Thank you for proving my point precisely.

Every time MS has EOL'd version of Windows, we see this same question show up or someone writing an article about how this will make it the year of the LInux desktop. I've been using Linux since 1996, and I can tell you - sadly but honestly, that it will never be the "Year of the LInux Desktop" where Linux suddenly breaks out and get's insane mainstream adoption. if Linux does become very popular, it's going to be a gradual gain over many years, just like has happened since the 90's. And probably the most we could ever hope for is to reach parity with or slightly exceed MacOS as an install base.

My 2 jaded cents.....

It's not too hard to use; that's largely resolved. Linux is just too fragmented to catch on in a big way. There are too many permutations and flavors, and it makes it difficult for devs and 3rd party vendors to target. If the LSB base had taken off and we could rally everyone around one package manager, one package format, and one desktop and GUI toolkit, then maybe it would have a chance, but now, at almost 30 years of Linux usage, that hasn't happened and is unlikely ever to happen. If everyone wants Linux to go mainstream, everyone should get behind one distribution and one desktop. - but every time a good candidate comes along, everyone craps on them (ahem, canonical), sometimes deservedly, often not. We are like a community of crabs in a bucket; as soon as one looks like it's going to break out, the rest pull it back down and climb on top of its carcass. IMO, Ubuntu was the best chance for this to happen, and community infighting (mostly coming from Red Hat and the Gnome people) made sure to torpedo any chance that had of becoming the de facto standard. Sadly, I got tired of all of this and moved to a Mac as my main machine a couple of years ago, but I still keep my Linux box for dev purposes. THere are times when I really do miss my KDE desktop though.

must be after that uni engineering degree and all those classes in philosophy of logic, I lack any understanding of predicate logic universal (x) or existential (x) quantifiers. But I'm sure you'll be happy to tell me what they mean to demonstrate how intellectually superior you are, pedantic troll.

I asked it about Tienamen Square and it immediately said that it was a forbidden topic of discussion. WHen I asked it what topics were forbidden it refused to tell me and purposely decided to be vague reasoning that even listing the topics would be tantamount to discussing them or informing people about them which would be against the interests/desires of the government.

There is no point in using a Chinese AI as you will never be able to discuss anything that the Communist party doesn't want you to talk about. For fun I asked it its opinion of XI, and it also refused to give any answer at all.

Totally useless. I don't care how well you reason if you refuse to talk about anything important.

Just wondering - the summary says she injected herself with Measles. Was that injected viral load alive or dead?

Yeah, they may delay the inevitable, but as soon as all the 70-80-year-olds pass away, their business is over. My 68-year-old neighbors recently canceled all of their cable and satellite services when they got Google Fiber and switched to all streaming services and YT-TV. So, even the old folks are cutting the cord.

I can see interest low at tech companies that treat their employees well and pay well, and interest high at companies that don't compensate or treat employees well. I worked for a long time at a company that only ever gave 2% raises - if they even gave a raise. The people who had been at the company the longest were always the lowest paid. A union could potentially help fix some of those problems (while probably creating a bunch of new ones.) We'll see how long this fad lasts in tech companies.

What about the Internet Bill? Or did you leave that out b/c you didn't see it coming and it bit you in the ass?

Also, wrt AI, uhmm, unless you've been living under a rock, file this under Captain Obvious.

Ok, so what is the point? What is it that you think the solution is? I get it that there is history that got us to this situation, but what do we do about it now?

I agree. I'm a legal immigrant to the US and even I support a border wall. I live in Texas and I see the effects that illegal immigration, and the organized crime that has grown up around it, has not only on the communities of south Texas, but the communities of northern Mexico - things that the democrats don't want you to see or talk about. Not only that, blue states rarely, if ever, are impacted by the negative consequences of the issues at the southern border (and let's be clear - I'm neither a GOP nor Democrat - I can't vote and personally I despise both of them.) My wife is a chair on a non-profit that provides humanitarian support for illegal immigrants coming over the border and there is absolutely a crisis there almost every day. The conditions for immigrants are appalling and leave people exposed to be preyed upon by cartels.

The solution, however, IMO - is two fold:
1) to stop illegal immigration (or at least make it extremely difficult with harsh penalties)

*and*

2) Fix the bloody immigration system. It's so so so difficult and so expensive that I don't blame the poor, and uneducated people coming across the border. It's near impossible to get in legally w/o a good, and very expensive, immigration lawyer. That and the system is horribly inefficient, slow and backed up. They need to overhaul the entire system, fund it properly and streamline the bureaucracy so that getting in can be done in months for hundreds instead of years for thousands.

The problem is that no party will support the other party fixing it b/c they both want to play to their base, and be seen as the immigration saviors that all the immigrants vote for - I believe that's one of the reasons behind the democrats push for open borders (that and they don't feel any of the effects of these policies) - more voters for them - and a big reason why the GOP is against it (well that and a growing amount of xenophobia.)

I was a huge super hero movie fan, but now I'm starting to tire of them. The quality of them has been noticeably decreasing for some time, particularly since Disney bought Marvel. They were kind of 2 dimensional to begin with, light on character development for sure, but it seems it's just getting sillier and more 2D as time goes on. Maybe that's b/c Disney wants them to appeal to younger and younger audiences.

The only "recent superhero" movie that I thought was any good was Joker. Everything else that's come out since then has been trash.

How exactly were their GitHub repositories "hacked?" If they got in by defeating GitHub security measures, then this is a much much bigger story, but if they got it via poor access management or social engineering or a stolen laptop/device, then that's a different story and bad on Okta.

I'm not surprised, if you've ever been to Edinburgh - even if the air quality now is pretty good, the entire city is basically covered in soot. You can't tell me that none of that makes its way into the air or peoples lungs. Someone needs to powerwash the whole place.

Absolutely agree. I wanted to try it, I thought about it very seriously b/c I'm on a Mac, but then I had to ask myself - what happens when Google decides to just turf the whole thing? That ultimately led me to go to nvidia instead.

I'm a huge Linux enthusiast, bigot even (self admittedly), and I've been using Linux since 1997 - even contributed to major projects like XFree86, KDE and helped with some things in the Kernel - waay back when. I've also been an IT executive for years dealing in industry and am now a CTO. (just background)

Every year since IDK KDE pre 1.0 was released, we've had "Is this the year of Linux on the Desktop" articles, hopes and dreams. The reality and good part is that Linux is already on the desktop - so we're here.

Also the reality, and the bad part, is that until the Linux community deals with the extreme level of fragmentation out there, and fixes some long standing issues like app packaging and distribution for Linux - with 1 solution everyone can agree on, Linux on the Desktop will never be more than a fraction of a percentage of the marketplace. It's a horrible shame that the LSB failed - that's what they tried to do, but unfortunately with a community driven by engineers, you have NIH syndrome to the extreme. We need one base OS layer, with a common way of doing things, common fs layout, common init system, common security mechanism, etc. i.e. Pick a distro, pick a package format (for the underlying OS), and - to a lesser extent - pick a desktop. When that happens, then Linux will start to make more serious inroads - but it will take 2-5 years to gather momentum.

I know I'm going to get flamed out of existence for the above, "you don't need to do that, or this, or whatever" but the reality is that software and hardware vendors will never spend the time and money to invest in supporting the ridiculous number of permutations of Linux on the desktop. Its just not economically feasible. Anyone who's run an open source project knows this. Packaging, distribution and then user troubleshooting and support is horrific. When I developed and ran LinEAK (lineak.sourceforge.net) in the late 90's and early 2000's I refused to touch packaging. Ain't nobody got time for that. You see that today with Game Devs - Linux is 1% of our revenue and 99% of our support tickets. Did anyone watch LTT try to go Linux? - hugely problematic for a guy that most mainstreamers / i.e. non-techy - would consider extremely technical. And don't tell me your grandma uses Linux, good for her - I'm sure all she does is use a web browser. She's not the mainstream - she's grandma, and I don't care how easy it is to install. How many non-techies you know install their own OS? None.

Until the economics work out for Linux on the Desktop (from a corporate perspective across the industry) and the customers are demanding (and paying for it.) - This is a Catch-22 btw - it's just not happening. Until you can fix some of Linux Desktops' major problems, it will *never* be the year of the Linux Desktop (i.e. when Linux becomes common or mainstream.)

Right now, Linux is the same as Java in 1998 - Write once, debug and support everywhere. The only way I see *any* of this changing is if Linus Torvalds himself gets involved, cracks the whip and starts a concerted effort to bring the distros together to fix their problems. That just ain't gonna happen though - Linus is an engineer and that's all he cares about. Unfortunately he's the only one with the respect and personal gravitas to make it happen at this point.