This isn't even isolated to the online world. I still remember when I presented my Honours project for University and the "demo" consisted of a few Debian VMs running on my laptop to serve as a facsimile of a compute cluster. An attendee (a respected industry representative) openly and publicly mocked me for not using RHEL or CentOS - despite the fact I'd already explained the implementation was distro-independent.

There's a degree of smug arrogance that's quite pervasive in tech fields, but the desktop Linux community seems to be an outlier even among that. I'm unsure how much of it is lack of social awareness, or neurodivergence, or what, but it's exhausting and it's a big reason why I (also a desktop Linux user) don't really engage in those communities.

LLMs have neither intelligence nor problem-solving abillity (and I won't be relaxing the definition of either so that some AI bro can pretend a glorified chatbot is sentient)

You would, at best, be demonstrating that the sharing of knowledge across multiple disciplines and nations (which is a relatively new concept - at least at the scale of something like the internet) leads to novel ideas.

Congratulations, you've reinvented the history book (just with more energy consumption and less guarantee of accuracy)

a) just because some people are miserable at work, doesn't mean we shouldn't care that other people might become miserable at work

b) Someone saying they prefer their food to be made without suffering is clearly a hypocrite in all cases because... there are miserable people in fast food jobs?

I mean... really. Come on now.

Also, the core point is about people being able to find meaning in their work. That you've decided to laser in on this specific point to go on a tangent of whattaboutism is largely irrelevant.

Have a nice day.

I am hoping the latter. Being foolish is far more temporary a condition than being cruel.

You might indeed be shocked to find that not everyone consumes fast food.

https://buildings.honeywell.com/au/en/products/by-category/b...

You've got two companies that basically built their entire business upon stealing people's content, and they've given you a piece of paper saying "trust me bro".

In America, the lead pipes of their empire are the literal lead pipes still in use all over the country.