That’s a good guess. I reported a few bigots and now my feed is mostly normal, which is much better.

Never believe random quotes you see on the Internet

• Vladimir Illich Lenin, 1922.

It depends. In some cases it is better to keep your head cool to make more weighed decisions

There’s a lot of literature on the work of Soviet partisans. Some survival guides from three letter agencies of different countries were leaked. I’d “arm” myself with those (and actually arm myself with real guns if I will have access to them) and move to the forest. Forests and mountains are an excellent terrain type to go into hiding with both cover and natural resources to keep you going

Ah, I see :( Poor hamster…

I had to google what a sunroom is and I still don’t get what did it die from

Looking at the system journal using journalctl is always a good start. Move to the page, which shows events around the time the described incident happened and try to see if there’s anything worth of your attention, likely highlighted as a warning (yellow) or an error (red).

Your initial wording made me mistakingly think that your point was in showing that AI made creations worse but before, when humans made it themselves.

Now that I see your real point, I still cannot agree. Your arguing has a false premise of thinking that everyone wants genuine human expression everywhere and eye candy images are no longer enough. Yet proofs of that not being the case are right before your eyes - look at the amount of upvotes on this post. The ones posting comments like

I’d rather see a crayon picture than AI slop.

are a vocal minority. Most people see the good enough image generated by AI and pass on. They never bother to zoom in and look for the artifacts that it has. Most don’t have the time to look for the ChatGPT wording, they read the post diagonally for 10 seconds and move on with their life.

The argument has its roots in the problem of our different social surroundings. Maybe your life is full of people who have the time and energy to enjoy art that is not just looking decent but has a meaning, a message to it. Mine has a lot of people who are overworked and undereducated to play the game of being culturally superior, to look for humane expressions.

Sometimes, technologically decent is enough. For some people, a simple eye candy that your view for a short period of time is enough to improve their mood during a break. It does not erase the point of high art. It does not threaten it. Thus, I find people that come barking at every AI-generated piece of imagery or text or whatever, claiming that posting this is stealing from others, that such posts serve zero purpose, that it’s better to be shown something poorly drawn with crayon, ridiculous and pitiful.

This is selective memory at best. There’s a lot of so-called art by real humans and text wishes that are way way worse than what OpenAI’s algorithms produce.

Could they? What if they don’t have the skills to draw it themselves?

Not everyone lives in the so-called first world. Here the ISPs don’t care about pirating.

I rely on friends’ recommendations and local Telegram channels

Actually, it’s not OK to bother to breathe. Your body is supposed to rely on reflexes to do that, so you shouldn’t really notice.

Yeah, the town mentioned in the quote is, in fact, Pripyat, my bad. Still, Chornobyl is another Ghost town and the exclusion Zone is named after it, so it’s the town people recognise more.

Chornobyl, Ukraine. “50 thousand people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town”

There are many more ghost towns now, due to the war. Adviivka, Bakhmut and many others, some small, some relatively big. Everyone has heard of those small cities.

Where the fuck did you get “about 20 friends”? I mean, holy shit, are you the extrovert guy from this meme?

I have a dedicated directory with subdirectories for each project and that’s it

I highly recommend checking out either Fedora KDE Spin or Fedora Kinoite! Both are great choices, especially if you want to leverage the power of Flatpak for app installation, as they both push the user towards it. Additionally, if you ever need to install .deb packages, you can easily do so using Ubuntu in toolbox.

Alternatively, EndeavourOS might also be a good fit for you, providing a user-friendly Arch installation with a rolling release system. You’ll have a modern and flexible environment while still being able to use Flatpak effortlessly. You can also install distrobox there to, again, use apt inside of an Ubuntu system.

Whichever you choose, you can’t go wrong! Happy tinkering and remember that the best way to choose a distro is to try it out.

I’m just using Arch in my toolbox. Can’t run into upgrade troubles if you run a rolling release system

ChatGPT does with extensions, but you need to buy the premium subscription