Been working fine for me.

Honestly, though, haven’t noticed any real difference between Ubuntu Studio and vanilla Kubuntu, except that it came pre-installed with a few of the things I would have installed anyway.

People are going to hate me for this, but here goes…

I’m using Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio, to be precise.

The crazy thing is that the technology isn’t naturally sycophantic on its own. It can generate any kind of text at all; it doesn’t have to generate fawningly sycophantic text.

Where that comes from is the ‘hidden prompt’ every major AI company puts into their AI. In addition to the prompt you send, the interface also sends it other prompts that you don’t see, telling it things like ‘be polite, agreeable, and helpful’, ‘avoid profanity’, ‘respond like a knowledgeable expert’, and ‘refuse to generate anything copyrighted, sexually explicit, or violent’, etc, etc, etc. And these hidden prompts define much of the AI’s behavior and “personality”. To some degree, this is necessary for it to be an even vaguely useful tool, and these hidden prompts help it pass various tests. Some LLMs, if you ask them to, will repeat their hidden prompt to you so you can see what it’s actually being asked to do.

And either because it drives engagement … or just because the CEO types in charge of these decisions love sycophantic behavior so much, the sycophantic fawning is specifically asked for in these hidden prompts.

AI doesn’t have to be like this. The companies making AI are deliberately making it sycophantic.

The Trump regime, lying?

This is a thing unheard of!

Every day, I grow more eager for the inevitable crash of the AI market. Sora getting killed seems like a good portent.

No, nutsacks are fun to play with, and he very much isn’t.

who no longer have an island

*who now have a different island that we don’t yet know about.

Ah … I’m not too familiar with Zorin (or bluetooth) myself, but hopefully you’ll get some answers!

Which distro are you on?

I’m sure you could easily get some help with how to install things and the basics of using the terminal (though you really shouldn’t need to use the terminal much anyway).

Or, guess what, the next thing will be that all new domestically produced routers will require ID verification before they’ll connect.

My next phone will be a Motorola with Graphene OS.

I’m thinking maybe my next phone is a dumb phone that can only make calls and maybe text. They still make those, right?

You don’t even need Linux. Kdenlive has a Windows version.

I’m not even sure why Microsoft made the change.

Just think of all that lovely video information for their AI to harvest…

My Kdenlive video editor continues to save wherever I want it to for free. Just saying.

And yes, it has a Windows version, if you’re too much of a coward to migrate to Linux.

especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume.

One .22 round to the battery pack will fuck this thing up good. Lithium batteries do not like being punctured and shorted out at the same time.

Worst case scenario, you’ve suddenly decreased the battery’s output enough to force the thing into shutdown. Best case scenario, the punctured battery cells go into thermal runaway and start a fire that consumes the whole thing.

Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.

Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.

Honestly, one high-profile incident like that would probably be enough to get civilian ownership of drones banned across the country.

Aw, I was hoping for less than $50k. That’s still pretty expensive!

Plus, they probably don’t even come with payloads, so that will add additional cost.

But 99% of the problems can be avoided if you just don’t do stupid things.