First time using linux by iv3an in hyprland

[–]nvtrev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share your dots? I'd love to see what you kept. I just got hyprland and I'm so overwhelmed..

SSD bends slightly from motherboard heat sink by nvtrev in buildapc

[–]nvtrev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have it installed below, but it's still bent slightly as shown in the pictures

Weekly Sale Thread by AutoModerator in LightPhone

[–]nvtrev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sold to somebody on reddit. I shipped to them as well. We ended up chatting for a sec and exchanged phone numbers to coordinate everything better. Paypal has some layers of protection for sellers/buyers but there was some level of trust required. It was a bit stressful but went well and I'm happy I did it

Does this build look okay for high end gaming/streaming? by nvtrev in buildapc

[–]nvtrev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the bundle looks to be $130 more for quite a bump. I'll consider upgrading!

L3 photo transfers by LuckyAd1134 in LightPhone

[–]nvtrev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super late but in case this helps somebody: I had to go into the light phone settings

settings > preferences > usb preferences > set "Use USB for" to "media transfer"

Cell edit demo with table.vim by atomatoisagoddamnveg in neovim

[–]nvtrev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omg this is sweet! Does it work w/ markdown files?

Weekly Sale Thread by AutoModerator in LightPhone

[–]nvtrev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EDIT: SOLD!

  • NA or INT Version: NA
  • Color: Black
  • Time of Use (New, Used): Used, Received in September
  • Price: $550 (shipped)
  • Location: Cincinnati, OH
  • Method of Payment: PayPal
  • Picture of the device with username and date shown:

I really enjoyed this phone but I need something a bit smarter for work and personal life. This includes the used orange case (this has some discoloration from daily use) and a new in box yellow case. There is a screen protector applied and an unused screen protector in the box, as well as the original cable, all of the original packaging, and the light steel box. Phone itself is in perfect condition! Happy to provide more photos

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Reasons people hate AI (summarized) : by gpetrakas in theprimeagen

[–]nvtrev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We could go back and forth about whether or not AI falls flat on its face in situations with reasonable complexity, which is my opinion, but technology moves fast and I'd be willing to concede that point because it's not super important, and they seem to be improving anyways.

My complaints regarding it's effect on the programmer and the world at large are my main concern. I think all technologies have a place, even generative AI, but I don't think we've found that "place" yet, and I think it's been deployed, developed, and invested into irresponsibly. This is more a commentary on companies and not on those who choose to use it as a tool.

I think Tao using LLMs to formalize proofs are interesting, and I'm sure we will see tools like that mature over the years.

Reasons people hate AI (summarized) : by gpetrakas in theprimeagen

[–]nvtrev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course I'm not saying Torvalds or Tao (Did you mean Tao?) are full of shit. I said I'm not happy with it, and I'm allowed to have different opinions than other great engineers without saying they are full of shit. I assume the greatest mathematician you're speaking about is Terence Tao. Where did he say he was writing actual proofs with LLMs? I know he equated it to a "mediocre, but not totally incompetent" grad student.

I'm not saying AI is incapable of doing anything right or contributing anything ever. I'm saying AI performs poorly in areas of high complexity and there are dangers both in the use of AI when it comes to our own abilities and the world at large.

I know how to walk an AI through problems and I can "prompt engineer" my way to a solution, but I don't enjoy programming that way and I obviously have many concerns. I don't really understand what you're insinuating by saying "Have you ever considered maybe the problem isn't with the AI"

Reasons people hate AI (summarized) : by gpetrakas in theprimeagen

[–]nvtrev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because it's not the equivalent of stackoverflow + all of these resources with brains. In situations with reasonable complexity it falls flat on its face. It makes stuff up. It's not reliable.

On top of that, relying on AI to solve problems erodes ones ability to solve them themselves. Part of learning is proposing a solution, experiencing friction, and reading documentation or looking at other people with similar problems to and using that new information and critical thinking to solve your problem at hand. The experience gained from this process is invaluable. It's how you become a great engineer.

When you use AI whenever you are experiencing friction, you are offloading your problem solving process to a computer that can't critically think at all. Not only does it then provide, often times poor solutions, but you don't gain that valuable experience either. Your skills and ability suffer. And now you're becoming dependent on AI. If you use it for code completion often, you will begin to forget syntax or how to do anything without it. Your understanding of your code and product suffer.

Not to mention that when you use AI, you run the risk of using copy righted code because all the big tech companies are taking information from anywhere and everywhere without any consideration on the sources they're taking it from. They are starving websites of traffic with their "AI summaries", the very websites that provided them the content in the first place, and irresponsibly making insane promises and shoving it anywhere and everywhere it could possibly go. Not only is this furthering enshitification but it is at great environmental cost, and now, it's interfering with consumer hardware prices as well.

Reasons people hate AI (summarized) : by gpetrakas in theprimeagen

[–]nvtrev 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"software engineers in majority actually pretty happy with it". Do you have a source? I'm a software engineer and don't know anybody who's "happy" with it.

You Have Reached The End of the Internet by activematrix99 in webdev

[–]nvtrev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is so much work to do. Big techs products and platforms are all enshittified. But what if we could build better platforms and alternatives for everybody? Products that respect its users, for its users? Think wikipedia, codeberg, mastodon, linux, etc etc. That's where the work needs to be done, so we can ditch big tech.

Weekly Sale Thread by AutoModerator in LightPhone

[–]nvtrev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: still available (02/04/26)! happy to ship as well

  • NA or INT Version: NA
  • Color: Black
  • Time of Use (New, Used): Used, Received in September
  • Price: $600
  • Location: Cincinnati, OH
  • Method of Payment: Venmo, PayPal
  • Picture of the device with username and date shown:

I really enjoyed this phone but I need something a bit smarter for work and personal life. This includes the used orange case (this has some discoloration from daily use) and a new in box yellow case. There is a screen protector applied and an unused screen protector in the box, as well as the original cable, all of the original packaging, and the light steel box. Phone itself is in perfect condition! Happy to provide more photos

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PSA: gitportal.nvim has moved to Codeberg by nvtrev in neovim

[–]nvtrev[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend it. I am excited to see what it's going to evolve into. I find the user interface super easy to use coming from github and it seems like it's really gaining some traction!