I don’t know about other normal people, but I’m certainly actively maintaining my own vibecoded apps as long as it’s affordable to do so. By that I mean they give me the niche functionality I want & new features are not added anymore, but if a pillow or pyqt update breaks my app, I may figure out how to fix it even on my own.

Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.

Most of these are very modular, so should be very easy to maintain. I guess we’ll just have to see.

Software that was forever, “almost working properly.”

That describes how I feel about MS Word quite well.

Looking at the PR’s & git activity & the interest in this whole project, I doubt LLM powered humans couldn’t keep this running if nothing unexpected -like a lawsuit- happens.

My personal experience with LLMs is that they are very good for adapting existing code to newer libraries & various other changes.

What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.

I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …

Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form. In that hypothetical world could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.

I actually asked ChatGPT out of curiosity about James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton & it cherry picked things that were really said by KP, but are bullshit from a republican. Then again looking at Talarico’s side makes me waver if there is intentional bias at all, but overall it still feels like both candidates are shown in a relatively good light, with KP obviously gaining more.

Just the fact that ChatGPT and other LLMs are resistant to say bad things about politicians in general makes the results inherently biased & potentially very damaging.

There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix’s comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don’t need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.

I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.

If you care about Linux it’s worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough)
If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you’ll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you’ll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.

*If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it’s unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.

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said that she uses Anthropic’s chatbot like a “diary.”

That’s a pretty good defense, I hope it works out.

I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but “any way” is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.

Some people have lasting cognitive problems after COVID, I think Satya Nadella is one of those people.

and manipulate the feed.

I’m pretty sure in this regard there is no difference. Odd entries show up on my front page every day.

automatic hardware detection

I don’t understand that point at all. How is Arch different in that regard & I’m asking this as an experienced Linux user managing multiple Debian & Arch boxes.

So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself.

If you want to go down this road & are confident in your technical ability & mental fortitude to maintain such a system long term, then just go with vanilla Arch & go through the installation process once. The real difficulty of Arch is dealing with the every day minor & major breakages that come with updates. Learning something from the install procedure is actually helpful with that. The main point is that not only is the real difficulty maintenance, but none of the popular Arch flavors do anything meaningful to help with that. It’s just you and the terminal at the end of the day. Saving a couple hours on the install process is not going to help you at all.

Manjaro is conceptually garbage ran by incompetent people so it’s not even worth considering.

I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won’t break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they’re own non-profit.

Oh okay, oof. Let me explain then. Their concept of holding back packages by one week & still having / advertising the AUR means additional instability. This or that library or dependency gets an update & then the updated AUR package will break with your one week old stuff. Furthermore far more often than not they still push the broken package, because they would need a similar contributor base to main Arch to actually vet & test everything which they’ll never have no matter what they do. What they call an additional safety net is almost never one. Sure if Arch pushed a broken grub update, that’s like the one thing you could a avoid with Manjaro, but if you cannot fix / research such a problem (chroot or refind & reinstall grub), then you have no business using such a distro to begin with.

CachyOS is in a weird spot, but I cannot really recommend them, because they push new kernels too soon, to the point of ridiculousness.

EoS is vanilla Arch with a gui installer basically. It’s barely a distro, but their community forums are great for new users to ask “dumb” questions. I can fully recommend every noob Arch user this community, they’ll help you even if you are not using EoS, they’ve certainly helped & taught me a lot back then.

Garuda is the same as EoS, but there is some added graphical flare, which you can add yourself to any Linux system if you wanted to.

If you are a new user who is worried about old packages, then you should be using Fedora, that’s pretty much it. Arch can be good too, but it’s for a technical user who is really interested in Linux beyond just using their computer.

Sony etal are doing their best to make PC the main gaming & entertainment platform again and Microsoft is actively pushing everyone to Linux. It’s an interesting timeline we are in.

Can vibecode a winamp-clone in like 5 hours & the resulting app would never try to monetize me. Of course I don’t have to because Foobar -or rather Fooyin on Linux- is better than Winamp ever were…

I was trying to demonstrate a point, IF YOU DID THAT with PostmarketOS the battery would drain like crazy still. In normal use you would need to charge your phone twice a day. (or maybe even 3-4 times, depending on the specific device)

Any Linux distro that wants to function at all has to allow for ai written code, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to ship the Linux kernel or a browser and a great many other things.

The list of well supported phones is vanishingly small & what’s even worse is that it’s not really daily drivable on any device. The idle battery drain is immense with the modem on. Honestly I’m not even certain that without a proper relationship with the hardware vendors it’s possible to build something that doesn’t drain itself in 2 days of idling.

Lmao good luck

Jolla is a startup that is taking advantage of foss being free & are not really contributing back. All the innovations they made to actually make their Linux phone usable is lost to the community at large.

I think we need something similar to the Lenovo + Graphene collab. Mass produced phones sold at commodity prices with a usable Linux option.

I don’t think it matters anymore. Litigation against someone that distilled from a model that distilled from another seems futile. Even on the first grade it’s not nearly as straightforward as right owners would have us believe.