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It is the topic, you're right. Open Source is the appropriate reply to the topic.
by rnd0 2y ago
It is the topic, you're right. Open Source is the appropriate reply to the topic.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIt can be both: * You can of course run Microsoft's AI on Windows on this hardware. * But I'll bet you can also use the NPU and the drivers that Windows has with different AI software. * And sooner or later, I'm very interested to see Linux drivers for these NPUs so we can have nice hardware-accelerated AI without needing any proprietary software. So I'd say that FOSS is an appropriate reply, but there is room for a continuum of answers.
- wmf 2y agoHonestly no. When you say "if you want privacy just use Linux" you're throwing billions of people under the bus. If they were willing to use Linux they would have already switched. Everyone deserves privacy including Windows "lusers".
- rnd0 2y agoI agree that everyone deserves privacy -no argument there. I wouldn't call windows users 'lusers' and in fact I did not. That said, Microsoft has made it abundantly clear what direction that they are going in and it is an invasive consumer-hostile anti-privacy direction. This will not change. For that reason, open source solutions such as Linux or better yet OpenBSD (in ideal only, I don't run it and wouldn't expect anyone else to) are the only chance of retaining end-user control and privacy. I say 'chance' because it's not out of the realm of possibility that Microsoft, Google or others will social engineer consumer-hostile changes into the Linux ecosystem -I have no illusions about that. But at least consumers have a chance and that is something that can not be said of Windows.