Going to stick to used machines from marketplace. Got a Lenovo T14 Gen 1 with touch for cheap - upgraded it to 24GB and it is perfect with Linux; would likely run Win11 well if I wanted to. My total cost was ~$250.

Why have they not sent over ships loaded with solar, batteries, EVs, and teams of engineers (China likely has more engineers than Cuba has people) to make the place more resilient?

If I had to guess, cooling. I canâ(TM)t imagine orbital data centres sucking up our water

If they made $20 mil, a multiple of the profit, and not a percentage, would be more appropriate

This sets a dangerous precedent - get government funds, donations, partnerships with univerisities and non-profits, get sees money for free, then give absolutely nothing back and become a for profit without repayment or consequences?

I think there need to be more morality clauses/restrictions. I donâ(TM)t want to build/contribute to something that could be used be ICE etc.

Well no Switch 2 or PS5 for me. Going to stick with my Switch 1 until things settle down.

I have an RPi5 which I really like, but honestly Chromium and firefox work just fine for me here. So what is the intended audience? Asahi, upcoming nVidia hardware, or something else?

I love my Macs, but running Linux on it doesnâ(TM)t seem like a great choice (at least not right now). I splurged on an rpi5 16GB with a 512GB nvme hat and honestly it runs Linux like a dream. Had to do a firmware update for the nvme hat but (which was simple) and now it could easily be a daily driver for everyday tasks.

If you are so determined to use AI to repair a legacy codebase, wouldnâ(TM)t it make sense to leverage AI, under the guidance of a team of engineers and architects, move everything to a cleaned up C++ base first, make sure things actually work the way they should, THEN spend the 2030s porting to Rust?

I think this is realistic depending on Valveâ(TM)s future plans for SteamOS and Steam deck. Wouldnâ(TM)t be surprised to see this happen

I did have issues going between LTSes with Ubuntu. I switched to Mint last year and 12 to 22.1 was seamless, but not sure what 23 will be like. I did put LMDE on another machine and I expect to get more time between releases but not sure what the upgrade path to v7 will be like. I donâ(TM)t feel like Windows did any better with this though.

Well it really depends on the distro. If you want something that is stable and donâ(TM)t need the latest and greatest, something like Debian or Ubuntu LTS do just fine. With Ubuntu LTS you can get ~5 years out of your setup without much effort.

Java? Not a dev (I PM and QA) but none of my devs have ever liked Java

Hahaha, no. Please come to Canada bro. It is insanely expensive here (although we major providers offer lans for as little as $10 a month for low income families).