I’ve been using GIMP for over a decade. It’s slowly starting to become one of the leading sources of frustration in my computing life. The more I learn about it the less it makes any sense.

Not trying to be negative here. Just saying that a modernization is much needed and I’m really excited for this.

Considering we don’t have 24th century fire tech yet I’m guessing this is about Star Trek.

Best native Linux DAWS if you want to try:

• Bitwig - Like Ableton but better (paid, proprietary)
• Renoise - Tracker focused (paid, proprietary)
• Reaper - Clunky but very capable (cheap, proprietary)
• LLMS - Very simple daw (free, libre)
• Ardour - Full featured but rough around the edges (free, libre)
• Bespoke - Modular workflow, supports VSTs (free, libre)
• VCV Rack - Modular workflow, VCV modules only (free, libre)

All the paid daws have free demos.

FWIW I also release all my plugins with native Linux builds: https://replicataudio.com/

Got some cool new stuff coming out soon. HMU on discord and I will give you free copies (applies to anyone reading this comment).

Yeah… Normies for sure don’t use the term “LLM”. I don’t think it would scare them though. They’re used to being confused 💀

When I see “AI” I think “tech bro hype” whereas “LLM” makes me think the developer is more likely to have a realistic view of the technology.

I guess this depends a lot on your target demo. But but even just cutting down on usage of the exact term “AI” would help I think. Basically anything is better.

This is hilarious

I looked at your site. Realistically I think we’re talking about two different things here. There are tools which were programmed with the assistance of AI and then there are AI powered tools. Your stuff is clearly the latter.

I think ai powered tools are a lot harder to sell people on right now. The ai powered area is where I see by far the most shovelware/slop.

To be blunt, when I see a new ai powered tool I assume several things:

• This is low effort slop
• A tech bro vibe coded this 100%
• No one cares about this
• It will either make a ton of money or be abandoned next week
• If it’s popular, anthropic will buy/clone it and everyone will use their version instead

I know this isn’t true of every ai powered app but it’s true of 99% of them right now. I really have no idea how you could convince people yours isnt slop.

One idea might be to stop using the term “AI”. It’s a buzzword with strong connotations. Some people hear it and think “gold rush”, some people think “slop” or “data center”.

Personally I would be a lot more likely to take a project seriously if they used the term “LLM” or “machine learning” to describe what powers the product.

Also, I don’t see anything that looks like obvious AI art to me but DONT USE AI ART. AI art is already terrible on its own but when I see AI art mixed with AI text telling me about an AI powered app I’m 1000% done giving my attention.

I think this is a major over generalisation that misses the main point of why people don’t want AI projects. The real questions are:

• Is this slop?
• Does a human understand all of this code?
• Did a human design this deliberately or is it completely derivative and uninspired?
• Will a human take responsibility for bugs that come up?
• Did a human write the docs?
• Will this be maintained or just a weekend project with no substance?
• Does this actually serve a purpose?

Idk how to address these things really. I could see the AI tag going both ways, but I do think it’s painting with too broad a brush.

Yes

Never got this working myself. IIRC the project is kinda dead. There are better alternatives like openwebui.

Hopefully not. Android’s security model has become a total freedom/privacy nightmare under his control.

First time I ever met a gay furry, we bonded over a mutual love of programming. So this checks out.

ITT: People who don’t use vim and insist we have arrow keys now so don’t need hjkl anymore.

If anyone is looking for a something like this that they can buy today for a reasonable price, check out the GPD Micro PC 2.

What is that first social media icon

I’m the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.

It’s for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.

This is likely is an abbreviation of “config”/“configuration”.

This is a phase that most Linux enthusiasts go through at some point. It takes time to understand what a distro really is.

People see distros as being much more different than they really are because of the default settings between distros being so different from each other.

At the end of the day a distro is basically just a way of choosing which group of people you want to trust to package software for you.

You can always just use the version you have and run an update after it’s installed.

Btw

Fish is such a nice shell.

I wrote a collection of small apps for fish a few weeks ago. If anyone wants to check it out: https://github.com/matdombrock/angler.fish