XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: vallor@cultnix.org   
      
   On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:43:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump"    
   wrote in :   
      
   > On 9/10/2025 3:38 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Until [Microsoft] start forcing [AI] down your throat harder..   
   >>   
   >> That would be interesting, because providing an AI service isn’t exactly   
   >> free. They have to find some mechanism for charging for it, which means,   
   >> as long as users refuse to pay, there is no way to force them to accept   
   >> it.   
   >   
   >   
   > The AI stuff somehow alleviates the bloat.   
      
   Only in cloud-cuckoo land, weirdo.   
      
   > Don't ask me what they   
   > specifically did,   
      
   Why not?  You just said it "alleviates the bloat".   
      
   > in 24H2, but this mini PC is a full desktop system.   
      
   Yeah?  And the mini-ITX machine downstairs is a mini-workstation,   
   for just a bit more than you paid.   
      
   _[/root]_(root@buzz)🔴_   
   # inxi -Cxx   
   CPU:   
     Info: 20-core (8-mt/12-st) model: Intel Core i7-14700F bits: 64   
       type: MST AMCP arch: Raptor Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 1.8 MiB L2: 28 MiB   
       L3: 33 MiB   
     Speed (MHz): avg: 819 high: 1100 min/max: 800/5300:5400:4200 cores: 1: 800   
       2: 800 3: 1038 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 1100 10: 800 11: 800   
       12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800   
       21: 800 22: 800 23: 800 24: 800 25: 800 26: 800 27: 800 28: 800   
       bogomips: 118272   
     Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx   
      
   _[/root]_(root@buzz)🔴_   
   # inxi -G   
   Graphics:   
     Device-1: NVIDIA AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER] driver: nvidia v: 550.144.03   
   [...]   
      
   --   
   -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G   
      OS: Linux 6.16.5 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18   
      NVIDIA: 580.82.07 Mem: 258G   
      "FLOPPY DISK: Serious curvature of the spine."   
      
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