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what? something wrong with this? https://thecodinglove.com/content/053/linus-torvalds-github-git-20-years.jpg

I don’t know those shirts he wears with the spiders on them is pretty neat. what brand is that anyways?

welp just closed my bitwarden account and switched to keepassxc. honestly works a hell of a lot better on qutebrowser than bitwarden did.

If you’re paying $200+ a month for a tool that doesn’t work then i’m sorry but you deserve to potentially have your bank account wiped out by it.

calm down. it does work, would you like me to record a video if it working? hm? oh boy I just did! http://andmc.ca/mov/noads.mp4

Just because YOU don’t know how to work something as simple as an ad blocker on vivaldi doesn’t mean it dosn’t work.

Grow up you child.

this is actually what it should be used for. If companies pivoted their AI use to exactly that I almost guarantee you peoples opinions, i.e. middle manager wannabe techbros on linkedin, would change on it. But this is what AI should be used for. mundane project management style tasks. let your devs do dev work, let your upper management continue to do nothing and reap the rewards, and get rid of the yes men/women in the middle. THAT’s when you’ll see the shift.

yes it does. i’m using it right now.

which you can get on any Chromium based browser, brave is nothing special in that regard. you can have functioning adblock with Vivaldi also.

It is. I don’t know if you do any development or simply write code as a hobby but you get a sort of dopamine hit when something you’re working on actually works. like a bug or something that’s been dogging you for days and suddenly you figure it out. it feels good. I can’t remember the quote but Linus Torvald said something similar. it’s a good feeling.

Now imagine you get that constantly, consistently, again and again because you strictly use an AI agent. that’s what these tech bros are getting. The problem is unlike actual devs they’re getting that hit because it essentially “works on my machine” as really that’s all the AI turns out. Something that surface level functions. So they’re addicted to it. “oh man that was so fast and easy, lets build something else!” over and over again.

The problem then becomes they’ll run out of ideas or things to build and will naturally have to start trying to maintain what the AI built utilizing the same AI. Annnnnd if you’ve had any experience with these agents you know “that’s where the fun starts” those dopamine hits are going to vanish very quickly. Now these people are “chasing the dragon” so to speak. AI doesn’t know it was the one that built the thing. I’ve seen it first hand with my clients vibe coders when I’ve asked them to go back into something that was built and have the AI start fixing bugs that I’ve found in my review. the vibe coder panics, it doesn’t understand what the agent is telling them, the agent believes the vibe coder built this thing. suddenly it’s not fun anymore. suddenly it’s not churning out semi-working results. suddenly things are breaking.

This is the one aspect NONE of these companies or tech bros or vibe coders like to talk about it. Haven’t you wondered why you rarely read stories of them sending their AI agents back into the thing its built to scale it or fix something? it never turns out well.

So it is an addiction. And they’re all collectively chasing the dragon. But eventually they stop getting their hits and will crash out.

or you can literally just do what is it? something+tab? and it just goes to town without the need for you to confirm anything.

I mean it’s gonna turn out slop that won’t scale and be full of exploits anyways regardless if you auto confirm or not. then just rig it up to ping your phone when it’s done…oh who am I kidding these dudes wouldn’t know how to do that.

really depends and you really gotta research if it’s even going to be worth your time. there’s a site where you can check if your chromebook will work and how difficult it will be: https://docs.chrultrabook.com/

some you have to physically open up and mess with like a screw or two. some use other methods. that site will tell you specifically what you have to physically do to get it working.

Then you have to take into consideration the SSD you have on your chromebook. like will it even have enough space to do anything worthwhile. I put linux on a chromebook and honestly all it’s good for is opening some terminals to do some basic things and maybe stream stuff online. that’s it. And it can be a struggle to get linux installed so again is it worth your time to have something that could potentially be a glorified terminal station? up to you. Don’t get me wrong it’s a fun hobby project but that’s about it.

yeah I learned that first hand. shit company with shit product.

it is an absolute pain and honestly I wouldn’t waste your time. Wayland stuff you’ll be fine. X11? nope. And yes honestly completely disabling the discrete Nvidia GPU is the best option but depending on the distro that can also be a pain OR if your laptops BIOS ain’t shit (Asus ROG Bios IS shit) you can disable it there. or like on Arch you just pretend the thing doesn’t exist and don’t even bother installing anything for it.

Yeah hybrid laptops are a pain in the ass. don’t do it. just don’t.

pretty much anything that is “you build it youself” so Arch, NixOS, Gentoo, etc

but yeah I’m also tempted to finally give BSD a go.

I’ve used PikaOS which is Debian based and IMHO it’s right up there with CachyOS. super fast install, fast distro, great package manager, and repos with the latest stuff. very stable too.

ugh even worse if you have a hybrid laptop. integrated amd and discrete nvidia.

Kids, learn from me, do NOT buy an ASUS ROG Strix. less than 5 years old and thing is already on its deathbed with constant reboots and hanging at POST.

Vivaldi is fine. I used to use it extensively in the past but the syncing pretty much rarely working was annoying for me. Yeah I know I don’t have to use it but meh. Also for whatever reason if you’re on linux and you use a font on your system that Vivaldi doesn’t like then you just don’t see text regardless if you installed vivaldi via flatpak or whatever package manager. I’d go back to Vivaldi if they fixed a couple things and because of their in browser email client which I absolutely love. I hate thunderbird and finding a better/good email client on linux is a crapshoot.

Right now I’m using Helium and I really like it. simple, quick, less resource intensive and the bangs are pretty good.

The common question I get asked from my clients when stuff like this comes up from their end to end coded slop is “ok, but like how easy is it to access?” and then I say “quite easy” which is usually followed up with “how long can we get away with it?”

They don’t care. If they can continue pulling cookies from the jar right up until they get caught they will continue to do so. The AI Agents, still to this day, cannot figure out how to build things without massive gaping holes or how to potentially scale something. AI can’t do it or rather doing those things goes against it’s initial instructions from like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc to provide the user with the quickest possible solution. Remember these agents don’t need to provide ACCURATE or safe solutions, they just need to provide SOMETHING.

You can try to prevent security exploits and what have you via your prompts but that’s a coin toss if the agent is actually going to do it and simply not claim it has done it an then you later find a #TODO in the code where the agent claimed it did do it but simply just added a comment. your average vibe coder isn’t going to know how to look for this or even how to fix it or provide a better prompt to ensure it might happen.

It’s the blind leading the blind. vibe coders are just project managers that learned how to download sublime text.

Hallucination Pandering.

sooooo reading a browsers user-agent is now a thing to worry about? oh look I changed my user-agent and now this dumb ass site is giving all the wrong info woulda look at that.

“We know where you are based on your IP” yeah bro, that’s how IP’s work. look i turned on mullvad, omg now it says i’m in Sweden!

“we know you’re using an AMD gpu” gasp ya don’t say. oh look I changed my user-agent again and now you think I’m on nvidia, crazy how that works huh?

This is a dumb bullshit site.

oh look it’s built by these morons: https://riseuplabs.app/ a company that vibe codes every “product” they have. so naturally building a stupid site that just pulls your user-agent would seem amazing to them.

This is bullshit marketing for their bullshit vibe coding. report this post, it’s an ad.