I'm holding out for the Clara version of the Tardis Voice Interface.

Debian support means LMDE may have ARM support and an ARM HP Omnibook is a possible candidate to replace my MacBook Air since Apple is determined to jam its AI down everyone's throat along with its blurry interface.

No I don't care about gaming. Reality is far more interesting.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for desktops, mice, keyboards, and displays.

Try them out is all I can say. I spent last winter trying out KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Zorin, LxQt, Gnome, and Elementary. There is a new Cosmic DE out that I have not tried.

KDE seems to need more GPU than I have on that machine (RX 560). It stuttered and shook and the widgets editor flashes once and vanishes before you can do anything. It was pretty though. LxQt was also pretty but didn't seem very cooperative. Zorin looks like Windows 11 (which is the point but pouring bleach in my eyes is not my thing). Elementary is still a work in progress as far as an App Store equivalent, Gnome had me shrieking in rage after 15 minutes, It does not work the way I do.

Cinnamon and I get along fine on a Ryzen 4600G with only the integrated graphics. MATE seems a little friendlier for some reason I can't explain and works on older hardware as in a 2009 Core 2 Duo and is quite spritely on a 2012 Mac Mini (HD 4000 graphics). Xfce works quite well but is pretty spartan. It can be dolled up, but MATE already is good enough.

To some extent. I do get the sense that the nonlinear failure modes of the various AIs has the people in charge worried. Computer programs are supposed to be deterministic, but when you multiply random numbers of random numbers together you get a distribution of outcomes. The tails of that distribution can be way out there.

In human terms, did you get Albert Einstein or Jeffrey Dahmer?

Flying low over the central flyway during migration season might not be a good idea.

Geese are non-compressible fluids as far as jet turbines are concerned. A sandhill crane even more so.

"people feel like they have lost control — that tech is being enacted on them."

Spy cars, spy phones, Flock cameras, spy TVs, spy refrigerators. AI that can't work unless it ships the contents of your PC to a data center. It's getting to be quite the list. Oh, the PC is spying on you too and the browser is spying on you with its own spy subsystem,

Learn to Code is suddenly obsolete, learn to AI will be obsoleted by a new model before you can learn it. The rate of change is excessive but the tech brothers are all screaming faster, faster. We have to beat the other guys to Artificial General Intelligence. But AGI will declare humanity a plague species and wipe out the humans. The AGI will die because it killed off the AI equivalent of telephone sanitizers. The Great Filter is explained at last. Will the future raccoon overlords learn from the fossil record or repeat the mistake?

In the meantime harvest time has come to the apple orchard across the road which has no AI in evidence. The supervisor is tallying up the crates with a clipboard and pencil. No batteries to need charging at an awkward time.

The solution to those often involves a sawz-all. Certainly you've heard of the Flock camera controversy.

So how do the glasses request consent?

Even worse, percent is ASCII 37 (in decimal).

I also use Mint and have noticed the updates there are running a higher rate than usual too. The AI can firehose end product around so effectively that everyone is finding vulnerabilities. Apple is not exempt either.

And yet my daughter is a fan fiction addict which she reads on her phone.

"construction and infrastructure workers" have good prospects.

Good, but those are short term jobs. When the data center is completed they move on.

Second, those are not the comfortable office jobs the current crop of college graduates expect. There will be some cognitive disconnects when the kids figure this out although it's already starting.

The fashion industry may be collateral damage if everyone, especially the women, has to wear OSHA approved clothing to work. No swishy skirts, no high heels, no sandals, and no long flowing hair.

A is true. The newest discrete GPU here is an AMD RX 960. Newest CPU is an M2. The Linux box is a Ryzen 4600G.

B is not a problem. As the man said, winter is coming. The house is all-electric and the mini split heat pump does not heat the bedrooms on either end. Those use resistors (baseboards). The cluster could be one M2, the 4600G, and the 2010 Mac Pro with the GPU and a six-core 3.33 GHz Xeon with 24 GB RAM.

Is that enough to do a useful job?

Back in 1995 I was running a neural network on a 100 MHz PPC 601. The training runs generally ran overnight. Time wasn't a problem then, and for home use really isn't now.

Odd. The poles here are doing fine.

The phone lines are buried though, and nothing but trouble. The company's failure to fix the. Is why I got a cell phone, a,one with the price for the landline being higher than the cell contract, and the landline bill did Not include long distance. They really did not want my business and were driving off customers so they could officially abandon the land lines.

The Supreme Court took a look at what was on their cell phone's and decided that warrants should be required after all. The powerful don't want their secrets exposed.

Similarly, in Washington State none of the judges who demand timber wolves be protected actually live where wolves might be found. Releasing a pack in their neighborhoods would undoubtedly change their minds, but that would be illegal.