squaresinger

Python sure has changed since I last used it.

This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It's a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading ~~these~~ they at a young age.

FTFY

If all other executives would earn as much as the guys from Wikipedia, the world would be a better place.

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Flipping H E double hockeysticks! You aren't supposed to use such fucking swearwords here!

I think, there is another underlying problem, and that is that many Linux users are overly defensive about their OS.

If Windows frequently bluescreens due to a driver, people also say that Windows sucks. But I've never seen a single instance where then a more experienced Windows user says "You are wrong, Windows is great, it's just the manufacturer of the hardware who is at fault."

To an average user, there is no difference between OS, drivers or even user space software.

And, tbh, if the system doesn't run correctly (no matter which part of it) nobody really cares who is at fault. Because it's not about putting blame on someone, but rather about the user wanting to do something and it doesn't work.

For a bad comparison: Imagine you got a new car and directly after the warranty expired, the motor breaks down and needs to be replaced.

Would you then say "The car is ok, it's just the supplier of the sealing rings of the piston who sucks"?

I'd rather say, "This car sucks".

Yep, it's an argument outdated by about 20 years. At that time 10 years difference between two machines meant that you had completely different machine.

But having a good 10yo machine now means it's about on the same level as an entry-level machine now. My laptop I bought in 2013 for ~€700 had an i7 4th gen, which is totally fast enough for non-gaming usage, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD and a dGPU that's still faster than most iGPUs.

That are specs you can still find in modern entry-level PCs.

And that laptop has no issue running Win10 at all and if I workaround the arbitrary requirement for TPM2 and Intel Gen 8, it also runs fine. But I don't want to risk that Microsoft sometime arbitrarily decides to not give me updates any more.

And also, the argument that it's not a good choice to run a modern OS on a 25yo machine is a pretty dumb counter against the argument that a 10yo machine can run a modern OS without issue.

That's an argument that wouldn't even hit a barn door from a step away.

Sure, it's much better than it has been a few years ago.

But it's still not nearly at the point where I would blindly recommend it to non-technical people and call it easy. There's still a way to go.

On the other hand I have no problem recommending Linux to the typical "I only use an OS to run a browser" user. That wasn't the case 5 or 10 years ago.

I guess your experience must be universal and everyone who has issues must be really dumb. Is that how you see the world?

You are right with what you are saying, but for an average user it doesn't matter who's fault it is that their hardware and the OS don't play nice together.

If they have Nvidia and it works perfectly out of the box on Windows, but not on Linux, it really doesn't matter whether it's the fault of Linux or Nvidia.

And sure, if you are buying a new device to run Linux on it, you can use that info to buy an ATI card that works better.

But more often than not people are switching from Windows to Linux on their existing hardware. Mostly because something doesn't work (e.g. receiving updates on Win10 past 2024), and they'd rather switch OS than buy a new PC.

It's kinda like IPv6.