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Cake day: March 17th, 2026

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  • I’m in favor of heavy AI users adding an [AI] tag to their posts. I don’t think we have to worry too much about AI users trying to pass their work as organic. Almost all AI users I know proudly and annoying shout about how great the AI is. So I think only a minority of AI users would try to hide their AI usage.

    I think we should encourage users to add [AI], but also make it voluntary. We need people to complain in the post when someone doesn’t add the [AI] tag, but they should have. I’m guessing here, but I think the more people complain about the missing [AI] tag, the more likely the project used more AI. I’m guessing if the AI usage is low, like 1 or 2 commits out of 1000, then not as many people would complain.









  • I installed Fedora Silverblue on my parent’s laptop almost a year ago and I haven’t had any complaints or issues.

    They’re really not tech literate or heavy users so Silverblue is the perfect fit. I installed and configured Librewolf and Bitwarden for them and everything has been running fine. Everything else is vanilla Silverblue.

    They don’t know or don’t care about updating software. But Silverblue does flatpak updates automatically in the background. OS and firmware updates are integrated and handled via the Gnome Software Center, so I’ll click the install button every so often when I visit. No terminal required! There is a password prompt, but at least it’s a GNOME shell password prompt, not a terminal password prompt.

    Additionally, I was able to get LUKS encryption working without my parents noticing: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/encryption-advice-for-silverblue/162810/7

    It’s not the most secure LUKS implementation, but I’m also not worried about state actors hacking my parent’s laptop. Originally, I skipped the disk encryption entirely because the extra password prompt made it harder to use the computer.

    Update: Actually, maybe there aren’t any password prompts to update the system. Last night when I shutdown my laptop, I saw there was a “critical update” in GNOME Software Center. I left it alone and didn’t click anything. But when I went to shutdown the laptop, the GNOME shutdown dialog had a marked checkbox that said something like “also apply OS updates on shutdown”. I clicked shutdown and (again no password prompt) the computer shutdown. When I rebooted the computer today, I see there are no more pending software updates!