LostWanderer

Abstainer would do a lot better of a job of giving credence to people actively avoiding AI usage due to ethical or environmental reasons; the sad reality of using either Luddite or Vegan to describe these people is due to the active negative messaging that people wanting to push unregulated technological change have charged these words with. Despite the negative connotation that Luddite has been charged with; I still use it to refer to myself as a Luddite (who is against unethical technological advancement), must like those who would also abstain from AI Usage in work or personal life settings.

As it’s potential to cause harm is great; there are still cases people killing themselves ChatGPT Killed Again-Four more Dead, AI-Induced Psychosis for example. Healthy technological advancement is necessary for the benefit of all human beings, however, what we are seeing with “AI” isn’t following that model. It’s good that people are standing against AI, since nothing will change unless people fight against Silicon Valley’s agenda.

If only the author actually reported on the post install experience, that would’ve been helpful for people looking to switch to a Linux distro…Kinda annoying they paywalled the article (thankfully, you’ve provided an Archive Link). I do agree with the author’s suspicions that Windows is only going to get worse due to the AI bullshit that Microsoft is infecting Windows with; Windows, is at a breaking point because vibe coding is ruining update quality, a human hand is key to maintaining such a complex OS.

After seeing the writing on the wall during the initial Recall situation, I permanently switched to Ubuntu (dabbled in other distros, before returning to Ubuntu). Gotta say, having full control over my operating system is nice. I only borked it around 11 times in the years of being on Ubuntu and others (mostly due to devil may care experimentation and a healthy amount of backed up data). Most of the time, I even recovered from the TTYL 3 screen, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Linux is in a better place than years past, Ubuntu, Zorin OS, and Mint are very usable for beginners who just want a PC that works. Valve’s experimentation with Linux and funding development work done by Arch and others has smoothed out a lot of the bug bears associated with gaming, there are few barriers to entry.

Outside the hostile big publishers who use anti-cheat that makes their games not run on a Linux distro via Proton Compatibility Layer (Rockstar are the prime assholes doing this, among others I can’t rightly recall).

This basic tutorial explains the steps to installing a Linux distro (Ubuntu is recommended as it is easy) in detail, and plain language. Read it several times, until you feel comfortable. Ubuntu is the distro I started with, as drivers are easy to deal with and can be installed during the installation process without fuss (unlike some distros, side-eyes Fedora with slanderous intent).

One detail, Balena Etcher is the application this author refers to when mentioning “Etcher” Installing Ubuntu

Edit, I forgot to include the New User Guide, based on category!

I’ve been locked out of LinkedIn for almost a year, something happened to my damned account…I can’t opt out or delete the cursed thing.

LMAO Yeah, only watching to see how they fail because all these AI corporations aren’t going to make it once the bubble bursts…So much money has been burned trying to make AI fetch, and people are wisely not spending money for the services. Good to see yet more companies grab defeat from the jaws of victory.

At the end of the day, I consider political pressure to be resistance. If it does get rough in the USA, then our resistance will have to take the form necessary to make change happen. While Trump is not going to change internally, it’s about getting the reasonable and weaker around him to cave. As Trump is just an old white dude, there’s not much he can actually do once people are sufficiently motivated to act.

Nonviolent protests and resistance have a track record of working and bringing about change. That is the path which I am seeking at the moment. Given we’re a big nation, the only tools that realistically work in this case is to make people comply in advance, kowtow due to the bluster and incompetence Trump is spewing. Americans have a distinct numbers advantage, he’s just hoping that we stop pushing back and simply accept the bullshit he is attempting.

It’s about exerting political pressure, which has been shown to work with these clowns, as Trump and crew have backed down multiple times due to the people making their displeasure known. He likely doesn’t directly care about the lady or kids, however, he does care about how he is seen directly after this interview. As it would harm the fulfillment of his self-interest; public perception matters, and that is why the Alt-Right always desperately rehab their image after the times Republicans held Political offices and unilaterally failed the USA.

It’s good to see these losers put on blast, keep on making it clear we know they are up to some bullshit and that they need to stop it!

A fool is ever eager to give their money to that which doesn’t work as intended. Provided the surrounding image provides a mystique or resonates with their internal vision of what an ‘AI’ is. It’s pure marketing on their part, Anthropic believes that any press is good press. It makes investors drool over a refined AI, even though, Apple themselves have proven it through their many technical papers current AI is merely ‘smoke and mirrors’ however…For some odd reason, they are still developing their ‘Apple Intelligence’. They are huffing farts just as much as Anthropic is, they have to constantly pull stunts to gaslight their investors into believing that ‘AI’ is going to become a viable product that will make money. Or allow them to get rid of human workers, so their bottom line looks flush (spoiler alert, they have to rehire people, as AI can’t do many of the things a live person with training can).

There reason why this shit is shoved in everything is because it doesn’t have good general use cases and the collection of usage data from people. Most people don’t give money to AI companies, only those who have drank the Kool-Aid do, as they are hope-posting and gaslighting people into believing the current or future capabilities of ‘AI’. LLMs are really great at specific things, collating fine-tuned databases and making them highly searchable by specialists in a field. However, as always the techbros always want to do too much, they need to make a ‘wonder tool’ that inevitably fails and then these lying techbros need to quickly figure out the next scam.

Another Anthropic stunt…It doesn’t have a mind or soul, it’s just an LLM, manipulated into this outcome by the engineers.