My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
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Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible
There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.
Still not an "easy" experience though.
At that point just use Mint. Isn't it designed to feel like Windows 7?
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When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
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Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don't need that.
Try to separate the AI hype from AI.
AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.
Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.
It's the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it's no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what "intelligence" means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.
Even LLMs have value, just not how they're being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.
I'd love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn't want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.
Unpopular opinion, but it's also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it's often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
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Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
Put googly eyes on the robot and name it Steve. Tell investors it's intelligent. Tell them you can have sex with it. You'll have so much money.
Tell them you can have sex with it
CLANK CLANK CLANK
Crunch
YYYYEEEEEOOOOOCCCHHHH
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MO: Make high cost human low cost human
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You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".
It's one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
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I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
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I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just "All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies" or "All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution".
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
When someone can produce an LLM that doesn't use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
Obviously, this doesn't include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
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Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
I don’t mind that they can do it so long as it serves those users who want that feature.
Wait who doesn't already use Notepad++? It's even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
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TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
DRM wasn't good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.
Notepad++ is just, a top tier app
You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
I'm chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
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A more credible response would be
But FOSS is Malware! Everyone can see what I do tif I use it.
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Next version of npp should reference this comic.
People are allowed to want what they're comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse's horseshit in my living room
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