It seems it was recent enough to spell common words correctly

Explain how this amount of electricity use could ever be “ethically sourced”. That’s not even much of a thing for meat, which at least provides nutrients. AI slop is everywhere and most of it is not helping anyone with anything.

Even if AI were the miracle people like you suggest, you’re still destroying the environment. But also it’s not miraculous. Which you conflictingly say is and is not the case…

I update my system often and believe it or not reboot more than once every couple years ;) I’m clueless about all these details I just know from a user perspective I had some annoyances and breakages.

I am not familiar with AppManager at all.

You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher

I’m just curious how you think this would have happened. Did I install it, not use it for months, never update my system, then start using it?

I am not sure it matters why or what issues I had, but I had a few, enough to look for an alternative. In fact my experience with AIL is part of the reason I avoid appImages. They just don’t seem to work well in my experience. In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me, citing reasons that don’t seem relevant to my use case, about details that never seemed to impact me. I just know I tried to use AIL for a couple of years and had issues multiple times, the last time resulting in breaking an app. So I stopped using it.

All I know is appImageLauncher gave me a lot of issues so as soon as I found an alternative I tried it and haven’t had an issue yet.

Edit: apparently having an experience gets a downvote. Pretty whiny and weird thing to do.

Okay, well gear lever lets you add command line arguments which get saved in the config so that should work easily. I will say it’s odd to me that you say this is needed for a specific OS, let alone often. I have never used that flag and I’ve been using an Ubuntu variant for ~5 years now. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong or anything, I’m just surprised because that seems to defeat one of the main purposes of appImages. The whole security/safety model seems to be sidestepped if you use that flag. I tend to only use appImage if it’s my only option because flatpaks seem to work better in my experience.

I have never used that flag. Does that just enable full system access without the usual layer of sandbox protection?

GearLever works better

A great question. First of all, all of my services run with docker compose and use volumes for their config storage which get backed up regularly. Then I just use markdown files organized by having a separate file for each service. Basically anything I would need to reproduce my setup on a new machine is what I try to write down. All the docs and compose yaml files are versioned in git. I usually realize I left out info later on and add it as it occurs to me, typically if I have to set up the services on a new machine. This all applies to any software that needs more than a little config, not just apps hosted for the purpose of other machines using them. It’s a very imperfect process, but it’s a ton better than what I used to do which was think “eh I’ll remember how it’s setup”. I rarely would remember all the key details.

I do regret paying for windows once years ago. I always hated Microsoft a lot, but truly never thought they could sink as low as they have.

“technically”

Be ashamed of using windows.

I see your point. I might also have responded poorly to that, on some level at least.

My understanding is that this dude was letting Claude fully author features/bugfixes. At least that would be the only way I can understand commits being credited to Claude. I am sure that is a default setting meant to encourage transparency. Him removing Claude as author on work that is already done is childish (as was his remark about it) and intentionally deceptive. If he was doing what you said you do, I think the attitude would be vague grumpiness but it’s objectively not a big deal because not only does it suggest more oversight, there would’ve been no opportunity for him to remove the author and then act like an ass about it.

I agree with you generally about people being shitty online. I have been treated very poorly for suggesting objectivity when it comes to ai specifically. But in this case I mostly get why people are upset. And again, it does bear repeating, this thread has many level headed comments about this and I didn’t see any negative responses to those. It may not be fair to you, but I think the reason you got the pushback you did is because you seemed fully on the guy’s side. Yeah, unfortunately the binary thinking that goes on has no patience for views that come across that way.

What you’re taking issue with though is deeper than ai. It’s online discourse that is so rude and nuance-less.

In any case, this thread is full of people saying things like “that’s his right to do this but he communicated poorly about this” and getting piles of upvotes. So, yes ai is very polarizing in this corner of the Internet, but I think it’s much more at issue here that people don’t like his handling of it. I know that personally if it weren’t for that I probably would’ve thought “hmm sounds sketchy to use ai in a product thousands of people depend on” and kept scrolling. But no, he was a dick about it and is now hiding his use of ai moving forward. So the people who hate AI are extra pissed about it. Likely because they fear others will follow that lead and enshittify the software they currently enjoy.

It’s for sure a polarizing topic, I just don’t see how it’s a culture war. “Sub-culture war” maybe?

TIL fact-based opinions and the arguments that come from them are “culture wars”.

I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not.

Seems pretty obvious to me that they knew this wouldn’t go over well. It was inflammatory by design.

You make a fair point, but I feel like the trolling reaction they gave was asking for more backlash. Not responding was probably the best move.