I do have a system I run Linux on successfully with only 8GB, but all I run on it is a browser, and sometimes CHIRP.

My desktop has 64GB and it is what I want a desktop to be, I can run lots of things without swap.

My MiniPC has 32GB and it is adequate. But I can't just run whatever I want. I don't use swap because I use SSDs and I don't want to reduce their lifespans if my system goes nuts.

16GB is a reasonable minimum for someone who wants to do more than run a browser.

This isn't even vaguely close to the truth for AMD, whose Linux drivers are far superior to their Windows drivers, and who is now leading sales in the datacenter. AMD is going to do fine. It's Intel with their shitty Linux drivers that has to be concerned. This is a bit ironic because throughout all history it's been AMD with the shitty drivers and Intel with working ones, so it's just another example of how Intel has fallen.

No one does.

It's brilliant to do what Putin wants? Okay there sport.

Now do America.

Which is an overwhelmingly American institution.

The Reagan-era attacks on education could produce idiots who think the USA is the good guys.

Debian is more stable but also more outdated, it's a tradeoff. I am making it as well (except that I'm using Devuan to avoid systemd) but it's a real drawback. For example KDE is sadly outdated so I don't have config options I'd really like to use.

Because Microsoft is essentially a branch of the US Government now. It's safest to assume that any data which spends any time unencrypted on either their cloud or "your" computer running Windows is also being perused by Microsoft and therefore the feds.

First of all, are you new? Have you ever driven? If you think humans are just fine, you must be a shit driver with low fucking standards. Second, as bad as they are, humans have brains and cars don't. They can do things with those brains that the cars can't do. Finally, try not to suck Elon Musk's dick on your way through the parking lot.

Making decisions is not the same thing as reasoning, although it's nice when the former is the result of the latter.

Sure, to the ignorant. That explains your comment neatly. Most of the divide is due to growth in Chinese manufacturing, not contraction of American manufacturing. While we sent our unprofitable cheap electronics goods manufacturing overseas, we not only kept but expanded the heavy equipment manufacturing. However, China expanded theirs a lot more.

What's going to really harm our manufacturing in a way that reduces our need for machinists is Cheeto Benito fucking up our relationship with the rest of the world, which is going to cause more boycotting of American manufacturers, and more nations will have nowhere to turn for their heavy equipment but China.

Too bad they don't extend to not being executed in a van for cheating on your taxes.

Only until US cars are no longer aspirational to anyone because China makes better ones in every category, which is coming quickly.

That was for economic reasons, ID10T.

You're a fucking idiot. The court system is part of the process of that conviction you respect so much because you're a douchebag cuck.

But it is broke.

This robot is that, only with a lot more latency and cost.

You're wrong because it's not supposed to save the world, only to save us from having to half-ass update to IPv8 in a few years.