Both KDE and Gnome are stable. Anaconda works the same way for both of them, because that stuff doesn’t have anything to do with the DE.

It really depends on your preferences. KDE is easily customizaple and has a lot of features and UX improvements. But it can clutter quite easily: these options can be overwhelming.

GNOME follows a very strict workflou design that’s more similar to how phones work and helps an ADHD brain, like me to focus more. You can customize it, but you’ll do so at your own risk.

Best to try out both in a live system and do some things that emulate your day-to-day workflow. Then you can decide. And you can always change afterwards! If you have a separate home-partition, reinstalling a new DE/Distro is super trivial.

Holy shit! Can that be any more drawn out and boring?

TIL

Google “retrobrite” and you’ll find a bunch of guides.

It says that it s “inspired” by monospaced fonts. I imagine they mean stuff like the tiny serif on the lowercase i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8ssH7LiB0

Most denuvo games don’t get cracked.

It’s not really clear if working DRM increases sales. But most Denuvo games don’t get cracked, so it definetly prevents most piracy.

You’ll have to supply your own rom. Then it’s not copyright infringement, since you can do whatever you want with the copy you’ve purchased.

Decomp? Extremely hard and time consuming.

Recompilation? Way easier, but still: some assembly required.

This video gives a few infos

They can’t do shit about decompilations, since no copyright is violated. Also: I think M$ is the rightsholder now.

Good luck pirating live service games.

It’s funny tou bring up luddites, since they actually had the right idea about technology like LLMs. They were highly skilled textile workers who opposed the introducyion of dangerous medhanical looms that produced low quality goos, but were so easy to use so that a child could work them (because they wanted to employ children). They only got their bad name of backward anti-technology lunatics afterwards. But they were actually concerned for low quality technology being deployed to weaken worker’s rights, cheapen products and make bosses even richer. That’s actually the main issue I have with what’s happening with AI.

There’s a book by Brian Merchant called “Blood in the machine” on the topic, if you’re interested. He’s also on a bunch of podcasts, if you’re not the big reader.

I’m referring to “bullshit” in the way argued in this paper:

Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs.

The technology is neat. I’ll give you that. But it’s incredibly overhyped.

If you think LLMs suck, I’m guessing you haven’t actually used telephone tech support in the past 10 years. That’s a version of hell I wish on very few people.

I’m specifically claiming that they’re bullshit machines. i.e. they’re generating synthetic text without context or understanding. My experience with search engines and telephone support is way better than what any LLM fed me.

There have already been cases where phone operators where replaced with LLMs which gave dangerops advice to anorexig patients.

They’re already deployed and they’re less than helpful, because LLMs are bullshitting machines.

Lemmy is good, because there’s less AI drivel. But that’s currently changing. =.=

I remember liking it 10 years ago. Now, it’s not only way worse: it simply got surpassed by all the markdown note-taking apps (Joplin, Logseq, …) and xournalpp (or even rnote).

Moral of the story: try rnote. It’s good.

I remember that Jdownloader could crack some CAPTCHAs back in the 00’s.

Dammit, I made the prospect sound too much like fun. :/

Even if everyone was a hyper-detailed leather muppet?