I mostly found it funny they felt the neet to upgrade from mint on a family members computer to anything else, because I can’t imagine mint not already working fine for them.

I fail to see the benefit in “Upgrading” to kubuntu (or anything else) in this case.

But yes u right hehe arch btw but also mby mint btw 🤔

Upgrade Mint to Kubuntu 💀

Cool, thank you for the knowledge!

If your app interfaces with the OS, like most apps would (reading a file, managing the window, etc), then you would be writing rust, no?

Doubt it

The money from Google was surely what killed their browser. I’m not saying there was a behind the scenes deal. They just got lazy and spent Google’s money in stupid ways instead of improving their product so that they could gain a real userbase.

Imagine if they spent that money towards just the browser (not possible, but imagine anyways), we could be in a very different place where Chrome doesn’t have 99% (or whatever it is) market share.

Firefox is a good browser, but where could they have been today if it was prioritised over paying the CEO millions for nothing? They have recently been sorta catching up, i’ve seen a lot of updates that actually include features I use, but I think it’s too late.

Time for one of the new built from the ground up browsers to shine when complete. I still stand by Firefox and recommend it, but as soon as their is an open competitor that is production ready, I’m outta here.

They have undoubtly done amazing things for the web, but their idiocy is astounding sometimes and I don’t wanna stay on a sinking ship. I’d rather use a new browser that helps keep the web secure, safe a pleasant for us all without annoyances or dumb beurocracy.

100% agree with your take.

Why scare people looking to ditch google with stupid stuff like “but they complied with the government”, bruh google complies with anyone who has their wallet in-hand.

ProtonMail is a free inbox and is privacy friendly. Yes there are other options, but this isn’t a bad one by any means.

True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).

I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).

Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).

Hehe idk.

posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)

ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)

Xbox feels like the biggest one being eroded rn… i don’t think what Xbox is doing is any good nor would it help the main business

Lol thats a good solution.

I haven’t seen anything like that happen to me luckily, I can sleep fine, but on wake it’s a black screen with my cursor (luckily² this is recoverable without rebooting).

What stuff do you switch off? (Did you have this bug previously?)

I tried researching this issue a while ago, it was hard to find anything, but it’s not a bug worth spending any more time on unfortunately since it’s an easy fix whenever it happens.

Wish I was smart enough to contribute hehe, sadly don’t even have the time anyways to sit down and figure it out (someone might already be figuring it out, it’s slowly getting rarer and rarer that the bug occurs, still at least one every other day, though much better than the at least multiple times a day from before).

Oh interesting, I guess a general bug then.

This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.

Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).

p.s. if you have ever looked into this, do you have something you blame?

Windows you don’t have to think about it.

To be fair, that’s only because most people are trained on windows first and use it for decades, so the annoying Windows quirks and defects have been embedded into you (their workarounds too).

Nvidia is not easy on Linux

I think this problem is mostly solved, for newer cards at least. But I guess I have to agree since older nvidia gpus will be stuck on the terrible old proprietary drivers (though idk maybe the older ones have better support because theyve been around).

Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).

After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.

Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.

Oh wait I wanna add that apart from this (tiny in my opinion) bug, everything esle has been smooth, even some gaming (it’s possible im in a rare state to be getting this bug since I haven’t reinstalled my root partition in like 5+ years, even tho I have swapped distros a couple times).

I can’t say I’m an expert in the theory of this stuff, so big chance I’m very wrong.

All i know is experts have already likened the current “AI Boom” to the dot com bubble.

Nvidia might not be propping up the bubble in certain ways, but they could be deemed the center of the bubble. They went from a $370B market cap 3 yrs ago (around ChatGPT launch) to now being around $4.5T (peaking very close to $5T near the start of this month I think).

They could be the king in non-ai compute, but 99% of their revenue comes from b2b sales (and has done for a very long time I believe) so I can’t see them keeping any of those gains if we see an AI burst (this entire gain in stock seems very related to AI, not to any other advancements made for their chips to my monkey brain).

Most big (and small) tech companies are really buying into this AI hype, not sure if using AI has caused gains in stock market prices for certain companies, but I imagine we could see some drops here too (im thinking along the lines of hey your business “relies of ai tooling now” so mby u cant compete im gonna sell).

So I think all these businesses getting on the AI train could be bad too.

And final note again, if we see a burst, I think everyone panic selling could spread over to people panic selling everything and trying to get their hands on cold hard cash so their entire life savings dont vanish in an instant, so market wide we could see big drops? Certainly this could be very bad. I’m not very sure though on all the theory, I don’t think i’m smart enough to theorise this type of stuff, but I tried anyways. Maybe the govt have learned its lesson (pressing doubt rn) and will do ANYTHING to stop a crash, idk.

From the wiki article:

Speculation about a bubble largely originates from concerns that leading AI tech firms are involved in a circular flow of investments that are artificially inflating the value of their stocks.

Example: OpenAI buys gpus from nvidia. Nvidia invests in OpenAI with the expectation of them using the money to buy more nvidia gpus.

The hype of any company partnering with OpenAI right now is boosting stock values crazily. Look at the AMD partnership, they basically were given one of the largest stakeholder positions in AMD and given the chips they wanted because they paid AMD by boosting their stock with the hype of the partnership.

If it’s a bubble, it’ll likely impact those in the picture, but it’s not a bubble because of the picture.

Yes if this bursts it’ll effect those in the picture, but we are also in the picture. If it bursts, who gets bailouts with public money? Who has to not buy things because it becomes too expensive?

There’s more to it than a simple picture. If the stock market crashes because of AI (or for any reason), we will all be effected (even just think about peoples retirement funds).

And final note, it’s not a bubble because someone made a graphic, they made a graphic describing how it could be a bubble.

Think this one was the one going around

Not sure what you can lookup, probably stuff like “AI investment bubble”

This is probably a good resource (haven’t read it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble (specifically look under Speculation > Circular Financing, soz dunno how to link to a header)

I don’t have a source and this might be old news, but a lot of the big deals right now are just “promises” to invest I think (money, etc not exchanged hands yet)

I don’t doubt they’ll keep selling more GPUs, but AI certainly looks like a bubble that’s ready to burst with all the fake money going around in circles (assuming those diagrams are correct, which I assume they are).

Not the mention the lies that are keeping AI companies propped up, like AGI that will replace everything “in 3 months”. Pretty sure they missed that deadline already.

With the current “fake” money, lies and over-investment, something bad is surely going to happen unless someone steps in.

AI advances quite a bit each day, but I’m not sold on AGI becoming a thing any time soon, maybe even ever idk.

I agree we should have better laws to protect people against evil monopolies (google, etc).

Steam has been at the top of pc gaming for a very long time, so they would have enshittified by now if that was the plan, but luckily they are a private company and their leadership caters to their user base.

If someone evil took over Steam somehow then yea that’s bad news and the laws we should establish will help if that happens.