I think that LLMs should not be allowed to say "I". It should always be in third person. Instead of "I can write this for you" it should say "This machine can write this for you" or with a store front name "Google can write this for you". To operate on a given text or while generating texts it should divide what is meta from what is direct. This generated text "quote" should be styled different, a bit boring: smaller text and maybe monospace. There should be a clear divide between the machine conversation part and its workable output. If one converses with the machine it should not answer in the first person, because it is not a person.
Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.
I think that I and all non-technical folks around me experience issues with applications performance daily. I think that sometimes "making it work" should include some particular performance metrics. If it is not fast enough it doesn't really work. Now "fast enough" is something to be defined and different depending on the application part.
Far too often I see applications that assume low latency and unbreakable Internet connection. They seem to do almost no caching at all. For example thumbnails.
Also many of applications will be almost unusable (or trigger OOM) when you try to work with a big file. Sometimes a big file has merely tens of MB, sometimes problems start with a 3MB file. Those are the issues that occur without thinking about performance from the start - memory is free, you can copy things around, everything will fit in RAM.
One more thing. When your application consists of a client and a server it may turn out that you will put yourself in a corner when not thinking about performance early on. Everything will work without any troubles at first and then it turns out there are some latency issues with more data and you can't easily upgrade the client for example. Or you had an architecture that allows to spin up more servers and handle the load closer to the client, but it can cut your margins.
I must check whether placing a mouse on laptop's screen would work. As the screen blanks out would it register as a move and the system would not lock itself?
I am sure that there will be a successful counter-culture. I do not have Suckless folks in mind or others that are minimalist and Unix philosophy above all. Don't get me wrong - I like most of their software, but I'm too lazy to be a purist. I would love to see more GUIs augmented by command line, but with a bit more GUI and mouse then the latter. I think I'm not alone, but a movement or a desktop environment that unites people thinking in that similar way is not there yet. I'm sure it will come.
I have some of my code BSD0 licensed (in practice public domain). One thing that I'm vary of regarding Copilot is: what would happen if my code would become a part of some proprietary code by a big multinational corporation and then they would DMCA me out? I'm a bit in the middle of a digital housekeeping and I think I will move my code somewhere else, because of it.
Which Thinkpad? I want to find a use for my old Thinkpad T42p, however its disk does not work or it's the IDE controller or the plug. I still wonder what to do with it.
When I had two identical big monitors with thin bezels I placed them side by side vertically. Then I had one marvelously big almost square monitor. In Windows it was not ideal, but workable. It not always worked as a single stretched space for everything, i.e. I had two task bars. If I could run Linux then I imagine there would be no problems also tiling window manager could be perfect.
I can add that I'm not much of a photographer, but it started to interest me with possibilities. It has very nice interface with a touchscreen - it is very intuitive (i.e. touch to focus on specific part, pinch to zoom in the gallery). But I think that most things can still be done via buttons. One thing that I don't like in the UI/UX department is that after I've done an update of the firmware I no longer see names of various modes. At least you can see the name of the current mode when you turn it on. But after a while you get used to it.
I plan to buy a telephoto lens to it some day, but I'm good as it is.
From what I remember reading the difference in contusions is visible between barefoot running and proper shoes. I don't remember which had which, but it was like one prevents Achilles tendon from injury and the other from ankle injury. It would depend on the person what would be better. As they say - choose your poison.
In shops near me I can buy now pretty cheap led ceiling/wall lamps that come with a remote. You can change intensity and light temperature, but there are also full RGB models. I like it that it's dumb otherwise.
Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.