Just so long as they are at least one level up. It is why they like to demonize non whites because it’s easy and let’s the rubes be content to sit at the bottom.

I only get these types of videos in shorts. In all the other stuff is like “we see you watched one video on this topic so here is 400 more”

Tell that to the Intel management engine or secure platform module

Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat.

Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that.

The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond.

I mean with Lemmy you always have the option to invoke the Bender protocol.

Most people don’t need them. The gaming and workstation laptop market is smaller than ever. The integrated graphics has been “good enough” for a while now.

Presumably a Wan modern could fit in one of those little USB port things.

Companies don’t have morals, if Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with Bernie Sanders or whatever they would swap right back.

I forgot about these things. I sorta want one, even though they are kinda lame. Is this nostalgia?

Yeah and the worst part is it doesn’t fucking work for the one thing it’s supposed to do.

The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.

CloudFlare has become an Internet protection racket and I’m not happy about it.

Dual booting has always been a pain in the ass. Unless you’re a multiplayer gamer that needs kernel level Anti-Cheat it’s easier to just swap over and suffer the transition.

Yeah at some point they are all the same to me it’s just the different package manager. Pacman, apt, yum or whatever they are calling it now a days.

Most use systemd.

I started using Arch flavors because when you have brand new hardware the latest kernel can be important. After the machine is a couple years old it doesn’t really matter.

Also Endeavouros is where it’s at (but don’t tell the vanilla Arch people, they won’t help me with my problems if they find out)

I’ve started asking people what they have created lately… They seem to take it as an insult when it isn’t meant to be.

The reality is consuming is easier than producing. You can see it with the usage of phones and tablets vs laptops. It’s hard to create on a touch screen but it’s easy to consume.

While this is true of public companies privately held companies have more flexibility.

If the Kristiansens wanted to they could direct the firm to be more inclusive. In this case it’s not “the company” making the choice, it’s the Kristiansen family and you can point directly to their need for money.

Already the cost is quite high. A prolific dev can easily burn 100usd a day in tokens and they have not even started to enshitify.

Some of the cost to run these models will come down a bit if Nvidia gets some actual competition which I’m sure will happen in the medium to long term because the hyper scalers definitely don’t like paying Nvidia’s AI ransom and the Chinese don’t want to be beholden to a company the US can influence.

We will see which happens first.

Arch is fine, installing it is a good learning experience. After that endeavoros does what I need to and I just have to click next a couple times and get on with my day.

Gamers who care about this are a much smaller group than American regressive religious zealots.

It isn’t though. At the higher end the last ceo was making 7 million. That is roughly 12 enginees after compensation and everything else… It isn’t nothing but it’s less than 5 percent of the employees they laid off a year ago.

Increasing executive pay is a problem but it will barely move the needle.

The community are idiots.

They just want free shit. They claim they would love to pay but look at the percentage of donations things like VLC get, they won’t pay.

Google likely spends over a billion dollars a year developing Chrome and everyone likes to talk about how AI might upset web search forgetting that what is where Mozilla’s money comes from.