We are splitting hairs here

No, you do, if you want it to run properly. Want to change the functionality of that third mouse button in ubuntu on your laptop trackpad? You have to use the CLI, it's not polished. Just try using ubuntu without ever using the CLI. Eventually if you want to install things, you'll have open up a package manager in the CLI. You and me can do that just fine. The grandma down the street gets to make a call to a techie.

Maybe you should get a job there.

I agree with you on moving buttons, yeah that's hard for some people. But what is really hard is in some FOSS when you have to click and interact with 3 to 5 items to get the same job done that you could do in 1-2 click for polished software. Take freecad for example. It takes a read of a manual or watching a youtube video just to use it. The workflow is arcane compared to some commercial tools. Yeah its free and the UI is many times improved over what it used to be, but it's still not up to 1-2 clicks. You can build the same thing, it takes several times longer than a polished cad tool.

Ubuntu is also a bit arcane, want to change something with the display or a thrid mouse button, it's off to the CLI for you. Most users don't want to do that, they really freak. For apple and microsoft they can handle a 3rd mouse button and do it in the way the user wants to across many pieces of hardware.

It's actually not my choice...

is it isn't easy to use for the average user. The reason why people like apple is because anybody's grandma can use it. The reason why people like windows is you don't have to understand a command line do run windows. The UI's are polished. Linux and FOSS can't figure out that good software has polish. Not many FOSS wants to do this and can't afford it, commercial can. Not many programmers want to spend time polishing up a program, they want to code and create new features. And I'm going out on a limb, but I'm willing to bet that many projects do not have dedicated UI people that gather feedback and do product testing.
The average user doesn't want to look at a readme.txt, they want to push a button and have software that is easy and intuitive to use. Do programmers care about that? Not really, they can go and re-write the software themselves.

The last problem is that software is not available for Linux but that is less of an issue in recent years.

If Linux wants to be usable they need to fix those issues.

when they don't have so much optics. They put the frog in the water too fast.

It would basically be whatever deals they have that give you X% off with their partners, but instead you get an actual product and billed for it.

I'm already super annoyed with amazon putting in hints to order things into alexa. It's too easy to mess up or have it overhear and order something you don't want.

Think about this, would you even let a human do this? Would you even let your friend have your credit card and let them order stuff for you? Most people wouldn't. And if your friend wouldn't work, then would you let a computer do this? I would think not. And there are several reasons not to do this, one is that AI can be coerced by whoever wants to inject their product into your life by whatever company pays the most.

I'm already not sold on AI even suggesting products for me. Right now the process is kind of pure, wait until the powers that be monetize it, when AI will insist that you need a specific product and won't give you other results. Never would AI buying products for me work in any situation.

Combined Cooling Heat and Power (CCHP) uses gas compressors to create cooling from waste energy, it saves some energy and a lot of water.

But I agree that AI systems are wasteful and the people building them need to find better, more efficient processes.

Because all the 'sources' were saying they would announce it this fall. These promises are as good as nuclear fusion. We get to next spring and it will be next fall.

and do your own android video box

Now you need a decade of food storage, a bunker and a solar battery backup for your house.

The FANG's will tell you what you need to hear to invest money in them. Take for example metaverse, it's a good sell to drag investors along even though most on /. could tell that it would be a flop from the beginning. All they have to do is tell you that something big is on the way, sometimes they deliver and sometimes they don't. But AI is one of the first technologies delivered that they have been promising something they may or may not be able to deliver. In the 00's during the dot com bust, we already had computers, the question was the business model. Nobody knows if we can get to AGI, it's just assumed that a magical AI god is around the corner and most are willing to throw whaever money they can at that god. But the real people that win are C-suites, they get money to pull ahead of the competition at investors expense if they don't deliver.

Is a misnomer, because they are eliminating base load and adding more reactive elements power prices are increasing.