I don't smoke or consume nicotine usually, but a few times over the past decade or so I have picked up a pack of nicotine gum to help boost focus for long days. I never got addicted and have mostly replaced the practice with a brisk walk for a few blocks. I might have done this like... 5 or 6 times in the past decade.

The one place I would still use it, if I ever find myself in this situation again, is on long trips involving an international flight where after being shot across the ocean I'm expected to show up in a disoriented state in front of customers and work together on something.

> Chatgpt as a teacher is seriously a super power.

I think this is by far, my favorite thing about LLMs. As a person who prefers self-learning I can significantly increase depth, breadth, and speed of learning or researching any topic now. Its absolutely terrible for a large number of topics but in the very least it can usually point me in a general direction faster than anything else.

I worked on an legacy application that did this as a stop-gap as CSRF tokens were being implemented and it just kept both approaches.

My first laptop back in 2005ish or so was a Dell Latitude. Ran XP until Vista came out and I switch to Linux which it ran for a couple years until it was stolen from my car. I recall unimaginable pain and suffering due to wifi, which, IIRC, I side-stepped by buying replacing the stock Broadcom card with an Atheros card and I'm certain is not nearly much of an issue as it used to be.

2005 is a really long time ago.

Yeah, 2 decades!

I was just enjoying a bit of nostalgia for that old clunky grey laptop.

I regularly installed debian back then, and it would take me a week to get things working pretty much every time.

Reminds me of how the MC in Pantheon uses an old clunker :)

When it comes to WiFi on Linux, 2005 experiences are irrelevant to today.

Things have come a long way!

For years after I would only buy Atheros WiFi cards, these days its usually Intel ones.

I've had a Framework 13 for nearly a year, been very happy with it, I've taken it on international work trips but it mostly sits on my desk with external displays attached. I ran Windows on it until I switched jobs, now its Ubuntu.

I also have an X1 Nano, which I love too, its the around-the-house laptop and a great little machine but whenever it dies, if I replace it at all, it will likely be with another Framework (perhaps the 12")

The real test will be in 2-3 years when I'm itching for an upgrade, assuming Framework is still around, I'll be able to swap out the MoBo and leave everything else as-is. We'll see.

Same. I'm very happy with my FW13 too. It replaces the MBA for my purposes -- dev on linux (mostly webdev on this machine, have a remote machine for gpu/heavy work), web browsing, streaming, some very light gaming (portal 2 on steam).

I'm waiting on that test too :) a few more cpu generations and I'll be itching to upgrade. I'm excited to for that to happen.

> This is the future that AI companies are pitching, to “give the boring work to the computer so that you can do the interesting work.”

The thing is, I usually don't find the work "boring", I'm feel uncomfortable handing off the thing I enjoy doing to a bot.

Like let's say I enjoyed playing video games, AI can play video games for me I'm sure, but I actually enjoy the challenge, the grind, the ups-and-downs. Why would I give that to AI to do for me?

Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Reading this:

> State-by-State regulation by definition creates a patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes

Like... isn't that the whole point? Let the states decide?

I was searching a specific niche on Youtube today, and scrolled endlessly trying to find something that wasn't AI generated. Youtube is being completely spammed.

That was true even before llms

On that - naive proposition; shouldn't we establish say "humanTube" - service which would strictly prohibit AI content? With all this AI slop engulfing our web 2.0 - maybe this is the time and place to establish the new web for "nerds" i.e. people who care for the real thing? Just as our current web once was a place for scientists and engineers mostly, maybe we now need something as this? I feel the flaws in my own point, but maybe it's not all hopeless?

I think by this point that premium services dedicated to quality is going to be the way to avoid the flood of AI slop that's come to us. Premium services mean QA and accountability should anything try to slip through.

Closest thing in the YT space would be Nebula, but Nebula's scope is very narrow (by design).

We'll get content that is indistinguishable from human curated content before long, we might even already have that and it's just toupee fallacy making us only see the slop. I'm making no value statement here, just that any sort of curation attempts are probably futile.

This is kinda how I've felt for months. I don't have any interest in continuing existing open source projects and don't want to create any new ones.

What's the point?

All of my personal projects for the past few months have been entirely private, I don't even host them on Github anymore, I have a private Forgejo instance I use instead.

I also don't trust any new open source project I stumble upon anymore unless I know it was started at least a year ago.