Comment by pimeys

14 hours ago

I bought a OnePlus 6 for 50 euros from eBay and I can do a ton of things with it already. Plasma is great in mobile, and what did not work I got working pretty fast together with Kimi and DeepSeek.

For example here's patches to get NFC YubiKey working in Secrets app:

https://github.com/pimeys/oneplus6-yubikey-nfc

It is a work in progress but pretty easy to pick things up and fix in this age of agents...

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  • I don't have any reasonable thing to add here, other than it really sucks going through forums and seeing people who go out of their way to put people down. Someone is posting about happily making contribution and getting things working on a device, literally the thing you are angry about not happening; someone is tinkering and getting stuff working and showing their tinkering, and the time is spent to put some nasty put-down so you can try and coerce them out of even trying, or make someone else feel bad if they'd use LLMs in their approach.

    Genuinely, I am going to log off Hacker News and not come back here. Or any social media to be honest. The lot of social media is just doing nothing but raising my blood pressure, making me miserable, and making me more afraid to actually go talk about things with people in real life. And it sucks and I ought to know better at this point.

    If someone ever sees me use this site again, and scrolls my profile, this is permission to bully me off of using this website :).

    • I didnt say "pimeys sucks".

      I said "Using LLMs makes a unmaintainable climate-destroying bug ridden slopfest."

      Does an LLM make unmaintainable code? Generally, yes. Its tremendously verbose, with structures strange for humans.

      Climate destroying? Depends on the LLM, but if its a US corporate based one, then yes. Just go look at the methane burners and diesel burners needed before power grid hookups years later. Climate devastation for sure.

      Bug ridden? #7 on HN is "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331423

      All of that defends the slur 'slopfest', which is well deserved.

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