More like cover for banning certain subs.

The point is that many conservatives have hated Wikipedia for a long time, and Conservapedia is a microcosm of why, not that the alternatives are necessarily good.

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Ah, yeah, shows you how long its been since I looked at the ISOs. The CLI installer is ancient.

Looks like there’s a new one here, but is a WIP: https://github.com/CachyOS/New-Cli-Installer?tab=readme-ov-file

Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia

This has been escalating for like two decades.

Deepseek is like an ant compared to OpenAI/Anthropic/Google, and they come from a completely different world, the actually competitive open LLM dev scene with dozens of companies publishing good models. I think this is a bad analogy, as AMD is not that small and new compared to Nvidia.

The problem I had with flatpak is that I needed to screw with a lot of individual apps anyway, and the containerization was a headache. It took up a lot of ssd space too, and in some cases, performance is an issue and I’d prefer system packages.

I think my biggest issue that flat pack could alleviate is system python updating and me having to redo my venvs, but I probably need to do that anyway…

CachyOS is not immutable. It’s basically like a more optimized and fleshed out EndeavorOS.

Backups and rollbacks are done as they are done in vanilla Arch, and I’m not sure if there’s any analogue.

I did use Fedora Kionite for a hot minute (which was immutable), but… found it to be too much of a hassle? I dunno, I just keep anything important on a separate drive/mount that’s easy to back up, and there was just too much fuss dealing with apps so needed, so I don’t see the point. CachyOS is preconfigured really well, so even if I had to nuke the whole partition, it would set me back like 30 minutes until I reinstall it. But if you need an immutable distro, this is not the place to look.

CachyOS is very much focused and optimized for gaming, arguably more than any other distro. There are many performance tweaked versions of popular packages in their distros, no need to reach out to the AUR.

Yeah, CachyOS is like all those custom builds and performance tweaks you used to do shipped by default, or offered as easy options.

Another good example is the kernels. You can choose between schedulers that prioritize responsiveness or not, opt for features like core compaction (which try to keep other cores asleep in light loads) or sharing core cache, among other things. They’re all precompiled for different architectures and officially supported.

Honestly this is an age old tradition. Elite, from the founder’s associates to the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas and such probably profited off some insider information, to some extent. But I dunno. SEC regulation for political billionaires is not my area of expertise, though it seems like his family is carrying on a lot of business.

Trump’s memecoin is already a ridiculously flagrant manipulation though: https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trumps-meme-coin-made-nearly-100-million-trading-fees-small-traders-lost-money-2025-02-03/

Small insider trades or charity shenanigans pale in comparison.

If I were him… Well, why mess with insider trading when he can just blatantly profit in the open?

I don’t see how that’s relevant, Deepseek was trained on, and is served on, Nvidia hardware.

And while I don’t disagree about AMD gouging, if AMD was to act like “scum,” they would screw over Nvidia’s pricing strategy.

But… they don’t. And lose for it.

It’s some combination of ignorance, corporate stupidity and straight up collusion, but it’s also the opposite of greed.

The context is bad though.

The post I’m referencing is removed, but there was a tiny “from gemini” footnote in the bottom that most upvoters clearly missed, and the whole thing is presented like a quote from a news article and taken as fact by OP in their own commentary.

And the larger point I’m making is this pour soul had no idea Gemini is basically an improv actor compelled to continue whatever it writes, not a research agent.

My sister, ridiculously smart, professional and more put together than I am, didn’t either. She just searched for factual stuff from the Gemini app and assumed it’s directly searching the internet.

AI is a good thinker, analyzer, spitballer, initial source and stuff yes, but it’s being marketed like an oracle and that is going to screw the world up.

Very true.

But also so stupid because their user base is, what, a good fraction of the planet? How can they grow?

I can’t see the context because it’s freaking X, but I bet that’s in reference to local ML hosting.

There’s a big movement to get away from corporate AI, and I don’t need to explain the importance of that to the Lemmy crowd. But Nvidia is indeed artificially crippling consumer VRAM to stop them from being used for that too much, and protect their enterprise GPU market.

The most bizzare thing is that AMD is inexplicably complicit even though they have like zero market share in that space. 48GB 7900s (and so on) would have obliterated Nvidia and sold like hotcakes, much less actually using their modular memory controller architecture… But no? They restricted their OEMs from doing that because they… Don’t want money, I guess.

Engagement is engagement, sustainability be damned.

You know what I meant, by no one I mean “a large majority of users.”

No I mean they literally label the post as “Gemini said this”

I see family do it too, type something into Gemini and just assume it looked it up or something.

Also… the tremendous irony here is Meta is screwing themselves over.

They’ve hedged their future on AI, and are smart enough to release the weights and fund open research, yet their advantage (a big captive dataset, aka Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp users) is completely overrun with slop that poisons it. It’s as laughable as Grok (X’s AI) being trained on Twitter.

The bigger problem is AI “ignorance,” and it’s not just Facebook. I’ve reported more than one Lemmy post the user naively sourced from ChatGPT or Gemini and took as fact.

No one understands how LLMs work, not even on a basic level. Can’t blame them, seeing how they’re shoved down everyone’s throats as opaque products, or straight up social experiments like Facebook.

…Are we all screwed? Is the future a trippy information wasteland? All this seems to be getting worse and worse, and everyone in charge is pouring gasoline on it.

Even with grounding with the top google search results. Gemini is horrible at sourcing information and just pulls things out of thin air. That’s how LLMs work, they aren’t (by default) like agents that crawl the web and research things, and obscure factual details are like their worst use case.

So… why are people upvoting this? I can’t find a quick source in a Google search, so I’m betting this is a total hallucination.