My feeling so far is that there are few meaningful generationalizations that can actually made about the online Linux community. It’s a very diverse set of individuals. To me the gatekeeping elitists seem more like a vocal minority, but I’m sure that varies a lot by distribution and forum.

I mostly agree with you, but I still don’t think it’s “worth the hype” even if you use it responsibly, since the hype is that it is somehow going to replace software devs (and other jobs), which is precisely what it can’t do. If you’re aware enough of its limitations to be using it as a productivity tool, as opposed to treating it as some kind of independent, thinking “expert”, then you’re already recognizing that it does not live up to anywhere near the hype that is being pushed by the big AI companies.

Somewhat related: Does anyone know why so many of the images uploaded to Lemmy are GIFs? Or at least download in that format when using Sync? It’s kind of annoying because they aren’t animated, they are completely static images, and all that does is cause problems with sending them in other apps. I frequently have to download an image, take a screenshot of it, and crop it to the original size again.