omg this is awesome news!

Thanks; I shall ^^

That’s why I got into compsci and programming. It’s fun :3

Y’know how you’re not supposed to just yell “somebody do something” in an emergency situation? If I ever hear someone yell such a thing, I’m going to be the “somebody”.

I am going to fork Linux.

Wow, he’s such an asshole.

Truly a classic.

Correct. That is the joke. In the comic.

I’m saying that whomever modified this comic (which is about overestimating normies) overestimated the normies during the editing proccess, by skipping over Android and iOS (which implies that the editor assumed normies would know them).

It’s sort of a meta-joke.

Actually, the joke was that experts assume normies would know BSDs and Linux. The fact of it is, most normies don’t know any OS.

My point was that whomever edited the comic was actually overestimating the average person’s knowledge. They assumed normies know any OS, even the ones most folks use daily (Android or iOS).

They simply don’t know what an OS is. To them, the UI is simply part of the phone; it’s a package deal.

Coolio beanios! I’m gonna try it out.

Most people actually probably don’t know what an operating system is.

Just as accurately, the meme could be:

“[…] the average person probably only knows Android, iOS, Windows, and MacOS.”
“And Linux, of course.”
“Of course.”

Omg artifical stupidity is so fire!

Interesting… I’m tempted to try it out.

Are the BSDs any better in regard to browsers and stuff?

tf is “AS”?

also, how does 9Front compare to NetBSD?

I use Artix, btw :3

Hurd’s tAInted too :/

The thing is, all of these old and respected projects existed before LLMs. It’s pretty easy to just… ban LLM usage on a project.

Goddamn. He seems like a real piece o’ work.

Maybe I’m just a radical anti-AI gal, but the erratic behavior seems a bit like the stories I’ve heard about AI-psychosis.

Regardless, treat yourself real good, and enjoy your precious time in this world. I’d offer advice on meeting people, but I don’t really do that very much lol

Nah but like if someone DMs me on matrix I’ll respond pretty quick. I don’t have much of a life.

Also, personally, reading the manual and fixing and tinkering are the lowkey fun part.

Yes; I was absolutely crestfallen when I caught wind of it being tAInted.

I’m currently investigating alternatives. Redox is anti-AI, but written in Rust. Haiku isn’t really suitable for most folks as a daily driver. ReactOS is basically a toy, and is tAInted anyways.

Of the BSDs, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are both tAInted; Hyperbola is still using Linux-Libre; NetBSD itself is untAInted, but uses GCC (if I recall correctly), and one of its forks, MirBSD, is in the same boat.

If I can build NetBSD using an alternative compiler toolchain, then that would be an excellent starting point for a new OS.

i’d love to volunteer for some kind of unix-like helpline! it would be lowkey fun

i know, i’m just saying that anyone can has the random stuff i post on lemmy, except the nasty corpo bots