They wanted somebody else to be ultimately liable for problems, not themselves.

They wanted less headcount, especially amongst employees that are more intelligent than they are.

They wanted to handle things via gladhandling and ‘business negotiations’, not actual strategy snd design.

Yep.

Its… pretty much apocalyptic.

C Suite finally ‘won’; they decided they could do the job of engineers.

They can’t, of course, but their hubris will burn down the world before they admit they don’t know something.

I am not clever enough to phrase this reply as an antagonistic acronym, but yes I did mean it as a compliment, hahaha!

lol, +1 for Ron Perlman.

Seems fitting for it to be his voice to usher us into a really just slightly different kind of apocalypse.

Its like you could make a cheesy shock drama 90s style TV show out of these:

Tales From The Git: When CEOs Think They Can Code

… and then its like the UNSOLVED MYSTERIES kind of dramatic music and lighting, have some old solemn dude with a gravelly voice narrate it, give tallies of estimated amount of $$$ destroyed by each incident, job losses within 6 months to a year.

NW USA, Seattle area is where most of my dialect/experience is from.

This is the potentially most ‘linux canon accurate’ name possible, which amuses me greatly, but its also essentially the worst name possible for… normal human people that might use the software, lol.

Glimpse makes a fuckton of sense, imo.

Its sorta kinda close to the old name, it conveys the concept of imagery, and its also really easy to read and say.

Like shit, I figured out just by playing team based shooters with voicecomms, that you want a username thats distinct, can be said in ideally one or two syllables.

When you’re naming a product, yeah, having it be lingustically connected to the thing that it does, there yeah go, much better than ‘Squoombly’ or whatever.

Wait Salesforce has an acroynm?

Everyone I know who’s ever used it just says/writes ‘Salesforce.’

Aha! Ok, that makes sense as well.

My Steam Deck is my child.

Maybe if I can get it to run a ‘good enough’ LLM, and also a robotics kinematics suite…

I can just start building DOG, with a Steam Deck for a face, instead of a Combine scanner bot.

Bingo!

Yes, the irony is certainly in great supply…

sigh

I mean, Tiktok has entire genres based around not using Tiktok, around lowering the level of engagement and use that you have with social media and just digital things generally.

They make and post videos on Tiktok, about not using Tiktok.

Its essentially perfectly absurd.

Tiktok is basically the ‘how much money would someone have to pay you to kill someone’ moral hypothetical, writ large.

The answer is that, with sufficient operant conditioning, human morality and logic is worth a few bucks a month, on average.

Gotta get them updoots, dopamine!

Perhaps ‘WiLBeR’ would be a compromise?

Its … basically following what I’m going to call ‘GLaDOS case’ rules.

???

Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?

Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

Extremely correct, and why I will never stop laughing at Mac users.

Nee-Dough:

Its… basically a squishy cube, presumably made of something resembling silicone.

Tiktok has been going apeshit over it the last few days, people getting into fights at stores to buy these things.

Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean.

Did you mean to say:

“And need to have the best consumer GPU on the market, to run an LLM.”

… likely alluding to an RTX 5090?

So you would be saying that basically it is bullshit, the idea that everyone needs extremely expensive hardware, to run an LLM?

I’m basically just trying to say that the vast majority of users are very, very stupid, compared to a power user or actual dev.

Just think of everyone who bought beanie babies, funko pops, stanley cups, now I guess its ‘Nee-Dough’ or something.

Thats much closer to ‘the average user’ than you or me.

Marketing is unfortunately not about what you personally gaf about, its about mass appeal, what most people gaf about.

Users are fucking stupid, and will throw a fit over the most banal shit, for no explicable reason beyond ‘thing x gives me the ick’.

Tell a relative normie you use Fedora, they’ll mock you as a reddit dork mall ninja neckbeard.

I propose: WHARGRBL

I got Qwen 3.5 running on a Steam Deck.

It ain’t exactly blazing fast, but it does actually work.

(Reasonably fast if you go down to the 2B param model, I can get the 9B param variant working, though this makes Steam Decky very hot and bothered.)

Yeah, you absolutely do not need Nvidia hardware to run an LLM, but we get blasted with their propoganda suggesting otherwise just all the time in the English speaking West.

Because if you don’t need Nvidia, well, then, this whole AI bubble looks a lot more bubbly.