Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

Never would have guessed this. Common Valve W.

“Enthusiasts”

Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It’s great we have so many good options these days.

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…

Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap

But what is the DisplayPort plugged into on the PC? Extremely few motherboards and GPUs support CEC in my experience…

Very cool, what hardware are you using that supports CEC?

There are nice friendly frontends for this, Yunohost or CasaOS spring to mind but might be too simplistic if you already are familiar with Docker.

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Now, working on that angle, we don’t really want to be associated with a randy penguin (well, we do, but it’s not politic, so we won’t)

Classic Linus.

reducing the probability of the top weighted words the LLM chooses from

My feeling is that a writer who adjusts their word choice to present a particular way is definitionally behaving inauthentically. I would characterize such writing as “slop” even if it’s human made, because it was still heavily influenced by how LLMs “write”.

Put another way- I don’t believe that “not worrying about appearing as an LLM” is “giving up”, I think it’s a recognition that an LLM is not capable of fighting you in the first place. If you, a creative soul, allow fear of “coming off a certain way” (ANY way) to determine how you write, you have already lost.

As for Lemmy, there are many articles from lesser known sources that get positive attention here that seem to use AI but do not get removed

Well, Lemmy is not one thing, your instance for example is explicitly in favor of boosting AI-generated content. So that behavior is what I would expect if I had an account there. I personally wouldn’t go there expecting to see links to human-made content.

I don’t believe it’s possible for human writers to write both authentically and also in a way that is coded to verify they are human (as the article discusses) that an LLM couldn’t eventually come to replicate. I also don’t believe it’s possible for an LLM to write from their unique perspective. Therefore, I believe the strongest method for verifying ones own human-ness is to write from one’s own unique perspective.

signalling humanity in a way that resists automated systems

I think I would understand your perspective better if you gave an example or two of what signals could be used?

Hah, that’s a great example. The Room is nothing if not interesting!

That’s because LLMs cannot be interesting, even something poorly written can be interesting if it was written from a human perspective.

Yep, or heck- write really badly! It can’t do that either!

If you’re reading, you want to determine whether what you are reading is a waste of your time as quickly as possible.

I have honestly not heard of this behavior, and I myself certainly don’t do this. I wouldn’t determine “what’s worth reading” in the middle of reading, but well before I start. For example, if a piece is published somewhere I trust, or a friend recommended it, or say, it was posted in a Lemmy community known to have good moderation.

Like I said I understand why an artist would have a desire to present as authentic, but that is an unwinnable game because:

1. The AI is also “trying to present as authentic” (any automated filtering system is beatable)
2. Adjusting one’s behavior so as to appear a particular way is definitionally inauthentic.

On one hand I understand the need to feel seen as authentic, but on the other, I think there is a danger in giving into the hysteria surrounding slop by twisting one’s work into knots. If it’s good, it’s good. As Martin Scorsese said: “The most personal is the most creative.”

I know that I’ve never personally never seen any LLM generated content that was interesting beyond it’s novelty. Adam Savage also said (paraphrasing bc I can’t find it) “Sharing your point of view is what makes something interesting and I have yet to see AI-generated content that has a point of view”.

Out of the box support it’s going to be Bazzite or CachyOS. Both great options but I lean Bazzite because of it’s immutability.