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  • If you want to learn more then do LFS. I don’t think Gentoo teaches you much more than a manual Arch install. But very few daily drive LFS. It’s hardly practical. Gentoo is daily drivable but if you don’t care about compiling all your own packages then I don’t think it’s for you.

    I’d say just do LFS on an old laptop or a VM.




  • What happens if someone refuses to do any chores in a shared household? There are already plenty of situations where people do work for free because it’s in your own interests. In groups like households people take turns taking out the bins and cleaning. In a communist society people will take turns doing the necessary work. If someone refuses, maybe something is wrong in their life, and they need help. At the end of the day, there’s no economic coercion in a classless society. If one in a million people don’t work for no understandable reason (disability, depression, personal issues, etc) then let them. What else are you going to do? Work or starve? Incarceration? The point of the universal emancipation that communism brings is to do away with those evils.



  • communism@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy is all of Lemmy politics?
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    Depends on what you define as “politics” but aside from “everything is politics”, my Lemmy feed is mostly tech stuff. Just subscribe to communities that fit your interests. That being said, many interests will be under-represented on Lemmy as I think the user base skews either technical or political or both.


  • The relevance for me personally is whether or not they can be useful for programming, and if they’re accessible to run locally. I’m not interested in feeding my data to a datacentre. My AMD GPU also doesn’t support ROCm so LLMs run slow as fuck for me. So, generally, I avoid them.

    LLMs consistently produce lower quality, less correct, and less secure code than humans. However, they do seem to be getting better. I might be open to using them to generate unit tests if only they would run faster on my PC. I tried deepseek, llama3.1, and codellama; all take like an hour+ to answer a programming question given that they are just using my CPU, as my GPU doesn’t support ROCm. So really not feasible for anything.

    Depending on what you count as AI, I think some of the long-existing predictive ML like autosuggestions based on learning your input patterns are fine and helpful. And maybe if I get a supported GPU I won’t mind using local LLMs for some things. But generally I’m not dying to use them. I can do things myself.




  • The reasons people use Linux are for qualities other than the ones affected by AI use. AI use has implications for code quality, correctness, and security. But none of those are why people use Linux. People use Linux over BSD or other Unixes because Linux supports the most hardware, has the biggest software ecosystem, and being a monolithic kernel is much easier to get up and running with lots of hardware without needing to install separate drivers. Those qualities still need to be addressed by BSDs or whatever alternatives before people will start migrating from Linux.

    I say this as someone who regularly uses and enjoys an OpenBSD machine. I couldn’t use it as my main machine because it just doesn’t have the same software availability and plug-and-use hardware support as Linux. Porting software to a new target is not a trivial task for most users. I package a few things for the AUR and that’s much easier as the software already supports x86_64 Linux; I just have to write a script to install it. I think OpenBSD is a nice OS but I highly doubt Linux users will migrate any time soon. Think about how many people were clinging onto X11 because Wayland didn’t support their super specific workflow. And a migration to an entirely different OS would be worse.