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Quoting: SlaxerRunning a business may look easy when all you do is look at the highlight reel, but in reality, it's like taking care of a baby that never stops crying.

For the most part, I've been content just to read other people's comments on this topic. However, as a former owner of a small business, I have to agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I committed so many hours in the day to the business that my life was not my own anymore. My marriage nearly failed because I was rarely home and the stress made me a difficult person to live with. The stress levels were taking their toll on me. If you change "business" to an constantly fretful child, everything I've stated above fits.

For some, they believe that wealth is the reward for enduring all that stress. I never got that far. The market changed and my business partner and I saw the writing on the wall. We chose to shut down and walk away while the business was still solvent.

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Quoting: SaladinThey said

Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed

But they give preferential treatment to projects like VS Code, VLC which of course uses AI-generated or AI-assisted code ? So they are not being transparent with the rules, big projects breaking the rules is fine for them but the smaller projects are the ones which will have to comply.

VLC-mediaplayer contains an AI(for generating subtitles), but as far as I can find no AI generated code.

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Quoting: AllocAnd they still claim to be our official wiki while we moved away from them a while ago...

Who is we ?
No seriously who is we in that sentence ?

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Quoting: SlaxerLet's get real here, most of the "eat the rich" sentiment is a result of childish jealousy and comparison. Let's not forget that "rich" is a relative term; if your spawn RNG was good enough to be born in a G7 country, and you have the means to own a PC that's good enough to run a 2026 AAA game on Linux with a fast internet connection, you are already are wealthier than a large chunk of the world's population that can't even afford to eat. Yeah, of course there's some luck involved in living a good life - but so what? It's not reasonable to hate people for it.

Sorry, but that is nonsense. The reason other people have nothing to eat has all to do with capitalism and rich people doing business on the back of others, not paying them enough or protecting people on work place and such. And of course with corruption (also part of "wanna be rich") and some other selfish reasons that are not related to money.

If something is childish jealousy then disrespect people that are arguing seriously about misbehaves without even getting counter arguments.

Everyone says they'd love to be rich, but nobody ever says they want what it takes to get there. Running a business may look easy when all you do is look at the highlight reel, but in reality, it's like taking care of a baby that never stops crying.

Most of the rich are born rich and they also get a company from their parents or at least learn how to build one with a backpack of security, if their startups fail. If you are born with 50 million you don't have to worry about losing 10 million, but if you are born with nothing and have to ask for a credit to even found the most simple company, you may don't even get the credit or you risk to lose everything. There is no much room for "the American Dream".

Money is no tool to share resources in a fair manner, it is a tool to accumulate might. At least in the way it is used in capitalism. Otherwise we would not have most of our problems in the world (5-10% would probably remain due "being human").

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They said

Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed

But they give preferential treatment to projects like VS Code, VLC which of course uses AI-generated or AI-assisted code ? So they are not being transparent with the rules, big projects breaking the rules is fine for them but the smaller projects are the ones which will have to comply.

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Quoting: ArehandoroHe also got rich
- running a shadow gambling empire on Steam with Steam assets.
- being close to power by studying at Harvard(which few have the opportunity to do), while the US military was spending tax paying money to prop up US tech influence.

I think Arehandoro would argue he didn't make his money through work, but enterpreneurship, which would make it bad, since he didn't work for it himself.
I argue that, such an argument underestimates the risks and effort involved in enterpreneurship.

Having said that.
I agree with your issue taking with the attack on his super yacht ownership, without clear explanation what is wrong with it.
Rich people spend lots of money on luxury goods, that's not really the issue.
In an economy without the moat effect of capital this would actually result in trickle down effects.

Let's get real here, most of the "eat the rich" sentiment is a result of childish jealousy and comparison. Let's not forget that "rich" is a relative term; if your spawn RNG was good enough to be born in a G7 country, and you have the means to own a PC that's good enough to run a 2026 AAA game on Linux with a fast internet connection, you are already are wealthier than a large chunk of the world's population that can't even afford to eat. Yeah, of course there's some luck involved in living a good life - but so what? It's not reasonable to hate people for it.

Quoting: ArehandoroAlso I think execution isn't an appropriate way to deal with wealth disparity.

The disparity in wealth has many factors to consider. Tbh, I'd be more interested in the topic of effort disparity - I reckon most of us aren't really trying that hard in the first place. Everyone says they'd love to be rich, but nobody ever says they want what it takes to get there. Running a business may look easy when all you do is look at the highlight reel, but in reality, it's like taking care of a baby that never stops crying.

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

I never understood the "eat the rich" sentiment. I do think corruption, fraud, or unethical business practices need to be called out and held accountable to the law when necessary - however, I don't think that's what we're talking about here, is it?

GabeN got wealthy by:

• Working at Microsoft


• Founding Valve


• Creating Half Life 1 & 2


• Creating Steam


• Creating the Steam Deck\Steam Machine\Proton

At what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

He also got rich
- running a shadow gambling empire on Steam with Steam assets.
- being close to power by studying at Harvard(which few have the opportunity to do), while the US military was spending tax paying money to prop up US tech influence.

I think Arehandoro would argue he didn't make his money through work, but enterpreneurship, which would make it bad, since he didn't work for it himself.
I argue that, such an argument underestimates the risks and effort involved in enterpreneurship.

Having said that.
I agree with your issue taking with the attack on his super yacht ownership, without clear explanation what is wrong with it.
Rich people spend lots of money on luxury goods, that's not really the issue.
In an economy without the moat effect of capital this would actually result in trickle down effects.

One could argue that even among expensive expenses super yachts are extremely bad for the environment, but would that mean that owning a pickup truck should be punishable by flaying.

Also I think execution isn't an appropriate way to deal with wealth disparity.
Land and wealth taxes I've no issue with, just like hightened transparancy requirements, because wealth buys freedom from the law. Also you will hear me arguing for the abolishment of cooperation as juridical persons, because that risks it shields from is exactly what we're rewarding their sponsors for.

Execution is generally counter productive and just mean, also generally it just moves the wealth to inheritors.

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Quoting: SakuretsuWhy is that even treated as actual news?
It's just Tim Swine being a pathetic attention seeker because his games store can't hold a candle to Steam.

Er. I feel better reading that more people share my opinion about him.

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Good. All this vibe coded crap is almost always "I don't know a thing about already existing apps for a problem I encountered during my first week trying it out, so I quickly vibe coded something!" anyways. They don't bring anything new to the table. Just worse versions of what's already possible. Bad copy cats.

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Quoting: SlaxerAt what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

At the moment someone becomes rich that person becomes immoral. Easy as that. Being rich means many people has to become poor in reverse. If every work would get payed fair, nobody could ever become rich. Also rich people have the power to do their own society decisions ... decisions the society should make themself.

And Steam has made my life a little bit worse introducing DRM as a standardized model and taking away the control where I can install my games on my system (my management is different to Valves forced install folder, it also makes backups unnecessary hard to exclude stupid cache files etc). The platform also became some kind of single point of failure. You losing access to your account, you also losing all your games. Good luck getting it back when Steam may enshittificates one day (GabeN does not live forever, other people have to take over at some point).

Game developers also have to give 30% of the income to Valve. 30% for just delivering a download platform. They could take half of it and would become rich. Many indie studios have a hard time just to survive, but 30% makes it much harder. Valve also has very little employees for a company of this size - every employee could be a multi-millionaire so much money Valve gets.

I kinda understand why people are not too upset against him. A lot of stuff the company does is actually good and somehow an exception to the rest of capitalists. But it is definitely not as positive as you and many others want to make him look like. He is still a capitalist with all its cons per default and decisions as supporting Linux are made to save his wealth (because Microsoft could lock him out over time).

And yes, if I would become rich, it would be totally fine to hate me for that, because I would have made others poor in return and would use the power to do society decision, society should do in first place, not me. I am saying this as someone who would even make more progressive decisions as creating open hardware and free software for all products and not just open CAD files for the controller. Not making everything open source also means SteamOS is probably required to build in age verification stuff (unlike other Linux distros).

The truth is, it is not black or white. Being rich itself is an issue, but he also could just abuse the power and creating dirt campaigns on political level and do much worse anti-consumer stuff (DRM or Valves KLAC is anti-consumer, but family share is pro-consumer etc).

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Fixed an issue on certain TCL TVs where the display may remain blank using the Steam Deck Dock

Interesting. I'm having an issue that fits a similar description. I just picked up a refurbished Samsung Odyssey G9 95SC curved ultrawide. The max resolution is far beyond what the older m.2 JSAUX dock can handle. I managed to get it to flicked on momentarily with the desktop being a bit torn up.

I'm wondering if it was why the monitor was replaced in the first place. The TV OS / UI works perfectly fine. Tomorrow I'll try doing a multi input and try to get it to only use half the screen for the Deck at FHD. Then I might order a new dock, maybe not specifically for handhelds, just something that has the i/o & display capabilities I now need. 😅

I'm wondering if I can use a DP & HDMI from another dock into this monitor and configure it to displah half and half. Then, I'd really be like having two monitors in one. lol

Maybe I'll go beta, too. 🤔

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

I never understood the "eat the rich" sentiment. I do think corruption, fraud, or unethical business practices need to be called out and held accountable to the law when necessary - however, I don't think that's what we're talking about here, is it?

GabeN got wealthy by:

• Working at Microsoft


• Founding Valve


• Creating Half Life 1 & 2


• Creating Steam


• Creating the Steam Deck\Steam Machine\Proton

At what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

You might disagree, as people tend to do when ethics and morals are in question, but if you could give away 99% of your wealth to literally feed the starving and still be extremely rich, but you choose not to, many of us think you are immoral. He'd still have more than a hundred million and his lifestyle wouldn't be affected in any way.

He's got the dragon sickness just like the rest of the ultra-rich. Well, you'd never get past "wealthy" if you didn't, I suppose, unless you inherit the hoard.

In the end, a billion dollars (or in his case, multiple billions) is just a ridiculous and frankly pointless amount of money for an individual to have, when it could—and ethically should—be used to help those less fortunate. He'd be no worse off. In fact, he'd be better off in a healthier society and a safer world that he helped create.

I don't hate him and I definitely don't want to eat him, but we'd all live in a much healthier and happier world if people like him weren't so damned greedy and individualistic.

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Quoting: richarson

KDE Plasma updated to version 6.4.3

I'm curious: isn't SteamOS Arch-based?
Why do they use such an "old" Plasma version?

They basically take a snapshot of Arch for upgrades each time, then work to make it as stable as they can before moving onto the next update.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrthis wine version in my case up around 600mb (compiled) compared before version (4.2gb with 11.9 vs 4.8gb in 11.10)

and now in my case begin work this:

😀

How did you have 4.2 GB? Here are sizes of some of my previously compiled wines:

729M    wine-11.6
730M    wine-11.7
730M    wine-11.8
739M    wine-11.10

May be you build stuff without stripping?

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games whose anti-cheats makes them never works in Linux(even with wine/proton) aren't ended up in my Library for whatever reason

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sweeney has a point. the deck is way to expensive now
and i do NOT care that it is sold out... wooooowwww rich people can buy stuff. great. F the poor, who can't afford it anymore!
same with nintendo and the waaayyy too expensive swtich 2 and games!

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

[Although there's historical precedent for that solution,](https://allthatsinteresting.com/johan-de-witt) [the french method seems to be generally dominant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror)

An interesting thing that's not widely recognized is that the Terror did not represent a net increase in executions for France. The thing is that pre-Revolution France had a very punitive justice system, which saw peasants executed in large numbers for trivial crimes, often by methods that included extensive torture. Executing the same number of aristocrats and politicians instead seems like a much bigger deal because they're people that mattered, and because there were far fewer aristocrats so it represented a much bigger proportion of the whole. But they weren't actually killing more people.

To a fair extent the crowds hanging out at the executions, often seen in modern times as a weird morbid expression of the Revolution, were actually the same crowds that already hung out at executions before in France and continued to throughout the same period in England and elsewhere.

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I will add that I didn't even realize Fandom was on that list. Fandom is a plague, and I don't doubt for a second that this will be terrible for Playstack. Remember and tell people that there are browser extensions that provide redirects to better indie wikis if they exist.

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Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

I never understood the "eat the rich" sentiment. I do think corruption, fraud, or unethical business practices need to be called out and held accountable to the law when necessary - however, I don't think that's what we're talking about here, is it?

GabeN got wealthy by:

• Working at Microsoft


• Founding Valve


• Creating Half Life 1 & 2


• Creating Steam


• Creating the Steam Deck\Steam Machine\Proton

At what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

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Quoting: Highball

Quoting: TightRopeI am expecting another sub par product from the Wintel duopoly.
At least more competition is still good for pricing and quality.

Oh, I'm sure they will fuck each other over, as per usual.

Yeah calling wintel a duopoly is an insult to cartels worldwide.
They're two crappy monopolies, which hate each others guts and can't do without each other, because an older monopoly made them reliant on each other.

Microsoft has tried to leave x86 [6 times.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_ARM)(I count the copilot+ pcs as a seperate attempt, because it had extra features.).

Intel treats Linux as a first class citizen by providing open source drivers, patching the kernel and helping to develop compatible open source compilers.

They both fail hard at it, but they really try to kill each other, without committing suicide.

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this wine version in my case up around 600mb (compiled) compared before version (4.2gb with 11.9 vs 4.8gb in 11.10)

and now in my case begin work this:





😀

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KDE Plasma updated to version 6.4.3

I'm curious: isn't SteamOS Arch-based?
Why do they use such an "old" Plasma version?

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Quoting: suchOooh, portable heaters. Noice.

[Intel has actually really really decreased their heat production to the point they're now competitive with the most recent ones in the M series.](https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/panther-lake-is-intels-m1-moment-but-can-it-beat-apple-silicon-we-put-these-new-chips-to-the-test)
AMD did too, but we're talking about intel here.

Turns out the issue wasn't with ARM vs X86, but 7nm vs 1.8nm, which is obvious in hindsight.

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Quoting: StellaIs that really worth doing though? I uploaded logs and gave really detailed information for 3 different games that have issues with Proton. The Witcher 3, Vampyr, Doom TDA. All 3 are Steam Deck Verified. In all 3 reports, i gave detailed repro steps along with proton logs, and the issue was 100% reproducible. In Vampyr, the report was specifically about a regression in Proton 8 or later on the Steam Deck. I have never heard back from Valve on any of these 3 reports. This effort feels like a waste of time now.😫

This. I have a plugin called decky-proton-pulse, and as soon as I started reading this I was excited to maybe work this in some native easy way, but I remembered that so many do these seem to be ignored. Maybe they are not though, and we just don't see what goes in in Valve's world. Perhaps they ingest these etc... for trends and fixes.

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May 01, 2019
Psyonix [Rocket League] is Joining the Epic Family!

"No, really. What does this mean for Rocket League?
In the short term, nothing will change at all! We’re still committed to providing Rocket League with frequent updates that have new features, new content, and new ways to play the game for as long as you’ll have us."

"What happens to the Psyonix team?
We are the same team that we’ve always been, only now, we have the power and experience of Epic Games behind us!"

It's in a corporation's interests to be dishonest and lie to you.

Now that the Linux Gaming community seems like it's getting older, it seems like they are not bamboozled as much.

I remember going solo in opposition to the "Microsoft <3 Linux" campaign reciting 30 years of Microsoft EEE history.

I don't know the particulars around this acquisition, but it feels pointless and scummy to even make a declaration "this is a change in ownership rather than a change in who we are"

This is probably another case of confession through projection, and we know Corpo speak is the inverse of what is stated.

RIP Rocket Leage.

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The duality of man:

• Steam: little-to-no restrictions on what's allowed → "There are too many low-effort games! It's impossible to find anything good to play anymore! They should have restrictions!"


• Flathub: implements restrictions on what's allowed → "They're hostile to developers! They're elitist gatekeepers deciding who gets in! They shouldn't restrict what's allowed!"

If you're in charge of a platform for distributing software – pick your poison, I guess. And best of luck t' ya. 🫡

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYeah, you'll have to excuse me while I do not follow in this particular apocalypse prophecy cult after the last 200 or so also did not come to pass.

I never did myself, but I always was very aligned with natural science. And what's happening is as obvious as not to touch high power electricity and anyone saying the opposite is just an excuse to continue destroying the environment. The data is public, everyone can study it just like free software, because it is free knowledge. Not trusting in science and not checking itself just makes you sound like these people who believe in apocalypse prophecies.

What I am saying is no prophecy. I speak about real data based estimates. They can be less bad or worse ... the data of last 50 years were always too conservative (the real world data became worse). That also shows that we can compare old prediction with real world changes and know how well our year 2100 prediction is working. I usually would not care if it only affects yourself (just like these apocalypse prophets), but we even see (or experience) negative consequences right now.

It's kind of gotten a bit boring, honestly, the constant fear mongering, moralistic finger wiggling and the proselytizing.

It has nothing to do with fear. It is just a reality and I could write you a book and deliver sources from scientists to each single argument I would write. Boring is this "but my car, my AI, my other thing that I really really want to use, no matter what harm I do with it ... I mean I do no harm at all"...

You seem to have accepted already that people are no longer listening, so I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve.
Maybe this is fun to you, in which case: You do you.

I accepted it, yes. But not because a few people do not listening. The main issue is the capitalism. We would not even talk about climate change any more, if we had a less destructive economy system worldwide. All climate change related fake news come from people who want to make money or for those stupid enough to trust them - so called [useful idiots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot).

Why I am still trying to avoid the worst case? Pretty easy: for the principle.
1) I don't want to be guilty and want to say to next generations "sorry, I tried my best, it was just not enough".
2) Who give up already has lost. When I play PvP on games and it is "clear" that my side loses the battle, 1/10 games will still be won, because I never give up. If all people of my team continue trying, we still win every third "lost game". So if I continue to try and enough people continue trying too, the chance to survive as species is not too bad. The damage until this date still persist for ever (species that are dead, stay dead). Also all the other damage that will recover will require thousands of years (even the damage we already did with 1.5K as the increase amount of nature catastrophes per year).
3) Every 0.1K more also makes our own life worse. Foot becomes more expensive, conflicts in the world can increase (climate refugees etc) and things like nature catastrophes will also increase in amount and intense, which also affects my home land. Enough good reasons to continue the fight against stupidity and egoism.

Anyway, that is a bit too off-topic here. The point is: we do not need to avoid LLM everywhere, but the increase in LLM usage this year will exceed 100 Million tons CO2 emission (probably far above) while all green energy that is used for these data centers is not available for other households (so they even green-wash this number). If we would already produce 100% green energy everywhere, LLM would not be such a big issue as is. But we did not even replace oil with electricity..

Does it matter?

Tell you me. I don't rely on LLM right now and my little usage can be done with a local model that costs my own power bill. People who heavily use it to code stuff (which requires the more 'til most potent models) will probably run in more issue if they build their whole workflow around it.

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I work with AI coding for a long time, I was not a coder by trade but I've studied it and I work in tech and have a relatively advanced experience working with computers, and network technology comparable to formally educated people in the industry even though I've been self taught - I've taken it seriously and read textbooks on C, Python, computer hardware, general and vendor specific networking, acquired certifications, work actively on advanced infrastructure, built simple apps, scripts, etc in the past, and now I'm using AI to push the limits of what I can accomplish with my experience and fundamental knowledge.

First of all, I think what flathub is doing is totally fair, reasonable, and respectful. There is absolutely a problem with vibe coders who have little experience, produce things with a poor mental model for design, testing, diagnostics, documentation, and legal considerations. And AI is making it easier for people with less skill (but also people who just have less time!) to get more work done, and they are absolutely poisoning the well and ruining the landscape for everyone. They are not considerate of other people's time, they are egotistical, and overhyped up by their own AI agents reinforcing their own biases.

I completely understand where Flathub is coming from and why they're doing this, but they have set this standard for "mature, well-maintained projects" which to me says "community tested and vetted" among other possible criteria. And that's totally fair.

To me one of the best things about AI is that lazy developers will no longer be able to get away with re-releasing simple applications with new UX every 5 years and selling the same underlying concepts to people over and over, since low hanging fruit will be easier and cheaper to produce - but that also means they will require strong vetting and filtering to qualify which ones really stand out among the crowd.

I have no problem with "letting the code speak for itself" - if I make something good and useful, and it fits well in the systems I built it for, and users find it useful and non-intrusive... That will speak for itself.

Also these comments are full of a lot of alarmism over comments from Flathub like "ethically questionable code". This is not something to be blamed on the LLMs. If you actually create something unique and worthy of being appreciated by a broader community, I assure you there is NO WAY it's going to be "ethically questionable code" - there is nothing wrong with studying available code and documentation under any license, and learning concepts and practices from it, to be implemented in unique ways with unique naming conventions, features, integrations, and issues they're designed to tackle. That's not copyright infringement. The copyright infringement comes when these people who do not understand, or respect the technology ecosystem and the laws within it or the time, effort, and work of others, neglect or outright abuse copyrights and do not honor or attribute others that they took inspiration from. That I believe is the real issue Flathub is addressing when they say that, and I do believe that there are probably a lot of people conducting themselves in such a way.

At the end of the day, I do believe in rights, but I also believe that rights which are abused deserve, and SHOULD be taken away, until the abuse stops, and that is a totally healthy and productive way to deal with exploitation and abuse. If a busy minority in the development community that just arrived with LLMs ready to exploit any and every tiny crack in the tech ecosystem for profit/fame are ruining it for everyone, then GOOD on Flathub for this, and I hope we see more of this.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou do you. 🤷‍♂️

In other words: "I do not take response for my actions and I am fine with being part of the people destroying the planet and killing 95% of all species on earth." 🤦‍♀️ Great to live on costs of those who are not even born... (I did not even say to stop using LLM entirely).

Yeah, you'll have to excuse me while I do not follow in this particular apocalypse prophecy cult after the last 200 or so also did not come to pass.
It's kind of gotten a bit boring, honestly, the constant fear mongering, moralistic finger wiggling and the proselytizing.

You seem to have accepted already that people are no longer listening, so I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve.
Maybe this is fun to you, in which case: You do you.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI did not even say "those who lack the skill", I say those who don't want to lose the benefit of LLMs, but will not be able to pay it any longer, once they have to pay the real costs.

Does it matter?
The outcome is the same - it'll either go away or (more likely) become used a lot less if the costs exceed the use.
Parts of the AI-related issues will definitely resolve themselves.
Others, not so much.

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I think that is a good move.

And is the most sensible thing to do right now.

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