AI summary:

The author, Jack Wallen, makes several optimistic predictions about the future of Linux by 2025. He believes Linux will continue to grow, especially with increasing adoption in enterprise environments, as well as in the consumer space. Key trends he anticipates include:

1. Increased Linux Use in Enterprise: Linux is expected to dominate server environments, with more organizations choosing Linux for cloud, DevOps, and container-based technologies.

2. Greater Consumer Adoption: Linux desktops will become more appealing to non-technical users, driven by improved hardware compatibility, user-friendly distributions, and better gaming support.

3. Wider Support for Linux on Mobile: The rise of Linux-based mobile operating systems, like PinePhone and Ubuntu Touch, will continue to develop, offering more alternatives to Android and iOS.

4. Growth in the Linux Gaming Ecosystem: The Steam Deck and tools like Proton are expected to drive Linux to the forefront of gaming, offering a better gaming experience on Linux systems.

5. Improved Desktop Environments and Applications: As Linux evolves, user interfaces and applications will become more polished, ensuring a smoother experience for users, making it more mainstream.

Overall, Wallen predicts that Linux will solidify its presence across various sectors and become a more accessible, reliable, and versatile choice for both businesses and individual users by 2025.

Your quick posting of games so fast makes you seem like a bot that I will block.

I’m really trying to avoid all Meta products, but Quest 3 seems to have the best reviews and there are some good refurbished and used deals.

I’m not sure what to pick instead, while being cheap and having a PC about 7 years old.

Really can’t trust their software if they flat out lie like that.

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

I’ve used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

I think I’m on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it’s not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I’m not great with Linux. You don’t have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren’t there yet.

I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

Biggest problem I’ve had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.

You’ll be forced to use only Windows forever.

We could keep the 0 hour as the “middle” of the night and 12 being the “middle” of the day (though I’m not sure if that’s really the sun’s high spot for the day for any places).

But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.

It’s pretty simple, actually. A village somewhere in Europe that is completely in the shade all day for part of the year has already proven it.

Mirrors.

We just need a ring of motorized mirrors around the Earth.

At hour 0, the mirrors will rotate to show sun all across the entire Earth.

At hour 12, the mirrors will rotate to put all of the Earth into night time.

That lets the entire Earth have the exact same synchronized time synchronized with the daylight.

The mirrors will block the sun from parts of the earth facing during the night.

The mirrors will constantly be rotating to keep the proper amount of sun light facing each part of Earth as the Earth rotates.

The mirrors will be solar powered.

This will fix it, right?

It’s worked for Windows?

I am not talking about jank yolo prayer work. I’m talking about people learning how to do something properly. Duct tape a car is not the repair I’m talking about.

You are complaining about there not being enough skilled workers today. I’m talking about people learning the skills over time.

Look at how many types of food and products are starting to promote cleaner ingredients and more sustainable materials as people are starting to learn more about their health and the environment. People can learn and thing can get better.

I’m not saying that today everyone should push a button and start self hosting. I’m saying it would be great if more people learn to self host and that there are benefits to people learning more.

People don’t just absorb knowledge. It will require education programs.

Did you know how to do everything before you started?

More self hosting would improve the “average” person baseline.

Education of people is always(?) better, I’d say.

It’s good to exercise the mind, just like exercising the body.

What if 25% of car drivers could handle their own car maintenance? The one downside people will scream at first is that fewer mechanics will be needed.

But that is too short sided.

More home mechanics will need to buy more tools, so that’s more store jobs and more manufacturing jobs and more shipping/trucking jobs.

And more people who understand mechanics mean a better workforce who can invent new/better products or processes. And can do more research into manufacturing science, which would improve society.

This would also lead to safer cars because they are better roadworthy, and car manufacturers would have a harder time using low quality parts.

So all of those changes would apply to technology when more people know how to use technology.

Nice. I would not have thought to clean the connectors.

As long as you remember before you turn off the computer!

That’s a neat idea of using an extra phone as a file server. I’ve only thought of phones as consumers, not providers.

Interesting about moving towards consciousness being deterministic.

(I haven’t been keeping up with that)

Thanks for adding the extra info (not sarcasm)