smiletolerantly

joined 10 months ago
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Fuck Amazon, fuck Alexa.

But that wall clock is glorious. It's a decently look clock, but seeing how much time you have left on multiple timers with a single glance is so incredibly useful. Especially when you're cooking.

I'm currently in the process of migrating away from the shit Alexa ecosystem, but no matter what I end up with, I'll have to find an alternative for this clock

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

Did someone say Gemini?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate? Why are people disgusted by Hyprland?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

For me personally, there is only two applications of LLMs in programming:

  • doing tasks I kinda know how to do, but don't want to properly learn (recent example: generate pgf plots from csv data in matplotlib. 90% boilerplate, I last had to do it 3 years ago and vaguely remember some pitfalls so can steer the LLM in that direction. Will probably never again have to do this, so not worth the extra couple hours to properly learn
  • things I would ordinarily write a script for, but aren't worth automating because they won't come up in the future again (example: convert this Lua table to a Nix set)

Essentially, one-off things that you know how to check for correctness.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Ahh those fuckers.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Especially if you buy access via 2 providers on different backbones. Haven't had a single failed/incomplete download since.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

I'm slightly younger than that even, currently finishing up my master's but have been working as a backend dev for a couple of years.

I've learned an order of magnitude more about networking from just being in the vicinity of my girlfriend (who is a network technician) than from uni, and it's definitely already paying off.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

+1 from me.

The Shield is a couple years old, but it handles everything you throw at it perfectly.

  • get SmartTubeNext to watch YouTube without ads, and it comes with SponsorBlock
  • use Flauncher for a home screen / launcher without any ads
  • Jellyfin, obviously
  • Steamlink also works perfectly
  • plus, the remote is amazing (though I would recommend to either disable or rebind the Netflix button)
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe. But there are third options as well - maybe if Adobe acts like you describe, and there is sufficient Linux adoption, that opens the door for an actual crossplatform competitor.

Or maybe they change their mind when not doing so costs them money.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

The point is to ditch the dependency on a corporate Overlord, not to find a different daddy

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 31 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No, you are right. In your situation, Linux is just not an option - yet.

I think these posts are meant for the 95% of people that use a browser, and maaaaybe a mail client on their PC.

Photoshop/Illustrator will only ever get ported if enough people have already made the move that Adobe can't afford to ignore Linux any longer.

That being said, if those requirements are just for work, what's keeping you on Windows on your private devices?

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