Distro maintainers do that, for good distros and wanted apps. as dev write for one major distro.

false, the distro package maintainers do that for good distros and that includes the BSD as well as GNU/Linux. There is mostly no problem.

At this time, it is pretty unclear whether there are any actual productivity gains. Producing more slop will likely just increase costs overall.

The better artists are not losing their jobs. The better code monkeys are not either or only very temporarily. AI code is full of bugs and vulnerabilities that are hard to fix. It makes coders _slower_: https://mikelovesrobots.substa...

So while you may loser your job for a time while this straw-fire burns itself out, you may well get re-hired at an increased salary not that much later.

Yep, pretty much. And a good game means AI use will be very limited. And then the problem will go away.

Given that LLMs and GenAI in general cannot really do anything a tiny bit complicated or original, that may happen anyways, because the current AI hype is still missing a sustainable business model, several years in. A dramatic crash and then very limited special-purpose use is the most likely future. Same as the last few AI hypes, only that the crash will be a lot larger.

Some people have no social skills. You seem to be responding to one of those.

His point is nonsense. If we see Linux on many more desktops, it will be via a small number of distros.

Bullshit. Want to use a tool? Be competent to use it. There is really no excuse and your AdHominem is just complete nonsense.

In the case of Linux, use a distro that matches your level of skill.

What part of that document says they have to be networked? I skimmed it and didn't see anything like that. I found some stuff about remote operators, but those appear to be optional.

While I am no fan of attributing powers to generative AI that it really does not have. But it certainly has its uses in prototyping, generating mock-ups and experiments or adjusting parameters. Hence it is absolutely no problem using it there. Using it for final assets that then get carefully reviewed and adjusted by real, competent artists (that also did the prompting) is also absolutely no problem.

Of course, any king of "slop" is not acceptable, whether AI generated or generated by incompetent humans. But what matters is the result quality, and GenAI CANNOT replace creativity or insight and will never be able to.

Then you compile from sources. Special needs require special skills. Well, not that special, really.

Well, the Nest 2nd gen thermostat was sold from 2012-2015 (when it was replaced by the 3rd gen), and support ended in 2025, so, 10 years.

And down here in the real world, distro-packaging is done by the distro, not the upstream developer.

Yep. Happens when the voter is as dumb as bread and easy to manipulate. Praying to the Great God Mammon also has something to do with it.

I especially like "advances in quantum Computing". The stupid does not get much more concentrated than what we see here.