My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness
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Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible
There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.
Still not an "easy" experience though.
At that point just use Mint. Isn't it designed to feel like Windows 7?
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I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
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Unpopular opinion, but it's also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it's often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
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Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
Put googly eyes on the robot and name it Steve. Tell investors it's intelligent. Tell them you can have sex with it. You'll have so much money.
Tell them you can have sex with it
CLANK CLANK CLANK
Crunch
YYYYEEEEEOOOOOCCCHHHH
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MO: Make high cost human low cost human
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You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".
It's one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
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I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
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I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just "All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies" or "All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution".
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
When someone can produce an LLM that doesn't use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
Obviously, this doesn't include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
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Wait who doesn't already use Notepad++? It's even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
Real talk. I'm beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc's to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.
Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.
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Oh shit, I looked it up and it's literally true. Notepad++ was first released in 2003 and I'm pretty sure I used Emacs for the first time in 2002.
Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
I don’t mind that they can do it so long as it serves those users who want that feature.
Notepad++ is just, a top tier app
TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
DRM wasn't good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.
I'm chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
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You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
Next version of npp should reference this comic.
People are allowed to want what they're comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse's horseshit in my living room
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