Of course it doesn’t, everyone is wasting time and money on LLMs instead of on proper AI research.

That’s not a reason to call them AI or AGI, though. On the contrary, it’s poisoning the term, because once the LLM bubble bursts no one will want to invest in AI research for decades, because they’ll associate it with LLMs. (Not to mention how hard it’ll be to research anything when all sources of information have been poisoned with LLM slop.)

It’s neither general nor intelligence.

Yes I use AI

No you don’t.

You used a large language model, which is a very fancy statistics based autocomplete algorithm, but has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with artificial intelligence, other than by harming public opinion of it and sucking off all the funding that could be used on actual AI research.

I’m fairly certain desktop computers (and PCs in general, including laptops) are a very small portion of the devices that use Linux.

I expect most Linux devices are phones and tablets (Android), followed by embedded devices (though BSD probably outweighs Linux on those), followed by servers, followed by desktop computers.

Doesn’t PlayStation use BSD…?

That’s a good question.

Applied science and engineering, I suppose, or the results thereof…?

Or, anything that we intentionally make that isn’t naturally found in nature…

It does get a bit fuzzy, though… some kinds are easy: machines, tools, architecture… but are writing and maths technology, or are they something else? What about dogs, or farm animals like pigs? We certainly made them (not cats, though, they took care of that whole domestication business all by themselves)… GMOs are quite evidently technology, but what about most of the vegetables and fruits we eat? We made those too… maize, or most citruses, for instance, wouldn’t exist without centuries or millennia of selection and grafting…

And it gets even fuzzier when you get to animals… crows can intentionally modify a stick to make it better to get a seed out of a tube, making it a tool, and therefore technology if it was us doing it… dams are certainly technology when we make them, but what about beaver made dams? Knots are probably technology when we tie them, but what about a cuttlefish tying her eggs to algae stems? And let’s not get into termites or especially ants, with their air conditioning, and fungal agriculture, and aphid farming…

Call bells are technology.

You’ve failed to mention a single thing that can be qualified as a daily use-case

They’re daily use cases to me and everyone I work with, but OK, fuck the people solving your IT problems, I suppose, what could possibly go wrong.

.I did all of those for my grandmother a few months back.

Oh, wow, I bow to the expert; I only have to do them several times a week on a variety of machines, and have been doing so for a couple decades. Clearly all my problems would be fixed if I was as experienced as you, please accept my humble apologies, oh master.

If you’re having problems with those things, that’s a you problem.

Oh, most definitely.

I have a problem with settings that used to be grouped on a single easy to get window being randomly spread over several unrelated ones, and that’s the ones which aren’t only configurable now through the registry, or group policies, or powershell incantations.

I have a problem with tasks that used to take 30 seconds and less than five clicks now taking minutes and the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.

I have a problem with the almost constant loss of functionality and usability since windows 2000; sure there’s some nice new features from time to time (winget is nice, if late, WSL1 was good — WSL2 is a horrible bloated hack that completely ignores that the NT architecture is designed to integrate multiple kernel subsystems at its core —, the windows 10 start menu was relatively practical once you got it setup right and until it randomly decided to fubar itself, shadow copies were very nice and are sorely missed…), but they don’t tend to last, and are usually gone by the next version of the OS or even the next major update.

But sure, sure, it’s a me problem; never mind everyone else complaining about the same issues. We clearly just want to be cool.

Try to configure a printer.
Try to configure a network adapter.
Try to configure graphics settings.
Try to organise the start menu to make it even remotely useable.
Try to uninstall a store app for all users without having to use undocumented powershell incantations.
And I’m already wanting to punch something, so I’ll stop now.

Lots of settings actually seem more convenient now, especially the ones for audio and Bluetooth.

Sure, if all you want is to turn them on or off and you don’t want to actually configure anything.

🤦‍♂️

it’s pretty much the same as Windows 10, just slightly swisher animations.

And ten times more unusable without several third party programs to fix the absolutely fubared UI.

It takes about ten clicks more, on average, to do anything in 11 than in 10.

Utterly unusable garbage, is what it is, even if you ignore all the spyware and bloatware and lost functionality.

(Of course the same could be said of 10 in regards to XP, and XP in regards to 2000, so really it’s utterly unusable garbage cubed.)

EDIT: The Windows is Windows 10.

Enjoy it while it lasts. It’ll soon be much, much worse.

I’m both, and while I do hate myself, I don’t think it’s related, so I’m not sure I get it.

(I hate computers more, though, except when they’re turned off — no bugs when they’re off —, but they’re the only thing I’m good enough at to make a living off of.)

makes it sound like they’re all equal, and there hasn’t been any progression

Programming peaked with Lisp (and SQL for database stuff).

Every “progression” made since Lisp has been other languages adding features to (partially but not quite completely) do stuff that could already be done in Lisp, but with less well implemented (though probably with probably less parentheses).

They are all flawed and they all encourage some bad design patterns.

On the other hand, Lisp.

No it’s not.

A proper engineer would make the tag absorbent and use the principle of capillarity to transfer the water to the bag (and the other way round once tea flavoured) to cover this case.

Users can’t avoid being stupid, but a proper engineer should be able to cover all cases.

If it can be mounted both ways it should work both ways. 🤷‍♂️