I don’t need ChatGPT.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
This.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
And, unlike ChatGPT, their replies are correct. And come with a lot of accurate citations.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I wish it was like that for me! Last week I posted a question about making a bot and no one answered. I included relevant hashtags even.

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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I highly recommend asking Mastodon if you're a #Linux noob like me. Online forums are really mean to noobs, and it's hard to just get a damned answer to your question there. People on here are way nicer and more helpful.
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@skinnylatte I highly recommend asking Mastodon if you're a #Linux noob like me. Online forums are really mean to noobs, and it's hard to just get a damned answer to your question there. People on here are way nicer and more helpful.
@RachelThornSub @skinnylatte Honestly, it depends. One of the reasons why I love BSD and #Gentoo is that the BSD and Gentoo communities are *very* inviting and there are (almost) no questions considered "too dumb".
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte
And if someone hallucinates bullshit into your replies, there are at least other people who'll know that it's bullshit and tell you that. -
@skinnylatte
And if someone hallucinates bullshit into your replies, there are at least other people who'll know that it's bullshit and tell you that.I think this XKCD sums it up perfectly -
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte
And that is soooo fabulous!! -
Now I'm curious, but I couldn't find it by quickly looking up in your profile.
@jaBote @skinnylatte most of my toots are followers only. I was recommended draw.io, excalidraw.com and PowerPoint
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@skinnylatte I wish it was like that for me! Last week I posted a question about making a bot and no one answered. I included relevant hashtags even.

@skinnylatte @qgustavor
That sometimes happened to me, too.
It often helps to try again by boosting my own post. Don't be ashamed to boost yourself!(I looked for that post on your profile to boost it, but couldn't find it.)
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@skinnylatte I highly recommend asking Mastodon if you're a #Linux noob like me. Online forums are really mean to noobs, and it's hard to just get a damned answer to your question there. People on here are way nicer and more helpful.
@RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io out of curiosity, what forums do you mean? the ones i used/use were quite civil (usually)
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@jaBote @skinnylatte most of my toots are followers only. I was recommended draw.io, excalidraw.com and PowerPoint
@laguiri @jaBote @skinnylatte ooh, excalidraw is good, i was reccomended it by someone on vrchat lol
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte looks like a collective intelligence

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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I just did this for a very specific question in a lounge slack channel at work and now I have answers, new questions answered and a couple of people I get to know more. Asking actual people is the best thing ever
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@skinnylatte I am two for two on asking for tech help I couldn't find via web searching and getting the correct answer *within two minutes.* It's amazing.
@cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Three for three here, cwicseolfor.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I would take a 2 decades old Google search over today's "latest and greatest" ChatGPT session.
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@cwicseolfor haha I wholeheartedly agree. I have given up on searching for answers to technical things on the web, when I can just ask the question here and get brilliant advice and solutions in under 2 minutes.
There are so many incredibly smart and generous people on here, willing to help
️ @_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Sadly, it hasn't worked for me
I would still love to get a recommendation for 3D modeling software that would let me complete my walkthrough model of the airship from my books. -
@skinnylatte @qgustavor
That sometimes happened to me, too.
It often helps to try again by boosting my own post. Don't be ashamed to boost yourself!(I looked for that post on your profile to boost it, but couldn't find it.)
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@_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Sadly, it hasn't worked for me
I would still love to get a recommendation for 3D modeling software that would let me complete my walkthrough model of the airship from my books. @AbramKedge you just don't have the right friends
jokes aside, it is a bit hit and miss. I've had open questions that were answered after TWO YEARS and others that were answered within minutes.
