Make them more efficient and make them run cooler. It solves way more problems than making them 18% faster then following year.

ZorinOS is a pretty good and consumer friendly “distro” if you can call it that.

Something one of my college professors pointed out a long time ago is that a lot of DVD players and smaller consumer electronics ran a custom version of Linux. Here we are 10-15 years later, with Android being easier to work with. It’s probably replaced a lot of those Linux installations.

More on your point, the giant smart display/kiosks in each room at the allergy clinic I went to last year still ran Android 10. Because I had to spend long periods of time alone waiting to see if I was allergic to things, I ended up tinkering and managed to get it out of Kiosk mode and setting a security policy lol (don’t worry I reverted my changes and let them know!)

2 or 3 of those would cause pretty extreme screen dimming and slowness with my Pixel 7 Pro. I drive a lot so now it’s my kiddo’s daily driver lol

It’s been neat seeing the subtle UI changes and seeing new features get added in. Thunder may end up being my daily driver.

I think the biggest issue with Google hardware is that there is always at least one huge flaw. My pixel watch for example has terrible battery life. My 7 Pro display got a green tint and died while I was using it to navigate, after two months. I RMA’d it, but the display I got back had a disabled fingerprint reader.

It’s always a gamble with Google hardware sadly. :(

Ya know, I used to be a pixel fanboy. I’ve had every mainstream pixel from 1 to 7. After a botched RMA for a dead display, the fingerprint reader is now disabled. I’ve been ghosted by support about the new display so now I’ve switched over to Samsung.

I’m a former Apple employee and have had enough of their shit. Everyone at the office was drowning in the kool-aid. I’m done with iOS 🤣

If they could get away with it, they’d remove instructors and support as a whole and just replace them with AI. It’s so much cheaper to automate everything and at the end of the day it’s all about money to them.

If they can count an AI process as an instructor, they’re going to do it until it screws up lol

ITS RAININ SIDEWAYS

While it’s great that their aim is a 1:1 teacher to student ratio, I am a bit wary of ChatGPT being used to teach people. Especially given that a group of lawyers cited ChatGPT and landed in hot water after it was discovered that it was actually just making shit up lol

That being said, its ability to facilitate code / functions / snippets is very good. I suppose it all depends on how it’s implemented.

After the stadia debacle, I doubt anybody trusts Google with gaming. It’s only been six months lol

They truly deserve all the clowning they’re going to get for this