Even 4s would be fine

install finishes

“That was it?.. Heh. Of course it was. This is Linux, afterall. Not some grotesque accumulation of defects for those base creatures.”

You could try going old school and seeing if you can see the files with command prompt, first in Windows, then by rebooting to prompt if that fails.

You can then probably move files with the commands.

It’s great for logs and learning the basics, sure, but I find it quickly ends up off the rails.

If a door came off its hinge, ChatGPT will eventually have you build an entire house around it; a house that breaks every building code imaginable, no less.

It’s best you do the steering by double checking it’s claims—usually this points you to a Reddit post where it clearly got the info from—and searching through Wikis and boards yourself. In those cases Linux users may sound like they’re speaking another language, and then ChatGPT can help break their solution down for you and implement it.

If people were to use LLMs for things they’re already experts in, they would realise how frequently and drastically wrong LLMs are. It’s honestly scary knowing it’s out there wreaking havoc on important things and people using them don’t realise.

But I’ve not really used Lemmy for tech support.

I would sooner ask a rabid squirrel for relaxing holiday ideas.

Distro hopped recently. Loving it.

Now I get to say “I use Arch, btw” while still having nfi what I’m doing.

This is what I do. As far as I’m concerned, there’s my password and then there’s the one that’s a last “are you sure?” step before I sudo fuck shit up.

I’ve just switched to KDE and it’s great, but it has about the same amount of cons as gnome.

I gave Cosmic a go recently and it’s great, but not quite ready yet. I think in a few updates time, I’ll be switching. It’s kind of like a cross-over of gnome and KDE and addresses a lot of the long standing pain points of both.

SQL enjoyer?

Every time I use it I feels like I’m going back to the 90s. No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE or subquery…👍

UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”

looks up better way

“Oh, what the fuck?!.. Nope, this will just be quicker…” UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL…

Join in a table sharing column names… Everything breaks. You gotta put the new prefixes in front of all the headers you called in now. In every select, in every where, etc… Which is weird because that kinda works like a variable and it’s fine…

“When you see this little piece of text, it means all this, got it?”

“Okay. Yep. Easy.”

“So why can’t you do that with expressions?”

SQL SCREAMS MANICALLY

“Okay, okay, okay!.. Jesus…”

And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…

I hate it. It has speed, when you can finally run the script, but everything up to that is so…ugh.

Restart to find out.

“Couldn’t reboot because these programs”

9 of them

“Restart anyway?”

Don’t do drugs, kids.

Well, not this many.

One of the reasons I switched was just being sick of dealing with Windows issues, the time spent troubleshooting, having to constantly tinker. And despite all the users out there, the frequency of hitting a dead end and just having to deal with it was common enough.

So after yet another Windows-fuelled rage and four glasses of wine, “Fuck it! I’ll see what everyone’s raving about…”

An hour later…

I’ve never bothered because less than 1% of my time I’m looking at the sys UI, let alone the desktop.

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

USE JELLYF-

Be prepared for a barrage of “Jellyfin” in your comments.

Oh.

Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.

Mine will do the restart and boot into Linux.

Windows Updates are always like that. Halfway through it’s got to restart, bootloader picks Linux, Windows doesn’t get to finish the other half of its update til the next time it’s chosen.

…why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. “I can’t wait for the bots to do this” is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite…

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲