cloudless.

In the world full of Ed Sheerans, be James Blunt. 😬

There is more to this story, of course:

https://apnews.com/article/china-anthropic-ai-us-amodei-3da458d2c078da3e60900728d59f1ae8

it’s not that he is concerned about AI threat in general, he is mostly concerned about being trampled over by evil foreign AI.

Anthropic = Good, Qwen and DeepSeek = Eveeeeel!

This too shall pass.

Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.

Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.

Isn’t linuxvox AI slop?

Oh it is? Never really paid too much attention, tbh - they seem to have concise “recipes” to accomplish certain tasks…but now that you said it…

Not to mention Intel provides probably the best Linux support out of the “Big 3”

https://linuxvox.com/blog/intel-arc-linux-drivers/

1. PEELINGFLESH - FFWAS
2. Lorna Shore - To The Hellfire

Then finish them off with:

3. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me

“Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”

“oooh, is that Necrotic Diarrheal Detonation Chamber?!” I love that song!

Is this the new Poke Man game I’ve been hearing about?

If you are willing to pay a bit of money, Laridian Pocket Bible is an excellent and safe choice from a reputable company.

https://www.laridian.com/

Back in the day, I had my photos in multiple locations, some on local external drives, some in small cloud storage pockets….a bit of mess, really. Since I had a great deal on O365 family plan I thought - why not gather all of my various photo collections, and consolidate them on a single cloud storage - what could possibly go wrong? This is how I discovered that OneDrive doesn’t know how to read EXIF metadata properly. I ended up with basically a pile of over 30k pictures and videos, completely out of any order. Never again.

“……The pastor in Florida….”

Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division (audiobook), started Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book 3 of the Children of Time series)

Peppa is good, but Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom was (still is) better - more complex stories, inside jokes for grownups, charming characters. Too bad it lasted only two seasons.

https://a.co/d/04c9bU8g

There is this very small number of these tech bros and CEOs who at least try to appear “normal” and “relatable” with various levels of success. This guy though is literally begging for somebody to meet him in a dark alley with a baseball bat.