I am struggling to remember, but the last time I tried Debian a year ago there was a lot of setup and a few things broken (I think it was outdated packages). One of the things I tried to setup was a RAID array which was a very involved experience. It felt like things were not being tested. While on RHEL it was a simple point and click in Cockpit.

> If these giant monopolies couldn't squeeze revenue out of these employees using AI, why would we think that they will be able to do it by themselves?

You assume they are competent. In my experience a monopoly's profit margins makes it very easy for incompetence to flourish.

> The vast majority of them if they want to be entrepreneurs will be better off starting a new lawn care business, or a bicycle repair shop.

Really? Experience engineers are better off starting a lawn care business or a bicycle repair shop? I do not believe this for a second. There are many areas engineering skills can be used in.

Raleigh used to have more snowy winters from what I was told. Now a days winters have a 1 in 4 chance of giving snow you might see in the morning for most of the area.

You are assuming that Opus would always be superior; the cloud AI providers can be very variable. They can be very useful for months, but during certain times their quality can drop off a cliff. People online speculate that the cloud providers drop quality during this time when they are training a new model or the service is over-subscribed. You do not have that issue with a local model.

That issue of quality of service is enough many businesses may prefer a locally run model because it will be more consistent.

One one hand with all the fraud and identity scams I know they have a difficult job. But, on the other, they also rely on sending me txts to login-no proper 2fa like TOTP security codes.

I traveled with friends on a road trip and they drove such a car in the top 10. When I told them that they told me that explained why cops were always turning on and off their sirens behind them.

These top 10 cars were likely to be cheaper sedans.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5178

Considering the danger of distilling and most people do not have that much land; you likely would need to get approval from govt agencies anyway to be legal.

I know in practice the merchant is left holding the bag with charge back fraud, but it is a devil's advocate point.

I saw nothing in the post that is even close to that.

> I want GOS to succeed.

By making poor arguments on HN and being rude to them? Sounds productive.

You think you can do better? Contribute to another/Make your own fork of Android and help the community reduce it's dependence on Google.

Google's justification for Android over Apple is it being open source and attracting this crowd and people they recommend it to. They have a very strong need for it or they would have stopped contributing years ago.

> GOS can just talk about the upside, their solution to this problem. That's great work. But they often choose to denigrate others, which is destructive, damages relationships (the most essential assets - especially when you have no money to offer!), and is myopic: GOS's sh-t stinks too; they f- things up too.

Look up false equivalence.

GOS isn't a trillion dollar company with a massive possible budget for quality control. Google can do better and they should do better.

If Google's internal issues (or deliberate withholding of source code) is causing a small group to surpass them in product quality then that is something to talk about. Especially without the ad tracking and data collecting money Google brings in.

If it gets Google to improve AOSP then all the better.

> would tell GOS to zip it. > Just zip it, be professional,

This is very rude-esp for a group trying to make Android better. I downvoted you.

Part of it would. There is a cost to maintaining your own currency that can drag down the economy.

Counterfeiting is an obvious one, getting software and markets to support is another one, but what parent above you is likely arguing against currency speculators/manipulators.

You need to defend it to keep it relatively stable so it stays as a store of value or your companies will just use dollars or euro anyway. If your currency is so small a firm in New York can force your currency to change by 50% in a night, regardless of the fundamentals of the businesses who use the króna, you have a problem. Using the Euro also means businesses do not have to pay conversion costs or deal with additional accounting issues for tracking the fluctuations in the currency.

To add to this there are jurisdictions that will require you to still pay a small monthly fee to support the gas pipes if you cut off gas service.

It is really nice not having a gas bill and not requiring maintenance for gas appliances, but most people won't care if they lived with it for long enough.

The only case I see it working is in a disaster area or blighted areas where the builder decided to bulldoze and rebuild the houses. The southern California fires for example; the city gave priority to permits to houses that went all electric since the gas pipes were destroyed. Permitting and inspection is so much simpler with all electric.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4723221

Go should reconsider support. They should have a 'go' at it.

Curious since it is the truly real open source one.