Short answer: yes.

Long answer: ai is a tool. In some fields it improved productivity. Not using it might hurt.

Can I work my garden without power tools? Yes I can. Would I grow more tomatoes and eggplant with power tools? Indeed.

Should I do it? Depends… Not if manual gardening is your hobby and you have fun in doing the action yourself… Yes if your livelihood depends on feeding your family with your garden produce.

Of course , sorry not English native… I seen your point.

Yes very possible.

Are they all serious issues? Almost certainly not.

Should those be fixed anyway? Well, why not? After all if the software is not abandoned, there is no need not to fix those.

Yes, simply put software is so complex, so many layers, that without a little critter working it’s ass off to find any possible stupid bug it was just too complex to find

Can it be self hosted?

What do you mean?

Who chooses the tracks?

Anyway yes, set a muted dj who never speak.

And create playlists and only play those. This will bypass any AI usage.

Subwave. A bit on the AI side… But it’s brilliant and really works great.

Only problem, you want to keep that private ad it’s most probably illegal anywhere to broadcast publicly without a license. Even on the internet

Zero public drama I guess…

A bit of drama means it’s humans and not AI bots :)

I have been donating for many years. Small amounts surely, but it’s the least that you can do for such a project like Gentoo.

It might be niche and pretty peculiar, but it’s unique and probably the truly most open Linux out there. And also, pretty important, zero drama.

Also one of the few alternatives that let you freely choose if you want/need to use systemd network manager Wayland or whatever tech stack you prefer. Without holy wars, stupid preconception or fussiness.

this is refreshing good news!

Remarkables don’t play well with open source in general. They are a heavily modified Linux but there is really nothing left of Linux for the user. Which is a good point, but also a bad point.

They might be cloud optional, but they surely push hard on the cloud subscription and paywall features.

I did my research in Feb 26, maybe things are different now. I went with a different brand. Pretty happy, but read below…

Also, don’t expect too much from displays. Lag is significant over the board and the overall experience is meh at best, on all of them. Maybe I am too picky, but it’s not paper and it feels like it’s not paper. And the pen lags. Forget using any non native app for the pen … only the built in apps feels remotely nice to use, and any app you install just don’t integrate with the screen hardware deeply enough to be actually usable

My experience with e-ink notebook like devices has not been satisfactory. It’s not a matter of cost, even the costier ones have the same limits. It’s a technology limit .

Yeah, today after moving to fully digital landlines as well there is no need to keep numbers tied up to geographical locations.

Still depend on your country rules tough. In mine, landlines all start with a 0 (zero) followed by a geographical prefix, so that will be unchanged (but can be spoofed). Mobiles start with a 3 instead, and those have no geographical location at all. And so on.

No idea how it works in Canada… But phone prefixes (745) definitely identifies an area, which might cover more than one town/city. Inside that phone area, there is no real way to understand where the phone line is located geographically. Either you have access to a bigger database where each line is recorded (carrier, I guess?)

Over here for example, phones start with 1 on nord-west and grow to 9 in south east .

The number of digits of the prefix also is very important. 1 is a 2 digits prefix (11,12,13…) While 2 and 6 are 1 digit prefixes . Depending on how big was expected to be the area it originally covered

So, there is no specific global rule, and each prefix cover an arbitrary area.

That basic idea is that back in time of mechanical switchboards, each number will close a specific mechanical switch to connect phisical lines all the way to the area you wanted. And the last 6 or 7 digits selected one final line. I mean phisical wire! So basically that created a phisical single connected wire from your phone to the receiver phone. Over hundreds of km.

Try subwave. You can have AI djs choose music from your navidrone library based on shows you create by defining prompts, moods and styles.

Pretty neat…

Fast developing and pretty solid already.

I think your personal bias is obfuscating your understanding of my post.

Are you assuming cars are a positive development unlikely bombs or guns? None of them are. I was not making positive examples, exactly as I am not defending AI as it stands today.

You got it all heads and tails my friend. Go read it again.

Guys, I am talking to all the zealots people who loudly open their mouths to talk down anything referring to AI.

AI is here to stay. Like cars after horses. Like guns after swords. Like h-bombs after mortars. The sooner we regulate it, learn how to use it ethically and safely the better.

Just asking for it to be deleted or forgotten has never worked in human history and never will. As well as blindly criticizing whoever uses it for any reason has never worked out and, again, won’t work.

Let’s regulate it. Let’s fight for an ethical use instead.

Things usually break on updates unless your disk fills up or worse some hardware fails…

So it’s pretty easy to fix: never upgrade automatically.

I always upgrade manually and check immediately what I have upgraded. Works fine so far.

And I was only partially joking… Yeah if a service stays broken for a long time, just uninstall it, it was useless.

Observawhat? My services just exist, if they fail and nobody complains… Well, they get removed. If the fail and somebody complains… The get restarted…

Pretty efficient but simple approach.

I thought ai was banned on codeberg

Of course, Gentoo Linux! :)