I wish but I doubt it. Nvidia is a big piece, maybe the biggest, but there are so many players and so much money at stake. There are so many reasons it should have failed by now but here we are. A lot of people in power seem determined to make it succeed at any cost. Honestly, what might make some of it come crumbling down would be if the government came out and said there would be no bailouts for AI companies that fail. Still, I think that’d only impact players like OpenAI and Anthropic. Companies like Meta and Google have much deeper pockets even without AI.

It’d be cool to get the ThinkPhone with Graphene.

I’ll add Psono for a self-hosted password manager since the future of Bitwarden isn’t clear.

This has been obvious for a little while now but it just doesn’t click for people or they simply do not care. It is precisely the idea behind a Chromebook. Everything in the cloud. By now, a couple of generations have grown up using them almost entirely and it has already been normalized for them.

This is why: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/28311736

Digital signage.

I wouldn’t trust most streaming devices out of the box. Definitely no generic Android streamer but Roku and Nvidia Shield are terrible for privacy too.

Someone should forward this to Proton employees.

My parents have used Macs exclusively for the last 20 years or so because they don’t require much technical knowledge. Before ChromeOS, smartphones, and tablets, they were the closest thing to an internet appliance. Most Mac users I know fall into that category. Heck my dad and older brother were both very capable and knowledgeable with PCs but Macs are so frictionless that they no longer feel like they need to know how it works. It just works.

As a parent, I wish someone would develop a cross platform, open source, parental control tool that preserves privacy while allowing for strong controls that are simple to use. The best I could come up with is a separate instance of Pihole that any device my kids use is linked to. It would be nice if there was a software option or something implemented in hardware that allowed parents to register the device with the user’s age (no identifying info). Laws could then be passed forcing certain websites and apps to reject any users under a certain age. The restrictions could automatically lift when the user reaches a predetermined age. I’m not an expert so there are probably aspects of this I haven’t thought through but it seems better than what has been implemented so far.