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95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds

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    I used Arch for about 7 years. I still have it installed on an old PC but I haven’t used it recently. Every time I told pacman to update everything it felt like an adventure. Never knew if I was going to reboot to a working desktop or to a console printing cryptic error messages that take a while to Google on my phone before I get things back up and running. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy’s grandma! The only times I got this kind of problems where when I didn't read some announcement or for some reason some packages (the kernel) were way too old, normally never had it on a normal update. But as I said, you have a point, even if in the end I would point out that a grandma would never be able to solve any problem caused by an update, irregardless of the distro or the OS. It all comes down to the maintainers of Arch putting all of the responsibility for breakage (especially due to old configuration files) 100% on the user. That’s not a system any normal person should use, that’s a system for Linux hobbyists. Only partially. Normally Arch put the new configuration file as a [something].pacnew and it is the user that should then do something, but as long as the software that use the new file could undertand that it is using an older file and it is able to handle the eventually missing new keys or removed ones there will be no problem. On my desktop I have a bunch of [some_program].conf.pacnew and everything works. Is it optimal ? Maybe not but it is not broke. It’s fine if you want to assume all responsibility for updating grandma’s system and fixing breakage every time. I don’t have any interest in doing that. Honestly, a grandma would just need Firefox with a couple of extension (uBlock Origin and really few others) and a network with all inbound ports blocked (so no one can connect from outside) and few outbound ports open (very few, just the common ones to use a browser). Maybe she need Openoffice, probably a DE (but a window manager could be enough) but she don't need a lot of software we all install on out machine. It is true that Arch could be a problem when updating but I think we are talking of a very small set of packages that need to be constantly updated and in my years of Arch usage, basic packages rarely break something while updating.
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    No way. Apparently heads will explode if phones aren’t thin enough to act as a knife and perfect boxes… Seriously though, that would be sick. I think my dream phone is an Xperia play style slide out keyboard, instead of gamepad, and a “bulge” design like HTC used to do.
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    this is like a soulless manager or some ai bot trying to figure why the human brain hates terrible interruptions
  • Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting

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    Lets you question how digital stalking is still allowed?
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    In the meantime: Parents: don’t give your children lighted rectangles to play with.
  • Tech Company Recruiters Sidestep Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

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    The problem is the cost of each. Right now material is dirt cheap and energy prices are going up. And we are not good at long term planning.
  • UK government withholding details of Palantir contract

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    Of all the partners you could have picked. Eek.