Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to get ChatGPT to walk me through the install process of putting Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air. It just wouldn’t work and the further along we got the harder it seemed and I really thought that using AI was necessary. I finally gave up and read the Arch Wiki and had it installed in under 45 minutes.
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imagine programming on an electric computer. i exclusively generate punch cards for crank operated adding machines
Raw dogging development
I use:
- DuckDuckGo
- Neovim
- ~~rusty~~ dusty IdeaPad
- ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw
I don't read man pages but I read documentation.
Am I also a psychopath?
I would not say that. I use a very old 13" Dell XPS laptop. I use Code-Server and duckduckgo. I have be known to program on my 7 year old android tablet with a bluetooth keyboard. For the most part I look at docs for JS modules as I write mostly in Python with Flask and use JS for responsiveness. Before anyone suggests something else I have to interface with a VERY old database that I wrote a webservice into through C#. I do realize there are other ways but python is my comfort point and the amount of backend processing makes it easier to use a "real" language. For my purposes it is plenty fast.
I decided to try Cursor today (first time using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I'm really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!
The cost has been ~$20 so far (I'm still tinkering with it).
ETA: I also use ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw
Edit 2: I asked it "how might I streamline my deployments a little?" It wrote some nicely polished scripts that use deploy-rs, and wrote some nice documentation for it.
The script didn't work on first run, so I added the console output to the context and asked "what went wrong here?" It debugged and fixed the script, and updated the docs.
I think this has been the most frictionless NixOS experience I've had so far
Oh god no, ideapads. My dad has one and the metal parts hardly fit together after a year, the key travel is 1mm and the touchpad is practically useless.
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That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.
Is psychopatl an Aztec insult I don't know about?
Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl
(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)
Type of dinosaur I believe
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No future. Lmao
I still use emacs
It's a fine operating system, what editor do you use?
Oh, many many of them.
Sometimes text-mode, sometimes fundamental-mode, sometimes picture-mode, tex-mode, ess-mode...
This indecent has been reported
Your disk quota shall be reduced by 100MB before redirecting you to ed
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Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...
This is psycopathy?
Having actual competence in one's field?
Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.
Knowledge and skill have now been demonised
This gives me "old man yelling at clouds" energy.
I quite literally yelled at the introduction of 'the cloud' as yet another stupid corpo buzzword.
...
I was working at MSFT the first time someone hsd ever asked me if I had a 'cloud' backup.
What? Do you mean a remote server, offsite?
No, no, in the cloud!
5 minutes of research later.
Oh, so yes, you do mean on a remote server somewhere.
No, no, in the cloud!
head_desk.jpg
It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.
I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.
The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?
They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.
I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.
Oh my god that’s hilarious.
I thought so too untill they threatened to call the police.
To be fair my wife is a smart lady, but she still thinks I'm invoking some arcane hacking magic when I'm messing around in the terminal.
You mean a BOSS-nian?
Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake
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no Google
I do not believe you.
Arch Linux
Okay, fine. A rare sighting.
It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.
Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.
Remember when the internet was more than like 5 websites?
Gen Z doesn't.
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Normalise living your best life.
The true psychopaths are those sweating about which tools other people use
Yay! Cencorship! I spent an extra 3 seconds focusing on the word psychopath trying to figure out what went wrong instead of reading it like a normal word. Isn’t that so much better than offending an algorithm with the letter ‘h’?
I really think you're being inconsiderate. Advertisers lose $0.02 per non-performing word. Don't you ever consider the shareholders???
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