Well single processors could be taken for local inference. But yes not for graphics. But once the market is swamped in inference hardware it will leave them desperate to get back into the gaming market which will be good for us normies.

And drainage ditches

They’re not doing it. The cloud providers are doing it so we will all have to pay for cloud subscriptions. I will stay on my PS5 until the AI bubble implodes and all the hardware ends up on the 2nd hand market.

I got called husky a lot as a kid. But I was probably just fat.

Exactly

Remember kids, the difference between a mess and a collection is a display case.

Finally putting their efforts towards noble causes. I support them.

AKA “The great corporate filter of the 21st century”.

I’d classify them as messengers rather than social networks.

People who use windows or Mac for anything but development do so for the same reasons as you, they are locked into some features. For example, at home I need a local music library manager with local sync to my phone music app and smart playlists. Mac is still the only platform with this.

At work I need MS exchange integration and all the features of native office. Even the Mac version isn’t good enough for my workflow.

My only hope would be to turn to emulators or something like that, but at that point I’m not really running Linux anyway. I’m just running something else in a container inside Linux.