It is. My solution was to go to an OS that has both security updates and isn’t AI infested. Neither Win 10 nor Win 11 meet those criteria.

Depends on the program. But, for 90% of them it is just: “wine programname.exe” in terminal and it just works. If it is an installer, it will be in your start menu like normal and you can just open in from there after. For the other 10%, I lookup the error online and it will need you to add a component via winetricks.

There is a contingent that just won’t work. For those, it’s easier to just find an alternative.

As a rule, I use a Linux native program first. Then fall back on a Windows program if I can’t find what I want. Many programs build for both now. Things like OBS, LibreOffice, Firefox, Chrome, Discord, Dropbox, Steam are the same in Windows and Linux, just install and use it as they are built for both OSes.

Anyone know how to downgrade from 11 to 10 on a home version?

Make a Win 10 USB boot drive, boot into it, choose to format the drive, install 10.

That said, don’t hook this computer up to the internet, Windows 10 isn’t getting security updates.

Which program do you want? The general solution is to install the program via WINE. Another solution is to run the entirety of windows in an emulator like QEMU.

“security and privacy are foundational” to the AI experiences in the fridge

My AI-less, internet-less fridge is quite private and secure. Furthermore, it keeps food perfectly cold!

It isn’t sexy, but products that just work are 100x better than products with 40 features that can all brick it for no reason or annoy you to death.

They have a fully prebuilt option for every computer. Which works well for non-techy people.

No clue what shipping is like in your country. Was fine for me in the US.

Framework makes some very high quality laptops. Have one myself.

generating power while solar, wind, and water are the cheapest

When you include storage in your cost calculations, this is far, far from the case. If you don’t include storage, you are pairing renewables with natural gas peaker plants, which defeat a good bit of the point of renewables being fossil-fuel-free.

Trump announced he would crack down on such companies from snatching up single-family homes and contributing to the affordability crisis nationwide

Hard to tell without knowing how much those data centers are paying for power and how long the new investments are intended to last. Could be they are funding grid strengthening we badly need, could be they are getting rates subsidized by everyone else.

Good news is there is increased investment in nuclear energy for data centers, which will go a long way to combat this.

The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.

The cheapest choice for reliable power in the US is natural gas. Fossil fuels are often in the news for causing all kinds of issues. Therefore a statement like “this is highly unlikely to benefit the public at large” seems quite unfounded. That is, unless you don’t consider burning fossil fuels instead to be a harm.

If you give a shit about our future, investments in carbon-free power are to be celebrated.

Good news, we can do both!

Love me some nuclear investment.

It’s the best carbon-free base load power we have.

Semi-related: You may enjoy Steins;Gate.

Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has Platinum status on Linux, meaning it works extremely well under Linux. What problem are you having with it?

countries like the PRC are rising

China has a horrifyingly destructive demographics crisis on their hands. Even if they reversed course on that issue today, it won’t be solved for decades. And there is every indication their demographics issue is accelerating.

China is peaking. Them, South Korea, and Japan are the worlds case study on how to deal with these problems; all three are going to fuck up in 100 ways that everyone else will be able to learn from. Immigration is one of the main ways to deal with it, something that China is much worse off with as their poor wages and sheer size means they uniquely cannot attract enough people, unlike South Korea and Japan.

robots will begin to replace construction workers and other workers

95% of all human labor used to be farming. Automating jobs is how we have gotten the prosperity we have today. Nothing we have done would be possible without automation. Increased productivity is far from a boogeyman, it’s something to be celebrated.

You are a straight man with some specific desires.

Welcome to normalcy.

Man, I spend the first 30 min just loading the program into my head. Actual work gets done after that. This ‘code on the subway’ workflow sounds horrible.

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