Win11, MS Office, Sharepoint, etc. basically have all had a load of understated aggression for years, forcing you to do things their way or run into a wall. With Win11, that got amplified massively with all the crap you can switch off (at least in pro), but it is time-consuming and difficult to find out and with the absolute taboo-break that ads are active by default even in the pro version.

While I have occasionally cursed MS in the past when installing, configuring and using their crap, I find that these days, I have wished painful death on everybody involved with the respective decision making on an unprecedented level. It has gotten personal. It has stopped just being crapware made by incompetents, now I feel they are actively and aggressively trying to attack their users and force specific behaviors using violence. Basically the authoritarian version of an OS and office-suite, that suppresses all attempts at doing anything differently as aggressively as they can and punishing users that try to think for themselves. "Thou shalt only do things the MS way or suffer and fail", essentially.

Once you have done all that stuff like no account, no "secure" boot, no "news" and no other unwanted and disruptive intrusions, Win11 is still reasonably usable. Somewhat. But even in that state, things are getting worse and worse. I guess MS thinks they have "won" and can now do to their users whatever they feel like. And they are sadists that care not one bit about consent.

I am on a Fairphone. I can even get the build-package of the stock ROMs if I want.

That is because Samsung is a respectable business, while Musk is a clown with an inferiority complex that uses money as a personality surrogate.

Well, pumping and dumping is most of what the US has "produced" in the last few years.

Seriously. Do not mess with me when I am trying to get stuff done.

Well, they elected themselves an emperor and now they are degrading their educational system. I guess this is not going to be the "Chinese Century". As the "American Century" is clearly over, things might get interesting.

That is what is commonly known as a "guess". There has been tons of tech that was somewhat usable, but its border conditions made it die or go niche. And there is even mainstream hype tech that did it now several times. VR, flying cars, home-robots, etc, just to name a few.

The home edition of Win11 is not free. The "update" (pathetic as it is) from Win10 is free.

Stacking high-performance, high power computational chips is "nothing special"? That is pretty much complete nonsense. If this is the hill you want to die on, be my guest. But do not expect any respect for it.

I disagree. Your statement seems to essentially be jumbled together with no clear line of thinking in it.

Incidentally, I have that high-value degree and I am doing just fine. Last time I wanted to work a bit more, I had to fend off the offers. LLMs are "all knowing" only to people that approximately know nothing.

It is a smart workman that does not use bad tools. And a dumb person that uses quotes without understanding them ...

That is about the level I expect. And I doubt LLMs will be able to go much beyond that, it has been 3 years of hype and massive investments now.

So, not useless, but not much of a game-changer either. Same thing as in the last few AI hypes.

One warning, to get better at coding requires practice. If you ever want to get there, code the simple things yourself. But coding is not a general skill everybody needs at all, so the AI approach for simple stuff is fine too.

Yes. So? Your statement is still nonsense.

Well, yes and no. That statement is a mixed bag and your analysis is partially wrong as well.

The thing were AMD is good at cooling is for chip-stacks. For example, they can pack a cache-chip on a CPU chip. That comes with an increased risk of hot-spots and makes cooling difficult, but they have that well under control. No connection to external cooling, that is just a 3rd party product. Hence the original statement is, say, 90% correct, but missing critical context (which is not much better than it being wrong).

On the other hand, while the instruction set is AMD64, that does not mean that Intel is using AMD silicon or state machines to implement it at all and, AFAIK, they do not. So 90% wrong on that statement.

Indeed. Although on "adult" I would add that age does not get you there and most people do not qualify.