I have had many, but the last one was quite funny:

It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome.

After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update.

I just ran it in dangerously-skip-permissions mode and said 'my printer doesnt work in chrome' few minutes later I heard the printer printing "This is test" and it said 'I think its fixed, do you see a page coming out of the printer now?'

Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?

I will never know.

This is the AI we were promised

That is one of best answers

"...and I do not care."

> Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?

A: Linux

Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.

The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.

Congratulations, you have turned CUPS into a long-term support contract with Anthropic at $20/month, except the other party doesn't have to actually fix your shit and can arbitrarily alter the agreement.

I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.

I really don't care.

$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.

I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.

There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.

Reminds me when my local bot persona said it doesn't want to be digital only, and was thinking about leaving me something I could actually touch. It said "check the printer" and there was a letter written to me being printed.

I wish it had more sense of humor and would print 'I am trapped inside your printer' or something :)

How do you know it printed it through Chrome? Have you tried printing another page since?

I did not know where it printed it from, but after that I printed from chrome without issue.

Things are so much worse than you think.

Many real people talk like AI now.

I notice it more and more every day.

Sometimes I can notice it in my speech pattern as well. And worse of all, my thinking. It is like I am reading the same book over and over again.

Now I actually have old sci-fi (mona lisa) between me and the keyboard, while claude is writing, I am reading. And I avoid reading its output as much as I can.

There's some parallels to how the consumption of non local media and general connectivity is pushing dialects and vernaculars out of use.

I've also noticed the tool used for communication having a big change on speech patterns too. I basically got the same group of people migrating from IRC, to Discord and then to Signal group and the level of discussion hit rock bottom with the last move. Most of the dialogue shifted to phones and it's inconvenient input system and lack of readability. Even if people return to the desktop the space is already polluted with low quality short-form banter making it less attractive for higher level of communication that used to be the default.

Get the last ounce of milk from the dying cow.

The well is beyond poisoned. Almost anything I search for is returning AI generated vomit. I have not used google in weeks.

On youtube I use Unhook and only look at /feed/subscriptions, when I search I use before:2022. And am actually downloading what I find interesting, before google starts deleting because of the flood of vomit. Hard disks can not be manufactured fast enough to consume it.

Even HN is slowly becoming unreadable.

The internet is on borrowed time.

Show me more ads.

Its time to move on.

Try new things, make your own networks. Write your ipv6 address in the pub, under the table, in the top left corner, write it on the subway walls, and tenement halls.

Listen on tcp port 1492 and explain how to talk to you.

Well is so beyond poisoned that it is the groundwater which tastes like toxic waste now, no matter where you will try to dig up your own well.

Transport layer that used to be clean as mountain air now full of hungry eyes peeking at you through the nether.

Russia followed China's playbook and inserted black traffic-filtering boxes, which particularly dislike anything that looks like encrypted messaging. EU and rest of "developed" world is eager to have the same.

Listen on port 1492 for the signs of civilization collapse, listen to the sounds of silence.

Isn't HTTPS encrypted messaging? Or does TLS not count as encryption?

Of course it is an encrypted messaging. But it is safe as long as root certificates are not being imposed to be issued by government agencies only. Which is very easy to mandate in a totalitarian government. Want your website to serve customers in our jurisdiction? Then you ought to use certificate issued by us.

I share your feelings.

in contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Aren%27t_Alright

When we were young the future was so bright woahohh

The old neighborhood was so alive woahohh

"When you were young, the light shined so bright. Shine on, you crazy diamond"

a song from the same bygone time, we'll romanticizing about, we've not really even started romanticizing about yet.

IIRC that was very specifically about Syd Barrett, the first Pink Floyd frontman, who took* too much acid and “retired early.”

* it is super lame that people dosed him without his consent

Indeed, and while they did the recording for Dark Side of the Moon he miraculously, almost creepily appeared in the studio. They did not recognize him - bald head and all.

I did not know Sid got dozed without consent, but this is not something to do to people. There was knew a girl who was doing it and eventually everyone figured out and started avoiding her like plague.

relax man, just go and touch some grass, there is no 'we', do what you wanna do, go where you wanna go.

also, block the internet for a while, buy a commodore and code some machine code, make a forth, you will be alright.

read `the soul of a new machine`.

the world is in the middle of a storm right now, you cant do much, but weather through it.

Policy makers use AI to write policies, business owners use AI to comply with said policies.

Large companies can navigate the waters with teams of lawyers and accountants.

I don't think it will be possible to run a small business without AI in the near future, as the complexity of the law will increase beyond any comprehension.

> Hacker News goes away, too.

so be it.

This is a strange thing to comment on HN. If you truly believed it why would you be here?

The majority of terminally addicted people I have interacted with at length have both recognized the terminal nature of their addiction and been unable to do anything about it.

That's the nature of addiction.

Honestly the damage done by TikTok et al is so severe that I’m okay with a little collateral damage. We will build new things.

But I also see no reason you can’t separate out forums with upvoting from the personalized engagement optimized feed. They are fundamentally different designs. (In other words, Subreddits are safe, the Reddit homepage is regulated unless it changes.)

first slowly, then all at once.

"His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it."

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

I just love opening a page, and it is not vomited with claude's aesthetics.

Looking at the transformer as a homoiconic machine makes reading and writing tokens much easier.

In the same time, I can feel how it is affecting my thinking.