The consumer market doesn't make them any money. Like...when asked about the consumer markets....not a single company cared. We're too small a market. WD basically said consumers were less than 5% of their income and they dropped us like a bad habit. Memory makers stopped making to the consumer marekt.

Think about that....consumers...are not the primary market. We don't matter anymore.

This is not about a bubble...it's about taking a market away from us. This will never end. They don't want us to have personal computing devices. This is the end-game.

You're just fucked. Once broadcomm took the business over they had no legal responsibility to honor previous contracts.

We're at the point now that business just exists to fuck everyone over. Given a CEO can run a company in to the ground and still get billions in payouts....where is the incentive to do anything? They don't have any. They can be the nastiest sons of bitches anywhere...and the courts will ensure they get paid.

Pretty soon we'll all be paying companies for no reason by legal force.

Yes...I love having a kernel that's 2 years old and won't boot on modern hardware.

Please tell me how Debian and Ubuntu are so superior. Why...they actually started running on my Dell only a year after I actually acquired that. Wow...if it's such the better designed OS then I guess other distros might fall in line....

except Arch booted and ran on that thing day 1 because it's not a whiny little bitch.

If Arch is so stupid why was it the only thing that ran? If the design philsophy is so bad...why does the almighty Debian still have issues on my Dell laptops? Issues I don't have with Arch.

I get it...you don't like Arch. You hate the memes and you don't know how to use it. The problem is you don't really know Linux. No...you don't. Arch isn't doing anything more unusual than any other distro compared to how Linux actually works before you slap all your bullshit on top.

Maybe we need to return to SysV as a society.

Look guy.....Debian isn't any safer from this.

Here's the thing...as everyone pointed out...it's AUR. User repositories. Now...Arch does have a more centralized system...which is good; but Debian isn't immune becuase you STILL have third-party repositories. Those third-party repositories still have the same failure points. Maybe AUR is a little easier...anyone can adopt an orphaned repository; but one might notice a dead repo coming back to life and look at it with caution.

This exact same thing could happen to any user repository for any distro. If you're telling me that you literally just stick to the Debian supplied stuff...then you must not do anything with your system. If you build from source...then I assume you look at every build script and every piece of code to ensure something malicious didn't get slipped in to the last PR.

But since you don't want to read a PKGBUILD....then you're not. So I don't see how you're any safer...unless you just stick to default repos....which means you don't really do anything with your system and could probably function on ChromeOS or Windows.

And that is a problem. You can't run Debian on new hardware.

Why did I go Arch? I had a new laptop. I couldn't even boot Ubuntu or Debian installers. Nothing would boot on that thing because it was too new. I wasn't waiting another year for the LTS cycles to refresh.

That's the other problem with Linux. If you use the standard model....you're SOL on new hardware. Especially if it's a full platform refresh like Dells were last year.

Just what about the design philosphy is stupid? Is it any dumber than what other distros have done?

Look at Ubuntu? How fucking bloated is that installer. What the fuck is cloud-init? I'm running one physical machine and the fucking thing insists it needs cloud-init and all sorts of other cloud bullshit. Not to mention...what the fuck is the point of having 3 or 4 gigs worth of ISO if the installer won't fucking use it. You can't even install Ubuntu without network. It's not grabbing updates...it's grabbing all the fucking packages.

Let's ignore the fact I've got hardware that wouldn't get Linux for over a year if it wasn't for Arch...one of the few rolling distributions that actually stays halfway updated and not 2 years behind like everything else. I mean I couldn't even boot Debian or Ubuntu on my Dell because they were so far behind the kernel just noped out of the zen5 execution.

I mean maybe you need to back and look at what this OS was...back before package managers. Go build an LFS install and tell me if you want to maintain and use that.

It's the end of open source.

This is going to be proof to more companies as to why they need to go back to closed. It will be a keypoint in why open source development needs to end.

This isn't just the death of Arch...it's the opening act of the death of Linux. Because corporate interests are rapidly leaving. I'm seeing more projects get discontinued in favor of closed source.

None of us are going to have any choices in a few years. There won't be open source. There won't be community development.

I bet you can't run Linux unless it's Ubuntu because you're a n00b.

Absolutely no one would be celebrating. He never would have gotten to this position.

Greed is a deadly sin. God is dead. Musk and his fans are proof. And his fans think they're on God's side.

Boy are they going to be angry when they find out they get charged for his sins.

God is dead.

Pretty soon you won't know how worthless which currency you have is. You'll just know you won't be able to afford shit at some point.

Crypto is a grift. Plain any simple. Anyone who says otherwise is no better than someone who defends a thief.

We have fake currency already.....ever since we went off the gold standard. IF you want to destroy consumer confidence and destroy buying power, unregulated bullshit is it.

I've often said there is a difference between vibe programming and just not knowing the language. Vibe programmers don't know how software works outside of "run thing to make stuff happen". So they have to rely on AI to make decisions...and sometimes it makes bad decisions. It can generate good code...but it's not a fantastic software engineer.

But if you have some idea of how software works and how systems operate....then chances are you'll make something that's AI-assisted but not totally vibe coded. There's a difference between being a manager and telling your jr dev "make this app" and being some level of engineer and writing out specifications. "It should do this....it should do it this way...it should take this, this, and this into account. Please stop and ask me questions involving engineering and implementation. No that is a stupid idea; instead you should query the API for it." Sometimes it helps correct me. "We shouldn't be keeping track of a shadow state. That's complex and not within your goals".

My entire Tuesday was sitting around...working with my agentic tools on a project that kind of formed out of a pile of example source code and a long specification list...and a whole lot of back and forth about engineering decisions and feeding it full API responses to reverse-engineer the bodies. Code has been running solid for 3 days...sucking down MQTT traffic, making some API calls, pushing it out over websocket to a browser dashboard. Actually making a Pi0 useful again....

Sometimes devs document things poorly...or not at all. Now I can just "ask the code" how in the hell it does something.

Depends on the application. I can point to quite a few places where memory speed actually shows it's face. For example....I can run 8b LLMs on my AMD laptop....but the minute the context window gets anything in it....boy does the speed tank. The internal graphics cores render everything just fine...but the fact the memory is 85GB/s vs 250GB/s makes a HUGE difference.

I'm pretty sure at this point everyone exploited Covid to do this. Destroy the supply chains....weaken supply....raise prices....squeeze the public dry.

This time next year you won't be talking about the computer you'll buy...but the $1200 terminal you have to buy to use the $200/month cloud PC service. They won't be selling to anyone but datacenters.

I don't think you get it.

It will NEVER be illegal. They will NEVER outlaw data collection. Law enforcement wants it. Big business wants it. They both want it for different reasons...but they want it.

The Fourth basically only applies within the walls of your own home...and not even then in some cases. If it can be seen from public...then it's not protected. This includes your yard, your street, inside any open windows....anything.

The minute you leave your house...your cell phone is reporting where it is just for basic network functionality....which can be handed over to police with a warrant...or they can just buy the data like they usually do. No warrant required...it's below budget thresholds.

If you think privacy protections are coming; you're wrong. The only thing we've gotten is less privacy. NEw cars have to spy on you. They're probably going to spy on everything. Who needs a flock network when you have a federally mandated network of sensors in cars you can use.

They will never restrict this data by law and you're foolish if you think anyone is.

The politicans don't care about us. Both sides support this...therefore it CANNOT be good.