Everyone thinks LLMs boost productivity. But from psychological point of view, the developer being both the subject and the object is no where near scientific and reliable.

In other words, the developer who is using the LLM also reports they are productive. But humans can rarely be good judge over themselves. That’s why we’ve got therapists. So we have to wait for some serious and well done research if LLMs boost productivity.

Another concern I have which prevents me from using LLMs, is the unknown long term effect on the codebase. You know, writing something is much easier than maintaining it for years after years. And every decision you make, you must be mindful of this. So I’m gonna wait and see what’ll happen after 1-3 years to the softwares with heavy LLM assists. Will their codebase still be easy to maintain?

Any provider which provides IMAP and SMTP over TLS is good. If you want privacy, you have to use E2EE through a mail software which supports it. However, I personally use riseup.net(Don’t ask me for an invite code!)

As a bonus, there is also DeltaChat which provides E2EE email in a nice chat interface. https://delta.chat/ It also supports mini apps through https://webxdc.org/

Do you choose projects or products based on side of their owner? Or based on how good the product is?

I don’t think RAM shortage will last for too long. Also I’m fine with 8GB of RAM if me phone runs mainlinux Linux. Actually 8GB is extra.

You cannot really blame bots. Blame is for intelligent beings responsible for their actions.

Now imagine we could have Linux mainline on Android phones :)

hmm actually me uncle asked me if I want his 10" netbook from like 2012. But I said I’m gonna buy a better netbook. Now thinking… Look at all these pre-2017 macbooks! I mean we could do a cluster!

I’m from Iran and I’m up for this!

I am so pleased with so many crazy people in this thread. I’m not alone!!!

LOOOOL

I have Synapse(Matrix) on Nano Pi NEO in me CV :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

oh and by the way, back then Synapse was much worse. I created few GBs of swap on microSD to get it installed :>

Indeed NanoPi NEO is a lovely cute board. Who needs 64 bit? :>

I just checked. In me archive directory in OperatingSystems I’ve got a total of 40 files. However, now I remember I should delete so many of them as they are outdated or not needed anymore. Also not all of them are Linux ISOs. ~10 of them are BSDs.

26 after deletion.

6 BSD 1 Android x86 1 visopsys

Good point! But unlike cars, maybe there could be multiple vendors for the same part? Then it should drag the price down. That’s already the case about many Apple accessories.

To say the least, I’ll have to buy a 900 USD device and use it for 10 years instead of buying 3x300 USD devices each 3 year. This is the current situation with most phones and tablets which come from China.

The road to perfection is step by step. And sometimes you have two terrible choices, and you have to choose the one which is less bad.

So far the best option seems to be going for macbook air. It is easier to find one.

Thanks! I will keep this in mind.

As I researched online, I’m not sure if I can boot from microSD. But most likely I will be able to put from USB. It could be /boot on USB and the rest on uSD. But I will have to buy an expensive uSD to get at least like 150MB/s

If I go this way, the advantage is that I can get an old macbook air with broken SSD working. And since the SSD is not normally replaceable, this means excellent bargaining chance for me :)))

Lenovo x200 series could be a good option. But it is not as small and light as I want. But maybe in the end I go for x200 or x100 series. Then replace the battery and the charging circuit etc

Same here :D