Out of curiosity how is life without systemd better? What does it taste like?

The reason I wouldn’t give advice if you didn’t want it because unwanted unsolicited advice tends to be useless and annoying for most people. If you didn’t want the advice I wouldn’t waste my time.

My advice is to focus on being able to organize your thoughts and write them out in a cohesive structured way.

This helps you:

1. Express yourself in a clear, understandable, and perhaps persuasive way.
2. Organize your own personal wants, needs, and desires introspectively.

Both of these are important life skills that are extremely beneficial. Using a LLM to organize and clarify positions is like using a crutch when you should be in physical therapy. On top of this using a LLM completely erases any personality in your writing and replaces it with corpo style speak.

Practicing organizing and expressing your ideas (like physical therapy) can be hard and sometimes painful. But you get better.

Using a LLM is like refusing to go to physical therapy and using crutches for the rest of your life by choice. Easier in the short term but bad for your own quality of life long term.

Places like lemmy are great for writing practice. Rambling nonsense is pretty universally downloaded. Lemmy forces you to organize and classify what you are thinking and why.

If you want to get started I would recommend the basic “5 Paragraph Essay” structure. In the case of a basic lemmy comment take those principles and make it a 5 sentence structure.

I hope this helps.

Would you want a piece of good faith, sincere advice? If not I can drop things.

Do you always have ideas in the middle of the night and want to post them only to have an RSI flare up and no laptop nearby and decide to use ChatGPT to write your posts?

It’s not just this response. All of your posts read the same way.

Like using AI as a writing assistant is fine and all. But the posts you copy paste over are mostly LLM structured arguments.

Why are you using ChapGPT to make comments on lemmy? What’s the point?

Small note. Opensuse Leap is EXTREMELY stable. Just as stable as RHEL and more stable than non-LTS Ubuntu. It’s just less well marketed in the English speaking world.

This article is from 2024. Hopefully it worked out. 😆

Different customers are dumb in different ways and different customers have different personalities.

If I sent a template email I would probably offend most of my customers. Lol.

Depends on the email. Sometimes it’s needed.

I can spend 10-20 min writing an email that basically says “no your idea is dumb and won’t work” to customers in such a way where by the end of it they agree with me.

It can take a bit of effort but with high stakes communication it’s needed.

If you’re just sending an email to your teacher or whatever it doesn’t really matter.

Think of it like the flooded house analogy. They could paint the dry wall while tearing it out at the same time. But why would they?

They’re not refusing. They’re actually doing the opposite. But they needed to get their house in order first.

The 3.0 upgrade was the result of the getting their house in order and modernizing. Doing cosmetic changed before hand would have made no sense because those changes would have been thrown away when they would have to modernize things anyways.

I think I have an analogy.

Gimp was like an old American style wooden house that was flooded. After the water recedes you could try to make things look nicer by plastering and painting the walls etc. But as goes with flooded houses if you do this the mold will rot everything out.

In order to save a flooded house you need to remove all the dry wall and use fans to dry out the internals. Once things are dry then you can plaster and repaint things.

Gimp 3.0 was them ripping out dry wall and air drying the internals. Now that that is done it now makes sense to clean up the UI.

If you clean up the UI before you dry the walls out it’s just a waste of time because those improvements would need to be ripped out with the dry walls always.

It’s not perfect as far as an analogy goes but it’s close. Gimp should have never let the house flood in the first place. (Analogy breaks down here a bit). But since they did. They needed to fix the fundamental before it would be worth fixing the UI.

This all being said they could at this point genuinely refuse to change things UI wise. I hope they choose to pull a Blender or Krita but they don’t have to.

I mean the whole point of doing the mega rewrite to gtk3 was specifically to enable such forward looking progress.

What they did in the 3.0 release was, largely, a massive modernization of a dinosaur code base.

Now that it’s done it makes sense to do a UI overhaul. Before 3.0 it made no sense to even try, now it does.

Two reasons.

1. In conjunction with hulls to make nice organic shapes. Cubes and Prisms are nice but I like my designs to look organic. Nice round edges make for nicer 3d prints too.
2. Concave Fillets

OpenSCAD is only lightweight till you start working with Minkowski transformations and hulls. Then you just want a faster CPU.

It’s a hard problem in the fediverse. It makes for a ticking time bomb of an issue. Imagine I am on a “everything is your own, we don’t sell your stuff” instance while another instance just copy pasted metas ToS. By posting a response to my instance, which then in turn is federated to the meta style instance I create something hard to solve. I can foresee other issues too.

I see your point. I just think it’s a difficult problem.

I don’t think the ToS approach would be invalidated here via your Safe Harbor fork theory.

The ToS could state something like “you give us a worldwide perpetual right to use your content in any way we want including granting this right to whom we designate”

You still own your content but by having an account you agree to the ToS that lets them do what they want.

They just host it and are safe.

I don’t think it’s equivalent to sovereign citizens. OP is the author of their comment and therefore has the copyrights. As the author one can license their work as all rights reserved or other permissive licenses.

OP chooses to license their work as Creative Commons.

They’re not forcing you to accept the license, it’s your local government that enforces copyright.

The reason why this might work on Lemmy but not on corporate Social media is that corporate social media often have terms of service that require you to give them ownership/rights/etc. Lemmy has no such ToC.

It’s government reporting data. If you find a better source I say go for it. But I used that data for salary negotiations in the past successfully.

I’m not talking about take home. I’m talking about total annual compensation including things like RSU payouts etc.

Even if we throw out the ones you doubt there are many 300k to 400k entries with the AI researcher title. If we add annualized RSU payouts we easily hit over €500k.

At this point t though you are free to doubt me.

Maybe not with just if statements. But with a heuristic system I bet any site that runs a tar pit will be caught out very quickly.

When I worked in the U.S. I was well above $160k.

When you look at leaks you can see $500k or more for principal engineers. Look at valves lawsuit information. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

Meta is paying $400k BASE for AI Reserch engineers with stock options on top which in my experience is an additional 300% - 600%. Vesting over 2 to 4 years. This is to H1B workers who traditionally are paid less.

Once you get to principal and staff level engineering positions compensation opens up a lot.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=meta+platforms+inc&job=&city=&year=all+years

ROI does not matter when companies are telling investors that they might be first to AGI. Investors go crazy over this. At least they will until the AI bubble pops.

I support people resisting if they want by setting up tar pits. But it’s a hobby and isn’t really doing much.

The sheer amount of resources going into this is beyond what people think.

That and a competent engineer can probably write something on the BEAM VM that can handle a crap ton of parallel connections. 6 figure maybe? Being slow walked means low CPU use which means more green threads.