Swapped to Linux Mint over the weekend. No major issues. Steam works, LLMs work, web browser stuff all transferred over…it wasn’t perfect but pretty easy to figure it out with a few online searches. The best part - it actually runs better. No more f*cked up bluetooth and audio as well.

A lot of customization can be done on it, but I think for most people, Linux is fine for the vast majority of users already out of the box. Some criticism is that I think the UX can be improved and a more layman-friendly streamlined partition mounting + file security management.

All of this talk about AI bubbles and PC hardware and when the prices are going to come back down…wishful thinking. Unless there is a miracle breakthrough in compute, chips making and how AI can be accelerated by using less, the prices won’t be coming down anytime soon.

Did you know the Amazon didn’t make money for years? it survived through all of it (very likely through wall st and tech bro style funding) and now it’s a behemoth.

But let’s talk about macro scale even without looking at the supply chain of the entire chips industry. From a geopolitical standpoint, AI has become this “holy grail” to increase the speed of research. Not productivity. Research has ALWAYS been a bottleneck. Now how does that tie into geopolitics? There’s an AI race going on across the world if you haven’t been paying attention. Governments aren’t going to just roll over and let someone else beat them to it. So like the military industrial complex that gets money like its free in the US - yeah, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

What will really tank things would be if the US dollar goes through a crisis - the trajectory is possible but it wont be an over night thing. Central banks around the world are watching and coordinating to keep things stable - for now. So what can you do? It’s simple - withhold your unnecessary consumer spending and cause a crunch in liquidity. Unfortunately this will only work collectively. So good luck!

Any car company that relies on only 1 type of sensor or only 1 sensor on a car for autonomous driving is a fool. The key terminology is “sensor fusion”, where you have multiple types of sensors to generate an accurate model of the world around the car which is vastly superior to what a human can perceive. LiDAR is only one sensor. Add in cameras and radar which many cars already have and you’ll have a car that can’t be fooled by just mirrors.

Trying to stay relevant much? Humanity as a whole needs to realize that religion is a mental crutch. The community aspect of it is good, but it isn’t exclusive to religion.

Do you need to pay to access Steam and play games? The answer is no - there are free games on Steam and also forum features that allow you to post media content too. From that standpoint they’re in the same boat. The difference is the platform’s intended use.

I think the real issue isn’t about Visa and MasterCard trying to gatekeep/censor this. The talk should be about we as a society haven’t matured enough to be willing to talk about our own bodies as humans and human nature with our own kids. If you look at what’s shown on mainstream TV around the world, off the top of my head, Europe seems to be a lot more mature about it than many parts elsewhere.

Nothing but hypocrisy from Visa and MasterCard - there are far more NSFW content on Xitter than in games and yet I don’t see a peep of them banning payment towards that little blue checkmark.