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Luis Villa
@lu.is

For the first time since the ‘90s, my home box is a highly personalized, custom Linux desktop. Not because GNOME got worse, but because I had an idea *and* an LLM helped me actually *use* the freedom of FOSS to make the idea real. https://mastodon.social/@webchick/117067256281834909

mastodon.socialwebchick (@webchick@mastodon.social)“THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION, NOW WE’RE STEALING IT BACK.” @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer argues from the “origin story” of the free software movement that there are uses of LLMs as tools to solve th...

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Bjelkeman
@metalsweden.com

LLMs finally took the pain away from installing Linux on old hardware. No more sitting searching for obscure bugs and incomplete fixes from forums. Real time troubleshooting directly on the box with an LLM better than a phone support hotline.

Luis Villa
@lu.is

@metalsweden.com oh and I think for the first time ever I'm actually going to fix an Android device's broken software later today, after almost 20 years of it being open-but-effectively-closed

Luis Villa
@lu.is

@wang.social it's a very strong argument. There are complex spots, because the tools are empowering without themselves being FOSS. But so were gcc+emacs on proprietary Unices, and we figured that out eventually.