My kid has started to use ChatGPT to help install games and solve problems on his raspberry pi. It goes crazy chasing dependency problems until half the 3d graphics are downgraded it's all incompatible. Big mess for me to clean up manually after
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Show your kid how to create a microSD card image for when they break it.
aug 29, 2025, 3:45 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, he has images he could revert to from earlier, Raspbian and Ubuntu. I did have time to check out the damage myself and talk him through what's going on, so I did that
aug 29, 2025, 3:53 am • 5 0 • view
People trying to replace me rely on AI to write powershell code. If it’s anything much beyond example code, it really makes stuff up. And no one but me can even see it. Just wild.
aug 29, 2025, 3:45 am • 28 1 • view
From what I've seen it's incredibly bad at powershell
aug 29, 2025, 5:36 am • 3 0 • view
Have you considered making a stable install, then telling raspi-config to make the cf card immutable? User docs need to go on a usb stick or something, but if the ai mucks up the running configuration, reboot to the stable image.
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
It's for him to experiment and try coding, so it's set up permissively. He has multiple SD cards he can switch between. He gets some interesting things working
aug 29, 2025, 4:01 am • 14 0 • view
That works too.
aug 29, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
I will say, if you aren’t doing it already, /home on a separate Mount from / prevents a lot of heartache
aug 29, 2025, 11:25 am • 3 0 • view