You can still make a CI/CD pipeline that doesn’t self combust every 5 minutes lol.

That’s actually why TikTok got canned. They didn’t really care about the data collection, it’s because they couldn’t force TikTok to moderate to their liking like Facebook, Google, and Twitter since they were foreign based.

Which is also why they sold its majority ownership to Larry Ellison (Oracle) who is infamously a hardcore Zionist.

But seriously, the amount of content that gets deleted and whitewashed online is insurmountable. OSINT becomes a pain in the ass because you literally cannot find the origin of media because the user was either wiped and banned or shared on private channels like WhatsApp or Telegram where you’ll never find the original person who shared it

Luckily, everyone mass reposts which makes it near impossible to remove the content itself, but then tou have to use alternative methods to develop a timeline, authenticity, context, etc.

laziness about having to go through and reinstall everything on a clean install

Package managers make this a breeze to the point that people upload their personal script to github so they can run one command to get all of their software and theming on a new PC lol.

No need to even go that far, just pop open the app “store” (everything is free lol) and just click away at everything you want. Can probably get most of your stuff in 10 minutes tops.

What even are the significant differences with different distros?

It boils down to how effective the user experience & preference is and what the backend is built on (which usually affects user experience & preference lol).

Mint is highly recommended because it cleans up a ton of the random stuff from Ubuntu upstream and maintains a clean and low cost (cpu/ram usage) desktop environment that’s very easy to use. It’s highly recommended for anyone who is new or inexperienced with linux or OSs in general and just wants to get on with life. The single downside is that its packages are not the latest and greatest, so its great for everything except gaming where you want the new stuff like drivers, proton upgrades, new features, etc.

Fedora is what Ubuntu was 15 years ago, which is best all around user experience. It chooses very sensible but cutting edge packages which gives you excellent performance benefits of new tech like BTRFS/XFS without losing out on stability. It’s also the distro Linus himself uses because he finds it easy to just install and again, get on with life lol. Fedora also has excellent user docs and forums which is great if you need help with something. Only downside is I think you have to flick a switch (or run a command) to enable all video codecs because they don’t ship it on their main package repository since H264 & HEVC have weird licensing issues.

Bazzite is a downstream of Fedora Silverblue, which is an atomic distro that makes it really hard to screw something up by using a read only root and rollback-able updates, similar to Android and SteamOS. It was specifically designed to make gaming on handhelds an easy out of box experience so you don’t have to manually set up stuff like touchscreen keyboards or power settings on non PC hardware. You can run it on PC if you’d like the benefit of the rollback image system which can unbork your machine super easy, though it already is quite hard to bork because the root filesystem is read only, so apps are installed in a similar way as Android apps (Flatpak).

Learning Linux is actually quite intuitive (thankfully), and everything from the GUI perspective is mostly the same, if not an outright improvement in several areas. I would highly recommend playing with the live install of whichever distro you pick along with the desktop environment to get a feel for how it looks before you commit to an install.

Desktop Environments are also not tied to distros. You can basically choose any DE on any distro (like Mint’s Cinnamon on Fedora), but the two biggest ones are GNOME (Mac like) and KDE (Windows like). I think KDE is way better than GNOME, but you can play with both & more to see which one you prefer.

Your main issue to figure out when permanently switching is if there is any software or process that you rely on in Windows that would be different in Linux. For me it was switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice (there are also more, like OnlyOffice), which was completely painless since it was like 95% the same and could open up docx just fine.

The other possible ones could be:

• Adobe stuff (some stuff like PS works, but it’s a bit involved to setup the first time)
• Games that use kernel level anticheat (big nono in linux because it breaks security)

The second one is really what’s keeping a lot of people from making a permanent change which I’m hoping Valve can change with the upcoming Steam Machine because even for Windows, its like running a rootkit that really should not have that level of access to your PC.

I don’t play any games that utilize it, but you might and it won’t work on linux until the publisher decides to let it: https://areweanticheatyet.com/. The comments are usually outdated back from when the game first released, so as long is it’s green or blue, it should run out of box.

Some publishers (Epic Games mostly) are also just dicks that don’t use kernel level in some games but still choose not to enable linux support when compiling their game, despite all the major anitcheat vendors supporting linux and even mac.

The good news is that for everything else, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll actually see an increase in performance from Windows. The biggest one for me was World of Warships which went from 2 minutes load times down to just 30 seconds on a hard drive, and about 15-20%+ FPS even when on an SSD.

It would be like the 2007 financial/housing crisis.

You could get amazingly huge and quality houses, cars, stores, etc for dirt cheap but that’s because a metric ton of people were layed off and had to sell their assets to make ends meet.

The AI bubble is compounded by the fact that it’s primarily propped up by ~1 trillion USD in private credit, which for all intents and purposes is basically just the same system as CDOs which caused the 2007/8 crash.

If AI blows, all that debt comes back null, and since all other major investments are based on speculation and multiplied debt obligations, the economy collapses (again).

Granted, if you’re lucky enough to not fall to the effects of such a crash, components will be dirt cheap and great time to buy.

But if you’re layed off, you’re looking at potentially a year+ of unemployment, in which case it won’t matter if you can get a 5090 for $300 because you’ll be more concerned with surviving without an income.

Knowing our current tech landscape, some startup CEO will convince a bunch of investors that he can get an AI to produce the genome sequence using existing sequencing data to predict what dinosaur DNA actually was.

And even though it’s obviously a rugpull, any hypothetically successful AI would probably just get stuck outputing genomes that result in different types of bananas.

Like… what exactly lol?

Most discussions about Linux here devolve into distro sledging lol.

Even the joke stuff like Nvidia is from a bygone era.

My personal recommendation is Fedora, but any competent distro is miles more user friendly than current windows 11.

If they had tried at least we’d get a 1/5 chance that the windows market stranglehold dies lol.

I blame my crappy Samsung android keyboard lol

But to put all of that in context you have to remember the pay, which was also bad.

Lol the one I worked at had a 30% turnover rate because of this. Ridiculously skilled engineers working for a 8-14 month stint before they secured a much better job at a different company.

Even their longest working lead, who had joined since the start as a junior, left a couple of months after I joined

The funniest moment was when HR people ops posted the average expected salary ranges to confluence, which was a full 30% higher than what they announced for yearly raises.

I forget but wasn’t anthropic mostly made up of former OpenAI engineers after Altman went off the deep end?

Not that it makes them any better, but I’m pretty sure GPT-3 was the nexus point in the current mess we have now, which means they hopped off right after it was internally finished and made their own company.

2018 was a full 2 years before that point, and back then AI was still primarily stuff like OpenCV, Pytorch projects, etc. that were things you could legitimately run on one or two workstation GPUs or even a cheap tensor core addon if you didn’t want to run on CPU.

People thinking this isn’t a monopoly enforcement action in disguise are the same people who think banning Huawei was justified.

Google’s one mistake was that they sold Motorolla to Lenovo, who ran it as low cost shovelware to make the mobile phone market in the US not look like a complete oligopoly. They kept their cost low by using complete stock Google ROMs while every other OEM exited the market.

Until recently when Lenovo properly built up their hardware lineup and started jumping ship to GrapheneOS the moment Google started clamping down.

It’s gonna sink like the artifact from Indiana Jones and cause the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt lol

Sorta of a blind shot, but does anyone here know where to look for their asset liquidation & auctions?

I can’t afford an A320 but I’m sure they have some good tools, equipment, servers, etc.

Ah the good old days when XSS was a feature lmao

I get that we shouldn’t be happy about any type of Monopoly but Steam occupies the PC gaming space similar to how Linux dominates the server space.

You can’t really complain that almost every server running Linux is a bad thing. Granted Steam is not open source, but you have to imagine how little effort it takes to not make a shitty marketplace/platform as a competitor.

The fact that such a low bar cannot be surpassed by multi billion dollar companies is all you really need to know, especially when GOG successfully exists.

Spirit started out as the villain and ended up as the hero lol.

They popularized the low cost system in the US which absolutely wrecked quality of service from every other airline as they too started removing everything to cut costs.

But then Spirit was the only budget airline actually selling tickets for cheap and decent baggage bundles.

American and United offer the same net quality of service for 4x the price. Why whould I pay such a markup and still have to pay for carry on and checked baggages? Its not a budget airline but they sell "budget"services.

Now they all want the profit squeeze of Spirit without the lower fare.

I still remember when Delta flights above 3 hours had a full meal with multiple snack services. I don’t even think they give you regular sized pretzel bags anymore.

I think you scared the USD supremacists lmao

The 600+ upvotes really makes me wonder how many are out there.

WorldNews doesn’t even get that many on average in such a short time.

Wireguard.

Dunno if Cloudflare does effective auth for the tunnel or if you have to set that up yourself, but I don’t bother trying to expose services to the internet in any way because some of this stuff was just never designed for proper web security (cough Jellyfin).

It’s still worth setting up a wildcard cert with ACME so you get nice https and a real domain.

If it weren’t for the massive silicon supply lockdown, I feel like we could easily see local models making it into consumer tech in the coming years and effectively replace all those casual users since you no longer have to pay a subscription to do regular/low effort tasks on whatever device you own. A lot of it has gotten really good, especially with lots of quantization techniques getting superseded by new ones each year.

Actually I guess it could probably go the same way as cable and streaming. Eventually they’ll keep amping up the ante with the billing (because they always do), and people will just get turned off into a bunch of “cheaper” 3rd parties that have lower costs with some niche tricks, which will fragment the userbase too much.

Also I haven’t looked into it, but do they advertise those $50 users separately from enterprise? I don’t really know anyone outside of “power” users that aren’t just using the $20 a month basic plans that give you enough tokens to get by (for now).

I feel like they’re inflating their numbers from enterprise estimates because that’s where they can bait with cheap API prices and then hook with vendor lock in.