Rhaedas

@Rhaedas@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In my current and seemingly final jump from WIndows to Linux I had played a bit with Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian. Ubuntu "felt" more like something I could work with, and certainly when you look at installing things from terminal there's usually Ubuntu or at least Debian, so it seemed a good fit. After running it a while and having no problems I noticed regularly things like this on "what distro to pick", and it always seems from the suggestions that I've gone the wrong way. And yet... it's working great. I've got far too much set up and running well to backtrack again and start over, so I guess either Ubuntu users are the silent group or I'm a lone wolf and everyone's gone to Bazzite or some other offshoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say extremely complex autocomplete, not glorified, but the point still stands that using probability to find accuracy is always going to deviate eventually. The tactic now isn't to try other approaches, they've come too far and have too much invested. Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation. Difficult when in the end there isn't anything "thinking" at any point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft dominated with IE back in the day for the same reason Chrome and Safari are the dominant choices. People don't tend to change the default if it works okay enough. Firefox dropped heavily years ago as the market was saturated with other new choices already installed on mobile and Chromebooks, but recent numbers are about the same as they have been for a while. Maybe even still growing, as all the numbers I find are percentages, and there's no doubt we've had an explosion of device use.