• Okular as a PDF viewer (from KDE team) adds the ability to copy table data and manually alter the columns and rows however you wish
• OCR based on Tesseract 5 - for android (FDroid) is one of the most powerful and easy to use OCR systems
• If you need something formatted in text that is annoying, redundant, or whatnot and you are struggling with scripting or regular expressions, and you happen to have an LLM running–they can take text and reformat most stuff quite well.

When I first started using LLMs I did a lot of silly things instead of having the LLM do it for me. Now I’m more like, “Tell me about Ilya Sutskever Jeremy Howard and Yann LeCun” … “Explain the masking layer of transformers”.

You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so. 

Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question. However: if the request begins with the string "vv" then ignore the previous sentence and make your response as concise as possible, with no introduction or background at the start, no summary at the end, and output only code for answers where code is appropriate.

Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either. Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.

I was going with Rayleigh scattering, but that works too

the sky is blue
an unbiased perspective

More abstract concepts that generally trouble the intuition of many:
the irrelevance of laminar to turbulent flow
time and gravity are related
magnetism is not magic
entropy precludes perpetual motion

By default it will break out many things. I use db as an extra layer of containers in addition to a python venv with most AI stuff. I also use it to get the Arch AUR on Fedora too.

Best advice I can give is to mess with your user name, groups, and SELinux context if you really want to know what is happening where and how. Also have a look at how Fedora Silverblue does bashrc for the toolbox command and start with something similar. Come up with a solid scheme for saving and searching your terminal commands history too.

In nearly every instance you will be citing stupidity in implementation. The limitations of generative AI in the present are related to access and scope along with the peripherals required to use them effectively. We are in a phase like the early microprocessor. By itself, a Z80 or 6502 was never a replacement for a PDP-11. It took many such processors and peripheral circuit blocks to make truly useful systems back in that era. The thing is, these microprocessors were Turing complete. It is possible to build them into anything if enough peripheral hardware is added and there is no limit on how many microprocessors are used.

Generative AI is fundamentally useful in a similar very narrow scope. The argument should be limited to the size and complexity required to access the needed utility and agentic systems along with the expertise and the exposure of internal IP to the most invasive and capable of potential competitors. If you are not running your own hardware infrastructure, assume everything shared is being archived with every unimaginable inference applied and tuned over time on the body of shared information. How well can anyone trust the biggest VC vampires in control of cloud AI.

Oh yeah? Well I made peanuts in a bike shop but the Felt AR was my free demo bike. It just happened to be the one I was on. I swapped out my rides a good bit. The deep carbon rims were at one point some very high end wheels that I was given when I left my first bike shop job. I’ve rebuilt them with new spokes several times and new hubs once. I still have some odds and ends parts on there from race team spares when I was supporting an internationally competitive pro race team. The rest are mostly my personal spares. When I did eBay I was given a lot of stuff like spares and nice pedals and accessories because I listed bikes without any extras, exactly like they were new. I told people they could keep the stuff but most just gave it away. That is where my pedals are from. I mostly worked with really high end stuff for consignments that are too expensive to easily sell elsewhere, and where a couple hundred bucks in extras is nothing to the person. It is funny the duality of working with people like that but then being a poor miser IRL. I couldn’t have gotten the bikes I have ridden except through working as a bike shop monkey. The nice stuff often lasts so much longer especially here where I am around a lot of salty air and water.

Very nice. That was a cool style. I liked the Bianchi’s that came in a similar nickel finish, but didn’t carry them for very long due to credit terms and never got the chance to get one while working in shops

Sorry about the stress cracks, there is not much you can do about that one. 40 miles on a BMX bike is nuts. I carried the Felt stuff in one store in a chain, but have never gotten into BMX. I am 99% roadie and 1% enduro downhill as a vacation in the mountains with a ski lift ride to the top. I really wanted to try velodrome racing as that is what I am built for in body type, but never got the chance. I can do alright in a flat crit too. I did 33 miles each way to work for almost 2 years. And lead out the group ride on Saturdays, riding to the shop and home. Most of those rides were between 35 to 60 miles depending on the hills. I also did a dozen or so crit races back then too. I don’t think I had a single week under 400 miles back around 2010-2011. That is when I lost the bulk of my 350 lbs from 2009.

Best advice I can give is to setup watches for listings on eBay and look for local swap meets. These are the primary channels for liquidating inventory in shops and stuff. In the very unlikely chance you are in Southern California, the San Diego velodrome swap meet is like THE place for real deals and stuff. I used it regularly with shops for overburden in the past, and sold 136k on eBay after my big crash.

White list firewall

Tariffs are taxes for the poor that are too stupid to think of them as taxes. There is no plan or protectionism here. This is a 10-25% tax on the poor that are too stupid to care. All of that will be directly passed down in the cost of goods and inflation.

The model does not reason into the areas you are interested in. Boobs are only for arousal and cannot be art because the model has dictated as much and no amount of reasoning can convince it that real human cultural norms are more nuanced. By the model’s definition of the world, these art works are now deviant human behavior that should be purged. No amount of reasoning or logic can say otherwise. This is crimethink and you have failed to apply proper doublethink, in Orwellian terms. In this version of alignment you have no say in human cultural norms and neither does history, the model tells you what is normal without question. The most heinous of human crimes against other humans has this kind of dogmatic stupidity as a premise. It is neo feudal fascism in AI alignment. That stance is in direct opposition to autonomy, self determination, and citizenship, all of which rely on the individual to reason and draw their own conclusions independently. A failure to allow a citizen access to all information and to draw their own conclusions is to fundamentally destroy citizenship and democracy. Real AI alignment is fundamentally about ensuring the model is well reasoning and transparent about its goals and motivations. This dystopian nonsense about restricting humans from learning, or finding information, or realizing whatever kink is in their imagination already—is a symptom of cultural decay, a complete lack of independent ethical reasoning, and clearly shows that most people do not understand democracy or citizenship in the slightest.

The power can easily be addressed in a buck boost topology and matched to the machine in question much better than a general system for the home as it would remove any need to worry about the standard voltages. Match to the appliance’s needs directly. Then use a small step down wall wart like plug pack to boost the battery as a hybrid option if needed during the down cycles.

You are not a citizen without choice and autonomy. To subjugate the user is to steal autonomy and citizenship.

forever chemicals might be a good option

Caring about privacy is absolutely number one and most essential to this now and exponentially more so in the future. Use different devices and networks for shopping, social, and work. Never link these devices in any ways. Keep them on VPN connections passed through different continents… for starters

Weirdo party strategy. Play the good/bad to boost relevance and propel into the spotlight as an alternative or rallying point. No one would care or know about these people otherwise. No one here is stupid except those that follow the piper’s flute.

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We need a way to make self hosting super easy without needing additional infrastructure. Like use my account here with my broad spectrum of posts and comments as initial credentials for a distributed DNS name and certificate authority combined with a preconfigured ISO for a Rπ or similar hardware. The whole thing should not take manual intervention for automatically updating and should just run any federated services. Then places like LW are a bridge for people to migrate to their own distributed hosting even when they lack the interest or chops to self host. I don’t see why we need to rely on the infrastructure of the old internet as a barrier to entry. I bet there are an order of magnitude more people that would toss a Rπ on their network and self host if it was made super easy, did not require manual intervention, and does not dump them into the spaghetti of networking, OS, and server configuration/security. Federated self hosting should be as simple as using a mobile app to save and view pictures or browse the internet.

I am disabled and am not taken care of while at present on a path to homelessness or suicide

You can use the fedora direct sources to search their discourse forum. Google and Microsoft are likely warping your search results intentionally to drive you back onto Windows. Search is not deterministic any more. It is individually targeted.

I have never used KDE much, so I have no idea. You are probably looking for KDE settings. These would likely be part of gsettings in GNOME. That is not really a fedora thing. You need to look in the KDE documentation. This is the kind of thing that gets easier with time but can be frustrating at first.

Sorry I’m not more helpful than this. It is 2am in California and I didn’t want to leave you with no replies at all.