Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

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  • I’m a bit apprehensive towards LLM-generated things in general but I also use this from time to time when I just want a simple fact or get a feeling of whether the page is at all worth visiting.

    I limit myself to facts that are trivial to verify or should be very hard for an LLM to get wrong.

    If I need to look up some function for example, I’d very quickly find out if it’s just hallucination. I also expect them to return the right thing if I expect the result to statistically be the most common thing.

    Though if I’m being honest, I’d probably prefer a function to just get an expanded preview with the entire preview text offered by the website for this use-case (or an equivalent plain text extract from the website).



  • The most important features when handwriting IMHO are selection tools and then being able to manipulate the selected strokes.

    Write implements a multitude of selection tools such as lasso which most tools have but much more useful to me were ruled selection which selects based on lines on a ruled paper and path selection which selects every stroke you touch with your selection stroke.

    You can then move the selected strokes in a ruled manner, so for example I’d select a whole line of strokes and move them down a few lines. This is incredibly useful and brings many of the freedoms we enjoy in editing text on a computer to handwriting.

    Re-flowing using stroke divisors is an amazing feature in theory but I’ve never been able to make it work reliably enough for my purposes, so I personally disabled that particular feature.

    The undo/redo dial is also pretty neat.

    Once you actually try to take real notes or solve some mathematical problems, you’ll really come to appreciate such features and will dread using any note taking application supposedly made for handwritten notes that does not implement such features.






  • (nixos more or less requires you understand programming syntax for writing your system config)

    It’s technically not a real programming language but an expression language. The difference is that the former is a series of commands to execute in the specified order to produce arbitrary effects while the latter is a declaration of a set of data. You can think of it like writing a config file i.e. in JSON format.

    The syntax isn’t really the hard part here. You can learn the basics that comprise 99% of Nix code in a few minutes.
    The actually hard part is first figuring out what you even want to do and then second how the NixOS-specific interface for that thing is intended to be used. The former requires general Linux experience and the latter research and problem solving skills.






  • Atemu@lemmy.mlOPtonixos@lemmy.mlNixOS 24.05 released
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    4 months ago

    As always, stable releases are about how frequently breaking changes are introduced. If breaking changes potentially happening every day is fine for you, you can use unstable. For many use-cases however, you want some agency over when exactly breaking changes are introduced as point releases a la NixOS provide you with a 1 month window to migrate for each release.












  • Atemu@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlLegitimate interest?
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    6 months ago

    Your browser cannot block server-side abuse of your personal data. These consent forms are not about cookies; they’re about fooling users into consenting to abuse of their personal data. Cookies are just one of many many technological measures required to carry out said human rights abuse.