Homo Ludditus

The first time I used LM Studio in February 2025, only to realize that it’s absurd to want to run an LLM locally without a proper GPU and enough VRAM. […]

Lately, I’ve been unusually quiet regarding the evolutions (or involutions) in the Linux ecosystem.

This is an issue I investigated and fixed on August 30.

First, I want to stress that even if the following happened under Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (Version 21H2 Build 19044.7725), nothing is specific to Windows 10 and […]

While I was exasperated by the Sisyphean effort of forming a new government in a certain country, an old thought of mine resurfaced, and it has to do with the […]

On Aug. 27, I started an experiment called Quick Luddite Notes, using the Bear Blog platform.

God help me.

While using chat.qwen.ai in a browser, I noticed an “Upgrade” button to the right of my username.

I never trusted any “meta” package managers that try to integrate all types of packages into a unified GUI.

It’s an open secret that AI-generated fake artists are disrupting the music industry, and that the public is stupid enough to enjoy AI-generated music.

Spre deosebire de ramolitul de Geoffrey Hinton și de traumatizatul de Jacob Coxon, Răzvan Rughiniș tot nu crede în apocalipsa AI.

I’m not in a good mood, and I tend to feel this way whenever operating systems or software are annoying me.

I ended my previous post in this series, ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?

I’m so sick of this new hysteria!

Before commenting on something that the AP Stylebook’s Facebook account posted yesterday, I’ll show you a grammar question I recently asked Gemini because it’s relevant in this context: Now, to […]

Instead of focusing on speeding up the release of the Ubuntu 26.04-based Linux Mint 23, which currently has an ETA for Christmas and will certainly be a pack of bugs, […]

Someone commented on an old post of mine, AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples), which made me aware of this project: Anylinux AppImages.

That would be Eric Schmidt’s opinion in the WSJ: Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming.

Întrebare: cum se chema în Franța, imediat după război, planul care hotărea ce tip de autovehicule să fabrice marii producători?

Dacă mai aud sau citesc de multe ori tâmpenia asta, mă isterizez!

I should have written this post a week ago, but it got postponed.

There was absolutely no time synchronization issue in my Debian XFCE installed from xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso, but I was made aware that in Xebian, trying to use the “Time and Date Settings” […]

I didn’t notice that the Flash version had changed from 3.7 to 3.8 when I first asked Gemini a question earlier today.

I have held a grudge against IMAX, so I put an argument “on paper” (so to speak) and fed it to Gemini and Qwen.

While I was fighting an unexpected cold (smart people catch colds in summer), I was disappointed by two stupidities regarding the Debian Project.

ComicStripBrowser 3.0.0 is out on GitHub, with packages and binaries on SourceForge, too!

So many blogs from Kagi Small Web are powered by Herman’s ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear.

I started this post about ten days ago and posted an initial version on August 16.

Ludditus: Dear Alice, why is macOS designed so stupidly?

Din sutele de interacțiuni pe care le am în fiecare lună cu Gemini, ChatGPT și Qwen, prea puține ajung să fie menționate în spațiul public (mai postez câte ceva pe […]

While I was busy procrastinating and not finishing other tasks, I still had time to pick a few links from the past few days: 4 from Kagi’s Small Web and […]

Firefox 154 on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 Build 19044.7663.

This is a quick-and-dirty complement to my post in Romanian, În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană.

I wrote about Lumo in August 2025, then in October, with occasional updates as comments on the respective posts.

I might look like an ass, but I’m sick of the war in Ukraine, which is also in Russia these days.

Not long ago, ZDF broadcast an 18-minute documentary titled Warum sich Siemens gerade für immer verändert (“Why Siemens is changing forever right now”).

Unii cretini mă iau la pulă (în comentarii pe care nu le aprob) când postez conversații cu chatboți, dar această discuție este informativă și nu am detectat halucinații în ea. […]

Discuția cu Gemini se poate citi și aici.

Not my usual self, but consistent with it, I hereby offer a collection of news and comments related to Linux.

If you have never heard of Kagi’s Small Web, read my post from the 10th of May.

I have used OpenAI’s Whisper a couple of times, with satisfactory results.

There are very few mainstream sources one can trust when it comes to AI, and the NYT recently proved it’s not one such source.

Odyssey Linux is a Void-based distro that seems to be the result of some heavy work by a single person.

As someone wrote about it, The cast marshaled for this movie is an embarrassment of riches: Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Mia […]

I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it.

A chat with Gemini, what else?

Phoronix, yesterday: KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times: Oh, my.

At first, I couldn’t stay awake, so I took a forced nap.

« It is not because you are / I love you because I do / C’est pas parce que you are me / Qu’I am you, qu’I am you » (Renaud).