Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to get ChatGPT to walk me through the install process of putting Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air. It just wouldn’t work and the further along we got the harder it seemed and I really thought that using AI was necessary. I finally gave up and read the Arch Wiki and had it installed in under 45 minutes.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I tried reading the gadget bridge instructions for my watch. Could not get a straight answer on getting the authorization key (I'm a noob), wasted 2 hr. o3 gave me perfect instructions that got it done in 20 minutes. Ya win some ya lose some.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

imagine programming on an electric computer. i exclusively generate punch cards for crank operated adding machines

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 62 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Is psychopatl an Aztec insult I don't know about?

[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 14 points 19 hours ago

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 13 points 20 hours ago

Type of dinosaur I believe

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 30 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

I use:

DuckDuckGo
Neovim
~~rusty~~ dusty IdeaPad
~~Arch~~ NixOS btw

I don't read man pages but I read documentation.

Am I also a psychopath?

[–] percent@infosec.pub 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I decided to try Cursor today (first time using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I'm really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!

The cost has been ~$20 so far (I'm still tinkering with it).

ETA: I also use ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw

Edit 2: I asked it "how might I streamline my deployments a little?" It wrote some nicely polished scripts that use deploy-rs, and wrote some nice documentation for it.

The script didn't work on first run, so I added the console output to the context and asked "what went wrong here?" It debugged and fixed the script, and updated the docs.

I think this has been the most frictionless NixOS experience I've had so far

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 22 points 18 hours ago

Raw dogging development

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 201 points 1 day ago (11 children)

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

There are dozens of us. And we are used to reading manuals, since we first installed our system.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 41 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (19 children)

Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 16 hours ago

Knowledge and skill have now been demonised

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my god that’s hilarious.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago

I thought so too untill they threatened to call the police.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 16 hours ago

To be fair my wife is a smart lady, but she still thinks I'm invoking some arcane hacking magic when I'm messing around in the terminal.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You mean a BOSS-nian?

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 19 points 21 hours ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 18 hours ago

That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Yay! Cencorship! I spent an extra 3 seconds focusing on the word psychopath trying to figure out what went wrong instead of reading it like a normal word. Isn’t that so much better than offending an algorithm with the letter ‘h’?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Psychopatl

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Wasn't that one of the Incan gods?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

You are thinking of the one they used to design the common keyboard layout, Qwertycoatl.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I still use emacs

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's a fine operating system, what editor do you use?

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

Oh, many many of them.

Sometimes text-mode, sometimes fundamental-mode, sometimes picture-mode, tex-mode, ess-mode...

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This indecent has been reported

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago

Your disk quota shall be reduced by 100MB before redirecting you to ed

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[–] lockhart@lemmy.ml 16 points 21 hours ago

The true psychopaths are those sweating about which tools other people use

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Normalise living your best life.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.

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