The issue was they shipped AI features built into everything and the only way to switch them off was to "about:config" a bunch of settings, they shouldn't have shipped it without the off switch and "Open about:settings and then disable things manually" isn't control for the average user.

They’ve (just like any powerful country) never been good though they do have excellent propaganda.

At the top of the trust scale is a self built desktop running fedora then way further down is my apple devices (iPads) and then even further down is my android phone.

Open source on hardware you control is the least worst option but since the hardware comes from abroad/countries I don’t trust much (including the US) not perfect.

https://aisloplist.com/ works as well but considering the torrent of AI shite posted on YT it only gets some of it but better than nothing.

Sadly I don't think that's the general case, I've been on FF for decades but there isn't a universe where I use a browser without UBO at this point.

Except for people who have pensions/investments in whole market class investments who become exposed to an over valued company with a propped up value.

Suspect thats the point, by giving you the “choice” they also make the user responsible or can at least shift the blame.

Always has been before he was associated with OpenAI.

Which is weird because the bullshit he spouts isn’t so different to the bullshit other top execs spout and I don’t have the same visceral reaction to them (though I still don’t like a bunch of them).

I'm typing this on an old T470P (7700HQ/32GB/2560x1440) that is running my TV - it's uptime is measured in months (usually for a kernel upgrade).

Just a stellar machine but the new ones don't seem to be worth the price.

It is somewhat remarkable that no one has managed to get close to Apple quality by now.

I think the major manufacturers just have too many SKU's with too much differentiation instead of focussing on making 4-5 good SKU's.

Giving people unrestricted access to your endpoint is up there with run in a tor exit node.

Which comes out to be about 831kW per square meter and the cooling solution keeps it at 60-63C even under that load (while noticeably warming my office since it's effectively dumping the same as one bar on a two bar electric heater).

As a species, we got really good at engineering.

I genuinely do not want to deal with windows that much.

Fortunately since my computing needs are met by a fast x86/GPU I don't have to make that choice.

You are describing cognitive dissonance, I suspect most people do have it about their country (unless they really like history in which case they are aware of the fucked up things their country has done and there is much less dissonance) but the average US citizen is very much an outlier by the standard of western countries.

Even the smart ones who do know history often only know their side of it from their point of view and many of them have very little understanding of the world beyond their borders (because they simply have no need to).

They just seem to blur the border between nationalism and patriotism more than most countries.

That many of us then end up working for the companies doing it makes for a bad feeling across the industry.