What an absolutely moronic false equivalence.

Linux as my main since 2005, I dual booted for a couple of years to play games, because gaming on Linux was too limited.
Now gaming on Linux is amazing IMO. But yes every system requires some level of masochism, I guess we could call Windows the OS of choice for the more advanced masochists. 😋

an attempt by the hyperscalers and Nvidia to keep AMD and Intel’s margins.

Absolutely and every server giant can do that too. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent and on and on. They will abandon X86 and make their own server chips.
And there will be generic server chips from Qualcomm, and Mediatek will eat the crap out of AMD’s margins. I don’t think there is any way X86 can compete against Arm in the long run. AMD may have to make Arm chips too to survive.

On the other hand it shows Arm is capable of carrying that load which is quite significant in itself.
And if they are good enough for that, it logically follows that Arm can be used in other server contexts too.
I actually sold our AMD stock despite AMD taking marketshare from Intel, in part because I foresee Arm taking over the server market, and that is AMD’s most profitable market.
That and because AMD is American, and we sold all our American stock. But had I thought AMD would be a goldmine, I would obviously have thought it over more.

Oh I thought Windows was discontinued after Vista failed miserably.
At least I haven’t used it since then, and it’s completely irrelevant to me.
Why others keep using it IDK, must be some kind of masochist tendencies.

Vanilla means the original unmodified.
And the Pixel version of Android is per definition the vanilla version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software

Vanilla software refers to applications and systems used in their unmodified, original state, as distributed by their vendors.

I agree except for this:

But in return you get clean software

Vanilla Android sucks now IMO, it gets a little bit worse with every update, other vendors are actually batter at maintaining sanity IMO.
It’s like vanilla has changes for changes sake, and all the new stupid AI feature they try to push on everything is extremely annoying IMO.

Vanilla Android used to be a feature, but not anymore IMO.

1 inch sensors are no joke, my phone has a 0.8" sensor, which is also quite respectable.
IDK if you are under 16, but compared to cameras just 2 decades ago, modern phones have amazing camera hardware. My own phone can in many ways beat a multi thousand dollar camera from back then.
The light sensitivity alone is insane compared to older cameras.

She is either suicidal or very weird. I’d ask her if suicide is actually something she sometimes think about.
Problem is she will most likely brush it off if she is, so it’s a tough one.
It might be worth a lot to tell her you appreciate her.

The cameras aren’t really high end either, they are decent mid range cameras with a lot of AI post processing to make pictures look better.
Most of the time it works really well, but at other times, they don’t really capture the actual picture.
I’ve seen pictures taken in fog, where the AI treatment completely removes the fog, impressive if that’s what you wanted, but if you actually wanted the “real” picture, you were fucked because you couldn’t disable the AI post processing.
IDK if they have changed that, but personally I prefer more moderate post processing.

It’s easy to double sales from 1 to 2, and it’s only by that measure that Google is fastest growing.
In marketshare percentage Huawei and Xiaomi grew more.

Also I’m not sure Pixel actually counts as a premium phone.
When I bought my current phone 2 years ago, Pixel was absolutely a sub premium phone with pretty mediocre stats.
I’d count it at most as an upper midrange phone.

Motorola phones are not American anymore, the phone part was bought by Lenovo and is now 100% Chinese.
So for 2025 it’s only Samsung and Apple on the list that are not Chinese.

Insane people exist, that doesn’t make it a trend.

This reeks so much of bullshit.
To me it sounds like claiming young men would rather date a picture of a bunny, than risk rejection.
Like WTF?!?!?

There is no dating an AI, you are fucking not on a “date” of any sorts. You are chatting with a fancy bot, that will parrot whatever bullshit back to you it has compiled from more or less reliable sources.

Wikipedia is also backed by the engines of capitalism.

Stupid knee jerk “no you” response that doesn’t make the least bit of sense, where YouTube is obviously a major engine of capitalism, owned by one of the richest most capitalistic companies in the world, and everything in how YouTube operates is governed by their capitalistic principles.

How do you figure in any way the same is true for Wikipedia which is a non profit organization running on donations?!?!

Bullshit!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

Revenue $185.4 million (2024)
Expenses $178.6 million (2024)
Employees 363 (2024)
Volunteers 277,000 (2024)

How did you ever convince yourself that the 10th most visited website, that doesn’t have any revenue other than donations is rolling in dough? That would be an extremely rare thing if they did.
Apart from smoothly running servers, and administrating almost 300000 volunteers, they need lawyers, both to ensure they stay within local laws in more than a 100 countries, but also to stave off idiotic lawsuits. Just the recent changes to UK law has been a major legal headache.
Without donations Wikipedia would quickly fall apart.

They don’t need donations they have lots of money,

Being a free service with no advertising, I’m guessing the only reason they have money is because people donate.
But for some reason your description quickly skips over the part about where the money comes from?

aggressively begging for donations again.

Aggressively? Showing a banner for about a week once or twice a year?? That’s aggressive???
How the fuck can anyone be so butthurt about a free service? I’m definitely NOT clicking your link to support something so stupid on YouTube.

PS:
We always donate a small amount kr 100 DKK ( about $15 USD ) when they are campaigning. Wikipedia is an amazing service we’d sorely miss if it disappeared.

AMD is under the same restrictions Nvidia is, but hasn’t designed a chip within those restrictions to sell to China like Nvidia did.

Weird article IMO??? Forget the startups, unless they are backed by very major players they don’t stand a chance. They have their competences, but I seriously doubt competing with Nvidia on making AI chips is among them.
The players to watch are Huawei, Baidu, Tencent and the likes. Who have already been working on this for a while, and have actual working and useful products.

While Huawei is the leader, Chinese companies don’t want to rely entirely on the company.

I don’t understand how that statement is supposed to make much sense? When Chinese companies were happy using Nvidia and being dependent on Nvidia. Why wouldn’t they be equally happy using Huawei if it’s the best option after the government has forbidden them from using Nvidia?
It may be true, but there is zero explanation why it is.

To the ones that think China can just use AMD instead, they really can’t, AMD is under the same restrictions Nvidia is, and AFAIK AMD has not designed a chip to sell to China within those restrictions.

You don’t write what market you are describing but:
The PC market has been dwindling for decades, the PC gaming market has also been dwindling with consoles taking bigger share, and the past 5-10 years due to high GPU prices that have been wildly unstable.
Lately prices have returned to more normal levels when accounting for inflation, which could explain a bump this year.
USA is an outlier because of tariffs.