I am surprised no one introduced yet a CPU and phone which has little if any GPU and called it a business phone. The obvious advantages include security, cost, power consumption.
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Two preambles: Y'all need to read Invisible Hands, really need to. That book is about how various losely connected sometimes even competing groups of businessmen worked to roll the New Deal back. It's not a conspiracy theory, there was no shadow cabal behind the scenes -- but the goal was common. https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/
Second, Amazon was started to become a monopoly in retail and only begun with books because it was a relatively easy thing to work with.
Similarly, while Uber started with fancy cars soon enough it became a means to destroy the protections organized labor managed to get in the last hundred or so years. Or at least what remained of them. In this the company was exceptionally successful by creating what is called the "gig economy". As people hate taxis, using that market for this purpose was the easy way. If you think past the introduction of UberX in 2012 Uber had anything to do with transportation then, pardon the pun, you have been taken for a ride.
yes, yes, we only need to use a few more GPUs to turn automated plagiarism machines into full blown AGI, am I right?
I thought at least Apple getting off the horse because they realized it's just a carnival carousel was a hint. But apparently people are so high on the LLM supply they can't think straight any more.
Consider it a marketing expense "old Disney hogged IP but we reformed look how cool we are" consider it an investment in up and coming creatives who one day very well might make a successful movie ...
Bring back the 28 year copyright term. Or something similarly sensible.
How much money would Disney lose if Independence Day, the top earning film 28 years ago would become free to replicate this year?
This is why the world is ending.
Few people born with a silver spoon in their mouth become great examples of motivation, drive.
Every crypto"currency" utilizing a transaction fee is a negative sum game and those are scams. That's all there is.
> Shareholder primacy is a theory
> The doctrine waned in later years
> Shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
There is myth about how corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize "shareholder value" and short term corporate profits at the cost of everything else. This is false. No such thing exists in corporate law. While Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is a deplorable decision, there is a rather remarkable sentence in there:
> modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so.
I do not argue with you because it's pointless. I recommended a book as a starter in order to get to a point where we can have a discussion. Some things can't be explained in a short comment.
You embarrassed yourself not with the statement itself but that it makes crystal clear you have no idea about what underpinnings of a modern state, its interaction with society and so forth.
That is the problem both with the OS and the users sorry to say. Of course the problem is with drivers. Well and Bluetooth and Wifi and streaming DRM but I digress: I do not care whose fault it is if I can't work. Companies do not prioritize desktop Linux drivers , that's just a fact. And users will say "oh it's not the fault of Linux" as if it would matter.
So all of them.
I am possibly the worst possible person to ask about Linux experience with anything current. I have been posting since 2018 how untenable is running Linux as a daily driver which is when I stopped. I started using it as a daily driver in 2004. Overall I started in 1993 and still using it on command line (WSL) and routers and servers.
However, unless I am mistaken there's not much of an advantage over the Gem10 based on https://i.imgur.com/G9YNO6I.jpeg (who cares about that AI?) and that's already available at https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-gem10-amd-ryzen-7-7840h... and this one is LPDDR5 in case anyone cares about that.
One more interesting thing on this page is https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-t-box-intel-n100-metal-... which is even smaller than a usual NUC yet quite rich inports and has a very agreeable price.
The 80GB version runs 300W on PCIe and 400W on SXM4. (Which is my third reason to hate the current wave of "AI" bullshit, the first two being industry scale copyright violation and barely better than slave labor).
And once again, what does rogue code has to do with Drupal? Nothing. The same would happen with almost any system. Name any CMS which is actually used in the wild and doesn't get compromised if you install rogue code right into the codebase.