XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/7/26 08:57, John Ames wrote:   
   > On 7 Jan 2026 02:00:12 GMT   
   > rbowman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/dells-xps-revival-is-a-welcome-   
   >> reprieve-from-the-ai-pc-fad/   
   >>   
   >> Does Dell see a little gnome with a pin approaching the bubble?   
   >   
   > Shockingly, it turns out that businesses do better when they make and   
   > sell things that people actually *want* o_O   
   >   
      
   		Amazing but still I bought several (used) Latitudes and will miss being   
   able to shop for those if I ever have enough cash for that sort of   
   thing.  I am   
   glad I go my Precision when I did.  I think that AI could be used on a   
   proper   
   computer system to do all the little annoying things that people as ignorant   
   as me have to ask experts about.  Backups, defragmenting routines, checking   
   for updates, changing ownership on disks and volumes and applying patches   
   but my model of AI would be running only on one's computer and be active   
   when the processor(s) have enough free cycles to be useful.   
   	Now when they get that sort of tool if I am alive and in funds then   
   an AI computer might be halfway interesting.   
   	After all I have spent nearly 88 years developing my own intelligence   
   and it seems to work very well for my purposes. (Some may disagree!)   
      
   bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026- Linux 6.12.63-pclos1- KDE Plasma   
   6.5.4   
      
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