Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he’ll think you’re his buddy.

GIMP has always been kinda ass tbh. I used it back then to make gifs and that was the only thing in that program that wasn’t a pain to do.

…SSD and RAM prices are not gonna get better unless the AI bubble pops. I wouldn’t wait to get at least those two things.

The only reason I’m still in Windows is because I use Clip Studio Paint as my main art program (and while it is on Wine, the compatibility is extremely poor) and I also play certain FPS games with anti-cheat that’s incompatible with Linux. If those two problems are solved (which is one thing I’m banking Valve to do with SteamOS) then I’ll ditch Windows permanently. Until then, maybe the next time I install I’ll use Win11 LTSC which doesn’t come with any of Microsoft’s AI bullshit (or even the Microsoft Store at all) with the only downside being new versions taking 3 years to arrive instead of one.

BTW: If ya’ll are in Windows 11 against your will and want to remove all AI features, check this out. Essentially it’s a script that will delete all AI from your system. I would recommend reading the documentation, but all you need to do is open Terminal/Powershell as admin and run this command:

No, this is not a car vs horse thing. It’s more like trying to replace a horse with a car that randomly steers off the road in the opposite direction AND explodes if you sneeze on it.

Not even like cheating - it’s like cheating but half of the answers are wrong.

Can you program without any LLM now, tho?

Also the fact people in general who aren’t right wingers who would be fascinated by flashing lights absolutely hate AI and the way it’s being shoved into everything.

The thing is… uh… NO ONE LIKES AI. Regular people don’t like when a technology is shoved in their face over and over and over without their consent so they’re forced to use it. Google and Youtube were actually compelling things for the consumer and had real world usage. AI has very little actual real world usage because it’s a text prediction algorithm that does not do anything that other things today wouldn’t be able to.

The only people that like AI are TESCREAL-supporting billionaires who genuinely think LLMs will achieve AGI and thus replace humanity (refer to this video to know how absolutely INSANE those idiots are) and their right wing simps. Pretty much everyone in the creative, educational, and programming field that have actual coding experience hate it because it’s literally making people dumber AND taking away jobs from artists AND creating programmers with no actual coding experience.

How is 7-Zip superior to Winrar? Every time I tried using 7-Zip it felt a little… weird to use, plus every RAR file I tried to use with it was a pain in the ass. But then again the last time I used it was like… uh, 14 years ago?

That’s absolutely hilarious. All the times I’ve either patched Winrar or ignored the 40 day subscription nagging did not matter for their bottom line at all.

Enemy Swarm inbound.

Rufus: “Am I a joke to you?”