Just go with CachyOS. it will allow you to install hyprland during the install process and provide you with Cachy’s dotfiles of it and everything you need right off the bat which you can then further configure yourself or just clone the omarchy dotfiles if you so wished.

EndeavourOS is fine but I always had issues installing it via ventoy (i.e. it doesn’t.) so I can’t recommend it. With endeavour you’d have to manually install hyprland, manually configure it from the get go, manually install kitty, etc etc etc. Cachy will just save you a bit of time and give you a solid base to start from for everything. Plus the CachyOS kernel is pretty good which is an added bonus. I use it on my NixOS system.

yes Omarchy is essentially opinionated dotfiles for Arch.

this is pretty par the course for Japanese companies. I’m not excusing it, i’m just saying Japanese companies will go all out with this kind of stuff. also look at Nintendo. They’ll sue people to bejesus and back on a routine basis.

bingo. I live in Toronto and do all my grocery shopping in chinatown on spadina. it’s cheaper, better quality, and i’m supporting local businesses. When I want a snack I go to loblaws and “shop” for it.

I’m trying to care but I just can’t.

Take what you want folks, I know I do when I’m in a loblaws, shoppers or metro.

good on Kinew but also keep in mind he also wants to slap age verification/id checks on stuff so…

remember kids GIGO “Garbage In, Garbage Out”.

the general public just isn’t aware of this. they assume that anything and everything an LLM spits out is fact. Again, the LLM/AI MUST provide a solution. any solution. that solution doesn’t need to be correct or even exist but in order to retain users it will and will consistently and constantly provide a hallucinated solution.

And in most cases, without their knowledge, the user is also to blame. I can see a lawyer asking an LLM “are there any cases where such and such happened” trying to find something INCREDIBLY specific to what they need and the LLM 8 times out of 10 will say “yes! there is!” and hallucinate a case that the lawyer needs. You see it all the time if you ask Claude with assistance in trouble shooting a specific tech or code problem. “I’m having issues with this and this, can this library or app or program solve this for me?” “Yes! here’s how” and then will tell you something the library or program or whatever can’t even do but you’ve lead it to that direction and it MUST provide a positive retention-able solution.

Even using AI as it SHOULD be used is no longer good. just using it as a sort of rubber duck doesn’t help anymore because of GIGO. the training data, across ALL LLMs, is so tainted now you might as well take all the money we’re wasting on data centers and tokens and just toss it at the crazy dude outside the bus station and just ask them the same questions.

sure there are games for retired people. EVE Online. pretty much everyone who plays that are either middle aged or retired.

that’s a big IF. few weeks ago I had to teach a junior dev how divs worked, he had no idea. he even initially asked an LLM how they worked and the LLM hallucinated half the responses.

that’s for someone else to worry about.

Seriously if you talk to these people they live their lives financial quarter by quarter. there’s no plan for 2+ years down the line, they can’t think that far ahead. They’re all like this. It’s all about the now. make money now, release a product now, no future, no updates, now now now. This is why LLM’s appeal so much to them, it can provide that “now” that they crave.

the clickbait so god damn annoying now. it’s like yesterday when there was an article that PewDiePie made an AI to rival ChatGPT and it’s free. no. he vibe coded an LLM workspace. that’s it.

Or the Nostalgia bait articles “the Zip Drive was amazing!” no, no it wasn’t you weren’t there.

safety concerns…like the safety concern of not selling enough Coca Cola products, got it.

it’s not really an “answer” to chatgpt or other LLMs at all. it’s a workspace. you still have to plug your own AI into it be it locally hosted or subscription based.

It’s like saying “PewDiePie has made a FREE Engine Mount that looks to be an answer to Honda’s Civic Engine” that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

I just don’t think people are buying RAM/other PC parts period. new or used.

I’ve have a listing selling a couple year old sticks of 16gb (32gb total) of DDR4 ram for $120 for like 4 weeks now and not a peep from anyone. I’ve seen other listings for ram at similar price points that have also been up for weeks.

So i’m not sure if there’s an actual shortage or people just simply aren’t buying.

bingo. I live in Toronto and i’m a contractor that is doing code reviews with a focus on LLMs for startups and other small tech firms. I’d say 9 out of 10 times my reports can be summed up as “this could have all been avoided if a team of devs had remained on staff” and then I fix it.

They’ll keep trucking along with AI and then hiring people like me for a premium because in the long run it’s still cheaper than having a team of 5+ devs on staff and that line will go up. the AI isn’t improving anything, it’s hindering them but it’s still slightly cheaper than having humans on board. broken and delayed product be damned, their still saving a couple nickels.

as a Canadian: “Oh no!..anyways…”

yeah, these “threats” aren’t very threatening anymore. we just don’t really care.

I just use libera chat and quakenet. been on quakenet for like nearly 30 years. I just go into the various linux/distro channels, web dev ones, and some other random channels.

IRC still exists my friend, I’m on it daily. this past year alone I’ve met quite a few people that I talk to almost daily. Message boards also, i’m active on a few. the Internet of old still exists, it never went anywhere, you just stopped visiting it.

yup just went on “vacation” consisted of spending 2 nights in Niagara Falls and then a week at the cottage fishing and drinking beer. that was it.