I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn’t work. I asked a couple of times how to fix it but was ignored everytime. I didn’t care because I used it connected it with the network cable, but my wife was really frustrated because she can’t take it around the house to listen to music and so. After a while of me telling her that I would fix it, she got really mad and told me that if in 2 weeks the wifi of that wasn’t working she would pay a technician to install windows on it. So I came back, not asking for a fix for the wifi bit for other distro easy to use like Mint and talked about the reason why I was leaving mint. And now, of course, people was willing to help me fix the wifi and even wrote me a script to execute on start to fix it.
When I first started using Linux, I was told that if I had a problem, I shouldn’t give a well-reasoned, well-documented description of what’s wrong and what steps I’ve tried, because everyone will ignore it. Instead, I was told to say that Linux sucks because I’m having this problem and I’d get 3.8 million angry fixes within 10 minutes.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If OP is unable or unwilling to fix a problem that is important to her, why isn’t she allowed to pay someone to fix it?
You wouldn’t say its toxic if she threatens to call a plumber after OP promised multiple times to fix the leaking toilet.
If you’re like me and you work with computers for a living and you don’t really want to put in the hard work of fixing computers at home, you can do what I did. Which is to download an abliterated local AI and tell it what the problem is and what specs you’re working with and it will almost always fix it for you in like five minutes.
And when it doesn’t fix it in five minutes, it will destroy your operating system with whatever commands it tells you to paste in a terminal, and you were going to be wiping and reinstalling it anyway, so nothing lost.
It makes setting up and running an LLM super easy.
And with how fucked search is, thanks to the enshitification of the last few years, it has become rather difficult to find specific fixes for specific issues.
All of that information has been shoved into the LLMs, and nobody profits from running the open-weight models, it’s not stealing your personal information and sending it off somewhere.
It’s just a leftover from some other process that they don’t want anymore and they’re making it available to everyone else to help drum up interest in AI shit.
I don’t like it.
I’m just sharing a way to still make things work in 2025.
I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn’t work. I asked a couple of times how to fix it but was ignored everytime. I didn’t care because I used it connected it with the network cable, but my wife was really frustrated because she can’t take it around the house to listen to music and so. After a while of me telling her that I would fix it, she got really mad and told me that if in 2 weeks the wifi of that wasn’t working she would pay a technician to install windows on it. So I came back, not asking for a fix for the wifi bit for other distro easy to use like Mint and talked about the reason why I was leaving mint. And now, of course, people was willing to help me fix the wifi and even wrote me a script to execute on start to fix it.
When I first started using Linux, I was told that if I had a problem, I shouldn’t give a well-reasoned, well-documented description of what’s wrong and what steps I’ve tried, because everyone will ignore it. Instead, I was told to say that Linux sucks because I’m having this problem and I’d get 3.8 million angry fixes within 10 minutes.
This is true of nearly every topic.
That sounds super toxic tbh.
If OP installs Linux on the machine she uses, something she needs doesn’t work, and OP doesn’t fix it, she really has no other options.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If OP is unable or unwilling to fix a problem that is important to her, why isn’t she allowed to pay someone to fix it?
You wouldn’t say its toxic if she threatens to call a plumber after OP promised multiple times to fix the leaking toilet.
Sound more like tongue in cheek to me, but it is impossible to tell from this few sentence comment.
If you’re like me and you work with computers for a living and you don’t really want to put in the hard work of fixing computers at home, you can do what I did. Which is to download an abliterated local AI and tell it what the problem is and what specs you’re working with and it will almost always fix it for you in like five minutes.
And when it doesn’t fix it in five minutes, it will destroy your operating system with whatever commands it tells you to paste in a terminal, and you were going to be wiping and reinstalling it anyway, so nothing lost.
all this time spent on setting up a local llm and reinstalling a whole system + setting it up again instead of reading the documentation 😭😭😭
There are apps for it now like LM Studio.
It makes setting up and running an LLM super easy.
And with how fucked search is, thanks to the enshitification of the last few years, it has become rather difficult to find specific fixes for specific issues.
All of that information has been shoved into the LLMs, and nobody profits from running the open-weight models, it’s not stealing your personal information and sending it off somewhere.
It’s just a leftover from some other process that they don’t want anymore and they’re making it available to everyone else to help drum up interest in AI shit.
I don’t like it.
I’m just sharing a way to still make things work in 2025.
Mfs can’t fix a wifi and are asked to install a maintain a local llm server.
This is how Microsoft develops Azure, except they don’t have the option of starting from scratch.