commenting to remind myself about syncthing for when I can look into it later.

it’s ok, because now everyone is having a good time!

and yet all those “use eu tech” charts always recommend proton products

git is fine. girhub sucks ass and if a I am ever directed to it then that project is dead to me.

I bet you’re right, but the fact that I never see it is a feature worth paying for, especially for a smooth-brain like myself.

I would prefer to run my ais locally, but my brain glazes over if I see github. I found a a program called “gpt4all”, but it’s very limited in what models it can run, and what I could get just wasn’t as good for my use case as openai’s 4o model. Also, being able to generate images in the same conversation as text work is a feature that I’m fairly certain no other ai model can do (yet).

I pick my battles.

If I took a hard stance of not engaging with any business that did things I morally object to, I’d be forced to be a self-sufficient hermit in the woods.

I say this as someone who frequently uses generative ai, and actively chooses to pay for the service.

Fuck openai.

This company has utterly failed to fulfill their mission statement, and they will be unable to make right by humanity until ALL software they have created is available to the public as FOSS (free and open source software). Openai claimed that this is exactly what they were going to do, and then they just didn’t. So fuckem.

eventually, imma have to actually look into lemmy front ends or clients. I stand by the statement that I shouldn’t have to, but I’ll prolly have a better time of things if I did.

if someone says linux is hard to learn, that person isn’t making regestry edits.

That said, windows used to be intuitive, but they peaked with xp and it’s been a downhill slide since.

a display of their choices.

someone else linked one called “shreddit”. haven’t really looked at it yet

Of course not, but can you say that it’s not convenient for them to stiffle foss alternatives to microsoft/apple/google software? many open source projects are at least partially made by russian developers.

literally one of the 2 reasons I haven’t quit reddit completely (the other being I’m slowly deleting all my comments)

solution: a checkbox for “show advanced settings”.

also, sounds like i should try kde

true, but let’s not pretend that they were without agency in this decision and in decisions leading up to the current context.

when you’re a corporation with billions of dollars and US politicians cost millions on the high end, you can choose to do whatever you want.

when it was good, it was real good. Every subject I could want in one place, and I could organize it as I wish.

Lemmy is a confusing mess and lacking in basic features compared to reddit (although there’s probably front ends I could download that would fix my complaints).

Obviously, I’m here, so the inconvenience is an acceptable price for not being on reddit anymore.

a cluttered ui that works is better than a pretty ui that doesn’t.

i imagine a perfect world in which everything has guis and the guis contain all the information I could want about what it does including the relevant terminal commands. In this way, the gui is also the manual.