Re: Crap Language Running On Crap OS = Double Sadness

On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 07:25:27 -0400, Joel wrote:

Clearly, this is the result of M$'s obsession with, essentially, bloat.
It's like they would say about "liberals", never a tax increase they
didn't like (not that I'm against higher taxes, but it is a sort of
analogy), Microsoft will add any "feature" imaginable, so we end up with
this new AI hardware requirement, as if intelligent people would need
that, good lord, I had only begun to sense how doomed my upgrade path
was with Win11.  Turns out, the sooner I switched back to Linux, the
better, and there is *NO* turning back, for damn sure.

I think the automotive industry has changed or maybe it's just I can't
tell cars apart anymore. When I was a kid, any self-respecting male could
tell a '56 Chevy from a '57 Chevy from a block away, let alone a '57 Ford
We were also attuned to how many fake portholes a Buick had.  That
apparently hasn't gone away.

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/buick-portholes-a-10-minute-history/

Anyway the engines and running gear seldom changed. It was just sheet
metal to generate new sales as people tried to keep up with the Joneses.
It also helped that cars were pretty much burned out at 75,000 miles.

Anyway, MS, and to a good extent the Linux DE people, are always looking
for something new and different, not necessarily any better. Right now the
AI race is the driving force. Manufacturers are hoping to drive up lagging
sales, and MS is trying to stay ahead of Google and Apple. New sheet
metal.

Some investors are starting to bet the AI craze will collapse. I tend to
agree since the prior iterations were always oversold and collapsed.