Nice! Thanks for sharing this analysis.

I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth…

Interesting. I would have guessed that Mint gave ChromeOS a run for it’s money, by now.

Yes. By the porn stats, Linux already crushes ChromeOs. Let’s not take any advice from it.

I’m not sure Grandma and Grandpa would want a steam machine as a replacement for their aging Windows 7 home computer.

Fair. But for my gram, it would have been a slam dunk day one buy. She loved her playstation and only tolerated her PC. She would have called a Steam Machine “my game console that can check email” and would have adored it.

“Enterprises might discover that production agent deployments are harder than demos suggest. Hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, regulatory concerns around autonomous AI systems, or implementation complexity could slow adoption dramatically. If the agent future takes 5-7 years instead of 2-3, there’s a painful gap where billions in infrastructure sits waiting for demand to catch up.”

Yes. AI agents in infrastructure are a fundamentally stupid idea, at their very core.

Learn to write a bash script or pay someone competent to do it.

Almost no one needs a shittier solution that is 1000x faster to implement while 100x more likely to make profit-margin-evaporating mistakes.

Even the idiots calling the shots today are bound to notice this.

There’s a third category of adoption to consider: “between 7 years and - let’s not fucking do this, it is stupid”

I’ve always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.

This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.

Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.

Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.

Or…they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.

If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.

It’ll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.

You might try Wayfinder.

It feels like classic World of Warcraft without the grinding for levels or loot.

What’s up with the Rust hate?

The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.

They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.

Simon’s Puzzles is what i use when I’m trying to reduce my own doom scrolling.

Luanti (a very nice free Minecraft clone) is also great for a few minutes (…or hours) here and there.

Edit:

What the hey, here’s a few more!

Burger Party - Like that pizza game, but burgers

Breakout 71 - Breakout as a Rogue-lite

Endless Sky - Space Trader Simulator

Gridle (Crosswords-Like Wordle)

Gurgle (Wordle)

Mindustry - Mobile Factorio-like

Pixel Dungeon - Rogue revisited and constantly updated

Roboyard - Slide robots to their goals

Super Tux Kart

Makes me suspect they have some lawyers on staff who were able to read America’s laws -b which read to a lay-lerson as ‘we absolutely always spy on everything you host on our soil’.

when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support

For folks reading along, we absolutely are your personal tech support. Most of us owe way more than that to our mentors, and can never pay our mentors back, we can only pay it forward to folks like you.

Ask away!

and to my surprise everything seems good! (knock on wood)

After a few aborted attempts to switch to Linux, over the years, that has been exactly the vibe of my latest journey.

“So this all just works now?” has been my repeated surprised thought.

Standard disclaimer: I don’t have any hardware by Nvidia. Not by choice, I was just feeling broke when Nvidia got hot.

Couldn’t you also make a throwaway ms account?

I could, but them I’m up a creek later if I need to use any recovery functionality, as it all ties back to that MS cloud account.

It’s certainly possible to get working, disable all of the cloud saves and telemetry, and then just save the MS account in a password vault for later.

But all of that is much more work than clicking “next” a few times in the Linux Mint installer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.

I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.

It’s getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.

I’m happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I’m not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I’ve heard mileage may vary with those.)

Haha!

But…yeah. This is how I make friends in real life, though.

Edit: Now I am checking timestamps to see if my needlessly using the word “cromulent” in another thread comment might have helped inspire this delight…

Edit 2: Just a coincidence. And evidence that I live this meme, too.

It feels like everything is vibe coded, now.

I need to start a vintage software hobby.

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so what’s the fucking point?

I’ve heard that covering up abhorrent crimes takes special amounts of money.

But maybe they’ll release the Epstein files any day now to prove that rumor wrong, and we can all relax.

Did you try being born ultra rich? I’ve heard it helps. I wish someone told me sooner.