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If you are smart enough to change the default, you would know which LLM you picked and could point the finger at it.

Apple is in the game of providing an application platform. Maybe in the future they will provide their own LLM.

If anyone has a good book on setting up a good authorization model in a corporate environment, please pass it along.

I would personally like to see fines commensurate with the size of the organization.

The United States has allowed many industries to consolidate, but the fines they face when they mess up are infinitely small compared to their size.

Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money.

Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

I actually think it is a good thing to introduce constraints to AI and the overall tech industry. Hopefully everyone will have to look at improving performance without having to add RAM or increase CPU/GPU performance.

Maybe Nasdaq shouldn't put Space X in the Nasdaq-100 index fund 15 trading days later vs six months.

As investors for other people, the pension funds, have a fiduciary responsibility to ask questions. I don't care if Space X is changing the world or making potato chips for consumers.

If you read the article, they have concerns about the governance structure of Space X and the ability of investors to question what the company is doing.

They don't need it. Apple is introducing new hardware for the sake of introducing new hardware.

Personally, they need to put the iPad on a two-year release cycle and focus on improving iPad OS.

LOL... I was in the same position. I graduated from high school in 88 and got my first job a couple of years later, working at a small insurance company running IBM AS/400. I had just gotten my job as an operator with a dream of becoming a programmer, and here comes IBM with its CASE tool. I truly thought the world was going to end.

A couple of years later, Microsoft came out with Visual Basic, and I thought, OMG, I'm toast. Secretaries are going to be writing code. I was a developer by this time, writing code in FoxPro and getting into PowerBuilder.

All this to say, "I've been in IT for many years, and companies promise a lot but rarely deliver completely on their promises." Do programmers and others in the tech field need to adapt? Yes. Is AI going to be disruptive to some extent? Yes. Are all jobs going away? No.

I bought a brand new Dell laptop with Windows 11 25H2 at the end of November 2025. The first patches released by Microsoft in December did not install. WTF!!!

If you go online, you will see a whole YouTube videos and articles on how to fix the issue. Let me tell you, after a considerable amount of time, I gave up.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 on my desktop, and I can't remember the last time I had issues applying patches.

I don't understand why individuals expect a corporation like Google, driven by profits, to give a sh*t. I would expect no less of Apple with IOS.

Individuals should look for and support alternatives. I'm currently working on a desktop running Ubuntu because I want an alternative to the duopoly of Windows and macOS.

Additionally, we should support open-source alternatives with our donations. I personally donate money every year to Ubuntu, the Gnome foundation, and Tor.

I had eye surgery three weeks ago. Prior to my eye surgery, I emailed and called my health insurance to get a total out of pocket cost, none could be given. The only thing I heard over and over is your deductible is X.

I spoke to to the eye surgeon's billing department and the same happened. How the F* can it be like this? To top it off, I just got a bill for $300 after paying $1300.

The system is completely broken.

Because the heads of tech companies jumped on TV and said that AGI was around the corner to basically prepare for job losses.

They just can't shut up about how AI is going to either save us all or kill us all.

Because once you become super rich, you also become an expert in everything. We no longer need people spending their entire lives researching and learning about a specific topic; we only need more billionaires.

Americans fantasize about factory work because, at that time in America, you could afford a home without a two-income family. Life was "easier" for many people.

Personally, I think we need to focus on making things like homes more affordable. This would go a long way toward alleviating people's feeling of being trapped.

Are there any demos showing how to manage an existing codebase? Everyone loves to demo how AI can create new programs with a snap, but the elephant in the room is how well AI works with existing codebases and manages things like naming conventions, APIs from other apps, etc.

People didn't want the cloud. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others wanted everyone in the cloud to get them on the subscription bandwagon.

I hope more and more people vote with their wallets and go to other platforms and tools.

All I here is about the gauntlet of interviews people have to go through to get a job.

How are the people getting through the interview process? Are these individuals working through a third-party that's covering for them?

I wonder if Apple will bump up the amount of RAM in iPhones due to AI. It seems like most LLMs require a large amount of memory.

They've been stingy on increasing RAM compared to Android phones.

I doubt most non-enthusiast users of Windows can troubleshoot their own problems. All desktop operating systems require some knowledge to poke around and fix things. The only reason Windows gets a pass is due to its market share and support from vendors.

I'm sure if you have a problem from a piece of software running on Linux that is supported by a vendor and asked for help, you would get it.

The law is going to be shot down quickly if it is an undue burden on adults getting access to social media websites and apps.

I hope the "traditional" desktop doesn't disappear. Personally, I think using iOS and Android would be a step backward as a desktop computer.

Bitcoin as money died a while back. Now, it is going to replace gold and other assets.

A simple solution is to stop eating cereal, especially Kellogg's.

I think we've forgotten that we have a choice and can buy someone else's product or service.

Thanks!

I agree with some of the performance issues mentioned by the writer, but nothing mentioned stops me from doing my work.

I hope Cosmic helps improve the Linux desktop ecosystem.

Honest question - What does Cosmic have over Gnome desktop? I'm relatively new to Linux.

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and find it meets my computing needs.

I wonder how many of the 200K+ PIs being manufactured are actually going to consumers. It seems to me that most of the PIs that are being made are just being sold straight to businesses.

I wish them luck. I use Apple's Notes app for work. I keep simple notes, but the two features I can't live without are folders and pinning notes to the top of folders.

I think it depends on the environment. Yes, most production and even some test databases are critical to businesses. Any downtime or severe performance issues cause a lot of finger-pointing.

Where I work, most database patches are applied to test environments and let soak for a couple of months before rolling out to production.

And yes, I work a lot on weekends. My only complaint about my career as a DBA is that most of our work is behind the scenes and goes unnoticed until something breaks.