The only advice I'd take from Seth Rogan is how to get high

> X11-only sessions aren't supported.

About 50% of the Linux desktop market still runs X11.

All it takes to maintain it is not importing hundreds of millions of people from cultures that are antithetical to yours, eg: Britain, Germany and Sweden.

They are a very very very basic alternative.

Microsoft 365 gives you email, Teams, Office suite, Central AD, Microsoft Windows Licenses, Microsoft Defender, and central device management.

As much as I hate Microsoft, and even though all our company servers run Linux, the mass majority of employees are using Windows, Office Suite, Teams, Defender, and it's all managed through Office365.

Thats microsofts moat- its legacy applications are just part of peoples lvies

i think things like CDNs should be easier to shift

> Microslop Excellent (TM)

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Workflows that require flow logic.

I use NodeRed extensively with home assistant, here's an example of a flow:

My front door opens (trigger) > turns lights on, but then also: > wait 3 minutes > check if my or spouse's phone is pingable > if neither phones are pingable then turn off all lights, AC units, and enable house alarm

Also another flow that's uses daily: 8:30pm(trigger) > check which house lights are on > any light that is on trigger a gradual temperature shift to warm and brightness to 50% over 10 minutes

- interesting, how does it interface with hardware,

- is it a low level c API or something that has directly interface to communicate with arduino, raspberry etc?

- what kind of devices can you use it with?

Not sure about those, I've only uses it with home assistant and virtual logic and communication. The most I use it when it comes to hardware is sending commands to my phones/tablets/laptops to run on/off, open urls, toggle wifi/Bluetooth, etc.

So instead you are going to use the force of the state to tell them what they should do instead and then threaten them with violence/fines/jail time if they don't want to?

You don't have to. The AUR is just a bunch of PKGBUILD text files, which if you don't feel competent enough to read and understand and trust, you can create your own local versions of and install from. It's just a recipe file that says download a program from this github URL, make sure the hash matches and then extract it and move the files to system directories.

Motors and cars in general have plateud for decades now, yet I don't see any new car manufacturers springing up in the EU.

I don't see how that is relevant since they already have a large number of major car manufacturers.

The person I was replying to was asserting the the EU could never approach China and US levels in AI even if they made a major effort to do so because by starting N years later they would always be N years behind.

But that is only true, it seems to me, for things that do not plateau. For things that plateau those who start N years late catch up to the leaders N years after the leaders hit the plateau.

ICE cars plateaued a long time ago, and so the EU, the US, and China are all about the same level. They might concentrate more on different market segments, but technologically they all pretty much equally capable.

Is the capitalism in the room with us now?

Anything larger than a mom and pop shop has some sort of government overreach and control and manipulation pulling at its strings. The massive market power of Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Google, is only in small part due to capitalism, the rest is government checks, bailouts, contracts and regulatory control capture through these expensive lobbying. Capitalism died a long time ago and all we have today is it's shambling corpse of crony-capitalism.