Fedora @ lukas @lemmy.haigner.me

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Sorry, but you oversimplify a lot here, it hurts. Language can express and communicate human thought, sure, but human thought is more than language. Human thought includes emotions, experiences, abstract concepts, etc. that go beyond what can be expressed through language alone. LLMs are excellent at generating text, often more skilled than the average person, but training data and algorithms limit LLMs. They can lack nuances of context, tone, or intent. TL;DR.: Understanding language doesn't imply understanding human thought.

I'd love to know how you even came to your conclusion.

You hold artificial intelligence to the standards of general artificial intelligence, which doesn't even exist yet. Even dumb decision trees are considered an AI. You have to lower your expectations. Calling the best AIs we have dumb is unhelpful at best.

I share your frustration, especially when the maximum password length limit is outrageously low, but they do serve a purpose.

• Hash algorithm limitations
• Denial of Service attacks

Look at the megathread? https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv

FitGirl installers tend to work if you limit the memory using the checkbox in the installer.

If downloading copyrighted material is legal in your jurisdiction, sure. XDCC is a low priority target compared to scene groups, streaming websites and private trackers.

Same! What pushed me to Ubuntu was that Windows broke like three times in major ways in the span of a few days. One time, Windows update... disappeared bootmgr.exe. Another time, Windows bug checked after a few minutes of use. Yet another time, Windows update broke the boot partition. idk if that's exactly what happened, but point is the issues were big. How this happened in the span of like 3 days is baffling to me, considering I installed Windows from scratch each time.

This is an ethical problem. You can rebrand RHEL as Oracle Linux, copy Red Hat's business model, and dump the work on Red Hat, but should you do that? Nobody at Oracle stopped to think about that question. According to the software license, sure. But is it ethical to exploit the good will of foss to these extremes? I would personally say no, especially considering Red Hat reinvests money into foss. Money now in the pockets of Oracle.

Imagine you develop a foss and license the software under MIT like everybody else does. Now a company roams around and makes your foss a core part of their business after a massive success. Perhaps they're the next FAANG company, who knows. You generated billions of dollars in revenue for that company, and never saw any of that. You regret your careless licensing decision, yeah. But at the end of the day, you will feel exploited.

Because people believe a VPN or a seedbox is gonna save them from legal repercussions. They paid for it with their real information and credit card too, for convenience. They compromised their private tracker identity and must abandon the trackers the moment the legal landscape incentives companies to pursue individual copyright infringements. But most probably won't, and face the consequences if that ever happens.

No. Discord hosts anime communities already. I see no reason to create another Discord server since we have our place here already.

No, but Red Hat created the following major projects:

• Wayland
• PipeWire
• PulseAudio
• systemd
• FreeIPA
• Keycloak
• OpenStack
• NetworkManager
• Ceph

They're also major contributors of the following projects:

• Xorg
• GNOME
• LibreOffice
• radeon
• Linux kernel

If you use Linux, you directly use or benefit from Red Hat contributions. As simple as that.

What's the point of AlmaLinux if not for 1:1 RHEL compatibility? Might as well use CoreOS Stream cause the compatibility is good enough. Time to switch to Rocky Linux I guess.

Edit: I don't pirate the mentioned software.

I'd love to use FOSS exclusively, but it's frankly impossible under certain conditions.

Acrobat is a must. Alternatives such as Evince or their back-end library can't handle the following situations:

• Formulars, such as calculating a sum based on the preceding fields.
• Field formatting, such as appending .00 to a currency amount conditionally upon field unfocus.
• Everything related to government forms due to the above.
• Large password protected PDF files.

Besides, if anything is wrong, you're on the hook for not using Acrobat.

Microsoft Office is a must.

• OnlyOffice, WPS free as in free beer, and especially LibreOffice can't handle anything beyond intermediate documents.
• OnlyOffice and WPS struggle with more advanced features, such as forms.
• LibreOffice notoriously renders Microsoft Office documents incorrectly in my experience.
• Everything in LibreOffice except LibreOffice Writer feels unpolished to me, particularly LibreOffice Calc.
• OnlyOffice supports only few fields.
• OnlyOffice permits free form input for fields that aren't.

Adobe is a must.

• Alternatives don't integrate as well with each other as Adobe apps.
• Rendering whatever you have to import that into another app is a slow workflow, compared to Adobe Premiere that embeds Adobe After Effects sequences, for example.
• Alternatives don't support scripting sometimes. Scripting is necessary to speed up slow and error-prone manual processes.
• Adobe has a rich plugin ecosystem, whereas alternatives don't support plugins at all, or don't have any notable plugins.
• Alternatives don't support Adobe file formats as well as Adobe.

You face similar problems to Adobe with alternatives, such as:

• Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts.
• Inconsistent file format support.

Overall, I'd love to, but can't. FOSS isn't good enough.

This works only for websites that don't use DRM, such as Widevine. But there're guides to decrypt the videos anyways. Tough luck with Widevine L1 tho.

Neat, but we already have good text editors. Vim/Emacs/... starter kits achieve the same experience. Perhaps Helix is more responsive than established text editors, but that'll crawl to a halt as more packages depend on behavior you want to change.