Microsoft steeply lowered expectations on the AI Sales team, though they have denied this since they got pummelled in their quarterly and there's been a lot of news about how investors are not happy with all the circular AI investments pumping those stocks. When the bubble pops (and all signs point to that), investors will flee. You'll see consolidation, buy-outs, hell maybe even some bullshit bailouts, but ultimately it has to be a sustainable model and that means it will cost developers or they will be pummeled with ads (probably both).
There will be some more spending to make sure a good chunk of CEOs "add value" (FOMO) and then a critical juncture where AI spending contracts sharply when they continue to see no returns, accelerated if the US economy goes tits up. Then the domino's fall.
I'm just preparing myself for the crushing down votes here, but you're going to have a hard time with the no more Millionaires angle. A HUGE chunk of the US are millionares, at least on paper with their houses alone. If you weave in retirement, it's going to be many, many more. Plus with inflation this is only going to get more saturated.
Can we draw the line at say... 100M and tie it to what the median Net Worth going forward? I'm just being realistic on messaging to get the most impact from your statement. There are very very few people at 10M Net Worth, and after 100M, you're into the super greed and not like professionals: Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Plumbers, Electricians, Dentists, Engeineers, & etc. who've actually earned that money and are in their late careers vs. making it off someone else's back. If they got there earning a check or even many small businesses it's probably pretty legit.
I can't however, see how anyone could get to 100M without 1) Family/Inheritance, 2) Big Business and all that entails, 3) Lottery, and 4) Illegally: Grift, Corruption, Stock Manipulation, illicit drugs, Weapons, etc.
Totally get using others if something isn't working. I've been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it's the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I'm surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?
Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can't miss on hardly any game these days unless it's bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games... Carry on.
That's crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:
Mint
Already correct! >Mint
Mint
Mint - hardened if external
I'll allow it
Non-Linux
por que!? OOF... this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
I'll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons
Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for "works great out of the box with minimal tinkering" that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I'm sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can't be arsed to change.
Just picture the ancient aliens dude with his hands up saying 'entanglement' and you have your answer