As usual the summary is shit, it left out the most important detail.

These aren't Google Android devices, they are running some variant of AOSP.

All three of them? (I would have said two, but we have one here.)

Sure, or a good distribution.

My hope is that it will make sense to switch to using this new minipc for my interface, and to leave it running for long-running tasks. I have a 5900X desktop with a Nvidia card that I'm tired of dealing with video driver problems with. Speaking of Debian updates, I run Devuan. The main install on the system is an update from the prior version, and my fresh "recovery" install on another disk has no video driver problems...

It's why I wouldn't have run this one even if I had heard of it. I really liked Moblin, but it wouldn't run on anything non-Intel anyway, so I never put it on anything else. I think I might actually have that Acer still, but I do not use it.

I am waiting for another AMD-based PC to come in the mail right now, a mini with a 5825U — the last AMD notebook/minipc processor I could find with really low consumption, 15W... And I have a Zen3 desktop too, so I can share optimized binaries between the systems.

I find most Office UI to be pretty good, though I don't mean 365 here. The performance is terrible, though. This used to be true of LibreOffice, and Calc still crumbles if you really load a lot of rows into it and Excel doesn't, but the UI is really painfully slow on desktop Office now and I've no clue why. Nothing else I run on the same machine has this problem. e.g. I can scroll a PDF really fast and it draws fine, but if I don't scroll a Word or Excel doc really slow, it can't keep up.

I put Moblin on my Acer Aspire, it was lovely. Guess how that story ends, hint, it actually involves the death of another Linux distribution that it took down with it.

Ad Hominem. Even if so, it doesn't make him wrong. Stay on topic.

You could run gentoo. heh heh. Or LFS, hahahaha.

You could build linux and libc with processor-specific flags.

You know this is not the first time Intel made an Intel-specific Linux and then abandoned it, right?

He doesn't want to legalize suicide. He wants to legalize comfortably abstracted murder. And we're most of the way already, so he may well get to fulfill his Nazi fantasy of all of the undesirables expiring.

Maybe you only read the first paragraph of my comment? Because your comment was a trash response to the rest of it.

What I understand is that you have an insatiable taste for boot leather.

We got those because union members fought and died for them, not magically or due to the invisible hand or whatever other magical thinking you want to invoke.

It's worker productivity, not GDP. Though if the bosses can't make more with more worker productivity, then they are fuckups.

The position of the Luddites was that the gains from increases in productivity from automation should not accrue solely to the already wealthy, but should also benefit the working class. Rather than only making the rich richer, they should enable us to work less and benefit more.

Fast forward to today. As worker productivity has increased, the workers' share of the profit has decreased, and this has enabled the owning class to dominate every aspect most people's existence by controlling government through capital, exactly as predicted.

They will probably ship it by rail, while still not allowing us to have rail for transportation, or for most goods. Just like when the auto companies (etc.) attacked rail transport in the forties, and shut down profitable private rail lines in order to promote their products, but they kept rail lines running to their factories so they could bring in steel and export autos. But even those trains will still run on diesel, both so they can profit from that, and because it's a much better fuel for that purpose than depending on hydrogen. It gives great energy density with very high reliability and low volatility.

They've spent a lot of money on it, and it's not doing that thing you say they were trying to do, so they are incompetent at best. I agree they're not dimwitted, but hydrogen really isn't slowing down EV adoption anywhere. The same people who would buy EVs are the people that would buy HFCVs.

We do know because "AI" tools have been used for a long while. They weren't LLMs, but rather other kinds of guessing tools. There are a bunch of them regularly used in CG. That's why I scoff at the idea that this is a new problem, as it certainly is not, and this industry is responsible in large part for promoting the use of these tools.

I don't mock the actual problem, though. It's a real problem, it is just the same problem as every other automation problem. The scope has been creeping since the original examples of it. We accept it because it increases productivity, and we demand that for its own sake. And we do that because we've been brainwashed into thinking that productiveness is next to godliness. But what is the point of increased productivity if it doesn't serve humanity, but rather only the least human segment of our population that would just as soon see the rest of us dead?