The amount of irrationality I see in the economy with AI makes me more convinced that the wall street bankrollers know very well they're throwing money into a pit, but it's a pit they're gambling will turn into some world hunger ending AI (that will somehow also keep them making money off of scarcity)

never mind that theres no guarantee we'll get that mythical AI. Never mind that the societal reformations would also impact their revenue numbers.

I’m pretty convinced Wall Street is clueless and relies mostly on vibes. It’s the same people who thought all SaaS would become unnecessary after seeing a Claude code demo. Though eventually they will have to ask for the ROI, and that’s where the whole thing will calm down

any day now surely.

no. buy a linux compatible laptop and deal with the UX downgrade.

There are definitely some cool features missing, but I'd take KDE over any other window manager without a second thought if it were possible.

I’ve found the downgrade surprisingly minimal on plasma 6 - and it’s far more customizable.

Thanks to marginal gains on MacOs (nee OS X) the Linux desktop gets closer more quickly than Apple can pull away.

What downgrade? A typical Gnome desktop is far more coherent than Windows or even macOS in some regards these days.

Yes, and you can do much better than GNOME, too.

Yes I use cosmic DE on Fedora. I didn't find it a downgrade at all! Despite not running an M chip it is butter smooth

Because techies on average aren't socially popular enough to get anybody to make any effort to msg them on a better platform.

… WhatsApp is the main messenger globally and it is the 'odd' people that use iMessage (and Signal, Telegram, etc.)

Statistically, sure, but it's not evenly distributed across regions and cultures. People can find themselves in social circles where iMessage is the norm and be pressured into using it because others are unwilling to install a second messaging app.

Speak for yourself

Ok! I don't use iMessage because people I want to talk to are happy to install a new app to do so. :)