I love this. I hope big-tech/big-AI destroys big-copyright industry.

Age-checking is just a backdoor to force everyone on the internet to identify themselves. Nobody cares about the kids, they care about purging the internet of political dissent and opposition.

The Mastercard/Visa monopoly (or duopoly) is bad for consumers. It should be broken up.

Mullvad is the best.

Not bad if you use Linux.

just get a vpn: https://mullvad.net/

I like samba because I can mount it as a folder in the file explorer of my Linux desktop. But Samba is a little slow.

I have a samba fileserver behind wireguard. Would copyparty be an improvement over samba?

It has been very easy with Steam and GoG for a few yeara now. DXVK kicks ass.

Visual Studio is a relic of the past. Does anyone still use it?

I think it’s less Proton, more Vulkan/DXVK. Proton is just wrapping these amazing things. Before DXVK, games in Linux used to suck big time.

Vulkan is absolutely amazing. It also runs LLMs these days almost as well as CUDA.

I don’t recommend buying a discrete GPU. For home-level hardware iGPU systems like Strix Halo are much better than discrete systems. For example Strix Halo can run models that you need multiple 5090s for.

This is practically unenforceable. A lot of the llama models are also like this, but everyone in EU still use them.

They add this clause just to protect themselves from the EU regulations.

It was unthinkable 10 years ago. I call it a win.

Android is not on this plot, it’s desktop only.

The 2nd place is interestingly not Apple, but Unknown.

I bought a tablet and I feel like the money has been wasted. I use it maybe once a month.

This aligns with statcounter data here: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202505

Windows market share on desktop has been slowly but steadily declining. From 95+% in 2009, to almost 70% today. In the same time period Linux went up from 0.6% to 4%, which is not bad.

Don’t blame AI for human failings. This is on humans, not machines.

Every accusation Americans make is also an admission of guilt.