"Russia's push for a sovereign and increasingly closed Internet has resulted in a highly centralized system under a few Russian tech companies like Yandex"

If a country with 11 timezones ends up with virtually all of their datacenters concentrated around two very close cities, the problem lies with the 1D10T planners of the companies involved, not with the sovereign internet concept

News for nerds: No Stuff that matters: Yes

Nuff said

In principle, what he wants you/us to do is to get some lightweight graphical terminals (machines with slow processors, basic memory and GPU) and use them to do VDI in the cloud. According to his/their vision, our memory is DDR3, maybe DDR4 (only if the DDR$ production lines can not be converted to DDR5 or 6), our processors are not made in a cutting edge litho, we have barely enough RAM for the light terminal to function. Something akin to a low end Chromebook.

In a separate but related and Interesting note: A DDR3 desktop with a 9th Gen intel processor is possible using this Mobo:

Gigabyte H310M DS2V DDR3 (Rev. 1.0)

If you need to cobble together something to weather this storm until the AI bubble pops, this is the ticket. Fully compliant with Win11 with no gimmicks and no bypases if that is your fancy, powerfull for Linux as well, with all meltdown and Spectre mitigations baked in silicon (and therefore, not sapping performance), still getting drivers and security patches for both OSs for the processor, integrated GPU and Integrated peripherals and PCH...

Sammy boy will have to make sure that his pal Jensen builds a datacenter near me (say, Caracas or Maracay, Venezuela) so that I can game after work with no lag, AND Sammy boy will have to build an OpenAI DC near me in Venezuela as Well.

Considering OpenAI does not even let you connect to their AI from Venezuela without a VPN (with all the friction that implies), I'd say:

Go Fuck Yourself.

I'd rather build a DDR3 rig with a 9th Gen Intel Processor with a Gigabyte H310M DS2V DDR3 (Rev. 1.0) mobo to weather the storm.

I am an OpenStack Technical Trainer for Telco, and I do believe in Cloud Computing, even on VDI. But I also realize that Cloud is not suitable for every scenario. The laws of physics get in the way.

PS: And before everyone says: OpenAI does not let you connect from Venezuela due to sanctions! Gemini has no Qualms about my nacionality (loged in or not loged in), Grok also lets me in from Venezuela, at least via X. Copilot gets silly over the web, but the agents inside my Mac-Office executables have no qualms at all as long as the 365 subscription keeps current. So, again, F.U. Sammy boy

PS2: For the time being, my AI usage is very basic. When I move to a really agentic mode, I'll let you know.

Actually, is not available until tomorrow, Oct 13, as per:

https://whattrainisitnow.com/r...
(The official Mozilla FireFox calendar)

Also tomorrow, the new ESR (ESR 153) will enter the Automatic Update Channel (as ESR 153.5.0), before that, if you wanted the new ESR, you had to manually download and install.

1.) VMware had (and still has) a lot of goodies on vSphere that were (and some still) are not on competing products. If your Virtualization strategy depended on any of these, migrating is hard.

2.) Take point #1 and multiply by 20x if you have (private/public/hybrid) cloud foundation.

3.) If you were a single-virtualization or single-(private)cloud vendor based shop, you probably want to migrate to a multivendor stack as part of THIS migration, so that, if one of your new vendors goes rogue (just like VMware/broadcom did) you are not trapped again. This complicates even more the migrations, as, you will need to handle a multivendor environmet, and more so, for a while you will have to juggle 3 vendors (WMware + the other 2)

4.) For ages VMware was a model citizen, which means everyone certified agaist them. Before the migration you need to make sure all your workloads are certified. This is 4x valid for purposes of regulation, certification, compliance, and (cyber) insurance

Is a very complex issue, for many an organization is not as simple as "I migrated the VMs in my homelab in an afternon so how hard can it be?". And the timelines are heavily compressed.

And tell me it does not sond like Meta Muse AI

Then, there is an AI specialized on Law, is called Harvey, Like Harvey Dent the district attorney - Two face, from Batman

Who is naming these things?

Considering I use MacOS 15.8, bootcamp into Windows 10 for gaming, and nowadays my only linuxes are on my NAS (DSM 7.3) and 2 VMs, one with TAILS and one with Kali, I am not worried in the slightest about what happens with Canonical...

about the volume of work, they should be using LTS or SLTS kernels, instead of bespoke Kernels. For instance, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS uses kernel 7.0 (not LTS, and certainly not SLTS), which means canonical engineers have to do all the backporting and patching work...

Anywho. Good luck to canonical and their users.

I used F-droid on my Blackberry Q10, and KeyOne, But I used so few apps from there, and all of them were on the official playstore, so, at the end, for my Razr+ 2024, I did not bother to install F-droid.

Still, glad to see the team moving forward, I desire them good luck, and have nothing but gratitude towards them.

Is all the other bibs and bobs that hang of the chip. Mem controller, GPU, NPU, USB controller, networking, wireless, the works

Since I live In Venezuela, Qualcomm does not want me to read the blog post.
So, I have a question for those who have read it, as TFS does not say:

The Qualcomm integration work is fully FOSS drivers? Or is a bunch of closed source drivers and binary BLOBs.

I do not care one way or the other, as I am more pragmatic than ideological in that regard. But I do know that with Closed source Linux drivers:
1.) In the tail end of the life of the hardware, support becomes spotty, as newer kernels stop supporting the closed drivers.
2.) Oftentimes the reverse engineered FOSS drivers lack certain features and lag in performance the closed source counterparts (nVIDIA drivers, and old AMD* drivers come to mind as prime examples).
3.) Certain important projects ARE ideologically minded and flat out reject any closed source drivers and BLOBs, so that restricts the projects one can approach (of the top of my head OpenWRT, but that is not relevant to Snapdragon X2).

I hope Qualcomm becomes "good Linux Citizens" and go "full FOSS drivers and firmware" like Intel and AMD, but I wanted to make sure.

* One example dear to my heart, FOSS AMD drivers for the Xpress200 chipset in modern kernels lack support for the s-video out, that propiertary drivers have. And an old kernel/distro will not do, as the use case was connecting a latop to the net so that an old CRT TV could display youtube and other net content. Don't ask

And yet "Crab People" is one of the few things to which "Simpsons already did it" does not apply