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Was it a good idea? Only time will tell

Personally, the issue is ease of installation and configuration of programs.

Some things (edit: admittedly, most of the “important basics”, such as web browsers, Steam and Office-suite equivalents) are just as simple as they are on Windows and iOS with just clicking a button and using a wizard of sorts, but some things need you to parse a series of terminal prompts and figure out how to rewrite parts of the instructions to fit your particular machine and setup.

Often I end up missing or misunderstanding some step and it doesn’t work and I have no idea why.

It’s not impenetrable and it’s not a problem exclusive to Linux, but it does make setting things up a bit more of a chore.

I got Ubuntu on a laptop now to test out how to use that as my daily OS before I commit to figuring out how to swap over my Windows 10 desktop sometime next year and it admittedly is MUCH EASIER now than when I last tried around 2008, but I still run into problems.

I’m currently trying to schedule a weekend where I can diagnose why my raspberry pi won’t boot after a power outage when it’s survived that in the past and another weekend to figure out why the self hosted tandoor app I got successfully running a few months ago suddenly stopped and cannot run now, even after what I thought was a clean install.

I wanna switch. I do. But so many steps of it are full on projects. I’m learning a lot and it gets easier every step of the way, but it’s still at a state where I need to schedule time to address these things that “just work” on Windows.

Edit: I understand why this is the case. A lot of these things are free, open source projects made by teams who don’t necessarily have the time and resources to make their program out-of-the-box ready for every conceivable software and hardware set up out there. And I understand why someone might think that a corporate backing of resources might be able to address that issue, but I agree it isn’t really isn’t in accordance with the goals of Linux or helpful to the point of moving away from these corporate structures.

Sounds good to me, I’d love a cheap small electric car

There’s a joke we repeat in the office. “Crazy how ChatGPT is wrong 90% of the time on subjects I know and right 100% of the time on subjects I dont!”

It’s really only good for work that humans don’t need to look at that doesn’t really matter.

…I think you misread 😘

Yes, it’s really sad to see because I know these tools can be appealing for people struggling with mental health as they are largely free and accessible 24/7, unlike professional care. These AI companies are preying on these vulnerable individuals in this way, people struggling with mental health often have fewer resources than people who aren’t, so something like chatting with an LLM seems appealing for this.

The machine will also tell the user it’s capable of help when it’s truly and utterly not. I’ve heard stories of patients coming in after using ChatGPT to address their mental health, then having the bot provide them with a list of the highest buildings in their area, with zero understanding of the risk connecting these two queries.

I fully understand how difficult it is to tell people that the free, always active “therapist” that lives in their pocket is actually very harmful to them, and I don’t expect to have any impact for the original poster, they’re clearly very set in their self harming ways, but hopefully someone else could see it and seek real, meaningful help instead.

You’re buying into marketing lies by tech companies who don’t give two shits about you or anyone else besides their wallets and your health will suffer for it.

I’d urge you and anyone else to trust medical professionals who have spent years training and studying how to treat people in specific fields of expertise, with years of experience dealing with patients in their chosen field versus the casual search engine query filled with hallucinated misinformation that has no legal or moral obligation to care for you, nor is it capable of such responsibility.

The AI is a “Yes Man” machine that will frequently feed into and exacerbate the symptoms of people with psychotic disorders. They are incapable of therapeutic treatment of any mental illness and use of them, more often than not, increases the likelihood of people causing harm to themselves or others.

As doubtful as I am about it, perhaps one day that won’t be the case, but with the technology available currently, it is, and people should avoid using them for any sort of health related queries 100% of the time.

Just a note from real, accredited psychologists I’ve spoken with,

Never, ever EVER use AI or LLMs, ChatGPT or otherwise for queries about your health or mental state. The programs are simply are not equipped to appropriately process the information you’re giving them and they often give harmful advice in either obvious or subtle ways.

The program cannot understand you, your health, or your mental state in any meaningful way and any diagnosis they provide, no matter how seemingly minor, cannot be trusted.

You need to speak with a professional or you are risking harm to yourself and others. Not only that, but ChatGPT is not HIPAA compliant. You are providing sensitive medical information to thousands of marketing companies that can and will abuse it.

Oh that makes a lot of sense, shoulda thought of that!

Well it made me wonder about the author’s intent. Why choose this quote in particular? What does this quote imply that they felt was important to communicate?

Honestly, I don’t think the quote really says much of anything. I think you could find someone saying this at any convention be it political or, I dunno, Star Trek.

But the rest of the article is about demonstrating fractures in right-wing unity and so maybe the author wanted to imply that the guests feel their attendance is obligatory more than desired. It’s a stretch to argue that, but I struggle to think of another reason to include it.

Bizarre to end the article with a quote that seems like it’ll start a new segment about, like, the opinions of attendees from a heretofore unmentioned attendee, then just end.

“I just felt like I had an obligation to be here,” said Daren Struiksma, 20, of Harrisburg, South Dakota.

Okay? Why mention that?

Comnunism, yeah?

Did a person make this?