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As someone who used Windows and Linux my whole career and now am forced to use Mac for a new job; I completely agree, I was right, Mac is a very weird thing overall.

This is crazy. The ones we used in the Navy were heavy and delicate. Now it fits into the palm of our hand. Just incredible how far things have come.

Except we we replaced all current forms of power generation with wind and solar, it would be more expensive:

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/would-getting-all-our-electr...

I think it's great that tools like colinux exist but when if ever will IT departments (System Administrators) figure out how to support Linux Desktop users on our machines instead of forcing Windows or Mac on us. Mac is a terrible OS for Java software development.

At work when I work on Windows (currently stuck using Mac for the first time in my career at work), but on Windows I would use https://gitforwindows.org/ which also uses msys2 and that is a very popularly supported free product using msys2 on Windows. If you ever forget the URL, search for "git bash for windows".

I would run Ubuntu 2006 in a VMware Workstation VM then after a few months, wiped the system, installed Ubuntu 2006 then Windows in a VM (I think VMware Workstation was available on Linux Desktop then, otherwise I don't recall what I ran Windows in but it was in a VM), so very similar to your case.

> Almost any reply to a political thread in the next four years is going to be "That sounds illegal"

And the last four years, for which Biden pardoned his son, certainly nothing illegal in his doings I'm sure.

We're on Chrome on Linux, mostly we don't see those.

> A downloaded model that can be run on US servers is covered by the first amendment as free speech.

Even Google AI said that an LLM is not itself covered under free speech; only the content it produces, which itself is ironic since AI companies stole world copyrighted data to feed into their LLM software machines.

About to start work this morning but I could come up with a list of hundreds of Apache projects in use worldwide across tens of thousands of products in hundreds of thousands of companies.

That's a great idea! Since there are probably not any laws against this yet, it sounds like a great way to fight back!! Poison the AI well, I like it.