And don't they all use systemd? They must have a good reason for it.

Yeah, but to facilitate you continuing to use your familiar commands, the maintainers of the distro have to forego the convenience of systemd. Clearly it offers a lot to them, which is why the vast majority adopted it.

Is there any info on how this location tracking would work? GPS isn't going to cut it, it needs a battery and world wide cellular/satellite connection to track things being shipped, and once installed will be in a Faraday cage (the server enclosure/rack/datacentre).

Are they going to rely on it detecting when it is in a Chinese server somehow? Try to get an external IP address? Something in the driver?

It seems doomed to fail and easily bypassed. I'm sure it will spur further investment in Chinese AI chip manufacturing too, which is already progressing at a very rapid pace.

UTF-8 was a mistake. I get that they wanted to make string handling with existing code as painless as possible, and for most Latin derived languages a 32 bit char is approaching 75% wasted space, but the issues introduced by UTF-8 are far worse. UTF-16 doesn't have enough code points. You could argue for 24 bit.

Cylindrical cells are not the future though, they are older tech and have proven to be largely inferior to prismatic and blade batteries. Prismatic cells for lower cost and higher energy density, blade batteries for extreme performance. Tesla is using older chemistry too.

You botched copy/pasting the quite. I fixed it for you:

That makes complete sense and is in fact how all major operating systems optimize boot times, and how software developers often optimize performance in general. Do as little as possible, and do as much of it in parallel as possible.

Tricky to do with init scripts because there are a lot of dependencies to manage and checks that need to be done for timing and sequencing. systemd makes it easy and I've used it extensively for building a custom OS for embedded systems where hardware init and configuration has to happen in specific sequences, but can be parallel with other parts of the OS starting.

It's interesting that you mention unreasonable costs for end users, because most distros have adopted systemd. That suggests that you want to impose unreasonable costs on distro maintainers for your own benefit.

Betteridge strikes again.

Muskrat bought a bunch of gpus before the AI bubble really got going because he was preemptively pumping the SpaceX stock by shouting look at me I'm buying all this computer hardware for my AI so you know I'm going to make you rich!

He never did anything with any of it because that wasn't the point. He wasn't building data centers he was scamming investors.

Now he's got stacks and stacks of gpus sitting around gathering dust and to keep the stock price pumped for the time being he needs to make it look like he's going to have a ton of revenue coming in. In practice he's not and he's just going to steal all your 401K money but we're going to get bullshit articles like this because anyone who does real journalism like Patrick Boyle over on YouTube gets fired or demonetized.

If you watch the most recent video from Patrick Boyle and go to the end of the video he explains how the scam works. Initially investors get murdered in by the promise of big fat returns but they can't sell the stock for the first 120 days as part of the buying agreement. Just one of those investors are at the point where they can sell the stock and it's likely to crash the rule changes to NASDAQ for SpaceX stock into safe index funds.

Your 401k will be forced to purchase SpaceX stock for the index funds that were the otherwise be safe investments. You will not have the option of not buying SpaceX stock. Eventually your 401k will be full of SpaceX stock and a variety of other rotten AI bullshit stocks that will collapse eliminating the value of your retirement savings.

When this happens the people who saw it coming will still be screwed because there's nothing they could do about it because the people who didn't see it coming refused to vote for the kind of reforms that are needed. It doesn't matter if you realize you're a crab in a bucket you're still a crab and a bucket and they're going to drag you back down every time you try to get out.

There is 10 trillion dollars in 401ks. If you think the thieves that have already created 1 trillionaire are going to stop and leave that money sitting there you're nuts. That money belongs to them not you. You gave it to them when you kept voting for culture War bullshit instead of boring annoying people like senator Warren who know how to regulate Wall Street

If you want to ban these you're going to have to give something up. Maybe not you personally but certainly some of the people reading this.

You have to change how you vote and doing that means giving up other issues. These are going to typically be issues that appeal to the right wing, especially culture War issues because you can give those up without it directly impacting your civil rights or your income.

That's a tough sale for a lot of people especially anyone older. And they can always just tell themselves, hey I'm not doing anything illegal why do I care? Meanwhile the cop shows they watch every night on cable television are going to tell them how these cameras are the best thing ever for catching those evil evil criminals...

It's abuse in and of itself. I am so sick and tired of other people giving up my rights because they don't understand what the repercussions are of giving up their rights. I'm not so stupid that I can pretend I don't have to live in the same society as they do.

But I mean what the hell am I supposed to do in a country where we are about to give the Iranian dictatorship $300 billion of taxpayer money and 37% of the country is cool with that because they think it's going to be private money. Like what the hell do I say to somebody who thinks like that? There is a fundamental breakdown in thought processes in this country with over 1/3 of the country unable to think and reason rationally or competently..

You know you could just look up the Congressional hearings yourself. Were they admitted everything I said.

It's all on the record. It's funny but Google says different things when they are under oath then when they are talking to you. Almost as if they don't respect you in the slightest...

Users do want this. Watch the final part of the recent Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge. Three of them switched to Linux for a month, and they all kept using it afterwards. Previous challenges had them going back to Windows.

The two big things that changed are Proton making games work, and AI making solving Linux problems less painful. They all commented on the reaction they get when asking questions of the Linux community. It's often hostile and unhelpful, telling them that they don't actually want to do what they want to do and should just do something else, or blaming them for picking the wrong distro, or some other off-putting response. When googling answers, often it comes down to a Reddit thread with outdated information that no longer works. AI is much more helpful and seems to check what solution is needed for their specific, up to date distro.

It makes sense to put an AI assistant in Ubuntu, for users who are coming from Windows, the biggest area of growth for them. If they properly tailor it to their OS, with relevant and up to date information, it could get around one of their biggest hurdles - the toxic community.

I see what you are saying, but also I'm not sure if I'd say it's a disability, but I certainly find typing stuff out is easier than saying it. Especially as I can edit it before submission, where as what I say is what the AI responds to immediately.

It's a lot like talking on the phone, which I also dislike. Face to face, people can see your expressions and when you look like you are trying to think of what to say or how to rephrase something, they can wait. On the phone, or talking to an AI, that isn't possible.

As long as they keep both options it's okay I guess.

We found out in a congressional hearing that the dirty Little secret of Google is that their self-driving cars are actually just remote controlled cars that occasionally use some fancy Lane assist features. But when anything needs to be done that's even slightly complicated it's a human being in the Philippines driving the car.

I don't want the damn things on my road not that it matters. There is so much money involved I don't get a say and neither do you. So I've got remote control cars being piloted by people in foreign countries over high latency internet connections and I just got a kind of accept that that's a thing I need to worry about now.