This is why I love Devuan (and used to Debian) because it's not specifically focused on anything. Maybe on the truly open source software but there's still the non-free apt option.

For me it matches simplicity the best, and it seems it's one of the best traits for a long-living distro.

We'll be witnessing a recurring surge of "AI" just like it happens with 3D TVs.
Sure, tech improves each time but the real deal is still on the horizon.

Or to put it in a car analogy, flying cars.

Are we going back to the age of oral tradition?

No, going forward to the age of Idiocracy.

An ex-lease laptop I will buy in 5 to 10 years when my current ex-lease laptop has enough hardware issues and needs to be replaced.

Hopefully by then thre's actual practical use for the extra NPU similar to offloading CPU processing to a GPU does. And a use for another inane key added to the keyboard.
All running Devuan Linux, of course.

Simple:

1, 3, 5, 7, 9.

Notice the lack of "e"?

2030: "You use Windows on your PC? How quaint."

All the beautiful things you see in media are fake anyway because people buy into the dreams presented by those in power.

Go outside and take a long walk through nature (ignore all the trash left by stupid people, or better yet, collect it and dispose responsibly) and experience actual beauty with actual value.

I dun need no AI to get stupid.

Interacting with most of the world already suffices.

Try reading more than just the first sentence.

Linus would sooner allow C++ to touch the kernel than AI.

I'm sure he doesn't mind "AI" supporting a good developer as a tool, but not an "AI" to actually "contribute" "code".

While I'm refactoring my personal fork of OpenTTD, I simply walk circles in my livingroom while carrying low weights during large compiles which take around 6 minutes, or run a profile test game which takes 8 to 9 minutes.
Doing this around 10 times a day has so far lowered my weight by 1 kilo a week on average in combination with most days making sure I don't eat more than 2000 kcal. And I still went for a good bite and a beer with my best mate on saturdays.

I think it's because LLM "personalities" are biased by the owners / builders of it. They lack humility and self-reflection and thus don't process an answer at least twice before giving it.

Sometimes I think it just should, or have the rest of the world ignore it until it grows up and shows (proper) adult behaviour for at least a few generations.

As the French might call that laptop, #LibertyLaptop.

*cough*religion*cough*