Amazon doesn't have a search for only name brand products. You'd have to search each brand individually, which would be agonizing. Even if they did, it would just include bullshit brands.

Today it seems like most products are designed by Chinese OEMs and then "American" brands contract them to produce them with their logo on them. You can often find the same product with another brand on it, usually with no other visible changes except being in a different color.

Some of those products might have different internals than the name brand version, but then, the name brand version might have multiple versions with different internals.

Can't you get something that will take PoE and put out Type C power?

PGE is downright evil and neither the CPUC nor any other part of our government seems to be able to do anything to rein them in, maybe getting some other states involved will help shine a light on whatever corruption allows this to continue.

I'm surprised this is the example you're using. MS Teams seems to run perfectly fine (as good as elsewhere) in the browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc..) on Linux, audio and video as well. You don't even need a VM for that.

Surely there are other widely used programs that don't run native on Linux and suffer from poor performance, or other issues, when run under a VM?

Almost certainly.

This is far less likely, and in fact whoever they interconnect with probably ends up paying higher rates than they do today.

Even here in the USA an F150 is properly called a "pickup" or "pickup truck" and not just a "truck", but America doesn't care about what's proper.

The law in the USA refers to what you call a "truck" as a "heavy truck", though it's not only semi-tractors but just also any other truck over a certain gross weight rating.

Link from the summary you didn't read: https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

Text from the link you didn't read: The supported hardware/targets with Debian 13.0 on RISC-V include the SiFive HiFive Unleashed, SiFive HiFive Unmatched, Microchip Polarfire, and the VisionFive 2 and other JH7110 SoC platforms. Plus QEMU can work with Debian RISC-V as an emulated/VM target. Other RISC-V single board computers may work fine with Debian 13.0 if resorting to using their vendor kernels. Support for additional boards in the future may come to Debian 13 via Trixie-Backports.

That's been tried, nobody cared.

Well, that's not true. A lot of people said they don't want anyone to get anything.

There's always the option of going Linux for your main OS and using VirtualBox for the 1 or 2 small things that still require Windows.

(Spoken from personal experience a decade ago or so. By now my universities' office 365 can run in Firefox (container) tabs, ProtonDB on my SteamDeck is stellar, I don't own any electronic gizmo that requires a Windows app to sync/updateetc.(*), and I don't care enough about anything else to dust off that VM)

(*): By now electronic gizmos either have Wifi to update themselves (though this comes with its own bag of problems) or have other routes (SD cards, USB sticks, dfu-utils on Linux, etc.) like my Linux retro handheld.

lolwut?

One is suddenly making available to the regular person at home a tool to do computations (despite a lot less complex and powerful) that was previously available only to universities, government and corporations,
while the other is money extraction scheme designed to keep hopes of growth and confidence in stocks of a few big corporations who are in a race of "who is going to build the largest possible datacenter / boil lakes the fastest / and completely break the internet with AI slop?"

To keep with your computing metaphor, it's as if we where in a timeline where "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" wasn't merely a mis-attributed quote to Thomas Watson but was the official company goal of anyone making computers, with the large corporations trying to out compete each other buy luring investors with the false promise of becoming the one corporation that will get a monopoly and build those 5 behemoths. And the general public could only get to do computation be renting extremely expensive glass terminals and accoustic modems (but currently temporarily offered for free while each corporation tries to gather more users than the competition).

(Regarding current usefulness of AI: mini AI models running locally would be the actual game changers, but it's not going to get any much emphasis while the corporations are currently busy in their arm race, and there are tons of ethical questions around training of models and the slop they produce).

You haven't been paying attention to the 143 pages of legalese in the EULA, have you?

(In a time-line where Disney would try to lawyer out of a allergy death on the grounds of the arbitration clause of a trial subscription to a steaming service couple of years before, I am only half joking)

No love for cheese fondue?

(sad kitty eyes, while holding a caquelon in the hand)

can we name it 'Actual Pluto'?

Is there a page somewhere that explains why they're special besides using a weird desktop I'm not going to use? I went so far as to read press releases and still couldn't find any explanation of why yet another distro.

This sure is worth having a deep discussion about. Let's keep this thread going! Our corporate masters will be pleased.