Congress will never give up their sources of revenue.

Does anyone think that it's going to run a few RTX 4090s?
It's time to put the GPU local to the system memory, using a DMA block authorization scheme. It doesn't make any sense for all the textures/information to be coming from the drive across the box--and then go again--across the bus to the video car.

The older versions of Microsoft Office were much more straightforward. Their button bars were excellent. I experimented with modern versions of MS Office, but passed up a valid license that was offered to me. Microsoft Office is now a mess.

...and you would trust them with RAM.

It's the right thing to do, but I suspect the timing. Why did they wait to now. Oh, because AI is a big data consumer, and even a few monster-companies who want it--will join the millions of people they view as meaningless--and something might get done. : /

Perhaps instead of outsourcing critical stuff like official government email to Microsoft, the government should be doing it in-house with standard, open source resources.

AI is a useless fad.

Has Thorium been effectively de-Googled or does it still phone home to the mother ship?

...how nature points out the folly of man: Gozilla! --Blue Oyster Cult

A poor comparison: 8-speed automatic to a 6-speed manual.

There's no reason for a machine to make a noise that sounds like the human word "I."

I agree!

The old Ubuntu would have never used Snaps. Apt works, fullstop.

I can buy replacement bearings for my THK linear ways. They can be measured and bought. Yes, the parts are grouped and fitted, but the possibility of replacement isn't thwarted. There is a difference between tolerances and interdiction.

Also aftermarket crankshafts do exist--even for matched cases. Notice the category: https://www.scooterpartsco.com...

--Colossus, "Forbin Project."