Too late. Didn't have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I'm job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.

It was an internship and I didn't plan on staying but once I got called in the manager's office. He asked me if I were doing some industrial spying . At that point in life all I wanted was to go home and play some games for the rest of summer until university starts over.

He threatened me he could see everything I did on my computer and asked me if he should look it up. To which I said go ahead you'll find my job.

Couple days later I arriver exactly 3 minutes lates because of public transportation issue. I used to arrive 15 minutes early everyday because my transport schedule was that way. I got summoned again to tell me to leave earlier.

I told all that to my university and they decided to blacklist the company. Being that my university was part of a .bigger network, their behaviour led them to be cut off from the biggest local intern pool.

No idea why they were so annoying, I wasn't even browsing Reddit on their computer back then and used my phone for that kind of stuff. No idea what lead them to think I'd steal data. I don't even know if they have competitors haha

I think it's still a migration of a rather knowledgeable part of the windows users. I did migrate a year ago because of frustrations from windows pop ups showing up like they own the computer.

I a still reluctant to recommend it to my partner who is comfortable with windows but not really techy. As long as Linux works, it works. But when you need something a bit more involved or something breaks, the terminal will be harder for those users who might not have ever opened CMD in windows.

Just jump. I went Linux a month ago and never had to go back for gaming. I still have windows installed but I've used it only twice because music plugins are not compatible with Linux. Once I find a good guitar amp for my needs I can nuke windows entirely.

Same thing for translation. They replaced us with AI and ask us to proofread and correct the mess for 1/4 the price. I stopped my translation career over this.

Yes, and even among other generations, AI isn't acclaimed and well received by everyone, made evident by the number or sabotage news I've seen recently.

Went from 35h/week to 40. It's made my life so much more complicated because everything is closed when I'm finally free. I have to take from my holidays to get my car repaired.

I was driving with Waze once, on the highway but first gear like 10km/h because trafic. A popup came and I wanted to discard it because I was nearly at my turn and didn't want to lose it so I pushed the cross. By the small time I spent doing this, I was already going sideways off my lane.

Lesson learned. Next time it happens I'd rather stay in my lane and take the next exit. But fk the people putting Ads in my car. Let me focus.

Translator here. Beware of translation tools. It's fine for personal use and basic understanding but it's not up to the task for the translation of complex stuff or technical stuff. It's good at creating text that looks legit but can sometimes contain critical errors.

I once worked on a medical device and used machine translation to test it. The text was fine but some numbers were changed. This is a huge error.

I agree so much. It feels like I "understand" how a computer talks and interacts as opposed to most people I work with just learn processes by heart and have no clue what to do once their process breaks.

Non preachy vegans don't tell they are vegan unless the conversation goes that way. Why would you? I don't care what you eat and I know you don't care what I eat.

Preachy vegans also annoy other non preachy vegans. And the one example of preachy I knew was not a good vegan.

My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.

They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.

It's not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.

But money saved is money so they did it anyway.

Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.

Some people don't do AI for money, there's a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That's easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn't help at all.

I've had the desire to leave for a while, that's why I thought creating a linux server to self host apps with my former gaming PC would be a great way to get started with Linux and learn the basics while still relying on Windows for my main stuff for a while.

Games were my last point of resistance, but I don't play as much anymore so I think I should just take the plunge.

Can you elaborate the /home on a different partition part? How do you split your partition and does it mean you can switch distro and still have your stuff laying around as if you plugged an external disk?

Another reason I discovered recently. I work at home on a company laptop. Can't do shit with it so I listen to music via my phone or personal desktop. I tried using Bluetooth gear but realised quickly that if someone called me on teams/Skype or whatever, switching device with Bluetooth is tedious and slow. Wired stuff goes out and in, boom. Oh and none of my computer's have a usb c port despite one being fairly new (2021).

Have you tried putting your search between " " ? It usually helps improve my results.

There's a very old saying that I think was attributed to a Roman leader which went something like "Games and bread", humans have been easy to swat for a very long time.

Also, it was full of knowledge that has been deleted. I'm starting my Linux journey and every error I get has at least one Reddit post about it. Most answers are deleted and I have to go on other sites.

I'd say we did lose a lot. It's akin to an autodafé.

No, it's on the awesome self hosted list. It's a great simple recipe manager, shopping list. Nice ui. My wife uses it to meal prep and I'm trying to understand grocy to speed up the process of checking what we need to buy.

Oh she's defrosted alright. My company sent the memo to start playing the Xmas playlist starting today, for 50% of tracks. Then December up to 100%. I'm happy I'm WFH and can listen to whatever I like.

Ha, yes! I actually divided it up into 5 parts on Substack but I wasn't sure how to approach this on Lemmy because I didn't want to spam 5 posts in a row, and I understand people wouldn't like me promoting Substack. But then I didn't really know how best to share it. How and where would you have preferred reading it?