Yes, we are going back to the mainframe era. It started gradually with “the cloud”.

I remember the first days of “the cloud”, when people were not keen to give their data to other companies: “we aren’t going to put all our data on the internet!”. Yet, here we are.

Today, when I bring slightly the idea we could host our operations, I am seen like the crazy one.

Slowly but surely, everything is being locked down in the hands of a few.

The costs are raising, our freedom is diminished, and our privacy is gone.

Linux is like the only bastion remaining. I hope we all take care of this one!

They know. Microsoft is now a service company. Windows upgrades are free. Do you remember when Microsoft said that windows 10 is the last windows?

Now the upgrade to 11 is free, Microsoft is a service company… Windows is only a platform to sell you an office 365 subscription, copilot bullshit and grabbing your information.

They know the Windows days are numbered, and they are going to extract the most juice out of it until it dies.

In their head, the only OS you’ll need in the future is a browser, until then, tough luck peasants.

It means the AI is very helpful to you. This also means you are as good as 1/3 of an AI in coding skills…

Which is not a great news for you mate.

Sorry Dave…

Metroid layout.

GPT is the boss located left, the final boss is called Profit, and it’s at the bottom…

No.

There is enough LibreOffice users to realize that the curve of the donations over users isn’t proportional.

When was the last time you donated?

Exactly.

If I remember correctly, Wayland forbids to listen to keyboard inputs for security reasons. Each software receives its input, but there is no global listening.

So, in my understanding, this could mean that it’s not possible.

In the meantime, I am interviewing juniors who can’t write a while or for loop without looking on the internet…

The future is looking grim.

Imagine that, Windows 11 can remember everything you did in the past 3 months, it’s making sure that you didn’t forget about Office 365, Xbox Live subscriptions, and about Edge, the browser embedded deeply in the OS…

Sometimes, for your convenience, it will put Edge as the default, but you totally can change it back to what it was!

Are you sure you don’t want to switch? You’re missing a lot there…

The amount of time the “AI” is saving me is well reimbursed, maybe twice, by the time I am wasting when that “AI” is bullshitting me.

At the end of the day, it isn’t worth the frustration.

I have something similar, but with an old nvidia 1070.

I run a file server, nginx for my web dev, git server, postgres and, surprisingly, ollama.

The old nv 1070 is CUDA capable and it’s doing an OK job for my usage.

Check if you can put your hand on an old NV card for an AI agent.

Cheers!

That company is probably owned by This guy.

Let me present you: Open DirectX

Handyman has the solution - literally!

Yeah, but it’s a well known, well hidden fact, that Arch users are the beta testers of packages before real distros includes them…

We don’t actually use Arch, it’s a testing environment.

But we need those testers you know… So…

GO ARCH GO best distro evar!!

Hehe…

Gotcha!

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Money talks.

Don’t buy the game.