Damn, sorry to hear that you haven’t installed Linux yet.
> opens firefox, the default browser of my new linux distro. finally some common sense default, i think!
> disables new ai feature that was turned on by default
This is why I run librewolf. I don’t know if I’d call it a real solution because it’s maintained by a tiny team of volunteers who’s job becomes more difficult with every antipattern mozilla builds into the source, but for now I find turning on features to make librewolf work on all my sites preferable to turning off features in firefox.
Librewolf is my main browser, but with pesky sites I either need or really like I usually use a locked-down waterfox
Then an app you want is distributed as a Docker. If you follow the Docker website on how to install Docker you end up with Docker Desktop which installs- you guessed it: AI.
i have never seen docker desktop outside of windows. I have been working with docker for pretty much 10 years now.
I never have Docker Desktop on my machines, only Compose, but looking at the documentation they have definitely made it confusing. I know the terminal isn’t for everyone, but it’s straightforward. For easy install (and no AI or GUI) open a terminal and remove existing conflicts:
Debian/Ubuntu specificfor pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; doneRHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Rocky specific
sudo dnf remove -y docker docker-client docker-client-latest docker-common docker-latest docker-latest-logrotate docker-logrotate docker-engine podman runcThen install:
Arch specificsudo pacman -S docker-composeAlpine specific
apk add docker-cli-composeAll others
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | shIf you only care about running containers, containerd and nerdctl should be sufficient.
Ah, thanks for the tip! From what I can gather most of my services can run just as well with a minor tweak for GPU CUDA usage. For my case, it might not be a problem but using your method would no doubt be huge for Pi-based servers
sudo apt-get install docker
Sorry to say this but: if an app that you want is distributed as docker, then that’s a “you” problem for wanting it anyways. Avoid shit software.
The various Linux containers I run on my Linux server seem to be giving me a different experience to you
The issue is that if you rtfm instead of already know what to do through osmosis, you end up with Docker Desktop which has Docker’s AI built in.
It’s a double standard for Linux users. When MS has something broken like AI pushed into an app that could be avoided by using a different app or a regedit, everyone blames MS. But when Linux has the same problem, everyone blames the user for not knowing that they should ignore the official website documentation and install an alternative like podman or use aptget to avoid docker desktop.
I’d agree except that Microsoft pushing AI into a microsoft program is not the same as a program that runs on Linux (and probably other systems as well) pushing its own ai thing.
that is to say, Microsoft is directly responsible for what they do, but “Linux” is not one monolithic monopoly. the issue here is with docker, which is one of many available choices.
that said, ai is everywhere and needs to go away. i too am tired of it being injected into everything
I wish the AI turned itself off instead
90% of AI Features is just an enormous animated popup saying “We have AI features!!!”
After that, it’s not much more than a help.html file that talks at you.
And spies on you, and eats up your memory and bandwidth while doing so.
Well, also its probably feeding your data to the content theft black hole.
Windows 12 already has instructions for advanced users to turn off the AI slop.
This week at work, I had to use a brainstorming board software that I’m not familiar with, for an outside collaboration.
And the meeting organizer asked us to put a picture of ourselves onto the board, so we can track who’s working on what.I thought, you could do that with the “Sticker” feature, because it had a file upload dialog. So, I upload my photo there and after a few more clicks, nope, that’s not how you do that. Instead, it had generated 4 pictures of me in dumb poses.
I would love to know what they were thinking:
- There was no explanation, so why would I assume that the file upload dialog isn’t just a way to add custom images?
- It’s rather creepy to just take my picture and spit out fakes in poses I’ve never been in.
- Who’s actually going to use this? I’m sure some folks find it hilarious, but only the first time around, too.
Yeah, all in all, it just felt like they had to shoehorn in an AI feature, without rhyme or reason.
YouTube added a “feature” like that, where it generates thumbnails for your video. It’s at least obvious that that’s what it’s doing, but people don’t seem to like seeing realistic AI-generated images of themselves for some reason.
It’s everywhere like that. GSheet recently forced their “gimini” side-bar window to be always open. Imagine my frustration when I open CSV with internal ID’s and that ai shit is like “how can I help you?”. You can fuck off for a starters, those are UUID account IDs, generated randomly, fuck you mean “can help you organize them”?
Not only that, but it takes precious screen space, covering my actual data. What a sick joke.
We are the AI. Disable your firewalls and surrender your computer. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is Futile.
At this point I rather serve an AI overlord than our current Human Epstein’s class overlords. Sadly AI is working for them
Easy fix: Ask AI to automatically disable all future AI for you.
We just need to train a yandere AI that refuses to share you with any other AI. A YanderAI if you will.
Nyarch has NyarchAssistant to enhance your “weebflow”.
You can submit a feature request.
Ah yes. Sticking your
dickdata in crazy. What could go wrong?I think I have read that… Manga?.. Yea, we will go with manga.
Recent Samsung update re-enabled Google AI listening constantly on my phone again.
Notice how it’s in the third person? OOP is talking about an agentic AI doing all this for them.
Actually, AI finite element analysis would rip.
You’re absolutely right. I told you there were no stress concentration factors on that bridge because bridges can’t concentrate. That was incorrect and I apologize.
Would you like to draft a consolation email for their families?
I don’t think AI FEA would talk to me like an LLM
You’re fine bro go for it
I never experienced this on debian, but in did just get the python llm package so i can call them with a command, and deal with their output directly in emacs
Why not just use scheme to call the apis right from Emacs? They aren’t complicated APIs or anything.
I’m really not a programmer. what you’re suggesting makes my head spin.
