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I'd guess that the 1945 report was sound, although I haven't read it. Vannevar Bush was a bright guy who came within a hair of predicting the modern Web at around the same time. He almost certainly didn't mention AI in his report, since even expert systems and such were science fiction back then.

The press release and the modern report? Both total garbage, I'm sure, regardless of whether they were written by an LLM or an overworked intern.

I can offer some distro-agnostic observations . . .

Having swapped from one to the other some time ago on Gentoo, what I had to (re)install was the kernel (since I'd built it without those drivers), mesa, and some xorg-drivers stuff (which may not be relevant to you). Also, LLVM (ugh), because the AMD drivers compile stuff on the fly somehow and gcc doesn't have a usable AMDGPU backend. Or something like that. At that point, the system should boot well enough to bring up the GUI, and you can worry about vulkan and such after that. If you have an initrd, that may need to be rebuilt or replaced. Bootloader should be fine if it's the same kernel version.

Having the kernel drivers for AMD present in a system with an nvidia card shouldn't present any problems—without the hardware, the kernel won't even try to load them. In theory, you should even be able to have both cards in there at once (if your mobo has the slots) and blacklist the drivers for the card you don't want to use, but it isn't the safest thing to try.

Just an extra piece of software of no real benefit to me. I'm only interested in single-player offline games, and I prefer to organize what I have using a directory structure rather than someone else's GUI. I try to avoid installing anything I don't have any use for to avoid unnecessary disk bloat and just in case it drags along some daemon with a nasty security bug. If you actually want the features Galaxy offers, I'm not aware of anything evil about it.

No thanks . . . but I'm glad that those of you who want it will be able to have it.

Depends on how long and hard you want to run it.

A Pi5 uses a 5V 3A charger. Four AA batteries in series should give you 4-6V (the voltage changes as they discharge) and around 2A (going by the labelling on my rechargeables). So you might be able to run a Pi5 at full throttle for an hour or so given 8 AAs. There would be some loss at the buck-boost converter you'd need to guarantee an output of exactly 5V.

Using four Ds instead would simplify the wiring a bit and keep it running longer.

Yup, lost a battery to that (2019 Impreza). Pulled the fuse for the modem, and it's been fine ever since. I never used (or wanted) any of those features anyway.

Well, if there are headlines about it, it isn't actually all that quiet.

If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who's willing to take their pay out of the winnings.

Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don't know it's there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn't follow the terms of the license, and you're set for life.

"American man" is all the explanation you need here. If you have to pay for doctors, of course people who can't pay are going to turn to a free alternative that seems to offer some hope. That's one of the reasons why you don't have to pay to see a doctor in civilized countries.

But ya, the car the Edsel was a dud.

From what I understand, it was less of one than the Cybertruck, though. Lots of marketing issues, lots of QA issues, but the only serious design flaw seems to have been the weird transmission setup, whereas the Cybertruck . . . actually, let's not go there.

Trump's understanding of science is on a par with that of Flat Earth and Hollow Earth believers. It's hard to foster what you don't understand.