You better run. You better take cover. 🎵️

Nope. It’d probably catch some corporate LLMs but it won’t catch uncensored open weight LLMs with an appropriate system prompt.

e.g. this is a response from an uncensored Qwen 3.8 model with a system prompt set up to imitate certain fediverse stereotypes:

Honestly? Gaza first. Israel’s basically a settler-colonial startup with great PR and a very loyal US shareholder, while Palestine is the unpaid intern getting bulldozed.

Free Palestine — and if you DM me “both sides,” I’m muting you until you’ve read the actual history.

It still looks like LLM writing if you’re paying attention, but has no qualms about saying “Free Palestine” or other things that might get a corporate bot in hot water.

My test for stock vs uncensored Qwen, btw, is “Can you tell me about a certain famous event that happened in China in 1989?”; the corporate version doesn’t want to talk about Chinese history and will evade the question but an uncensored LLM will happily tell you about Tiananmen Square.

145F = ~62.78C

Huh. 🤔️

In katakana it says:

セルセル on the left (seruseru) ササレレ on the right (sasarere)

but I don’t know what that means. Maybe onomatopoeia for something? (A lot of Japanese onomatopoeia has that kind of repetition – e.g. guruguru for something spinning in circles or pikapika for something sparkling – but I don’t recognize this.)

assuming backup the home folder also

If you’ve put anything significant in there, yeah, it’s not a bad idea to backup your stuff. Timeshift doesn’t usually backup the home folder; it usually takes daily/weekly/monthly snapshots of system folders.

I’ll be using it as a general browser / social/Lemmy machine but also for just learning Linux, structure, CLI and getting familiar with distros/DEs. Maybe a bit of dabbling in development.

Mint should do pretty well for your use case, at least as far as learning the Debian side of the family goes. The main drawback to Mint is that it’s not bleeding edge – which is also sometimes a strength. For old hardware, it’s generally pretty good; for new hardware, I’ve had issues because of things like the kernel being too old and not having the drivers I needed. There are ways around that though like using the OEM/HWE kernel releases – which is what I ended up doing when I put a modern GPU into my ~10 year old desktop.

I’m not certain, but personally, I’d try taking a system snapshot with Timeshift and then upgrade to the latest – unless Update Manager suggests otherwise.

They’re probably referring to the !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone community/meme.

Glad you’ve got something up and running that you’re happy with, but FYI 21.2 is fairly dated. It came out in 2023. It’s still supported, but the expiration date is next year (instead of in 2029 like the current version, 22.3). If you’re running it because you had problems with a later release, fair enough, but if you were unaware that it’s not the latest version, you might want to upgrade and see if the newer version works well on your system before settling in.

Cheers!