Link to my comment, so that I don't repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256417

I found the AVP fun at first, but then after a few days it started to get more and more annoying- whereas the Vitures were a bit annoying at first, but then just became amazing after my eyes/brain got used to them. Almost overnight.

Niri makes a huge difference. As does something like this https://github.com/boomskats/woahland

> That's a different problem entirely and predates the recent GenAI craze.

From the perspective of respecting the reader's time and attention, I see it as almost exactly the same problem, which is why I made that comparison when answering your question.

> ...People like yourself moaning...

Seeing as you conveniently linked to the HN commenting guidelines, I suggest you take another look at them, maybe focusing your attention on the ones closer to the top of the list, and then re-read the comment you just posted.

Case in point, the HN post you're commenting on is a link to their support forum. Search for _anything_ there, and this the pinned article that appears on top of every results page (from feb 2024):

> Is your Operating System supported by ISE/Vivado tools? Assistance and support won’t be provided for software and IP installed on unsupported OS!

> Note: Technical Support and assistance will be provided ONLY for Software and IP installed on supported Operating System!

> It is strongly suggested to check if the OS you are working with, is one of the supported operating system for ISE/Vivado tools!

*There have been many questions where users are trying to install or run into issues with using an unsupported OS for ISE/Vivado tools.*

> Assistance and support won’t be provided for issues observed on unsupported operating system!

> For the list of supported OSs for ISE 14.7, please check page #7 of UG631: https://docs.xilinx.com/v/u/en-US/irn

Platform support != customer support. Search that forum and you'll see. I imagine their paying customers are rejoicing at this decision.

Disagree.

Just like those spam 'articles' that may at their core be interesting or have some value - but force you to click past 4 ads and scroll over/filter out another 17 just to extract the promised value - noticing that content you're consuming is obviously AI generated results in two things:

1. resentment that your time and attention was wasted by machine generated word-padding, and

2. a loss of confidence in the accuracy of the information presented

Haha, you just perfectly described every porsche dealership employee I've ever met.

For any linux folk who haven't tried something like this yet, keyd and wtype are what I settled on, having tried the kmonads, interceptiontools, xscapes, kanatas, etc. (though I've been meaning to try kanata out again now it's a bit more mature)

I'd like to hear you say that once you've searched for a replacement for that 4.5u spacebar, or for Justin's mini-ADA profile f-key keycaps :)

1. The Xilinx team are pushing back on the increasing number of things they have to support. Silver lining, maybe this means they're being asked to work on a new product that will require redistribution of headcount (like maybe another NPU )

1.1. Their Linux expertise is lacking / stretched across multiple teams (this is the impression I got from following the work in github.com/amd/xdna-driver over the last year or two). Maybe this is the outcome of a 'these are the things i'm doing now, so if you want me to do something new then tell me which of these things I can drop' type conversation & where the pushback is coming from (maybe we'll get some fedora support in that repo though ) .

2. Marketing have been pushing for something that helps them 'fight the AI fight', and it may be that they've now been given the mandate so the division is in the midst of the typical top-down mythical man-day reallocation wave. Xilinx have probably been told that priorities are shifting towards integrating more of the Xilinx inference tech with more mainstream AMD products, possibly at the expense of their existing roadmap. Xilinx have tenured employees who know what they're doing and don't want to retrain/change, so this is a side-effect of the pushback.

3. This is a straight-up monetisation strategy. Marketing ran a project and concluded thta it's just not worth supporting that lower tier for free. It may be that even though have a majority Windows userbase, the [commercially serious | higher stakes | CICD pipeline based] development actually happens on Linux, and this is them closing that loop. Not quite a Docker Desktop situation, but maybe not that dissimilar - they're saying that most professional/commercial users are Linux users, and the days of unlimited free commercial use on the smaller devices are over. Maybe the margins on those lower end devices aren't good enough to justify the amount of support overhead, and pay-to-play will filter out the noise and ensure they're talking to users who are already bought-in. Or, maybe somebody just needs an earnings blip on a slide somewhere, and this is them milking their startup/smb customers.

My guess is it's all of the above.

Now I'm wondering if putting a bean on the knob would be taking it too far.

There are a lot of people here complaining about AI and Google and Android and Ads and clothes and marketing and whatever. I'm assuming a lot of that is HN anti-AI derkaderbs bias, with some Apple/Google tribalism for good measure. Yeah Gemini might be shite at writing code, but Gemini Web / Android is by far the best executed and most useful conversational/consumer AI assistant out there (at least in my experience, it's not even close).

I'm not a Google fan by any means, but credit where credit is due, I don't see a timeline where they don't end up completely owning genpop consumer AI. The more I think about that the more convinced I am, and the more I feel uncomfortable.

Which makes it even more of a shame that Sam Altman is such a psychopathic jackass.