Yeah I think both system76 and framework are a bit of a mixed bag. Some things are good, some things are quite bad. For the framework, you pay 2000 dollars but you dont get a 2000 dollar quality laptop - what you get is the ability to repair it and change out parts. So you get a medium quality laptop but with ability to change it. Some people will value that, no doubt, but for me, I think I prefer to buy a new one every three years. I just wish keyboards, mousepads, memory and batteries could be replaced on all laptops. Then they would last a very long time.

I just use Linux but my impression (mac users can give their impression) is that there are more and more small bugs in the system.

But at the same time, their laptops are just incredible. Ive been trying to find a pc laptop and none of them are even close to macbooks, no matter the cost. They just cant make them as good, since they dont control the hardware. You have stuff like coil whine, keyboards breaking, batteries being drained in 6 hours, bad sound, noisy fans running constantly, bad screens… On luxary laptops costing 2000 dollars or more.

I mean, Linux desktops are getting excellent while windows and mac OS are getting worse. Thats just a fact. Big tech is not interested in developing the desktop any further since the money is in advertising and tracking peoples activities.

Most of their users say “I dont care” anyway so thats the target group. :)

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Problem is, almost everyone is insecure.

Karen?

Thats a short guide.

This is called wishful thinking for the guys in the back of the room. :)

Sam Altman wants to raise babies using AI.

Never forget.

Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.

Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.

Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.

Not even surprised. You will probably get snippets from bing there in the future, taking up most of the space, along with an ad, and your programs are tiny pixels at the bottom you cant even see.

Yeah im doing open source, that still feels good. :)

I think they are all going further and further into madness. Us government and big tech together.

They dont seem to understand that themselves. The consciousness of wanting to control by force, in combination with big tech dystopian dreams of raising humans with Ai, and watching everybody in real time… Its a very strong difference in that kind of consciousness compared to a good person on this planet.

Ive lost interest in building technology solutions myself. Because its just about ads and control now. Its just the wrong kind of consciousness in charge of humanity. Tech isnt helping us, its making us more and more helpless and depressed.

I think they are not even interested in any of that. Its just a method of control. Continuing to apply pressure to people, reminding them to bow down to authority.

They can already get the social media history from any big tech company. :)

I heard on the news today that the US is planning to force people visiting their slave pen country to show their social media history and 5 years of recent phone numbers. :)

They really dont want anyone coming there do they… :)

https://www.dw.com/en/us-demands-access-to-tourists-social-media-histories/a-75096949

For me, i felt like that also when I was 35. I didnt want my family to be in my life since I didnt feel good around them.

Now at 50, I have again connected to some of them. Because you get back to those feelings that life is not endless and you start to think about that you will one day not be here anymore. And its nicer if that happens when you have made peace with at least some of those people.

Tldr, age made me think different at different stages. Maybe it happens for others as well. :)

I feel actually insulted when a machine is using the word “sincere”.

Its. A. Machine.

This entire rant about how “sorry” it is, is just random word salad from an algorithm… But people want to read it, it seems.

Problem is that companies are using them for all scenarios. It’s often their entire tech stack now, with kubernetes.

It’s similar to the object oriented hype that came before it, where developers had to write all their programs in a way so they could be extended and prepared for any future changes.

Everything became complex and difficult to work with. And almost none of those programs were ever extended in any significant way where object oriented design made it easier. On the contrary, it made it far more difficult to understand the program since you had to know which method was called in which object due to polymorphism when you looked at the code. You had to jump around like crazy to see what code was actually running.

Now with kubernetes, it’s all about making the programs easier to scale and easier to develop for the developers, but it shifts the complexity to the infrastructure needed to support the networking requirements.

All these programs now need to talk over the network instead of simply communicating in the same process. And with that you have to think about failure scenarios, out of order communication, missing messages, separate databases and data storage for different services etc.