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> It was very telling when X started showing people’s locations and a lot of the political accounts targeting the US were based in other countries.

One thing to consider is if there were no social media would these attempts to subvert democracy stop ?

There are always elements in news media, academia, industry etc who are pawns in hands of foreign powers with ulterior motives.

Even Traditional media hurts Democracy.

Social media gave a voice to people.

Sure, not everyone has a point worth paying attention to, nor are most participants on social media real - most likely bots.

But do we want only points of views from Billionaire network and media owners who have their own agenda ?

People should pay more attention to what affects their daily lives and not what hatred is shown to them to rile them up.

If the individuals in the society are discerning and capable then no media traditional or social can have power to manipulate us against each other.

Most likely these companies will set up GCCs offshore. Moving the jobs abroad.

Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone.

Good for the rest of the world.

Who gets to determine if it's a delusion or a mental illness.

There are many 'choices' of individuals that a political side can call as a delusion/mental illness while another political side staunchly protects.

Just make sure that they marry open source models.

They can keep their partner going for eternity then.

> makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not doing something like that

Big Tech is doing that to us.

When we make the algo happy we get treats - likes, shares, followers - dopamine hits.

Good thought. Can work for many pursuits.

If you spend your life chasing happiness were you ever really happy ?

If you spend your life chasing money were you ever really rich ?

Hoping RAM prices fall now.

> Escaping their programming ability, Window's major issue is everything has backwards compability, so they design everything with spaghetti because they have no choice.

I do agree with you on this.

But as a consumer that's not my concern.

I am at least a Windows user since three decades, I know my way around the OS and did extensive troubleshooting. What happens to a normal Windows user ?

I have developed habits and workflow on my machine to optimize my time. Now every time I get back to work I am hoping that it works coming out of hibernate.

Is that how a modern OS should be ?

I have a Windows 10 machine that has stopped getting updates. I am satisfied with that.

I consider that Windows 10 machine 'reliable' now that Microsoft isn't breaking things for me.

> what's the return on investment for making Windows 11 better?

Windows OS is what keeps most users in Microsoft's ecosystem.

I am still on Windows as some software I need to use aren't on Linux.

I am waiting for the day that I can get rid of Windows completely.

When I do that what Microsoft product do you think I will still use ? Office ? Azure ? Copilot ? :)) Outlook ?

No MSFT product ever!

Will I ever recommended Microsoft's products to my clients - Never

Sure, Microsoft has a grip on Enterprise.

Let's see how long that lasts if Windows keeps going downhill.

> If I'm being frivolous, does this mean Microsoft's model is best at fixing Microsoft products because they have trillions of data points on problems with Microsoft products

Do they want to fix Microsoft Products ?

My laptop came with Windows 11. Windows update broke hibernate few weeks back. When laptop gets out of hibernate - Wifi works for a few minutes and then once in a while the Wifi Adapter isn't detected. I need to reboot to fix the issue, this has screwed up my workflow. Wasting a lot of time.

After troubleshooting a lot, I now only hope one day it gets fixed on it's own thanks to some new update.

If Microsoft has money to invest in AI models, they could sure fix Windows 11 which I assume is one of their core products.

I wish in a few years Microsoft realize that screwing over their Desktop users to chase Cloud and AI wasn't worth it. And by that time it's too late to get back the user base.

> If these companies fail, so does the US economy.

I would be really worried about the US economy then.

I isolate containers by the type of account I am using on there.

So FB gets a different container. Google accounts get a container each. When I need to log in with Google - use the Google account's container.

Work gets different ones - depending on nature of work.

That makes it easy to manage containers for me.

In theory that account's data tracking to an extent is limited. But with browser fingerprinting I doubt this whole set up is very useful once you start aggregating data from multiple providers.

> People talk about a lack of moat with AI companies... that's their moat: Government intervention!

This puts American Businesses and American Developers at a massive disadvantage.

The rest of the world can choose the best model by value for the task on hand.

Americans would be stuck using only 2-3 big frontier labs and paying a huge premium for using American models.

I don't see why hundreds of thousands of American Businesses will agree to that only for the benefit of a few tech companies.