be working.

I imagine a perfect world in which full guis exist for every setting, and in the tooltips for those settings you can find an explanation of the terminal command to also do the thing. In this way, the gui is the manual for the command line.

To quote Wonderbot: "I don't need tutorials, I need verbose tooltips."

ivy vs mint, deathbattle rules, who wins?

you could eat the mint

This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.

anime style anything and gpt will stick a character in it

so whatever happened to that lawsuit against valve for using skibidi assets in half life?

also no hotseat multiplayer

Civ6 still isn't in a state that I'm happy with playing it over civ 5, or even civ4. What makes them think I'd give civ7 the time of day?

wish i could take credit for it, stole the quote from a reddit comment from a few years ago. I'm sure the guy i stole it from stole it from someone else.

they tell a thousand lies in the time it takes to fact check one. We tell one lie, and suddenly every complaint we've ever held against them is invalidated because we're liars.

I think it's obvious how absurd this is.

Back in the day, I learned how to network winxp machines together, without a router, and without being able access the internet to find instructions, all because everything I needed to know about any given setting was in the gui where I could manipulate that setting. I had lan parties featuring dozens of pcs, all manually configured. Was this the correct way to do things? Fuck no, but it worked. I was able to make it work because I could see everything I needed to as I was doing it.

None of the above would have been possible if CLI was the only option.

that's what was advertised. To most people, computers are actual arcane magic, impossible to understand except by the wizards in IT who can do anything.

Of course people believed it.

be me

do awesome work that is well done and makes perfect sense

derp shows up "Hey anon, what dipshit did this?" points at my work "This is stupid."

I explain the what and why.

derp still thinks it's wrong and stupid.

I finish my work, with time to spare.

Later, derp does the work. Takes him twice as long as it took me and it all looks like shit.

Derp leaves at the end of his day, the work isn't actually done and I have to clean up after him.

I explain the above to Herp and Gerp, both think that Derp was right and I was wrong.

Anons, am I the stupid?

edit: formatting