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Where’s the Spider-man pointing at himself meme?

It’s not per year, it’s per month.

Wtf $150k a year for a developer is huge. Only in the US, maybe Switzerland, are those wages practiced.

In Europe you’ll get about half of that and that’s still a good wage. I hate the amount of out of touch devs who think getting paid 6-figures is normal.

Well, you see how well that works out, when the session system can’t even sustain itself due to the cost of labour lol.

Same thing with Musk lol failure after failure after failure but there are still clowns on the internet who call him a visionary.

Cursed lol.

I might be confusing them with some other distro but I think they outright said they will not comply with any requests for dob verification.

Right.

Not taking a stance is actually taking a stance, as in saying “we will comply as soon as we’re asked to.”

Which is fine to do, I just wish people stopped pretending the mainstream distros are resisting doing something that is clearly unpopular, when in reality they already sided with the law. It’s very different from what AntiX did.

Nice argument you’re having with yourself there, buddy. Seems like you have quite a lot to pour out.

I don’t have any affinity for China, but I also don’t like the gratuitous hate they get all over the internet, nor the reduction of Chinese people’s experience to work drones (what you’re doing).

I had hoped that Lemmy wasn’t gonna be like that, but alas.

I’m sorry you live with so much gratuitous hatred in your heart and I pray you can recover some day.

Actually it’s the other way around.

The internet is all about “China Bad” so calling it China Battery is a way to depreciate this obviously positive discovery.

Right, especially now with Apple launching the Neo, is there even a reason to buy an ARM windows laptop? Imagine paying triple for an inferior experience with Microslop lol.

Is Qualcomm purposefully sabotaging their way into the laptop market? I don’t understand their logic here, it seems at every step they shoot themselves in the foot in a way that guarantees they’ll never be a relevant player.

Anyways, no Linux support so see you in 20 years if you’re still alive Qualcomm.

I mean. There is Quobuz which is also French but actually only owned by French people.

I am trying to get away from the philosophy actually 😅 in the end what matters is how these tools are being used, not so much their inherent characteristics.

Can you envision a world where AI chatbots will be used to lead you down certain political beliefs (e.g. capitalism good, socialism bad) product recommendations will be made based on how much brands are willing to pay for ad placements, and your psychological state will be measured and molded to the interests of the AI owner? I can. It’s also already happening.

It doesn’t really matter whether it’s the Machine or the creator.

The point is, AIs can be programmed to lie, much like Grok does. And if they can be programmed to lie, then they are not reliable for anything at all. We are going through a decent period where AI can be used for a few things reliably, but even these will surely be enshittified.

Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch. Just something you might want to know about.

Great! Now you just have to ensure you stay at your job for at least 48 years so that this automation really starts to pay off!

I… literally thought you were OP. But anyways I respect your decision. Have a nice day.

Not gonna lie I’m really struggling to sympathize with OP right now. People are trying to drag him out of the doom and gloom and OP just keeps moving the goal posts into a position that nobody can defend.

Frankly, this could be a post complaining about how Macbooks don’t support Windows. Yeah, they don’t, there are multiple options out there though that do, but OP is not interested in them. They want to go back to a time when stores sold hardware that they can no longer sell, and think this post can do it vengeance. Seriously it sounds like a Reddit post. I thought I ran away from there to avoid these types of posts but alas.

The average person. I’m going to repeat that because apparently you missed it. The average person isn’t buying used computers from enterprise resellers.

The average person is most definitely buying second-hand laptops they can afford from Facebook Marketplace or similar, enterprise-grade or not.

It’s not about Linux not being supported. It’s about barrier to entry.

Linux inherently has a barrier of entry by virtue of having essentially zero manufacturers selling hardware that ships with Linux installed. However I don’t understand why you think price is a barrier of entry. If the majority of laptops are priced from 300 euros up to 4000 in some shops, then that’s what customers are willing to pay. I don’t mean now with the AI boom making everything more expensive either, I mean for the past few years this has been the market. Common people buy new from stores, or buy second-hand.

My mother is not buying and installing RAM. My mother would not know what to do if she had driver issues on Linux.

This issue is not specific to Linux. The used market is flooded with Windows laptops that no longer support windows 11 well due to only having 4-8 GB ram. Same with 8GB Macbooks.

I don’t know why you’re pretending that shopping for an older laptop model is only a problem for the average person if you want it to be Linux compatible. Also your grandmother doesn’t have to do anything. She, like the average person, can take her laptop to a repair shop for servicing and upgrading.

This said, you’re not the average person. You already went the extra mile by installing Linux on devices that don’t ship with from factory. Further, you’re specifically interested in small devices when the average person wants bigger screens, you want your device to be underpowered when the average person wants them as powerful as possible in a slim form factor without compromising on battery. Your rant has nothing to do with what the average person wants, your rant is, sorry to say, a completely self-absorved rant that just shows you’re mad your niche preferences aren’t supported by the Linux community, or the world consumer preferences as a whole.

“The sacrifice of staying on Linux after 20 years”

I mean honestly could this title be any more self-absorbed?

I would ask if you’re a Debian user (or use a Debian-derivative), but what even is the point when I already know the answer.