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When the code your have to deal with is an ASP (not .NET) created by apes throwing shit in a wall, the kind of holistic bullshit an AI makes is an improvement.

Single function text prediction, class boilerplate, some refactoring.

It's decent when you inherit outrageously bad legacy code and you want better comments and variable names than "A, x, i", etc.

You do have to do it within an editor that highlights all changes so you can carefully review, though.

Not so much a productivity boost, but rather a bad intern you can delegate boring, easy tasks to. I'd rather review that kind of code than write it, but of you're the other way around, it's a punishment.

the system “functioned as intended,” [...] Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement

"We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student", says the community elected school board. "We believe that's what our racist constituents want", they continued.

Okay but where do I source the bear bones?

This, but unironically. Resistance takes all forms.

You set a wallpaper?

Good news for the state of Hawai'i

Mint does get security backports, mind you. I've been using using Linux on and off for almost 30 years now. Mint is awesome. But if you're feeling the itch, GI for it, there might be something that fits you better out there.

My Google fu these days is crap. But the concept is this:

1. Get an external HD, format it to ext4.
2. Copy your /home to it.
3. Make a backup of anything else you find valuable.
4. Use the distro installer to erase your / filesystem and create another in its place with Btrfs and at least two volumes: one @home and one @.

Instead of relying on the installer for that (many nowadays are simplified and don't offer much options), I like to use a live GParted ISO. The live GParted is a disk recovery/maintenance mini distro that has friendly graphical tools. You put it on a thumb drive keep it around just in case. And it can be used to create new filesystems like above.

Oh, BTW, keep your LVM+LUKS encryption setup. Not a time to be messing with that.

I'd take this opportunity to move /home too its own place. A volume on Btrfs sounds good.

The magic smoke came out, it don't work without it.

Mushrooms grow up. And some towards the light.