You know, if everybody shouts at you to not do a certain thing, maybe, just maybe, they could have your best interests in mind? But instead they are being portrayed as "globalists" or whatever the mouthbreathers in the flyover states spin up today.

I really hope the US heals, quickly.

You're on hacker news, where people (used to?) like hacking on things. I like tinkering with stuff. I'd take a half working open source project over a enshittified commercial offering any day.

But hacking and tinkering is a hobby. I also hack and tinker, but that's not work. Sometimes it makes sense. But the mindset is often times "I can build this" and "everything commercial sucks".

> take a half working open source project

See, how is that appropriate in any way in a work environment?

I think the costs of LLMs (huge energy hunger, people being fired because of it, hostile takeover of human creativity, and it causing computer hardware to rise in cost exponentially) is by far larger than the uses (generating videos of fish with arms, programming slightly faster, writing slop emails to talented people).

I know LLMs won't vanish again magically, but I wish they would every time I have to deal with their output.

And why not both? You can criticize the Trump admin's energy policy, and advocate for thermal isolation of homes at the same time.

So long as you have infinite resources, sure.

Otherwise - maybe ask somebody who's spent a decade or few in interest groups or politics, about the whole "if you want to get anything done, you gotta focus your efforts" concept.

We are pretty fucked right now, all things considered.

Let us at least try to plant the trees whose shade our children will know.

The fix is not buying Nvidia, even though some people here will tell you how much AMDs drivers actually sucked in 2009 and how good Nvidia is now and all that noise.

Buy full AMD in 2026, and you'll have no problems with games.

Also, Bazzite would have saved you from this.

I'm still on X because I'm too comfortable with dwm and I've never had problems with Wayland the few times I've tried KDE/Gnome. That said blaming the user for lacking skill for basic stuff like copy/paste between applications or screen sharing isn't constructive. Those features should just work and shouldn't require skill. Building a niche window manager from source is a different discussion.

Alright, good point. Sorry for my bad first comment, I am just a bit defensive after all these years of people saying Wayland is unusable. The problems you describe with screen sharing are likely because of missing xdg-portal implementation (the implementation depends on your setup).

>Those features should just work and shouldn't require skill.

Maybe, yeah. But we are on hacker news, I assumed people would be open to hacking on things, but the comments are always very much not like that.

*Microslop 365 Copilot

I am also forced to use "productivity" software from MS, but I make do with the web versions on Linux at work. I hate it all, but it's okay. I am playing the long term game of trying to get my whole org to Linux. It helps that I can influence technical decisions, slow but steady process.

They were being sarcastic.