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  • The creator of Odin has stated that it is not aiming to replace C. It's its own thing. I suppose it has some degree of overlap, but I don't know the language well enough to speak on the differences. One thing I have read is that it does not support embedded devices very well.

    He said this in the comments of a youtube interview:

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  • It seems to me that you misunderstand what artificial intelligence means. AI doesn't necessitate thought or sentience. If a computer can perform a complex task that is indistinguishable from the work of a human, it will be considered intelligent.

    You may consider the classic turing test, which doesn't question why a computer program answers the way it does, only that it is indiscernable from a human response.

    You may also consider this quote from John McCarthy on the topic:

    Q. What is artificial intelligence?

    A. It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.

    There's more on this topic by IBM here.

    You may also consider a few extra definitions:

    Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. Much research has humans program machines to behave in a clever way, like playing chess, but, today, we emphasize machines that can learn, at least somewhat like human beings do.

    • https://hai.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/2020-09/AI-Definitions-HAI.pdf

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field devoted to building artificial animals (or at least artificial creatures that – in suitable contexts – appear to be animals) and, for many, artificial persons (or at least artificial creatures that – in suitable contexts – appear to be persons).

    • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/

    artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings

    • https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence

  • I meant for all packages. But when it comes to the actual details on how to do it, I'm not super sure. I know pacman is pretty sophisticated so it might support querying the package repo (or local package db) somehow. I would start by looking up the -F option.


  • I would start by looking at what files are included. There's the obvious .desktop entry, but also checking if there are any files put into /bin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ etc. should suffice.

    If you consider some of these packages as "dependencies" then look at if anything depends on it. But there are application-packages that others depend on, such as coreutils.



  • At least to my understanding. My model is the T14 Gen 1 (AMD). But I would recommend checking newer models.

    A few points that indicates this:

    1. It's possible to order it with linux preinstalled:

      In limited countries or regions, Lenovo offers customers an option to order computers with the preinstalled Linux® operating system. - User Guide, Appendix C

    2. Ubuntu 20.04 certification: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202006-27980

    3. RHEL 8.3 certification: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/detail/71625

    4. There's a "Linux Certification" page (whatever that means): https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd500492

    5. The BIOS software comes with linux instructions. Though I just use whatever is available with fwupd, which is a CLI application but has GUI support through Gnome with gnome-firmware.


    More info about linux support here, under "Notebooks and Laptops": www.lenovo.com/linux

    A million edits later: I got confused by what the product ID was but I think I finally figured it out.