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It's incredible how far we've got, as far as technology goes. A few months ago, we had to fight to get a device that would not connect to the internet. And now we're fighting to find software that actually do what it's supposed to do, and don't do what it's not supposed to do.
Can't wait for the next step. Heck, can't even imagine what it will be at this point.
Business ruins everything. All they care about is stealing everything.
This is a good reminder to finally dl it and bite the learning curve.
If you're familiar with pre-Office365 software then it'll feel a little intuitive already.
That makes me feel better… I disliked office 365. How does it compare with keyboard shortcuts? I barely use the mouse these days.
As a side note, damn we are an old bunch here.
I wasn't much of a power user to begin with but the Calc and Impress programs felt almost the same with some minor UI changes that take some getting used to like having to open a pop up settings menu rather than check the tools ribbon.
Oh man. I’ve never considered myself a power user. Mice are uncomfortable for me, trackpads are much better but I learned excel before I got a laptop.
It certainly is. If you wanna feel like you've rewound 10 years in the past, you gotta pony up. And even still everything feels wrong.
But in the interim, before the bubble pops, I do see the value in having no AI as a feature, especially when the immediate alternative is "go fuck yourself".
One payment for actual slop removal, priced by devs properly to allow them somewhat equivalent revenue compared to if you were being data harvested - that's basically the only good way to do it if we're gonna do it.
No micro transactions and no double or triple or quadruple or quintuple or sextuple dipping on larger payments either.
When did everything become a fever dream?
It should also be a feature to have no AI used in the production. No AI assets, no AI concept art, no AI code, I don't want any of that slop touching my software
I really need to work on my 100% slop-free OS. The bulk of the work is getting a clean kernel setup, the compiler and libc working, and that's about it; the rest is easy.
P.S. wow you're me but a cis dude
Nice! Will it be a Linux distro, or its own thing? And if it is its own thing, how will it handle things from other OS, like exe from windows?
Also, when you say I am you, do you mean from my profile description we are the same? :3c
The Linux kernel is tAInted, so it would need to be forked. My current top choice is the NetBSD: it isn't going anywhere, and it's untainted.
I also looked at Redox (sadly Rust is tAInted, so it's a no-go), and Haiku (which is just... a little too obscure). GNU Hurd is tAInted too, and isn't as good of a kernel, so if I'm gonna clean up a kernel, it'll be Linux. Otherwise, it's gonna likely gonna be NetBSD.
So... not really a Linux distro, I'd say, but definitely a Unix-like OS.
As for software from other operating systems, it depends on the kernel I choose. If it's a Linux fork, I'll be super careful to keep it compatible with the Linux ABI. If it's NetBSD, there's compat_linux for Linux binaries. I believe Wine has taken an anti-"AI" stance, so Windows should be alright—if not: old versions exist.
As for your last question: I'm a transfemme (our main difference), (anarcho, probably)-communist, bi/pan, polyamorous, anti-"AI" programmer (who is very open to DMs (I'm lonely af)) :3
It already is and has been for a while... it's not rare to see "No AI" or "fully human made" on all kinds of things. Games, programs, videos etc.
The way the commercialization of LLMs just ruined the word AI, word processors have been using AI in other ways for ages
It's among the more annoying parts of the whole AI thing, amid an ocean of things too-concerning-to-be-annoying.
"AI" / llm's, are not artificial intelligence in the way laypeople mean it, and in the sense that LLM's are AI - we've had AI for decades. Occasionally I'll be socializing with someone I consider very intellgenet (e.x. recently, a chemical engineer) who was telling me how they just learned AI's 'just predict the next word', and it just bugs me so so much how little people understand these things.
Like, they are ruining our world. Climate, commerce, security - everything is going to get a LOT shittier. And you don't understand at a basic level how it works. It's just sad.
People don't realise that there's more to AI than LLMs and chat bots, and that plenty of software has been using AI (machine learning, neutral networks, forecast modeling, etc) for at least a decade or two.
That's a technicality. The term AI do encompass a TON of things, but it is as irrelevant as saying "crypto" isn't just the scam machine we know. For most people, it is. And for most people, AI is "Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT". And telling them the difference isn't gonna matter at all.
I wonder if some people compiled a list of terms that got so removed from their actual meaning because of advertisement/commercial use. Like, "wifi" is synonymous to "wireless internet access" to so many people, and yet it's actually not.
Because back then it isn't a keyword smack across industry, not intrusive, without threatening every employees that they might left out, and no chip shortage. It's a branding, you can't blame people for not knowing.
But this is a bit pedantic, people refer to GenAI when they say AI, you can blame corporations for using it as a magic word for investors
Technically a portable implementation of AI, so you can say to the boss you're working with AI right now.
Maybe, but i guess that has also to do with the fact, that a lot of companies don't seem to have any idea what the legitimate use case could be, so they throw it everywhere and see where it sticks. Which kinda reminds me of the company i've worked for several years ago, which was basically just "let's throw GPS data onto a map and see what happens" for 20 years, and was struggling when logistics companies wanted a bit more than just a damn map. They had to rework the entire interface.
Only a matter of time until all the "chatbox with addons" providers go down the drain...
Ahem. I think you mean SI /s
Stupid Idea.
Sin Inteligencia
Sans
I am still on open office, no ai there that I'm aware of.
Probably because Apache only makes a minor point release every couple years. 😆 Nobody actually uses Apache OpenOffice.
LibreOffice says "Free and private office suite, no forced AI" but iirc their contribution guidelines are ai permissive.
also gluten free
Oh thank goodness! I can't use Microsoft Office because of my gluten allergy...
And Open Office is just so high in sodium...
I don't know, Integration with a local instance of ollama from an open source text editor it would be perfectly fine for me. I write enough that a grammar-aware typo correction would be awesome. At work I find Gmails AI suggestions quite useful, especially when writing in languages where i am not fluent. That buy open source and self hosted? Yes, please.
The thing is… this setup works. But is it good? I too find text corrections to be a great application, but thinking about it I'm just blindly accepting most suggestions. I use that tool because I'm not confident enough to double-check my spelling and grammar, so naturally I can't really double check the tool's output either.
In areas where I'm way more knowledgeable, the usefulness seems to vanish. Namely, writing code. It's doing really silly, yet valid things. The only difference is that I can spot them in this case, while on text correction I can't.
