As a general rule, AI can only really perform easy monotonous tasks. Anything that requires creativity or intuition is generally not doable with AI.
The most a GPT AI could do is steal some instructions from some blog somewhere on how to configure a kernel or install some distro, then generate a list of packages.
Personally, I think that the discussion around this will evolve as the news spreads, but I agree with Robert on this one. Sure, X/Twitter has become a less welcoming place than before, but shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn't a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.
Nah, I think I'm cool if Debian doesn't respect the input of Nazi sympathisers.
It's possible for an upgrade to break things and leave your system in an unusable state or cause your data to be lost.
However, that could happen at any time with no warning. Your hard drive could break, your charger could cause a short, your laptop could get stolen. If you have any files you don't want to lose, I'd strongly recommend you set up a backup asap.
In terms of whether to actually upgrade, Mint 20.3 stops receiving security updates in April so you should probably upgrade to 21 sometime before then.
Android backs up data to the cloud. If the phone breaks or gets stolen, you don't need to recover data from it - you can just pull it from Google's servers.
In addition, people tend to not treat their phones as "permanent storage". The concept of losing or breaking their phone is probably more clear, so they make sure to back it up in some way to the cloud or their desktop.
Also, it's much more likely for a phone to be stolen than a laptop or desktop.
There is a major downside to encryption: If you forget your password or your tpm fails and you've not backed things up, then that data is gone forever. If someone doesn't have anything incriminating or useful to theives on their device, the easier reparability might justify not enabling it.
I encrypt my home folder and Windows install just in case someone breaks into my house and steals my computer. Super annoying entering my password each boot though.
If Alice is able to send "algorithm updates" through a secure and untraceable medium, why not just use that to send a unique email address that Bob can send messages to?
If the links between participants is to remain secret, why not have a big ledger shared between a thousand people that any of them can send unaddressed messages to? Bob would send a message encrypted with Alice's public key and it gets mixed into the ledger. Alice then pulls the entire ledger and then decrypts any messages encrypted by her public key.
I don't see why there is a need to accept the inherrent unreliably of an llm to solve this problem.
It's actually gotten a lot better over the last few years; Valve has been putting in a lot of work into making gaming "just work" through Steam. It's still a bit jank, but honestly all OSes are a bit jank.
If anyone in this thread is interested, I'd recommend giving Linux Mint a go. There's nothing really to lose.
Anyway, I'm done shilling Linux so I'll let you get back to your Simpsoning. :P
I think a peer to peer model could work for social media, but if you're trying to sell it using a pepe meme, I'm not interested...
But fundamentally... Why not implement what you're thinking ontop of ActivityPub or ATProto than rolling your own thing? None of the issues you've described facing them are particularly insurmountable. They just need a bit of devwork.
I'd be very surprised if this is true. Adding a D pad and extra button at the last minute and redesigning the controller entirely feels a bit of a stretch. And it looks a bit strange having a dedicated "arm" just for a single button, especially if it's the start button (rather than a hypothetical "D" button.
Edit: I didn't realize there was an actual real photo of one linked as the post, rather than the blurry one in the description thingie. I don't know what to think.
A lot of people are saying to just "run steam in a command line", but for 100% clarity, to do that you search for an application like "terminal" or "console", then into that just type "steam" and press enter. It should launch steam whilst also writing debug info to the terminal. If you're lucky, it'll show some things that are googleable, just don't worry too much about things marked as "warning".
Another thing to check is that you have enough free disk space. I can't count the number of times I've been trying to figure stuff out only for it to be broken because I ran out of space.
If your Distro provides Steam in its software centre and isn't Ubuntu, prefer installing it from there. The Flatpak version of Steam is also fairly serviceable. Both of these will take care of installing dependencies and getting everything set up correctly.
I've not really needed it myself, but some people swear by Steam's "verify integrity of game files" thing. But if you find yourself needing to do that frequently, back everything up since it can indicate hardware failure.
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As a general rule, AI can only really perform easy monotonous tasks. Anything that requires creativity or intuition is generally not doable with AI.
The most a GPT AI could do is steal some instructions from some blog somewhere on how to configure a kernel or install some distro, then generate a list of packages.