No.

My experience (and many others’) has been contradictory to yours. AMD, on the other hand, pretty much always works without any fuss because they release first-party open source drivers.

What is “reasonably cheap”?

My advice would be to buy something cheap. Then if you have extra cash, get yourself a desktop gaming PC. A laptop just has too many sacrifices. Low power, poor thermals, and high cost.

Have you considered a Steam Deck?

Gave up Beeper when they got acquired also. Also after their iMessage implementation was patched in like 3 days.

Cant recommend anything with Nvidia.

You’re looking for “collusion”.

Who lied about what?

I bet the gov would love to host your email and have access to all the same info Google does…

My solution was buying a $150 iMac.

It’s not unreasonable at all. I locked myself out of several accounts after everyone recommended keypass for TOTP and then I lost all the keys. Getting those accounts back was a fucking nightmare.

‘Why and when did the simple mechanic of passwords get this difficult?’

When and because people started storing all their intimate personal details on the internet and hackers sought to exploit those details.

Maybe if password requirements weren’t stingingly stupid, companies cared more about actual security and not an obstacle course they’ve gotta send people through to do one thing.

The obstacle course is the security, unfortunately. That’s the problem this aims to solve.

I mean, it is. Aside from an additional associated cost, it’s still much less convenient.

I mean they never should have started it. I watched the first couple minutes of the Presidential debate and right away Kamala was dodging questions. That’s just what politicians do. No point in asking the questions in the first place. If you actually hold their feet to the fire and force them to answer, they’ll just never talk to you again.

Fortunately the presenters wasted everyone’s time trying to argue with Trump and Vance, so neither of them will ever come back.

I mean he made it very clear this was not true on like day 3 when he banned the one person he explicitly said he would not ban (the guy reposting public info about the travels of Elon’s Jet).

Since then it’s become abundantly clear he only wants “free speech” for things he likes and not for ones he doesn’t. He wanted control and influence.

Don’t know why people keep asking this. It’s a simple answer: the network affect. People are there because people are there.

Some of it was and some of it wasn’t. I think when they initially came out walking, that was probably autonomous. The dancing was autonomous. The only time we saw evidence that they weren’t autonomous was at the end when they were interacting with people at the event.

Problem is, we don’t know. We know some of it was. Tesla did not state that any of it was remote controlled, which means we basically have to assume that all of it was.

You overestimate the general population. And especially “investors”.

The cult of Elon remains real.

The problem with Linux is fundamental, and no distro is going to solve it.

1. It’s made by devs and for devs. The reliance on the CLI is it’s death knell. It will never be usable for normies until this problem is solved but nobody wants to solve it because it’s “so great”. Even when there is a simple solution, if you search for it, the only thing you will get is CLI solutions.

2. #1 is compounded by the variety of distros. Meaning often when you do attempt those CLI fixes, they simply don’t work and return some sort of generic error with no hint as to what the actual problem is.

Things like changing the default power profile, adding fractional scaling, or changing the default audio device, all things that are super simple on any other OS, are ridiculously convoluted.

Why do you need Windows for sim racing?

MS specifically is looking to fire up 3 mile island to power their AI datacenters. Yes, really.