vague rhetoric or not, a game wasn’t working, I pasted the error message into a local open-weight model and it fixed it up for me. I don’t care about the difference between vulkan and DXVK, the point is the problem got solved and I didn’t have to worry about it.

because your dipshit boss thinks it’s magic

So weird when people try this rhetorical trick.

It’s based on a mental model where everybody is Dilbert.

like basically the overall gist of my post is that I want a Minimum Bullshit setup

You can ask on one of the Anti AI comms and see what they say.

What did culture warriors have to gain by hating green M&Ms ?

culture warriors don’t need reasons

their ‘side’ points at something and says “you hate this now”

I’m on a small laptop manufactured in 2012 rn

It wouldn’t be powerful enough for games much beyond 2005

bit of both

I had the raspberry pi already as a seedbox, before I got the big computer

it’s dumb to leave a 1300 Watt machine on overnight to run a torrent

This computer is for playing games (and a bit of generative AI), not for surfing the web

What do you find engaging about it?

Still, they’re not my go to source.

Me neither (see my username)

Do they have something that no one else has?

It’s can be a useful way to bypass technical problems: a Fitgirl game isn’t playing/installing? Try a Dodi game. Often easier than troubleshooting.

Apparently we can email him to ask him — https://dodi-repacks.site/contacts/