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A few of the forums looked at today have had . . 'site busy' . . problems, as did here (for me anyway) a few minutes ago.

One day the AI bots will be the only ones on the internet :D

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Wasnt AI this time, I had a few updates to catch up on, required a reboot of the server.

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Right, just bad timing for me then :tu:

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I suspect that is entirely the case, many ‘bosses/CEOs’ have been sold on the benefits of AI, purchased licences (at a starting low cost, but expect that to climb year on year), and are now desperate to show that they weren’t just sold a pup.

AI, is a tool, nothing more, nothing less, similar to, say, Excel, depending on what you do, it may, or may not, assist you to be more productive. And that’s it.

https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/issue...e-returns.html

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Goldman produced a similar paper in 2024.

Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit?

Essentially what $1 trillion problem will it solve. And this remains unclear.

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Ok I am not a fan of "Ai" normally by any stretch of the imagination, but Gemini has impressed me lately, having started making the switch from AI Slop Central AKA Microsoft Windows 11 to Nobara and Gemini has helped to resolve some issues, that I didn't get resolved by posting on Reddit and other places.

One of the things that it helped to resolve was creating a symbolic link between 2 folders. I tried to use videos on YouTube and none of the videos I found provided methods that worked, I pasted the source folder and destination folder links into Gemini and asked it to make the command I needed, and hey presto it gave me the 3 commands I needed to run, all were fine and then I used them as help to create the commands for the other folders I needed to create a link between.

Then I went and helped my dad with them as well and they worked fine for him as well.


As for game performance, The Division 2 seems to have settled in at around 140fps at 1440p mostly cranked to the max settings, Palworld I need to tweak the settings but that is between 120fps and 160fps but has some crazy dips, so need to sort that out.

Elite Dangerous though, casually sat flying is space at over 500fps, so will be limiting it to about 165 which is my refresh rate and watch as the GPU usage drops to around 30% from 80%.

Someone has apparently backward engineered the drivers for the Elgato 4K60 Pro Mkii capture card, and the Goxlr and stream deck apparently work with no issues on Nobara as well, so my pc that I use for recording videos and has Discord on, potentially could be moving to Nobara soon as well.

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“......and Gemini has helped to resolve some issues, that I didn't get resolved by posting on Reddit and other places.”

Tell me, where do you think Gemini et al originally got the information they used to give you the solution?

When the time comes that nobody is posting of Readit etc. because why should they when AI bots just scrape all of the info and present it as their own, does AI come to a grinding halt?

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Oh, I understand where it gets the information from and as much as I don't like that it's done the way it is, unfortunately when it comes to certain things like Linux, it's one of the few ways of actually getting help without getting people trying to insult you or refusing to help.

It is quite well known that the "Linux Community" can be very difficult to work with or get help from, and because of that the likes of "Gemini, ChatGPT" and others get more use by people moving to Linux because of the hostile attitude by a lot of the "Linux Community".

I have only posted in a couple of places asking for help/advise about some issues and some alternatives to Windows programmes and I have already had more negative interactions with people than good, with one person who completely ignored me saying "I have almost 0 experience and I am learning as I go", only to be told "Go back to Windows, you're too stupid for Linux" and that was just me asking about a simple thing like should I mount a network share in Nobara via the "My Places" function which seems to work in a similar way to Windows or should I do the whole FSTab thing.

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Exactly right, jem, it’s a productivity tool. It can produce a remarkably good presentation on demand. It did that for me - I just needed to check it and tweak it into what I wanted, but it saved me hours!

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Fair enough Damien, I have also noticed how elitist and unforgiving to ‘noobs’, some, not all, Linux communities can be. Every year is claimed to be ‘this time it really is the year of Linux on the desktop’, unfortunately some members of the Linux community seem to be doing their hardest to thwart this.

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It’s not a problem restricted to Linux communities. It’s maybe a tad less visible these days because the heyday of the bulletin board is behind us, but 25-30 years ago there were boards for any number of special interests and pretty much any one of them could have a subset of members who were anal beyond all reason.

I hung around a forum for people trying to run their cars on vegetable oil for a while about 20 years ago and it was unbelievable, newcomers coming in and asking questions and being piled on for being n00bs and told to ‘do their research’, which is literally what anyone who googles, finds a forum and then joins up to ask an expert is doing. We weren’t immune from it here either, we always had the ones who’d go and set up a ‘let me google that for you’ link to post, rather than the simple one or two line answer that would have been helpful.

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I can remember some of the places like that, they were annoying as all hell.

I also remember the whole "Let me google that for you" and I know I was guilty of it at times, but mainly when the person was being very arrogant etc.

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It was clear in some cases that people had made no attempt to find information they were after themselves as a simple Google search did in fact tell you exactly what they were after - they (IMO) were deserving of "Let me google that for you" type replies.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

The movie Wargames is getting closer to reality.

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Don't you find it odd that a company at the forefront of AI development suddenly decides to 'release' a story about their AI going wrong during testing?

It's almost as though it's a ploy to get everyone talking about AI, and get it plastered all over the media.

Of course, using phrases like "some of its most advanced AI models went rogue" is quite obviously just a throw away line, not intended at all to get the internet all frothy about it :rolleyes: