Emotional? Are we reading the same article?

You are definitely reading too much into it. Especially somehow connecting it to Europe.

Sad, but true. I have Linux on a surface pro 6. I got to know the new gnome after not using it since 2012. It's pretty awful.

Not really.

Move the bar up top, add a dock. Macos.

We've been "almost there" for 10 years. Ampere was supposed to come in scaled-down versions for laptops and workstations, but we never saw those.

I do trust Apple more than Google

You shouldn't. Neither of them give a sh*t about you.

What in the world are you referring to? Certainly not the article, which has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Over-border detentions by ice and border patrol between Yukon and Alaska. That was what the article was about.

The road isnt really paved, everyone took their own path. You have to commit to your arm64 hw platform.

There are quite a few arm64 laptops, hybrid tablets, even towers. But I can't predictably decide which one I want because hardware specs and drivers for arm64 are almost all different, which is the same problem with riscV getting more adoption.

However, the work of giving owners more options for Linux on arm64 is good, just like the surface Linux kernel for ms surface products.

Agreed, you absolutely can find similar complaints about search engines, and there were similar fools back then who relied wholesale on search results and nothing further.

I'm looking for people who can problem-solve, not just click-click-next use tools. When search engines made life easier, the folks who didn't try anything past searching google just didn't advance in tech fields if they couldn't get it done. The people I'm talking about now are walking into jobs that require thinking while literally proclaiming that they let something else do the thinking for them.

What am I supposed to do with a tech who can't get past an ansible deployment because he couldn't figure out how to find and use the ansible wiki? As I plainly said, it's not the technology, it's the culture.

Your "boomer" take on this isn't valid because I'm also getting the AI-bro talk from idiots my age as well.

Last, I'd like to point out that you don't know what gatekeeping means. Maybe chatgpt can help you.

You really just needed to think an extra 10 minutes before writing this down.

It doesn't "cut both ways" those are two separate issues: personal health and public health.

If you think seat belts, fluoride in water, warning labels on poison bottles, bittrex in antifreeze are being foisted upon your personal choices, then you need to reconsider that there are other people than you in the world.

It's not that complicated: get vaccinated so you and others are less likely to die when disease rolls around.

I'm in my 50s, I've been in IT professionally for 30 years, using Linux for 25 of those.

I hate AI.

I don't hate the technology, but I hate the culture of "ez learning" and the marketing. Literally people who have no clue about technology openly saying "wanna bet?" when I say it doesn't always have the right answers.

Sure, 19 of 20 chatgpt answers are great, but that 20th answer is dangerously wrong. Like, wreck your infrastructure wrong.

I also hate what it's doing to young minds the most, though: the 20 something techs I hire will lean on AI so hard, they have no sense of what to do if the answer isn't forthcoming, just ¯\(ツ)/¯.

AI is killing problem-solving.

Edit: I'm distinguishing AI from ML here, which I do use as a pattern recognition tool.

Be vigilant, it's already happening here; bots and obvious state-funded trolls are in the comments.

The issue is that they are pushing their own version of flatpaks, some of which are broken, instead of contributing to flat hub and making that the default.