"I think it's blasphemy against AI if ‌you say it's a bubble," Son said at the Japanese conglomerate's annual general meeting. "It's just the beginning. AI's potential will be unlocked."

Another stupid rich Boomer who's bought into the science fiction, but who is too rich to have anyone who can tell him he's an idiot.

The entrepreneur, 68, said he will lead the company into his 70s ​to bring ⁠about "artificial superintelligence," which he defines as being 10,000 times smarter than a human.

"I have become greedier," Son said. "I would like to do more over the next 10 to 15 years. I will stay healthy as long ⁠as I ​can."

At least he's honest, unlike the American ultrawealthy who have been trying really hard to convince people they're regular humans and not skinwalkers.

For real. How can we get AI to break up with us and go away?

The clue is in the directions: REISUB

• Hold Alt + Print Scr
• Then type R E I S U B slowly.
  • Give a 2-3sec pause between presses to be sure.

You can look up what each letter does, as each one performs a different function when combined with Alt + Print Scr.

ETA: I seem to recall that you can enter the sequence quicker than that, as I believe I used to, but it's probably good to give your system time to perform each function, especially if you're trying to rescue it.

So there's hope...?

people's retirement money is now tied to Musky scams.

Now where have I seen this before...? Gosh, if only history had some warnings...

The thing to keep in mind, too, is that this isn't a console; it's a Linux computer with a focus upon gaming, so the comparison isn't exactly 1:1. You can only play games on a $1000 console. You can do much more with a $1000 computer that runs Linux and plays games.

Yeah, for eleventy-bajillion dollars worth of AI credits. Why use pesky money, when you can pay in pretend currency from an overinflated system backed up by an endless trail of IOUs?

Basically at my age I could really care less that I own these games anymore. I have my collection of the past and ill cherish it even more.

Great, so "fuck you, got mine?" Everybody else who wasn't born long enough ago to own physical games (or who can afford to pay inflated "collectible" prices) is just shit outta luck?

Apathy is the best outcome these ghouls could hope for. "I don't care if I own anything, and I'm content with that," is the rental economy the ultracapitalists so badly want.

At this point in time specifically, a $1000 laptop (the comparable general purpose option) is going to be a mid-to-upper entry-level one. Because it's supposed to be general purpose, it won't have hardware chosen to maximize gaming potential. Likely all of these options would only allow a RAM or hard drive upgrade, as well. This puts them upon somewhat equal footing with the Steam Machine, except I would hazard a guess that the Steam Machine would still do better at gaming due to the hardware selection they had available at production time.

And if you mean building a $1000 gaming Linux box, good luck not going over that limit with current RAM, GPU, and SSD prices.

Right now, you can't build a comparable desktop for $1000, unless you go for one of those BC250 builds. RAM, SSDs, and GPUs would push the starting price (from zero, mind you) to around $1500. Even just the 2x16 "budget RAM" I bought four years ago is close to $250-$300 for the set now.

On the other hand, you can pretty easily find a comparable entry level laptop that can do gaming for $1000. Will it beat a $1000 desktop machine from a few years ago? Will it beat a true gaming laptop? No, but that's not what we're comparing.

Folk religions aren't necessarily controlling, for example, so I don't see why religions as a general concept need to be excluded.

We can get down to the details about certain varieties that promote power structures and prop up systemic inequalities, but religion ≠ authoritarian

It will get rejected by sensible communities, who care about power and connecting the center to their aquifer. Then it will get accepted by some tiny town in bumfuck nowhere who uses the same aquifer on the promise of tens of millions of dollars, more money than that town will probably see in decades, and a promise of temporary job creation.

You're still in the mindset of Microsoft/Apple. "The latest" doesn't mean software bloat. Hell, I just updated my packages last night, and the space they took up went down. Package updates typically bring improvements, and I'm always excited to see what optimizations they've added. Sometimes, major version changes (e.g. 5.4 to 6.0) bring big changes you might not want or need, but...

...nobody is forcing anything. You get to decide what gets upgraded and when. Arch/Debian isn't some overarching company dictating when updates happen and what gets updated. It's a community-driven project, mostly by hobbyists, and updates happen in a piecemeal fashion as individual package maintainers make improvements.

It sounds to me like you should try out both options in a VM. And if you're planning on Debian, be sure to give PikaOS a try, too.

It will always be powerful enough to be a gaming handheld, because it's an excellent emulation machine!

Sweet. I'm set for life, and I'll get to be one of those devs that tells the bosses what I've decided to work on.

Doesn't sell the information...so far!

You know, there was a time when I kinda rooted for Windows. Windows 10 had come around and dealt with many of the sins of Win8, Edge was a competent browser, Cortana could be easily ignored, and Windows Defender was finally good at its job. Sure, the whole shift to have every app use WinUI was a bit clunky and piecemeal, but gradually modernizing from the older Win7 style made some sense.

Then Win 11 hit; it became obvious that WinUI "upgrades" were being used to hide key features from previous control panel stuff, those same control panels still exist with their older style alongside the changed controls, Cortana has been replaced with Copilot and shoved into everything, Microsoft collects even more "user metrics," and while Edge is still competent, it's affected by the previous two points pretty heavily.

Whatever Windows could have been, it did the predictable enshittification thing, and they deserve to lose users like me to the greener pastures of Linux.

top of their fields

lmao as if they are some kind of great thinkers. Motherfucker, you just have an absurd amount of wealth and don't grasp that being born rich isn't the same as having intelligence or qualifications. I don't see any of y'all with Nobel Prizes, shut the fuck up.

The only thing y'all are experts in is ratfucking humanity.

You would run Windows software with Wine (Bottles is great for this). If you can find an older installer, you would (in theory) install it in a specific directory structured for Wine (called a wine prefix).

If software is too big or heavy, there's ways to manually install a specific package version on Arch, or you can tell pacman not to upgrade a package you have already installed by noting it should be ignored via a specific section of your pacman.conf

I would agree with that wisdom in general. I don't think any package manager would prefer a user piecemeal updates like that.