No, you didn’t. Not for Ubuntu at least. And even if you did why would you want to stop the development of new and possibly better ones?

But this is just anti-ai puritanism. Just screw people for whom this could be useful because “ai”.

People with disabilities don’t deserve accessibility?

“things literally changing” is not “moving the goalposts”.

Literally not moving the goalposts.

You do understand that this is a rapidly developing technology right? That it’s getting better weekly?

It’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about. You can’t just bury your head in the sand and tell yourself that LLMs are still just “advanced autocomplete” anymore.

Wut?

This is not an extraordinary claim if you’ve used a good LLM in the last, say, year.

Yes - it’s still useful to have docs to refer to.

But it can also be useful to use the AI to generate that documentation if you’re not good at it (which I am not) or aren’t disciplined enough to keep them up-to-date (which practically nobody is).

I think he’s maybe overblowing the impact of this change.

Maybe… But I don’t look forward to working with the dozens of IT folks at my company who all installed git once and have never upgraded. This will be multiple meetings, show up on slide decks, break builds…

It’s going to be a right pain for nothing.

Maybe - but it’s unrealistic to expect. I tutored my high school nephew in a programming class he was taking and practically all of his classmates were using AI to do their homework assignments. The genie is out of that bottle.

College students should at least be taught how to use it and have AIs provided that help them to learn. You can make an AI that helps with the “what questions should you be asking” at least to help them with that insight they haven’t developed yet.

For example - I’d recently read about an AI that was created to help grad students with their research proposals. Not in doing the proposal per se but helping them to think about their proposal and whether it was achievable, testable, adds to the corpus of knowledge, etc.

AI can answer many of their questions, but AI can’t help them with the questions they don’t know to ask.

This is a very important thing to understand and one that is difficult to explain to non-technical folks who have a new “super power” where they can magic-up programs (and why hosting their vibe-coded monstrosity on our servers and network may be a bad idea).

This is why when we say “AI is a tool” we need to be careful to add that it’s more like “heavy machinery” than a “screwdriver.” You need to be checked out on it and understand what it will be doing for you and how to work with it. It’s not a tool everyone is readily equipped to work with.

What are you calling “the linux community”?

Linux is the primary OS supported on all of the major cloud platforms and has effectively replaced nearly all commercial Unix systems in new deployments.

We’re well past “small”.

I downvoted not because of any AI concern but because it’s clearly a crappy personal project. Nobody should use this.

We seem to have forgotten that humans create a lot of low-quality and low-effort content…

Over at sh.itjust.works we recently had a contest to replace our previously AI generated logo (because “AI is bad now”). The human-created replacements were a parade of low-effort copy/paste garbage that were embarrassing to judge… But they were human garbage so we picked one.

If you don’t like it it’s AI slop.

You either make global window position the sole responsibility of the compositor or you expose control to applications and get an unmanageable mess, which you can’t fix.

rofl

That’s hilariously stupid. Like every window management system other than Wayland is just an unmanageable mess because they allow this?

Do you have an issue that actually requires this or do you just have an issue with how a certain compositor handles window placement?

You’re arguing a particular problem and solutions to it rather than acknowledging the category of problem and the greater issue it shows. That it’s taken 20 years for the team to maybe kinda consider implementing basic functionality that is provided by every windowing system not named Wayland is f’ing ridiculous. And it’s not the only feature that has taken ages without being addressed. It’s a project team problem. Their ivory tower design didn’t address the real world usage and they lack the flexibility to deviate from their design.

You mean the way X handled window positioning

I mean the way literally every other display handles it other than Wayland which “knows better than I do” apparently. “You don’t want that - I know you don’t” is so pandering.

Windows allows it. MacOS allows it. Wayland is pure and perfect.

if you can’t actually name anything then I’ll just assume you’re being contrarian.

I did - in my very first post. I won’t repeat it here because I don’t care. There are lots. But hey - you got your individual monitor scaling so… I guess fuck everything else yeah?

Flip a friggin coin.

Maybe I misunderstood - The “NixOS (bare metal)” seemed to imply to me that the containers were not bare-metal by omission. If not then my complaint is retracted.