I'll believe it when I see it not turn out to be just another grift, like the trump phones ... made in the USA, err, actually a spraypainted 3-generation-old Chinese phone ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump watches ... solid gold, err, actually a spray-painted timex ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump shoes, made in the USA, err, actually made in an Indonesian sweatshop by child labour, ... oh, and that is never actually delivered ... Wash rinse repeat It's grift all the way down

So, it's just another trump shakedown dressed up as national security then. He shakes this stick, mysteriously and completely coincidentally Anthropic and OpenAI and all the others pony up a few million in donations to his campaign or buy his crypto or gold shoes or whatever and all of a sudden the issue goes away ... until the next round of bullying begins.

I work in IT in K12, and we've been looking at these because the unit price is the same or *lower* than the crappy Lenovos we've been giving the kids for years with all the new price hikes this year. That, and they're better machines for the money. They're looking for close to a grand now for a crappy Lenovo 100w with 8GB RAM that was $400 a couple of years ago.

sysVinit is still the default in MX Linux so you can go that route and avoid systemD altogether.

Yeah, me too. I struggled through snap .. disabling it and not using it, but this is tone deaf bullshit. Who asked for this crap? Nobody. I'm out. I've been comparing Mint and KDE Neon for new PC. Is this just yet another example of a South African Billionaire tech bro breaking things for no good reason?

Have you never seen a school? (apparently not) >Administrators with fleets of Macs >...don't exist outside Apple.

Best I can do is generic waffle, point you to our website, and some made up nonsense.

Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper ---Cohen the Barbarian

I just did this with my very old Amazon Firestick. I remember when they started with updates that suddenly introduced the "Now playing on Prime" bar at the top, then they put an ad banner on it. I dumped Prime when the in-show ads started, but was using the firestick to stream files on my own network from Plex at first then I moved to Jellyfin. The final straw was when I started looking at the amounts of telemetry and other crap data going across the network, and if I blocked them the firestick just wouldn't work ... even though it was simply streaming data on my own LAN. The flash was fiddly, but it worked and no more telemetry, no more ads, no more crap. This should be the default, not the enshittified alternative.

If that's true ... that id *does* improve productivity, why are they laying people off instead of growing exponentially with all that newfound productivity?

Yeah, but they make more in investment capital from the *illusion* that AI is ready for prime time. "See, we have an AI strategy .We fired a bunch of staff and replace them with AI. You too can fire all your people and replace them with bots"

Maybe they should award your Dear Leader an IgNobel Peace Prize.

>I don't understand how they bypass ani-gambling laws. >I don't understand why anyone would put money into them. Two words: money laundering

Just as well no-one is gutting climate policy so the fossil fuel industry can shit all over everything.