I was going to complain about the lack of a Claude Desktop for Linux, but I double checked before roasting them, and by gosh they've got a version in beta for Ubuntu and it'll work on any Debian offspring. When Anthropic says beta that means it's pretty darned good, they're cautious about putting stuff out.

I got a couple M1 Macs two years ago and the weight advantage pushed Linux off my desktop. Anthropic releases Mac first and I'm a Max subscriber so I've been at the head of the line. All my Linux these days is a Proxmox box in the living room and a Qubes 4.3 on my kitchen table that has been at install completion for two or three weeks, and I just don't have time to mess with it.

I'm looking at the stuff in my dock and all of these apps are on Linux. I guess my wish is ... maybe better integration on Mac file systems, so I can get a thumb drive from a pure Mac user and not have to do a bunch of gymnastics to get the data where I need it.

The Trump administration is cooking the books but they can't do it fast enough to head this off.

Even with the shell game the numbers are falling.

This is a post pandemic, starting to be AI era job market. Kinda looks like the pre-genocide Gaza strip, where one young person would support seven family members. This is my Signal chat today - two people overdrawn, one about to default on mortgage, a fourth who needs to move for safety's sake but can not afford.

This is a global phenomenon and the Hormuz "peace" where both sides keep shooting is NOT helping.

Years ago Republican pollster Frank Luntz, when asked how bad things might get, deadpanned "France. 1793."

We're not there yet, but you can faintly hear the thunk of falling guillotine blades, if you listen closely ...

Considering this has been Broadcom's recent mid-term business model I bet their projections were pretty accurate, as they were informed with data from less public/controversial acquisitions where they've done the same thing. Just to companies you've never heard of that make parts for companies that you have.

Yes. Or it's not fit for its stated purpose.

And as you have figured out, it can't be done. Which means this is not worth doing for its stated purpose. Which means it's for a differeent reason. What do you think that reason could be?

How embarassing for you. You just keep digging the hole and proving my point. Are you so lacking in self awareness?

You should feel shame for posting something demonstrating your complete and total lack of ability to see issues in anything other than black and white. This type of "discourse" is exactly what you've been trained to use to turn off your own brain by whatever media you're consuming. It's not helpful and it make you look like a fool.

Ah, forgot I was on slashdot, home of black and white thinking. Cool story, all wrapped up in a neat bow. If that's what gets you thorugh the day sure....let's all say (to you) it's just that simple and they were all in on it.

It's clear you've not driven something like that are are just doing the 'ol slashdot "I can figure this out from first principles".

You're not gonna see what's to either side of you when you're parked in between two other trucks or SUVs. When you're backing 8 foot of bed and 4 feet of back seat out of a parking spot before your head is in a position to see LEFT AND RIGHT you're just hoping nobody is coming/somebody sees you.

They back into spots because you need to be able to SEE to pull a 24 foot truck out of a spot. Backwards doesn't give you that visibility.

That's a very strange take. What the auto manufacturers did was not at all conspiring: they reacted to the legislation and rules in place in a rational manner, by making the choice that made the most money. Elections have consequeces.

It's not clear how you can possibly think "if we take the worst people out of prison the rest of the prizoners will have better outcomes" without making the half step into understanding "our prisons aren't being run properly if prisoners like that are causing such problems for other prisoners."

There's also another thing at play for the ones who would be otherwise redeemable: most prisons are hellholes of punishment, not rehabilitation. If you choose to run a system that way do not be surprised that the likely outcome of people who have been in the system for any real lengh of time is recidivism.

So yes, you are too delusional to understand that you just made my point for me. Your entire perspective is the issue here so there's not going to be any way to get through to you.

So you're just doubling down on the same tired and unconvincing methodology. How pathetic. And predictable.

Irrelevant.