Only if corporations lose all rights as individuals in Law.

This is the way.

Its not just GM, but their are certainly a good example of Enshitification.

Its certainly apparrent in how much our brains are struggeling to process the level of information we have access to.

You can see that in many areas of society, people have given up on facts based reasoning and are simply following “vibes” in their decision making that is a lot “cheaper” on the brain.

Thank you for raising these points. Progress has certainly been made and in specific applications, AI tools has resulted in breakthoughs.

The question is wheither it was transformative, or just incremental improvements, i.e. a faster horse.

I would also argue that there is a significant distinction between predictive AI systems in the application of analysis and the use of LLM. The former has been responsible for the majority of the breakthroughs in the application of AI, yet the latter is getting all the recent attention and investment.

Its part of the reason why I think the current AI bubble is holding back AI development. So much investment is being made for the sake of extracting wealth from individials and investment vehicles, rather than in something that will be beneficial in the long term.

Predictive AI (old AI) overall is certainly going to be a transformative technology as it has already proven over the last 40 years.

I would argue what most people call AIs today, LLMs are not going to be transformative. It does a very good imitation of human language, but it completely lacks the ability to reason beyond the information it is trained on. There has been some progress with building specific modules for completing certain analytical tasks, like mathematics and statistical analysis, but not in the ability to reason.

It might be possible to do that through brute force in a sufficiently large LLM, but I strongly suspect we lack the global computing power by a few orders of magnatude before we get to a mammilian brain and the number of connections it can make.

But even if you could, we also need to improve power generation and efficiency by a few orders of magnatude as well.

I would love to see the AI bubble pop, so that the truely transformative work can progress, rather than the current “how do we extract wealth” focus of AI. So much of what is happening now is the same as the dot com bubble, but at a much larger scale.

People forget that a very short time ago, there was no internet and knowlege and fast communication was rare and slow.

Nothing in the last 500 years has changed our society so much, in such a short time.

AI has been around for decades now. The main recent breakthrough has been in its ability to immitate a human conversation. Untill a similar breakthough happens in its ability to reason and understand, it will continue to stagnate.

Right now AI development needs the current bubble to pop before significant progress can be made.

But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.

The Matrix makes people sick in winter to handle the winter peak demand.

Damn, I keep forgetting that the iphone X was already 5 years ago. 10 years ago then. There has been so little improvements in phones in the ladt 5 years, it all just blurs together.

I think the point is, we used to have phones that were 9mm+ thick. Iphone 4s and iphone 5c from Apple and Samsung Galaxy S3 and motorola G phones were all that thickness. They even had replacable batteries and expandable storage. Some of those were even waterproof despite all of that.

I think the main driver of impractical thinness has been marketing, planned obselecence and cost savings.

But their thickness can accomidate todays cameras.

Barons is a reference to the robber barons of the 1890’s. Who controlled almost all industires and made life for the average worker hell.

They only got properly taken out by the new deal reforms after the great depression.

Make it rain.

A lot of it is people’s pension savings collected via investment schemes.

No thicker than very popular and successful phones from just 5 years ago. They can use the extra space for a larger battery, so they dont have to nerf performance to maintain stability in older phones. They can also use the space to restore repairability.

But probably not for a folding phone, since making both sides that thick will probably be too much.

I think there is a strategy in what you are pointing out.

For the general public, its not that we should advocate for the use of software, but for the use of a package of hardware+software.

People dont say they want iOS or MacOS or even Windows. They say they want an iPad, Macbook or ASUS Strix Laptop. The software is not a primary consideration for them.

The Steam Deck is the prime example. Its about making the package attractive.

If we can do things like have Bazzite make a deal with Steam for “Steam Machine” accreditation, that can be packaged and marketed to be sold by the hardware vendors. Probably starting with the gaming system integrators.

We need a similar brand and package for general purpose users, but I dont know what the set of hooks would be to make it marketable. Maybe its right to repair, maybe 10 years of software support. Maybe a 10 year warranty. Something the community still needs to figure out. Linux Mint is probably one of the most suitable for this package.

Now with extra spalling!

Also known as recurring gang violence.

They have other launch platforms that can be used to reach the moon, but Baikonur is specifically suitable for reaching the very specific orbit of the ISS without a plane change manuver.

What they most specifically lack is access to modern hardened semiconductors. They are throwing all those at Ukraine.

Nvidia is already diverting “midrange” gaming GPU production to AI.

CPUs and motherboards might become cheaper, but I doubt it. Companies are much more willing to sit on inventory these days.

Too late already, pricing on those went up within a week or two. Best you can hope for is second hand market from sellers who dont know what they have.