Pumpkin Escobar

That was intentional. They were trying to word the announcement to not make it sound like you’re now getting 1/5-1/9 as much AI for the same price.

Related: Microsoft and OpenAI announced end of exclusivity agreement today

I love that their email made it sound like it was a wash, like “we’re just changing our billing model, you’ll get credits now, samesies!” but then this pricing chart buried 3-levels down from the announcement lays out just how much less you’re going to get for the same price.

I wonder about all the startups who were bragging about their $10k/month AI coding bills being the best money they ever spent. When this new pricing kicks in and pushes it to $40k/month right around the time all the vibe-coded shit blows up their codebase, I wonder if they’ll still be so happy with their choices.

I interviewed for a place a while back and started asking about quality and velocity and how they balance it with AI developer tools, he said something like “One of our developers closed 400 PRs last month” and I instantly knew it was definitely not the place for me.

Shun the nonbelievers

When you’re deranged they let you do it.

I’ll remember this in 12 months when 50% of new LLMs are still getting the “I want to wash my car, the car wash is 100 yards from my house, should I walk or drive?” question wrong. I mean, they’ll add that one to the training data so they’ll probably be getting that one right by then, but there will always be examples of why THESE THINGS AREN’T INTELLIGENT.

I use LLMs quite a bit, they’re neat tools and helpful, but anyone who tries to say they’re AGI is either an idiot or just too heavily invested in the bubble.

I liked ly, they changed at some point to not allow me to type in any username, had to select from list of valid users and it didn’t list AD users. No amount of futzing could get it working so I switched to lemurs. Just mentioning it as another good console-based-login option

For arch… generally if there’s a core/extra official package, there can be alternatives in the AUR that list the system package as a “provides” alias.

From a quick AUR search, the systemd-liberated-git package is already up there. To replace systemd you’d install the AUR package which would tell you it conflicts with the official/core systemd package and ask if you wanted to replace it. If the package maintainer has everything right, it should just work.

Personally I’ll wait to see if a viably stable and well-maintained fork of systemd without age stuff shows up and switch once it sounds problem-free(ish).

You’re not tricking me… it’s invisible turtles all the way down

Behind a traefik reverse proxy with lets encrypt for ssl even though the services aren’t exposed to the internet?

Arch everywhere. LTS kernel on servers and zen kernel on desktop and laptop. I love the idea of nixos but in practice it felt like more work than it was worth (to me).

I originally did Debian on servers but after using arch for long enough and never having stability problems, it was easier to move to the same distro.

Yeah, and the drama of bcachefs getting booted from the kernel was pretty painful to watch, just that he seemed like a guy struggling with things and unable to function. Not that the linux kernel mailing list and development process is easy or low-stress, but it was pretty obvious he was fighting a losing battle and just couldn’t stop making things worse. I don’t know why I feel bad for the guy but I hope he has some people around him to get some help.

Yeah, they’re doing the right thing here as a PR move, they may have known about the shady bullshit or they might not have but if they didn’t I bet they didn’t even ask or care in any way.

Still time to find discord alternatives, luckily the landscape of alternatives seems a bit better than I expected.

Not that I’ve seen. To me the games seem a touch smoother, not better frame rates but more consistent a bit. I imagine there are probably just different quirks and wins/losses with and without game scope in different games maybe.

Something like SDL_RENDERER=wayland environment variable (not at computer right now), and make sure to launch the KDE Wayland session, not x11

Sure, but who wants to be at Beta School? Miss out on first-mover-advantage in (mis)educating your child? Only an idiot would do that!

Not so much to the content of your post but to your title:

Their web interface is nice, reasonably priced (not cheap) prosumer sort of gear. I have 2 APs and 1 router, 1 AP is flaky, it’s the 7 XGS which should be a high end AP. It gets pretty bad coverage with it and it’s flaky, randomly going offline once a week. RMAed it, replaced Ethernet cable, poe injector (ubiquity branded) and tried tweaking settings. Still happening

So to the subject, some good in the web interface but I will not buy again. That said, most network gear has some sort of jank in my experience, flaky, or just bad management interface, etc…

+1 here. I always felt some draw to a tiling or scrolling window manager but they were always a lot of work to set up and I never quite clicked with one. Niri with Dank Material Shell is pretty amazing.

My Indian (dot) wife and all (most?) of her friends love when I ask this.

Pinta is pretty decent for some things, like a paint.net for Linux.