respect for the user, consistency, customisability,

Customizability, absolutely. But Linux has a distinct lack of respect for users (from a GUI perspective) and consistency. Customizability is frequently in direct conflict with consistency. Different distros have different GUI’s. The apps in the distros use different toolkits for their development which yields wildly inconsistent GUI’s inside the programs.

Saving a file to a folder of your choice

What program are you seeing that?

I use Linux and Windows and don’t see that. I just checked with saving a file in the Windows version of Orca (3d slicer), Save brings up the standard Windows dialog that has all the folders on the left panel and the contents of the currently selected folder on the right panel. It’s virtually identical to the Save dialog box of Orca under Ubuntu right down to dividing local directories on top of the left panel and network share on the bottom left.

That’s the default Save in Windows. A program has to go out of its way to avoid the standard Windows Save dialog box which is the same problem Linux programs can have.

Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?

A cheap way to start is noip.com. You can get a domain name for free, you just need to check in every 3 months to say you are still using it. It’s big enough that many routers support it.

After 2 years of checking in every 3 months I paid for their next tier of service where you don’t have to check in and get multiple domains etc. So their free service marketing worked.

I don’t think you understand how big these data centers are. They are the size of entire cities. A Tesla crash would have the effect of a single car crash in Manhattan.

I have family photos starting in 2001, scanned/captured photos and video going back 50 years, music, and backups of all my Xbox DVDs (WTF is the original Xbox even called today?). But that’s a few terrabytes. It can all fit on a few USB sticks. (Which I do as a third level backup.)

The real space killers are the TV shows and movies that I will watch at most once every 20 years. I could delete almost all of it. But I don’t. Instead I keep looking for bigger storage options.

How did you handle the reverse proxy in Windows for remote access?

. As soon as a different company

It won’t change for US consumers because Trump won’t allow the cheaper/better products to be imported.

Where’s the profit in that?

If you wanted the absolute largest, you bought American.

No one in Britain bought American made cars in the 1980’s because they weren’t officially imported. American imported cars were grey market that needed extensive conversion to be legal.

That doesn’t mean they all have $20B in cash

Apple has $68B in cash on hand. Not stocks or other investments, cash.

There are documented cases of these same 3 companies colluding to constrain supply,

Yes, but that doesn’t change that there are dozens of companies that could make ram but don’t because they pass off the price increases and blame ram manufacturers while not risking their own money.

Yes, that’s what I said. There are two implications:

1. Sensors never fail which is known not to be true.

2. Tesla doesn’t lie about accident data which is also known to not be true.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

It’s the same customer: People buying the absolute largest car sold with features like off-road 4 wheel drive that they have absolutely no intention of using.

If Range Rover offered a 3,000 kg car in 1985, soccer moms would have bought it.

and it’s nearly impossible to become an actor without having tens of billions to start

There are over 300 companies with over a $50B market cap. The money is there.

Micron doesn’t expand production not because they don’t want more money but because they think AI is a fad like everyone else.

They’re like a movie actor who was in obscurity for decades and is suddenly popular. Is it being a traitor when everyone is offering larger and larger amounts for your time?

If you applied for two jobs, both said they wanted to hire you and started budding higher and higher so you’d work for them, are you a traitor to the customers who ultimately pay your inflated salary?

I don’t blame Micron. I blame the people who invested billions into AI which allowed this to happen.

The sensor said he had his foot on the pedal.

40 years ago Alexi Sayle joked about moms driving giant Range Rovers to the shops.

Saying “lte Linux that can run Android” means nothing. All Android phones run Linux and support LTE. It’s an Android phone with restrictions on what Android apps it will run. That’s it. The screen is tiny and two small screens are cheaper than a larger one.

You can buy all of that for $100 on Aliexpress.

This is trash dressed up in a fun skin to sell to Commodore fans who don’t know how to delete an app from their phone.

have undoubtedly improved but LLMs are using the same open source libraries and tools available to anyone…

I read a surprising article on Lemmy just a week ago that explained that that is not how LLM’s do OCR. LLM’s convert images into tokens and then treat them like text input. I can’t see how it works but it does. It’s why they are better than classic OCR neural nets but at the trade off of enormously larger computation cost.

It doesn’t make sense but Banks treat current stock price as a liquid asset.