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If there's a market for christian shit i'm sure he'll capture it

There is and he absolutely will. The market for "Christian" specific everything is huge. People that buy that sorta shit also generally don't know what a good product actually is so costs can be cut and noone's the wiser.

If this counts as good marketing I'd advise looking for another career

I've installed Arch a dozen times at least over the years on various machines.

First off, some advice. People will tell you to watch videos or read some specific guide, and by all means do so to get an overview of the process, but I'd highly recommend double-checking everything against the official install guide. It's fairly terse but contains everything you need to do, and if you research the topics you don't understand you'll learn a lot quickly. This is best done in a virtual machine the first time unless you have a spare machine laying around.

Overall, it amounts to creating the install medium, booting it, any post boot configuration (including networking), partitioning and mounting your disk(s), writing some config files and installing the base packages and a bootloader, plus anything else you may need or want. I'm glossing over a lot of individual steps and "anything you may need or want" is essentially endless, but you get the point.

Overall it's involved but not terribly difficult. Like I think others have said, fairly similar to building a desktop from parts. Gentoo is a step up, and installing Linux From Scratch another few steps above that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#/media/File%3AMillipede_centipede_side-by-side.png

Assuming this is actually representative of the difference, it was definitely a pair of centipedes.

I'm not surprised in the least that at a minimum it's more complicated than the meme suggests, and now I've learned far more about centipedes than I ever wanted to. Thanks!

Ok now I'm curious about what the fuck the two centipedes I found in my basement that I thought were fucking were actually doing. They sure looked like they were fucking.

Have you tried factory resetting?

I have some and use it occasionally. I think I did 50/50 by weight and that wasn't my favorite, taste wise, but I was going for fiber content primarily. I might have to try 15% and see how that goes, given what some people have said.

And they told you no, and you went online to write an angry screed about the wrong organization (the organization that pays GNU's bills btw)?

Maybe go fix the problems they pointed out to you and then remove any code you didn't personally write or have appropriate permission to use and resubmit it. If you really want to work with them, you need to meet them where they are. They've almost certainly been doing this longer than you've been alive (same for me tbf, I'm not that old), and while they're not perfect they write good code.

Maybe it doesn't need to be.

I'm not going to say AI is completely useless, because it's objectively not. I've heard it's incredibly helpful in pharmaceutical development and science and shit like that.

LLMs are fancy autocomplete. They guess the most likely next word, based on some fancy-ass math I can't claim to attempt to understand. They don't understand the code, or anything really. It's all math and weighted probabilities internally. How can something that doesn't understand what it's actually saying write good, usable, actually correct code all of the time? Sometimes it gets lucky and you get a working snippet, or it rips off someone else's code (possibly verbatim), and sometimes it just generates nonsense.

I've had the last option happen to me personally. I asked it to generate a script in Home Assistant (fantastic software by the way) to dim my lights automatically over half an hour. It worked, sometimes, but the math that actually stepped the light down in brightness wasn't correct and the script failed intermittently.

Maybe it can help write boilerplate, but realistically there will be additional errors inserted and it will require an actual living breathing human to fix.

This is also entirely beside the point that I think you're mixing up the FSF and GNU project. They're related but not actually the same. The FSF is fundraisers and lawyers, GNU writes code. That might be why FSF never responded, though to be perfectly honest given what you've said, GNU will likely want nothing to do with it if it's tainted with AI-generated code. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen (literally) for no benefit from their perspective.

What exactly do you think the FSF is going to do? Their focus is on lobbying and legal action afaik.

That is an impressive grade of bullshit.

How well has that particular excuse worked with law enforcement in the past?

The poem written on Lady Liberty's base bears repeating, I think.

The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"