“Are you still thinking for yourself, or are you already prompting?” is essentially the cry directed at people, especially students, when it comes to so-called future skills. This ignores the fact that all engagement with probability simulation, hyped up without any critical examination of the artifacts it produces, is tantamount to intellectual self-abandonment for well-trained thinking. “Prompting,” a cheap shortcut for the effort of thinking and learning, as the AI industry’s marketing endlessly spins into us with promises of supposedly more efficient goal achievement, obscures the banal but effortful fact that thinking is more than simply commissioning and outsourcing effort; effortless thinking, i.e., thinking without effort, is no thinking at all. There’s a reason why the human brain is the biggest energy consumer in the human organism. Without effort, there is no thinking and no learning. Anything that promises us faster and better results by bypassing our thinking leads us to self-dumbing down, to intellectual and, as a rule, also physical dependence. Aside from the fact that the probability-based simulations of AI-generated results are anything but reliable, often entirely or partially fantasized by inanimate, meaning-agnostic algorithms, and frequently leave us with more work to do in retrospect than it would have taken to think through the solution ourselves in the first place. Another crucial aspect is that so-called AI works retrospectively, forced by its very inanimate nature to rely on past solutions for its calculations. This is why AI only provides a jumble of past results. The human brain, on the other hand, expands upon this with the prospective capacity to imagine possible solutions and weigh them against each other.
So far, AI is good as a fast indexing and analysis machine for knowledge libraries—nothing more, but also nothing less. AI is about as far removed from intelligence as the sum total of its blind apologists, who are currently integrating AI as a promising, all-purpose tool into everything from social control to toothbrushes. Understanding that this carries risks doesn’t actually require AI, even for Prompter.
Yes there was study results with students with uses AI and students who didn’t uses AI. Guess who was better on Exams results:) I use promts here on forum search yes but I don’t like AI and even don’t trust them anyway. It can just go in the past for results, also it is only good like it is coded.What happening if they got coded to lying and people believing in it . Their was a story here who a Woman wants a divorce because AI said of her typed mad thought her husband is cheating
Other Example “The Google effect from a doctor’s paper in 2011 "
Well, from my experience…if your on engineering degree #4 and your suffering burn out and cannot take a break or your credits expire, your going to need some help from AI weather you like it or not. It isn’t pretty, I get it…it’s just survival
I have no idea why the first article which is a post about a new Rust browser was flagged.
The second video I posted was from this channel https://www.youtube.com/@YouTuxChannel/videos - it’s a channel by an Italian guy who uses an artificial voice and he doesn’t try to hide it - see the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3WUN2bsI4o
His videos relate to all things Linux and are always well thought out and presented. He may use a form of auto dub on his voice, but his videos are anything but AI slop. Anyone who watches his videos will know this.
Anyway, since anyone can flag any of the many posts I’ve made here over the years I’ll call it quits. I see no point in posting articles or videos which people assume are of no interest and flag the post.
I’ll keep using Garuda Linux, but I’ll now do it passively.
I would regret having to do without your posts.
I don’t want to offend anyone or devalue other users’ contributions, as there are many excellent posts, but yours are the main reason I visit this thread every day.
It was not my intention to rock the boat, but I felt there was nothing wrong with the articles that were flagged and I was miffed. Anyway, I have now cooled down and will be happy to resume the posting of articles when I find something of interest. Many thanks for the positive comments posted above.
New research provides evidence that using artificial intelligence to complete tasks can improve a person’s performance while simultaneously distorting their ability to assess that performance accurately. The findings indicate that while users of AI tools like ChatGPT achieve higher scores on logical reasoning tests compared to those working alone, they consistently overestimate their success by a significant margin.
This pattern suggests that AI assistance may disconnect a user’s perceived competence from their actual results, leading to a state of inflated confidence.
But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare.
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are reportedly planning to raise server memory prices by up to 70 percent this quarter, according to Korea Economic Daily. Combined with 50 percent increases in 2025, this could nearly double prices by mid-2026.
At the heart of the cases is the fact that most smart TVs use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to send rapid-fire screenshots back to company servers, where they are analyzed to finely detail your TV usage. This sometimes covers not just streaming video, but whatever apps or external devices are displaying, and the allegations are that every other bit of personal data the set can scry is also pulled in.
IOne can use any number of login managers with Plasma, but by default Plasma ships SDDM. I’m assuming once the new KDE login manager is ready for primetime they will at some point switch out SDDM for the new one. I would think Arch and its derivatives would follow suite.
Enlarging the picture in the linked article I notice one major omission. The plasma login screen seems to be missing the onscreen keyboard login option. If appearances are correct, this is another huge step backwards for those requiring desktop accessibility features.
If the onscreen keyboard support is missing from Plasma Login Manager, then that would be a hard pass for me. KDE has already reduced accessibility options greatly with Plasma 6/Wayland IMO, we don’t need to lose even more (with little obvious gain).
KDE is really starting to piss me off with their removal of many accessibility features.
My knowledge to Plasma Login Manager:
After install you can enable this over Plasma-Systemsettings (tested inside vm in sommer 25, but this was beta status) or over /etc/plasmalogin.conf.
If not… then real …
