Google is an advertising company first, everything else second. Of course they shouldn’t be trusted, it’s safe to assume they’ll log and analyze the smallest piece of data

The fuck are you high? Even microsoft, google, and meta support or have their own OSS projects. Apple just used someone else’s work as a base and doesn’t contribute to anything, what are you defending here?

Counterpoint: If said community is about a certain type of software, decisions over the type of platform matter more than popularity within teenagers. Coherence is important.

I would 100% use this HPL-v2 for all of my (temporary) foss projects. It’s just genius. I mean, good luck keeping track of the current owner, Nintendo lawyers.

Everything is open source for this guy after using this simple trick. Big techs HATE him!

Damn… I swear no one will ever see me again after my 65th birthday, I’ll be on the beach, probably knitting till I die

If they require at least a 71yo, assuming the person started working at 16 and has dedicated their entire life to develop software without ever touching management positions, … At what age does people retire in that country??

It would be interesting tho to use a LLM to spot AI/SEO crap and add whole domains to a search blacklist. In that case we wouldn’t need AI to do the actual search, and this could easily just be a database for end users by the SE’s side (kinda like explicit content filters).

I’d call that option “Bullspam filter” and leave it on “moderate” by default.

Not true because we’re getting the same experience whether we pay or not. The same kinda goes for google, they have other services you could pay to support them (please don’t), and it won’t make the search engine better. Big difference is one of them is actually free (full meaning of the word) and the other one is just usable without paying.

You’re still using a free platform to say good free software is not a thing tho, kinda weird.

Doesn’t mean the statement is less true, the enshitification of google is a symptom, the disease is the internet as a whole. Google and LLMs screwing the web, M$ screwing windows, Apple’s existence by itself, Meta monopolizing and screwing social media, and don’t get me started with streaming platforms and other media industries are all symtoms.

Considering all of that, yes, the internet enshitification is very real.

If you’re going through that route, SearX beats everything and it’s not even close. It’s self hosted and takes search results from any engine you check in a config, different config for search categories, … Rn I’m mostly getting results from brave, qwant, and duckduck. Gotta acknowledge the bing copilot tho, it’s pretty decent, but requires to use edge or bing app in android, so i only use it when I’m lazy or I’m searching for something too obscure for searx.

Same for plasma, global clipboard is just more convenient

Do you think this would pass the grandma test? If so I’m 100% going to host this (mainly for my mother, hence the question)

I’ve seen examples of this already where schools give kids laptops running a custom linux distro for education and they just roll with it. Also, the steamdeck happened, and a lot of people loved it before even realizing it’s just linux… We should definitely give more support to companies shipping machines with linux preinstalled (even if the first thing I’ll do is another install lol)

Plot twist: you’re running the same distro

I see no contradictions between “simple is good” and “monolitic/corporate based like windows and macos tend to be shit”. If anything, reality is the opposite of what you think. We can have many different simple and ready to go distros, i mean that’s like the whole point.

If you install windows, for example, you can use it for many things, and it’ll be mid crap in all of that and need hours of setting up (not to mention some mandatory scripts to get the bare minimum of efficiency, privacy, and clean adware and bloatware). Then, if you need to game, just install nobara and go. Need to do office or web-based stuff? Mint all the way. Same thing but you like apple aesthetic? Try Zorin. I could go on and on for hours with different use cases and distros, but you should get the thing by now.

To be fair, there’s already a general consensus in which are the “beginner friendly” distros, which includes the community support and familiarity with windows. Most people would probably recommend Mint to a new or switching user, for example.

After someone is used to a more basic linux distro, diversity and complexity are pros rather than cons. “Oh you need a distro with super specific specs for a niche use case? There’s 5, you can pick or try them all”. I could have linux on every machine i own, including a TV or even a thermostat, and I’d have a different setup.

Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.

My guy i bet you’re frustrated, shit happens a lot, but you should take a break and some deep breaths before asking for help. No one wants to help a clearly angry person.

Have you tried asking gpt itself what tried to do? Tell it also what actually happened when you ran the code. If you use GPT, don’t use it blindly and definitely never run generated code on your main machine if you don’t know what it does.

Can you replicate the error and share screenshots? Maybe edit the post so more knowledgeable people bothers to read and help?

“This is completle free to use, download, modify, redistribute, etc by anyone except Dave. Fuck Dave.”

I don’t know how legal that’d be, but i wouldn’t even complain.