I’ve had several occasions in my life where I’ve tried to switch to Linux only to run into hardware incompatibilities that would have taken me man-months to solve. Thanks to GPT my primary personal PC, home media and project server is now running Linux and fully functional. I’ve got Jellyfin, NextCloud, Navidrome and Joplin all happy. I’ve also been able to wipe an obsolete MacOS off my 2017-era Macbook Pro and it’s happily running Mint.

There’s a deep irony in Windows being enshittified by AI, while the same AI makes Linux about a billion times more usable. Now I have a leftover Windows micro-PC running a local LLM model, so I can be less dependent on GPT, as long as time isn’t a factor…

  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I still don’t understand where people are findign these useful AI answers. Every single time I try it seems AI is an acronym for artificial idiocy and I wouldn’t even trust it to tell me the time.

    (In fact I just resently tried asking that stupid meta AI in sand-boxed Whatsapp (I still have to keep because of some stubborn examples of humanity) about the time in another time zone… It could tell my local time, in which time zone I was, what timezone I was asking about and what the difference between those zones was. Yet it could somehow not answer the question directly before being led there step by step. And then it still did the math wrong… 🤬)

    • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I use LMMs daily, but I never even had the idea to use the stupid AI button in WhatsApp. And I had a buddy mentioning last week how hilarious bad the google search AI is.

      You’re here in selfhosted. Do a minimum of research, fire up opencode and create an agents.md with something like „Never guess, if you don’t know something do an online search first!“. This will get rid of 99 percent of hallucinations. Then just use one of the free models opencode provides.