The worst part is not JUST the circular investment making up basically all the new investment in the last few months… but the fact they are all based in impossible-to-deliver metrics.

So it is literally not a matter of “if” the bubble pops, it’s a matter of when the market speculators will no longer be able to hide it

110%

When Covid hit, I decided I finally had enough time to invest in a gaming PC. My son and I put one together and, thinking I would miss out on many games, we set it up to dual boot. 3 months later we both realized we wanted nothing that “only ran on Windows” so we recovered the wasted space and it became a Linux only machine (like the rest in my house)

I can also confirm my experience has been the same re any other application or piece of software. My current daily driver is basically against all recommendations for a daily driver: running Garuda Dragonized with a side of Hyprland, even the Garuda folks do not recommend this mix but I fell in love with Hyprland and my son still prefers KDE. I had to learn a lot to configure everything in Hyprland from scratch (first tried it with someone’s config but decided I wanted my own). Took a bit of learning but it was so much fun and in the last 5 months since I implemented this crazy soup, I have had no freezes, no hangs, no apps dying on me, nothing… everything is fast, solid and more importantly, I know and control every aspect of the experience…

Feels like getting to the top of the roller coaster… scary but exciting at the same time

Indeed…

My Linux story started 15 years ago. I’m a tech guy (systems admin at the time) and reached the “I work with computers all day, don’t need more of that at home” stage (which was insane to think of a few years before)… tried Linux, loved it and still today my house is a junk yard of old computers having their best second life.

EXACTLY parallel to cutting my cable, my experience ditching MS (which I still have to use about 20% at work) has been one where I felt it was needed but hesitant I would miss out, but in all this time, the more I check MS (or cable TV) the more I realize I am missing NOTHING and my life is better for distancing myself from it

Why would anyone touch any garbage this guy produces?!

You are correct… yet it is so sad that a modicum of respect for their clients is held up as if Apple self immolated out of principle… the bar is THAT low

The best part here is that, when the AI bubble pops, AI will become a dirty word for a while before settling in some, much smaller, feature.

MS is going all gas no brakes on AI and when that bubble pops, their entire ecosystem will be toxic and laughable

worse… they’ll happily sell ad space to any scammer

I’d think they’d have shown their hand this election even somewhat just to show how “strong” the party looks and how the people reject the democrats.

What election are you referring to here? New York Mayoral race?

You do realize the Feds have a SHIT TON more power over Federal stuff than they have over State rights? I mean, last time the GOP was not half as powerful as they are today and they literally orchestrated an insurrection just to not give up power… do you think peaceful transfer will take place now?

I mean, I hope you are right but I don’t see how you could be

mostly for endorsing it with your commentary; your position seems to be “we won, everybody drop your weapons and party, google is good again”

and you follow by bashing linux phones in your subsequent comments…

“deluded or bad faith” does seem to fit here bud

you still think you’ll have elections next year??? lol

quick give fElon more money

In what universe does this make any sense. The republicans wouldn’t have the political power to do that.

They had no legal power to block Obama’s SCOTUS nomination, yet they did. They had no legal power nor justification to claim trump’s reelection had been stolen, yet they forced an insurrection. trump currently does not have any legal power to do half the stuff he is gleefully doing.

You seem to think MAGAs act within the boundaries of the law… must be nice to be so innocent

And until that happens, there is no point in try to get people not to participate.

First of, I have ever said people should not vote. I am simply stating the fact that it will not be enough, not anymore.

Second, you keep the “until that happens” as if that make any sense… You are the one moving the goal post here to justify inaction. You do not want to sacrifice anything to get your country out of the hole you allow it to get… and news flash, once the power grab is complete (you are 98% there) there will be no option left… every minute you allow to pass doing fuck all, is a minute you are closer to having NO OPTIONS LEFT

And you only help that with your encouragement of voter apathy.

Read above… and try to make an effort this time

I’m not arguing against that, Im pointing out that its a constant fight, not one battle.

Yet your “strategy” here is to do nothing an wait 19 months to cast a ballot… where did I say it was one battle?

Are you denying that if people had voted for the democrats just a few percent more this year project 2025 would not have been stopped, as trump likely would be dead when it came time for the next event?

we can’t know the alternative timeline where the democrats would have won; but if their past behaviour is any indication they would have acted over confident and let the republicans walk all over them as before

what we can do is look at the present and easily see that the fascist grab of power is basically complete and there is zero chance they will give up power (last time they literally led an insurrection to avoid giving up power)

Of course the DNC could do more. The question is could you, the people, do any less to secure your democracy.

I’m canadian but your are making my point, Americans are too gaslit, selfish and uninformed to even vote rationaly

I don’t get how people act like there should just be this sudden moment where once and for all fascists will disappear. It will and has always been a continuous fight.

do you think the magas would be this enboldened if any republican had been accountable?

I’m not saying democracy does not work, I’m saying the Democrats will not fix this problem

no, I’m referring about stopping fascism and protecting democracy and the rule of law

all else is secondary if everything is destroyed every other turn

The practical buckleys tagline solution you all hate but is the only one that works is supporting the fuck out of the democrats

where is the evidence that this “works”?

were the democrats not in charge after the first trump term an utterly failed to do anything? and I don’t mean they tried but failed, they didn’t even triy

same as Obama, he could/should have prosecuted Bush for any of the many war crimes but instead immediately let them all of the hook with the “let bygones be bygones” crap

I absolutely agree a civil war would be awful but I think you are waaaaaay past fixing this by voting… much less voting for the same party that has shown to love the status quo so much

Now is the time to build the progressive party as a big tent

is this the Democrats or a new party you are proposing?

and this is your leader

human race = Muricans

ok