The cheapest is to buy some android box with armlogic processor and install coreelec on it. You can do it for 20 bucks, then you have a kodi oriented linux distro on your tv.

Though I prefer to straight up connect my laptop to the tv with a small remote keyboard and have full computer functionality. I’m looking to change the laptop for a miniPC when the laptop finally breaks down. I would use a normal DE. Nothing specially suited for smartTV usage. But you get used to it pretty quick.

Microsoft already lost the home OS battle when people switch their main devices to smartphones with iOS or Android.

I installed debian long ago. I was on 12 and just updated to 13. Last week.

Trixie is using some new sources format, though the old format is compatible, that was not the issue.

The issue was that the sources was targeting “bookworm” instead of “stable” for updates. So when I was doing “apt update” it didn’t find any updates. I just have to change it to target to stable, and I took the chance and change to the new sources format. But it was hard to catch.

The autoremove issue was mostly an issue because my root partition is small. It fills quickly. It was the default size on the debian installer I believe. The issue was that I tried to update with it being 100% at it was a total mess. It took a long time to fix. Nowadays I always “df”. Before update.

I had used linux mint as my default OS for years, which is said to be the “easiest distro”. Still there was a ton of maintenance. Every week one thing or the other didn’t work properly.

Even a debian server I own, which is completely barebones, without even a graphic interface. Last week I had to manually fix the sources file because trixie update messed it up. A couple of months ago I have a very bad issue with the root partition filling up of old kernel images because I didn’t run autoremove frequen enough.

So you are not alone. It does feel like owning a boat.

I’ve always been wary of Kagi, as they have not been very clear about how big part of their search is based on their own index and how much is metasearch on various other engines.

Games are still not perfect. Multiple screens can be really finicky if they have different resolutions and refresh rates.

I tried MX Linux recently because of that.

It’s nice but not my style. Specially the systemd thing. Trying to support both with and without with somehow more emphasis in “without” systemd.

But it works quite good as a OS in a pendrive thingy.

System breaking errors that doesn’t allow you to even login?

Windows have lots of issues, but it’s been a while since I found those system breaking issues to be somehow common.

For all their shit, credit myst be given when credit is due. And windows it’s become a really robust systems against layer 8 issues. Even powering off middle update is kind of easy to recover (I have to solve this issue for a user recently).

Astrology, but penguin themed.

You are such a Debian.

Arch and Gentoos never got along.

If you are a Nix do not install KDE on the first monday of the month, it’s bad luck.

I vibe coded with cleverbot.

Alternative. Cheap android box and coreelec.

You can have them for about 20 bucks. Have minimal power consumption. And small power factor. They also have ARM architecture.

They are good for low power applications.

I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there’s some development issues with it. It’s not normal that people have been asking for a dedicated shape tool for decades and they refuse to add it.

Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.

Lately every big GIMP update would be a minor version bump in other projects. Gimp 1 to Gimp 2 was some of a big upgrade. 2 to 3 not so much. Great software. But some of the things introduced in 3.0 are just fixes and patches to try to merge some of the decisions made 20 years ago with the current expectations on UX. And it’s still not there.

Yesterday I just did something very simple. Make a selection cut and copy selection to new layer. I don’t know why but things didn’t work as expected and the new layer had weird behavior, not allowing the use of the selection tool anymore and staying always on top. Not great UX for something that the user expects to be trivial.

I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It’s like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it’s due an ancient codebase that’s probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

Great software still. But I get why people complain about it.

This is like Nostradamus for me. I don’t want to update and deal with potential breaks.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don’t know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don’t even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the “secret library”. It’s like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I’m on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I’ll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I’ve been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there’s a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I’ve have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.

Just in case you ever met someone who lives in a place with no cable internet (strange case in Spain as we have great coverage). Just let them know that in Spain they fund satellite internet that is not owned by elon musk. Is slower but way cheaper specially because the government funds a part of it afaik.

Not every program is written for spacecraft, and does not net the critique level of safety and efficiency as the code for the Apollo program.

I don’t even know. If memory issues are your issue then using any program with safe memory embedded into it is the way to go. As most things are actually made right now. Unless you are working in legacy applications most programmers would never actually run into that many memory issues nowadays. Not that most programmers would even properly understand memory. Do you think the typical JavaScript bootcamp rookie can even differentiate when something is stored in the stack or the heap?

You are talking like every human made code have Linux Kernel levels of quality, and that’s not the case, not by far.

And it doesn’t need to. Not all computer programs are critically important, people be coding in lua for pico-8 in a gamejam, what’s the issue for them to use AI tools for assistance?

And AI have not existed before a couple of years and our critically important programs are everywhere. Written by smart humans who are making mistakes all the time. I still do not see the anti-AI point here.

Also programming is not concrete, and AI is not sugar. If you use AI to create a fast tree structure and it works fine, it’s not going to poison anything. It’s probably be just the same function that the programmer would have written, just faster.

Also, not addressing the fact thar if AI is bad because it’s just copying, then it’s the same as the most common programming texhnique, copying code from Stack Overflow.

I have a genuine question, how many programmers do you think that code in the way you just described?

You can actually apply those tools and procedures to automatically generated code, exactly the same as in any other piece of code. I don’t see the impediment here…

You must be able to understand that searching by name is not the same as searching by definition, nothing more to add here…

Why would you care of the shit code submitted to you is bad because it was generated with AI, because it was copied from SO, or if it’s brand new shit code written by someone. If it’s bad is bad. And bad code have existed since forever. Once again, I don’t see the impact of AI here. If someone is unable to find that a particular generated piece of code have issues, I don’t see how magically is going to be able to see the issue in copypasted code or in code written by themselves. If they don’t notice they don’t, no matter the source.

I will go back to the Turing test. If you don’t even know if the bad code was generated, copied or just written by hand, how are you even able to tell that AI is the issue?