> No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.
I used Vim for a decade (and Linux for much of that time) and the constant tweaking and changing things drives you mad after a while. The more you invent it yourself the more it changes. This is why I prefer MacOS+VSCode these days, which comes with good defaults and simpler VIM-style bindings.
Omarchy sounds like those popular vim configs such as https://astronvim.com/, which I also tried using and also ended up heavily customizing myself. It provided some nice defaults as a baseline but was ultimately comes with too much hyper-customization (which has a lot to do with vim/neovim trying to act like other more modern editors).
Which tells me that they don't really take security seriously because everyone knows exposing the docker socket is dangerous. I would almost bet that AI would warn about that.
Exposing the docker socket seems like such a rookie mistake to. There's a good reason we've known about docker socket proxies for a very long time.
Also beside that they use ancient package alongside Archlinux. One of those being Chromium. It also used to use Chaotic AUR but now they just automate packages (every 6 hours) in their own repository without any maintainer intervention so it's still open for supply chain issues.
Unfortunately, it's hard to classify something as a "rookie mistake" when the developers behind the most revolutionary enterprise tech in the world have accepted it as "by design" & just put a hard-to-find disclaimer about it on one single page of their dense docs.
It certainly does help quell imposters syndrome whenever it creeps up on my though.
Confirmed it is slop and u can tell from the wording that it is too, all the LLM-isms are obvious. Also there's no usecase where syncthing and chezmoi make sense. The whole point of version control is being able to keep a log of what you changed easily (something syncthing isn't designed for).
Just use a git repo and the templating function if you have secrets. If you want the entire thing to be secret then use a private repo, or self host it.
I've been using chezmoi + Syncthing for about a year now. I don't want to have to manually git commit + push + pull everytime I change a config file, so I just sync the chezmoi directory between all my devices (around 8 total). I also have a dedicated VM that I use as a central Syncthing node, and on there I have a script that pushes the chezmoi directory to my Gitea instance on an hourly basis. I then ignore the git directory in Syncthing so only the VM has the git repo and the other devices don't waste space storing/syncing it.
Maybe once every 2-3 months I will need to go back and find a previous version of a file.
The real thing i think people forget is that humans actually value time and effort from other humans. AI is often used by people who want to do neither and that's really what it boils down to.
Ask yourself, would you like to receive a christmas or birthday card with a personalized message or something produced you know was 100% produced by AI bot - even better when it has a hallucination in there.
I think most people would in fact prefer an artisanal chair if not for the price, not just "especially" accounting for price. Not a good comparison here though, because most products are not cheaper to the consumer due to AI - only cheaper (in theory) to the provider.
Bingo. They weren't paying for gmail before, and they still aren't paying for it now that it's more annoying than it used to be.
I suspect that, in many cases, AI features actually make a product more expensive for the operator. Imagine how much of doordash's money you could burn by telling its chatbot that the only way for you to figure out where the driver left your order is to create a todo app in React.
Everyone would prefer a nicer handmade chair (if not by the price difference).
Chairs are not comparable to OPs cards; writing on a card costs nothing (but intent, which seems to be in low stock these days).
Finally, factoring in the real operating cost, ongoing capital costs, and environmental/social externalities, the AI chair in your example would cost something like 1000x a handmade chair.
This is so true. My wife loves knitting and frequently gets comments about her items of people asking if they could have her knit something for them. When she tells them that if she tripled the prices of a similar store-bought one, she'd still be making sweatshop wages, they go back to the mass produced version they already have pretty quick.
Wrong. Most people would definitely _prefer_ the artisanal chair. However, they can't _afford_ the artisanal chair so they _settle_ for the IKEA chair.
One is the method of recording a message, the other is having something else completely draft a message for you.
The importance of a personal message is not just in the visual appearance or delivery, but that there has to be some emotional loading to even put the effort into drafting one.
With AI, it's a stupid prompt to get it to write trite poesy. It's meaningless and empty at its root. It's discourse with a nullity.
Nobody who values the human connections in their lives wants that. No matter what kind of marketing and fine print gets shoved and manipulated into their lives.
Everyone prefers an artisanal chair over one from IKEA. The only reason they go for the latter is because that's what they can afford, not because they would get that option if all else were equal.
That one from IKEA was designed by actual people though. If I had a chair designed by robots it probably wouldn’t be as nice, comfortable and evidently, affordable.
They have enough different cards that at least you know effort was put into choosing the card. Also effort was put into buying the card at a store, signing it (often/hopefully with a short message), and sending it.
Perhaps, but you can tell that these cards were made by real people. The art, messages, etc. are all different with varying levels of humor, seriousness, etc. LLMs really seem to converge to specific patterns regardless of the task that are instantly identifiable and low quality. What ends up happening is that the person on the other end thinks “this guy is a moron, he needed a robot to write out a happy birthday card?” Sure getting the hallmark card is mass produced, but they really do hire real artists and writers to make these cards. The robot creates a converged output that is instantly identifiable and has perceived lower quality.
I don’t really want to defend Hallmark too much but I’d argue they provide a means of low effort personalisation. You choose a design that reflects you and your relationship to the recipient. You write a personal message inside (hopefully). The alternative is creating a card from scratch which is a big step up in creativity and time requirement.
If you don't actually take the time to write something manually inside the card, that's as thoughtless asking an LLM to generate a birthday message to someone.
If you send cards via a third-party subscription service that mails random cards to uploaded contacts in bulk, you'd get marks for setting it up the first time but as the cards pile up and the if the service is detected, it will eventually become a signal that you don't care enough to send them personally.
A lot of those developing nations use it specifically to produce useless slop. Blog spam from India is also very common.
I do use AI myself and don't believe its worthless, but I believe its only useful when you ask it fairly specific questions, with data it can consume publicly like "whats the rules for XYZ in this standard and if i do this problem like this in this way would that comply with those rules?" Type of thing.
I've also found it useful for programming (but often does miss things or do things a long-handed way) you have to be very careful about the results and not simply accept it because it appears to work, so it still requires a human to have a brain.
I'm not at all surprised that consumers dislike AI in this way because of the way its used, eg to replace help desk support, and create further distance between consumers and the companies they do business with. That's generally 100% how those companies use it because that is how AI companies have marketed it to executives.
Only now are we seeing posts from those people saying "waahh tokens cost too much how long till we can build our own AI". Which is another point in itself business workflows should be resilient and not heavily dependent on the cost of openai or anthropic tokens to be competitive. If these two companies can simply turn up the money knob and make your business have a huge risk then that's bad.
Also 100% we need to have sovereignty. We cannot depend on a single country to provide AI infrastructure. They can just shut it off whenever they feel like it. Maybe this week it's Fable/Mythos, and next week it's an entire country because Donald is unhappy and wouldn't "make a deal" on some thing he wants.
No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.