What kind of performance hit did you notice? I'm considering giving it a try, as some older games are the only thing really keeping me on Windows at home. I've been steadily moving non-gaming family members to Linux Mint and Chrome OS Flex with the Win11 hardware apocalypse. I'm very interested in first hand reports on how well these games work in the real world with the translation layer factor. I'm assuming there has to be at least some kind of performance hit, so I'd like know your experiences with it.

LOL. How long have you been here? Because personal stalkers have been a tradition here as a long as Natalie Portman's hot grits, Stephen King dying, and Netcraft confirming that FreeBSD is dead.

Reality denier. Your reality?

You sound communist.

The broader trend is that there is a self segregation taking place. I moved to Texas. I love it here. You can be a communist in California and enjoy it there.

The market will sort it out.

Pretty sure that whatever it is, it involves some translation of Fuck the English.

I always thought that pressing those thousands of old turbojets just sitting in storage into service for backup generators would be a good idea rather than junking them. All it would take would be one enterprising CEO to start snatching them up and when word got out, there would suddenly be a run on boneyards everywhere.

Or do what my schools did: ban them in the classroom and give plenty of pop quizzes. If you can't do the work on your own successfully in class with nothing but your pencil, paper, and brain, you fail. Period. Today's entitled mommies will scream, but fuck 'em.

A better question is should humans do any job that a computer can do better. Do you want your kids to be customer service reps?

These are big questions and we're going to have to answer them before we are ready.

The role of the AI factories is to train expert models that will be used on CoT inference pipelines perhaps on the edge or in collaboration with it.

Hang on. It's going to get wierd.

At least in my direct experinece, I've not been surprised by any of the cuts made that I see. AI is a likely excuse, but you'll find direct attribution from official sources scarce.

Most of these cuts are performance based. Companies are getting lean, and if you're not going to lean in or are in core business adjacent roles, you're on the block.

I don't know what era you grew up in, but when I was a child, Sears and Pennys were direct competitors. Sears just had a better catalog and automotive section. People going to malls would go to both to see who had the better deal on competing items. Especially for clothing. Montgomery Ward was a competitor, but they were the Chrysler to Sears/Penney's GM and Ford, the third wheel that no one went to first.

Sears fate was sealed the moment Amazon was created. The "vulture capitalist" just squeezed what value he could from the dying remains. With their catalogue business, and being "America's general store", they were in the perfect position to move from paper catalog to Internet based ordering. They adapted too late. Malls and physical department stores are never coming back at a level necessary for a Sears to thrive. It's Amazon and everyone else now.

Advising customers, providing discounted traffic and instances, defaulting to us-east-2 in the console for new accounts, etc.

It's not the question of redundancy. It's the problem with customers just building everything in us-east-1, so it now dwarfs everything else.

The push is still there, it's just that us-east-1 has so much inertia that they _have_ to keep expanding it.

The replacement for us-east-1 is us-east-2. Amazon has been pushing companies to use it for quite a while. They even have discounted traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2, it costs exactly the same as traffic within the us-east-1.

Inevitable. LOL.

The EU will break up before it truly bans ICE engines. It's not going to happen in our lifetime. Brussels may impose a penalty of some kind on member states that don't comply, but it'll be fairly cheap. Some tax or another will be imposed, everyone will claim victory, and ICE vehicles will continue to roll off production lines on the Continent.

I live right south of San Francisco so I want to note for the record: I, at least, do actually believe you're making shit up.