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  • I learned about the existence of Ubuntu from a computer magazine and tried out the live USB soon after. It took me many years of sporadic trial and error, but then the Wayland session started becoming really good on NVIDIA GPUs, games started having less issues (and I got it though my head that NTFS causes tons of problems), and I eventually learnt enough, that I stopped missing Windows. I kept an install around for racing sims and just-in-case for years, but I got Assetto Corsa working more or less reliably and it became redundant. I deleted my Windows partition a couple of weeks ago.

    I learnt from trial and error, a few videos, a few articles, and the Arch Wiki. A friend is hounding me to try NixOS, and I want to get familiar with Fedora to convert a few relatives, but right now it’s looking like Arch 4ever for me.












  • The joke is a cross between a famous anecdote about Diogenes and the inner workings of vision-capable AI models.

    Diogenes really liked to disrespect his social superiors, so when, in a lecture, Plato defined human beings as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes plucked a chicken and presented it to him saying “Behold - Plato’s human being” (or something along those lines, the quote is slightly different in every source).

    In order to “see” things from images and video, a garden variety LLM needs to integrate with another model that analyzes the picture it is given and gives a text description (source: HuggingFace). What I’m getting at is that, based on that idea of stripping things of context, ChatGPT could probably confidently tell you something in the vein of Plato taking the piss due to its inherently limited ability to see.