Yes. I do tell my newbie friends about any graphical options I am aware of.

Then they ask, “Thank you. Does it work well?”.

And I admit, “I have no idea. I just use the command line.”

Then they paste command I shared into the terminal and watch it finish successfully before the graphical tool has finished downloading.

They want us more desperate for it so that we will accept a higher price.

Hell, this service might still have zero “AI” in it but count as an “agent” for marketing purposes.

True. I do think that’s where we might find something useful after the bubble pops.

But it’s some shit marketing though.

“Microservices, but sometimes it hallucinates.” is a sales pitch targeted for gullible suckers.

I’ve wiped better ideas off of the used shoes of an old bash profile than the average agentic AI solution.

Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely “coincidental”, and fairly complete, for many users.

Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.

Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.

Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like sipping a cup of hot tea on the porch, wearing a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.

Yes!

I may get a shit sound experience at home, but at least I have an opportunity for an even worse sound experience at my local theater, first.

Please hold. The invisible hand of the market is on its way. Please hold. Nothing is wrong with your economy. The invisible hand of the market is on its way. Please hold. Do not attempt to adjust your economy. Trust the invisible hand. Please hold…

Don’t forget about the flood damage to the ark.

Edit, only to the property, not to the ark.

https://www.wlwt.com/article/owners-of-biblical-noahs-ark-replica-sue-over-rain-damage/27586097

“With a certain audience, this life extending solution tested very well.”

“Great. How soon can we perfect the life extending bit and start selling it?”

“About that…”

Edit: We correlated the data, and this is going to sell well with Linux users.

I’m kind of sad this thread has so much thoughtful discussion and so few memes.

Wouldn’t it be better to have more serious threads and less memes that hint at political/news arguments?

No. It would not. There’s plenty of thoughtful discussion to find here, but the memes are the joyful cascade that carries us between thoughtful discussions.

My team does this, but we collaborate in Markdown, and then one of us converts it into a PDF when we finish.

Crows reincarnate as goths, and goths reincarnate as ravens. After that, it gets complicated.

Fells like something is deeply wrong with me

I don’t have an answer, but I can tell you, you are not alone in that feeling.

And remember, if people make you feel like you’re not enough, there’s a good chance they’re just dealing with their own bullshit in their own head.

It doesn’t make it okay, but I sometimes find it comforting to remember.

…what?

I forgot that other competitive games exist. I only play Pac-Man.

Somebody set a reminder to make sure this person says “rabbit rabbit” next January 1. We don’t need another year like this one.

Why would you single out MMO veterans in this scenario?

Not op, but I took it as being because MMOs are the only one form of modern games where anyone really cares if the player cheats. So MMOs tend not to leave developer cheat codes lying around.

(Edit: Yes, other competitive games do exist, I guess.)

I wish I was as cool as Curt.

(Edit: While this was some kind of double submission bug, I’m willing to stand behind saying it twice. I am just not as cool as Curt.)

If I were in your shoes (and I am), I would start trying to blindly use AI to do various aspects of my job (and I have).

The results are laughable.

There are things that I do that AI can do. Stupid, boring, uninteresting things. In particular, AI excels at doing things I already wrote a simple Bash script to do for me a decade ago.

Seriously, I encourage everyone to give it a try.

Let’s all build that passion project we’ve been dreaming of and host it for the world to enjoy.

In the best case, the world has a happy little passion project chugging away being useful.

In the worst case, we learn what AI cannot do yet, and realize we can still keep charging people for our labor for a few more years (and decades and centuries).