cally [he/they]

what are you doing in my lemmy profile

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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • Because Windows customization was too hard and weird. To install a custom theme, I had to browse DeviantArt for some god forsaken reason(???) and trust this random person’s theme, which could contain malware for all I knew! I just wanted to choose colors and change transparency!

    Stupid default software: What’s up with Micro$oft Edge? Why do they push it so hard? Just let me set Firefox as the default browser for everything! I want to be able to uninstall things I don’t want on my system, and use whatever apps I want.

    So, around 2022, I tried Linux Mint and fell in love with it. I’d heard Apple devices were pretty locked down so the thought of buying a Mac hadn’t crossed my mind (I could not afford one anyways).

    I then went on to, over time, try other distros, such as: ArcoLinux (now discontinued), Debian, Artix, KDE Neon, Void, and nowadays I run NixOS on my desktop and Arch on my laptop. (I did try Fedora Sway for a few hours before installing Arch on my laptop though).




  • Very rarely on purpose. Last time I willingly used a chatbot for something was like ~7 months ago IIRC. Sometimes I am searching random things up in incognito (so it doesn’t pollute my browsing history) and DuckDuckGo shows the stupid AI overview because of course, in incognito it’s not gonna know that I specifically disabled their “AI” features. It should be opt-in!!!

    Yes, they’re kinda useful by themselves, but in a search engine? Sure, it can filter results or whatever, but it’s just easier for me to go to a website I know and look for the info there.

    Also, I don’t like chatbots because usually I just want to search one thing and leave - and to me, it doesn’t feel like that’s what they were designed for. They’re meant for “conversation” but I don’t want to talk to a bot. There are, of course, a plethora of other reasons why I don’t like LLMs, which I won’t be getting into in this reply.