8 points

That tracks, AI is somehow twice as annoying as nfts and I’ve been dying for a decent ARM / RISC-V Linux laptop.

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I have actually come to prefer using AI instead of a search engine at work for most things sysadmin related (using DuckDuckGo’s AI chat feature), but I 100% have found that Copilot performs far worse than competing products. Having it that engrained in the computer is a very negative feature, despite the battery improvements.

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The Copilot in Windows and in Bing is quite bad, but the Github Copilot seems better. If you know of a clearly better one for programming I’m interested in trying things out.

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Copilot sucks. Gemeni is a sassy teenager. Chatgpt 4o is actually halfway decent. When they announced Gemeni had a million context tokens, that was awesome. But it can’t give coherent output to save its life. Useless.

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Perplexity.ai is also pretty nice. As far as I understand, it’s just some version of chatgpt but with the ability to search the web.

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“Chatgpt 4o is actually halfway decent.”

I think I need to redo my parameters cuz you aren’t the first person I’ve seen say this. I wasconvinced it got dumber lol

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It got worse. We adapted parameters to try to compensate. You didn’t do anything wrong. You’ve just not yet implemented continuous improvement.

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25 points

I feel like narrow AI tools duped me for a while, but the more I started to really use Chat GPT professionally, the more I’ve likened it to professional mimicking software. It essentially works to pyt out responses that sound the most convincing but have nothing to do with putting out responses that are actually at all accurate. These are terrible tools outside of asking basic questions, idea generation, and generally summarizing existing information you feed into it. I use it to help me make lists and better phrase emails and company messages at this point and nothing that actually requires any actual fact finding.

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Professional bullshit artists, in the sense of the technical definition given by Harry Frankfurt in his influential book:

Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn’t care whether what they say is true or false.

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2 points

this is like all sports analysts

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pyt

Now playing P.Y.T., by Michael Jackson.

I’m a botnot really.

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7 points

It’s a good troubleshooting tool. Pasting in weird error messages that don’t turn up any useful search results is pretty useful, even if the response it gives is partially inaccurate, it usually at least gives a bit more information than a search engine, which gives me more context to narrow my search terms and find a solution to the error.

It’s especially useful for learning Nix, since the online documentation is a bit shit and ChatGPT seems to have enough grasp on the Nix language and how to configure things in NixOS to tell me what I’m doing wrong.

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54 points

I turn everything that mentions Copilot off. I don’t need this crap and I never asked for it to be made.

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6 points

My company hired an AI person and I was sure to tell him I stripped the registry values from my computer. I’m an admin sooo

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45 points

Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).

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Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).

Linux, as in kernel: Yes. Qualcomm doesn’t develop FOSS GPU drivers, though. freedreno only supports older Adreno GPUs.

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open source drivers were developed for apple’s gpus, so if there is demand seems like someone would do it for qualcomm

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It’s better to support open hardware that doesn’t rely on unsupported reverse engineering by community contributors.

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It is ready. I only used to dual boot Linux, but I switched completely over 6 months ago with zero issues.

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I switched completely over 6 months ago

There were no Copilot+ PCs 6 months ago. Stop lying.

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I didn’t say I used copilot 6 months ago. I use Linux.

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I think he mean on these new, modern ARM laptop. None has actually work well so far. This newer Qualcomm chips are those that they themselves put the effort in. Rest were few far and between - garbage from Qualcomm and rest is from community.

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