MystikIncarnate

AI also needs a lot of other shit to run even at a basic level. Networks, and systems... A dedicated nuclear power facility on three Mile Island.

AI can't run without so many people plugging in the servers, and power, and installing the operating systems... The list of supporting characters is long.

What if we.... Just.... Stopped supporting the companies that were pushing AI?

All we can do is guide them. Personally, I guide them to treasure I cannot have, since I'm damn near obligated to run and deeply understand Microsoft Windows because I work for IT support.

All of my work tools are Windows centric.

The thing that confuses me is that Microsoft is no stranger to Linux. They use it in their data centers. It's plainly obvious if you know what other offerings are doing.

Their entire front end stack for azure virtual machines is OpenStack. Some years back they integrated with OpenStack to allow it to manage hyper-v, but OpenStack can also natively manage KVM hypervisors, as it was originally designed to do, and also VMware.

Hell, I'd be surprised if there isn't a Microsoft distro of Linux floating around (not available to the public... Not yet at least).

The people who seem to be pushing Microsoft, more than anyone, are game studios. Their garbage Anti cheat rootkits work best on Windows. So use Windows so they can low jack your PC.

Is there a difference?

Copilot is basically just repackaged chat gpt.

Not everything

... But yeah, a crazy number of things relate to dairy.

There's so many people that see socialization as a form of relaxation.

For a good number of neurodivergents, being social is work.

By the time I'm done a work week in an office where everyone is continually socializing, I just want to melt into my couch and become a part of it for the entire weekend.... I don't have the mental capacity to deal with anyone.

This is why I work from home.

Either that person is a super hero, or they're a furry sub.

I don't know and I don't really care. Great picture.

First of all. Kids. Ha. No.

However, this is an interesting observation, since homes used to be placed where you entertained guests. You had people over for an evening to drink and share stories and everything.

But, we're not a sentimental age. Millennials, Gen Z, etc.... Everything has been made to be temporary for us. There is no permanence. We don't buy homes, we have to rent because all of the homes are being purchased by a handful of people in that area and their being converted into rentals. The most expensive things we own are our cars, and even then, it's probably a lease, so that's basically like renting the car anyways, just with more steps. We don't need to get together for social time in our homes. We tend to go out and borrow a table for an evening at the local pub, or go to the beach or something. We rarely meet in person, often drinking alone but together over the vast world wide web.

Speaking of the Internet, there's so many people on there, that most of our connections become extremely temporary. We'll meet, play together, laugh together, and depart within hours. The likelihood of seeing eachother again is slim to none, and even if it happens, we probably won't remember.

We're in an age where you're not friends with the friends you have on Facebook... Your Facebook friends is a long list of people you met once or twice and never saw again, now permanently a part of your life on a friend's list you never look at. It's become a meaningless thing to be on someone's friends list.

All of the things that should be permanent are so ubiquitous that they've lost any meaning that they had, and that's how we live. Temporary particle board furniture, that will swell up and disintegrate with high enough humidity. Temporary connections from tinder or whatever. Temporary hangouts at a local location... We don't "do" hosting anymore, and when we do, everyone is too focused on a screen to notice that your furniture is falling apart or that you have no unnecessary stuff . Having things is a statement of wealth, because you need to have some place to put them, which means real estate. We are not wealthy. Our parents generation ensured we couldn't be when they became capitulent in the dismantling of unions, and the destruction of the middle class. They spent their wealth and our inheritance on retirement, which was made to be worthless sums of money by the economic inflation that they wrought.

The current generations have been beaten into submission to accept everything as temporary and be happy about it. We are frequently convinced that we like it like this.

We do not value these things because it represents a permanence that we neither care for, nor have we ever enjoyed.

I like that this is both true and false.

The memory management of an OS is almost always entirely dependent on what it's doing or designed to do. Linux and Windows are able to do similar things, but are rarely tasked with the same workloads.

Windows desktop (aka, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11) are designed to be more pretty and run desktops that the user will see/interact with, etc. I will say that Microsoft knows their audience and the windows prefetch stuff is quite good, all things considered...

Windows server on the other hand.... Until recently, it still shipped with IE11 as the only browser. Of course as soon as you started it, the whole system would complain and tell you to go download edge.... Server is a beast unto itself.

Additionally, as an IT support person, I always prefer people have more RAM than they need, rather than less. Getting that figure just right is nigh impossible. And if you have the RAM, you should use it, right? Because otherwise, why would you have it? It becomes a waste of money.

Prefetch and memory caching is a good use of memory, and a big reason why Windows has very little memory actually "free" at any given time.... I'll note, I'm mentioning free memory, not available memory.

It's a fascinating topic, honestly.

With all that being said, I'm not saying that Windows is actually better in any way. My entire point is that there's merit to the different methodologies of the different operating systems. They're built differently and that is a good thing.

I'm in support of reducing or eliminating tariffs on EVs, with one exception....

You know the one.

I work in IT support, the options for good, and Foss software on the technician side of most RMM tools.... Vanishing small, if any.

There's a lot of platforms that support monitoring and management on the client side, but when it comes to technician side tools, GFL. Most vendors don't even mention it at all, fewer support anything other than Windows. FOSS isn't concerned about the IT support folks because almost all FOSS is made by people who can build their own computer and don't need support.

Yes, if you leverage the powers of root and you know what you are doing, you can endlessly modify MacOS to your heart's delight.

I find most people don't have that ability. They stick to the Apple app store and color inside of the lines that Apple has put down.

It's no small feat to overcome some of the "safeguards" they have put in your way with modifying the device.

If you use an iPhone and you don't like the Apple way of doing everything, your options are basically: 1. Tough shit, deal with it, or 2. Don't use an iPhone.

Android has a lot of the same protections, but you can still, from the user interface, bypass a lot of it, by design. It's "not recommended", but you can do it.

Microsoft is trying to move towards what Apple is doing. The TPM requirement allows Microsoft to basically hold the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. What they're aiming for is a root of trust (which is naturally, Microsoft), that allows all other things on your PC to run without warnings or dialogs, if they have been blessed by Microsoft's certificate authority for code signing (which is a requirement for drivers, but not nearly as strict of a requirement for applications).

This is the foundation of the "trusted computing" thing that they're pushing forward. The problem I have with "trusted computing" is who is issuing the trust? So far it seems like Microsoft is.... Which is not great IMO.

However, since Windows is only requiring that level of trusted signature on code for drivers, we're not to the same dystopia that MacOS has been "enjoying" for years.