Pretty sure Trump has been chauffeured all his life. He doesn’t give enough of a shit about his car to appoint it to anything.

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What pretentious asshole came up with that bit of jargon?

No, for that you need Turbolinux

I’ve been looking for a similar thing (actually I don’t even really care about the “smart” part; I just want fitness tracking sensors), but have yet to find anything suitable.

You’re not wrong, but nobody said ADHD was rational.

<impoverished Georgia Power ratepayer noises>

Man, one of these days I need to get off my ass and do some designing like this. I’ve been wanting a (normal 19") rackmount case designed for short depth, front-mount I/O, and hot swap drive cages for a while now, but can’t get it out of my head and into CAD (let alone physical reality).

At least the AI-related videos of his I’ve seen were about running models locally, and for relatively legitimate use cases (training text-to-speech voices and commanding Home Assistant), so it could be worse.

The last several places I worked gave me a choice between Windows and Mac OS, so I picked Mac OS.

Never KYS for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

Self-respect. I’m not going to tolerate my property being sabotaged against me in service of some other entity, and I don’t understand why anybody else would either.

As soon as Windows 10 “telemetry” (read: spyware) started getting backported into Windows 7 almost a decade ago, I was gone.

Windows users in 2025 are nothing but cucks and simps for corporate abuse. They don’t “just buy, have, and use a computer;” they are part of the problem.

Alternatively, I would argue that all LLM code output must be GPL, since it was trained partially on GPL code.

Either that, or LLM code output cannot be used for any purpose at all, by anyone.

My car is old, my TV is old, and my phone runs Graphene OS. I’m not worried about the CIA in particular, but maintaining my property rights free of interference (whether corporate or government) is my non-negotiable requirement when shopping for technology.

First immersion circulators, now ultrasonic vibrators? What the Hell are you people doing to these eggs?! Modernist cuisine has gone too far!

Workarounds like this are the “oh, this black eye? I just fell down some stairs” of software development.

Never mind the tri-fold part; it’s ridiculous that anybody is stupid enough to buy Samsung’s DRM’d shit.

Uh… you do know that people don’t literally save a bunch of Linux ISOs, right? It’s a euphemism for collecting less legit things, like pirated media or porn.

By the time you want to install the same distro again, it’s likely that a new version will be out and you’ll want to re-download it anyway.

Edit: okay, okay, some of y’all really do collect Linux ISOs. That’s fine; I won’t kink-shame.

Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.

…my GPU reaching the age where it overheats easily…

That’s not some sort of natural aging process; that’s you failing to do maintenance. Clean out the dust and/or replace the thermal paste.

Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.

It’s deceptively good. The 96 gigs of RAM is unified memory, accessible to both the CPU and GPU. It’s not great for gaming, but it punches above its weight running large AI models.

That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.