There is the Linux-based Jolla phone:

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

But their UI framework and Android app support system are not open source.

I wouldn’t trust a local LLM solution from a large American company. Not saying that they would try to “pull a quick one”, but they are unreliable and corrupt.

Nadella maybe knows a lot more than any of us about LLMs/GenAI tech, but one doesn’t need to know anything about LLMs (or even technology) to know that an oligarch like Nadella cannot be trusted (in any context).

Of course, of course!

You’re not at all engaging in demagoguery and trying cheaps tricks (no one can read the thread OP what it says specifically)! So what kind of discussion can there be about no one buying into your narrative, right?

Right, so because I don’t believe the following:

China is a democracy with 9 political parties … You’re allowed to criticize the government … [GIA conspiracy gibberish]

This makes me a “doomsday cult leader”.

Sure, thing! ;)

Have you ever lived in a non-Western country? Or are you parroting some random copytext you saw online?

I hope this is satire, but this being Threadi I have my doubts.

much cheaper sodium-ion battery

To my understanding, these aren’t suitable for many use cases we associate with batteries (smartphones, EVs, laptops), but it has the potential to have a massive impact on utility scale battery systems and industrial use cases.

This sounds like a much better approach.

I don’t think they’ll bother, they get oil from the russians at a massive discount relative to world markets.

I wonder if the prediction that China will hit peak oil in 2027 will come true. This will have a massive impact on oil markets.

I stand corrected. :)

I live in Excel and PowerPoint, for games messing around with mods/config is fine, for work I cannot deal with random edge cases. PowerBI is Microsoft’s visualization platform, I am actually not a big fan of it (for the area where I work, I could see it being fine in other cases), but this is not something that’s going to change quickly.

There is indeed a version of Teams for Linux. I really need to get a new laptop and try dual boot, I am behind the times on desktop.

I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

Good to know, I only buy 17" inch laptops (thinking of going 18", but the selection is a lot worse), so I might even be able to get one with dual SSDs.

I am planning to do some experiments once I get a new laptop (which I will dual boot). I think gaming support has increased massively since I last tried it 5+ years ago (my usage of linux is via DIY SBC home server).

Office/PowerBI/Teams and some other business applications (where the web version does not cut it) is the real dealbreaker.

That being said, I am not moving to Windows11, so I have three year to prepare to move to Linux (and I suspect Win10 will be supported even after that).

I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.

Some older games that I still play regularly (Simcity 4 with heavy modding) also have problems when running Wine.

That being said, I will probably try dual booting when I get a new laptop, I am done with US platforms (this covers Android too).

It sounds like you will have a more stable experience on Windows 10 where they only release security fixes.

Piefed’s scheduling is very intuitive and works well (it supports Lemmy communities too).

Stupid idea.

I say this as someone who lives in a country where multiple random US sites (from work-related to gaming) do a country-wide IP block.

This is a “teenager just discovered speed” level of sophomoric writing.

It really is. It’s almost reads like a parody of a regressive oligarch.

There is a silver lining to all this, an opportunity for the rest of the world to embrace new models (open competitive markets, truly customer-focused services) that go beyond the American cult of the pompous, regressive oligarch. Not saying it will happen tomorrow or in an utopian fairy tale manner, but history tends to be cyclical.

To get to the next peak, you have to hit bottom first.

A side note, check out Marc Andreessen’s “manifesto”:

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

This is a “teenager just discovered speed” level of sophomoric writing.

This is a good thing, it means with the right kind of pressure he will fold as he doesn’t believe in what he is writing.