I think you might be surprised. Generative AI has limited utility and costs a lot to operate; so much, in fact that t does not appear there are enough natural resources on the planet we’re on to ramp it up to the scale that is intended. Soon, the hype-based funding will dry up, and the free and subsidized generative AI tokens will all disappear. Only then will we see the true cost of using it and if users will bear that cost. If it costs a lot of money to ask it to do things, people will go back to doing a lot of those things themselves.

Agreed. They run on dump drucks of burning VC capital. I don’t see how LLMs stick around in any meaningful way when the dump trucks stop pulling up.

That’s entirely the fault of the TV cartel. If they could get their collective act together, these TV add-on modules would have gotten off the ground.

You could have a TV monitor with a couple of empty sockets on it to put a streaming module or NTSC antenna card or DirecTV card or whatever.

Consider that things are the way they are because the involved companies are short-sighted, collusive, and uncooperative on standards, and the fact you need cable spaghetti and half a dozen remotes is due to a lack of consumer protections, not a lack of bells and whistles in your TV.

I don’t really agree that is conceptually okay. TVs and computers have drastically different life cycles. That TV will still be kicking probably a decade after the internal Smart TV computer is uselessly underpowered. This same problem is arguably even worse with cars.

Windows progressively worsening and Microsoft’s dubious practices are entirely independent issues from whatever is going on with Linux, though.

People interested in and well-suited for Linux use may take that route, given the situation, but even users with no inclination toward or intention to switch to Linux can and do still have legitimate grievances with the company and its software direction.

Almost everyone has to interact with Windows and Microsoft at some level throughout their lives whether they like it or not, so it is natural and constructive for them to make their opinions known. Microsoft may not respond to these criticisms in a sane or useful manner, but that is their failing, not a failing of the criticisms themselves.

I find it helpful to consider the substance of the complaint and evaluate it on its own merits, as it sounds you may have already been doing. For example, someone that is solely spouting negativity with no concrete examples of what they dislike about this company and its products is not constructive nor contributing to the conversation, but if someone states specific grievance with a software or company behavior is contributing, whether or not Microsoft takes the contribution.

If you, personally, have not encountered any problems with Windows or Microsoft that give you any pause or problems in your life, go nuts and use Windows, but knowing that alternatives exist is empowering. At the rate of decline in the quality of the Windows OS, it is not impossible that Linux could become superior in every meaningful metric without even improving. However, it is also conceivable that a user’s needs are such that those quality declines have not impacted you specifically.

I had a Windows 7 machine for like a decade without a single crash or BSD, and now, a decade later, I have multiple brand new PCs with Windows 11 installs that came on them that have lockups, crashes, and other buggy behaviors right out of the box. It is not unusable, but its stability is more reminiscent of the Windows of the 90s than an improvement on the Windows of 2010. Again, if that’s not your experience, count yourself among the lucky ones and continue to use Windows and be lucky.

I think the rabid evangelism for Linux around here may have convinced you to try it because of their fervor, rather than their reasoning. I hope you continue to have luck with Windows, but if not, feel free to switch any time! The angry nerds don’t have to impact your decision one way or the other.

People new on the job do not have their bearings. While they certainly can break a lot of things really quickly, generally they can’t do many things until they learn all the things that they can do and how to do them. Also bear in mind that this has already been going on for over a year, so many of the more breakable things are already pretty broken.

I think that if you disagree with the people in power, it is actually to your benefit if they are in greater disarray. I think that its true as others have said that there will be no investigations of wrongdoing for guilty people that are dismissed like Kristi Noem and possibly also Pam Bondi, but the revolving door they’re creating may still be to their detriment.

The management will say something else when they realize their plan makes them uninsurable.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer pack of jackals.

Are you reading the hate on Windows?

Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar international mega-corp, and their software is meant for enterprise use as a tool to get a job done–a means to an end. All of its other uses are distantly secondary to that.

In that context, the tool becoming progressively less reliable, fast, and predictable makes it ever less fit for purpose. Sure, you used that time for something else productive, but when you need your computer for something important right now, it failing to work because its maker broke it when you weren’t looking is a lot to take. Dollars and jobs can be lost because of Microsoft’s cavalier attitude toward quality.

Contrast that with Linux, a free program made by volunteers in their spare time. Its own updates can cause problems like Windows, but they are ever less common, while the opposite is true for Windows. Furthermore, if I have important upcoming use for my PC, I can delay or ignore updates as long as I want, even forever. The owner gets to control the computer’s use, because they’re the owner, a fact Microsoft does not respect at all, and seems to be taking measures to change.

People do not like to be told what to do, nor when or how to do it. People that know how computers work and use them heavily understand how to maintain their computer, and those people are heavily represented here. They are getting their skilled PC management replaced by forced, shoddy, automation of that task and it causes them unnecessary problems, often at inopportune times.

That’s why Windows gets hate here–Microsoft keeps kicking them in the balls and they hate that.

Ooh, does that mean that we’re in for a big “actually we’re restructuring our licensing all the sudden and everyone owes us 10x, effective as soon as you renew” rug pull? All the cool silicon valley mega corps are doing it!

If they get Windows 95, they can also play Hearts to their Solitaire’s content.

I think the inverse might actually be preferable. If there’s slop in the code base, that will be harder to avoid than whole modules that you can just not install.

While neither is preferable, putting it in the development is more insidious.

The rest of the west seems to be more like “WTF are you doing?” regarding the attack on Iran. There was little perceptible build up or any information disseminated about the attacks; just all of a sudden we were attacking Iran and it was very unclear why.

Now that some time has passed, it seems clear that the attack was more of a stunt than a mission, with any correlation between the attack and any grievances we may have with them being mostly a coincidence. It still seems to many of us in the USA that the president up and decided to attack a nation at random for no reason, then came up with a rationale for that baseless action afterwards.

Many of us have a number of pretty good ideas of what the actual reasons for the attack might have been, but none of them are those being stated, nor do they have to do with any nuclear armament they may or may not be doing.

I think they are continuously repeating, specifically formulated patterns merely creating the illusion of endlessly increasing stupidity. It the Shepard Tone of political dumbness of action.

I hadn’t thought of that, nor can I imagine many kids shouting “Trump, I choose you!” for any reason.

The distinction between “food” and “drug” is entirely made up, it turns out.

Fining companies that commit a crime a small portion of the money they gained by committing that crime is not progress, that is the problem here. Meta still made more money, after the fine, than if they had not perpetrated the crime. This is more of the status quo, which is why people are complaining about this the same as they had about the previous million times this same thing happened.

I call BS! I have it on good authority that Bilbo Baggins is at least eleventy-one.

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It seems to me that ICE is operating in a target-rich environment, which makes their choice of targets seem particularly poor for their optics. You’d think they would not want to intentionally nab people that garner public sympathy like this when you’d think they could just as easily find just as many that don’t, but this seems to keep coming up.

It doesn’t seem like a clean path to electoral victories, that’s for sure anyway.