This is completely ignoring the fact that sometimes a simple rebuild is far less than the necessary minimum amount of work; sometimes the software would need heavy overhauling to bring it up to compatibility. Don't think I didn't notice your attempt to astroturf over the real issues while also trying to make me look like someone who can't read a README file. I can compile a kernel, I can even wrangle a simple patch here or there when the issues are obvious, but porting forward strategically obsoleted gles2 support is well beyond me, and I'm sure it's well beyond you too.

...or, for example you're using some paired bit of hardware and software that needs library support that has been obsoleted by your distro and you don't want to run an entire outdated install just to use it.

Follow the money.

...but we've already been mislead so many times before.

It's drivers for their AI chips.

(Modded down by "big CO2" apparently.)

That's my point exactly. Your reading comprehension must be low.

Citations are all over the history of Slashdot comments. If you really don't think so you're not paying attention.

*meant to type "politically divisive"

The only thing any individual can do about it that isn't politically and doesn't take a lot of resources is just grow some friggin' plants at home.

...but they hate God. They hate God so much they seem to almost forget that they claim not to believe he even exists. But now they want to build the very thing they hate. The stated motive makes no sense.

In some isolated cases like that it might, and we've also had someone comment that the AI push is actually a free-labor ponzi scheme, since it will eventually take warehouses full of low-paid sweatshop workers to help wrangle the AI responses into something presentable for any large amount of labor where the quality of the work actually directly influences customer perceptions, so in the long run overall it might increase total jobs available albeit at a lower average pay for them, but those sweet high-paid entry level CS jobs are the first things these companies are gonna try to replace with it, so the short term outcome is definitely gonna be a general gutting of the economy.

What's interesting is that a dogs actually can teach a cat to bark, but that's not on-topic.

I was just joking, I'm curious about it too. If the summary was written by AI though, anything's possible...

If you haven't seriously checked out anything on PBS since the 90's you're missing out. They've still been delivering excellent new educational content for adults and children up to the present, and their entertainment content is surprisingly good too. Back during the stupid actor's guild strike when nothing was on TV I took the time to give PBS a chance again for the first time since childhood and found it to be exemplary. Sure, maybe youtube howto videos might cover a lot of the fundamentals of this, but the medium is also greedy, disorganized, and loaded with inaccuracies and utter trash. Killing PBS is an atrocity and it's going to hurt society badly in the long run.