AI slop

Statistically most likely random answer

I would think Reticulum would be a good fit

At SolarWinds, he took a leadership role in the firm’s nascent Cloud business division of SaaS offerings built for developers/operators working on modern, cloud-native architectures.

Hmmm…

A SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a U.S. federal government data leak in 2020. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure.[7] In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen”.[8]

To be clear, this is when yall were still reading the code, right?

We have well and truly lost the plot.

Speed of slop-generation is not really the critical barrier here. We’re already generating more synthetic text than humanity can possibly verify.

Maybe through CXL you’ll be able to “download more RAM” (renting it, really)

They don’t want to save capitalism. They believe capitalism is about to be over, and they want to be in control of whatever it is that comes next.

They’re worried they’re not spending enough on AI.

Classic MLM tactics. “If you’re not seeing a return on Herbalife, it’s cuz you’re not spending enough on it!”

Money is fine. Financialization is not.

Slavery

Don’t trust internet strangers to weigh in on this. Talk to a therapist or someone you trust to thoroughly consider the details that you haven’t (and shouldn’t) share here. Without the details, we’re just guessing, but even then a single post-and-reply exchange is not a good substitute for a full IRL conversation.

The real question is all the stuff beyond just having the distro installed. The packages, the services, the configs, the application data.

If you leave all that stuff the way it was installed via the old package manager, it may have some bad assumptions baked in and may be incompatible with packages you install with the new package manager.

And if you clear all of it out and reinstall it, have you really gained anything vs. just doing a clean install?

There’s a reason you have a home dir. Just copy that forward along with whatever other config files you might’ve customized.

Btw, if the ability to make drastic changes while still maintaining continuity is an important feature for you, maybe check out NixOS.