Pure speculation, nobody can say say for sure, but my guess is 2-3 years.

The latest Nano Banana is pretty good, but it's not perfect yet. And many font use cases demand perfect.

Maybe the next major update will be able to do it.

Nobody really knows the future. What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.

Now that compute is being used for transformers and machine learning, but we really don't know what it'll be used for in 10 years.

It might all be for naught, or maybe transformers will become more useful, or maybe something else.

'no way' is very absolute. Unlikely, perhaps.

> What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.

Graphics cards were relatively inexpensive. When one got old, you tossed it out and move on to the new hotness.

Here when you have spent $1 trillion on AI graphics cards and a new hotness comes around that renders your current hardware obsolete, what do you do?

Either people are failing to do simple math here or are expecting, nay hoping, that trillions of $$$ in value can be extracted out of the current hardware, before the new hotness comes along.

This would be a bad bet even if the likes of OpenAI were actually making money today. It is an exceptionally bad bet when they are losing money on everything they sell, by a lot. And the state of competition is such that they cannot raise prices. Nobody has a real moat. AI has become a commodity. And competition is only getting stronger with each passing day.

You can likely still play the hottest games with the best graphics on an H200 in 5 years.

Open question,

If you're on a VPN and using Firefox containers, is the only way to identify me to look at my mouse movement and correlate it?

The older I get the more I see that RMS was right about so many things.

When I was young I used to think of him as that eccentric pedantic mit guy but now I see him as a true warrior for freedom.

Oh yeah. He's been telling us for decades how technology will be used to oppress people. I guess he had the experience of how things turned out with UNIX, and knew first hand how hard he had to work to even have a chance at undermining them. What he did at a time was build something from scratch which was compatible with the UNIX interface. These days I would call that a lost battle.

Imagine if you said: I'm going to undermine facebook by building another social network which will be Free software, and will be compatible with facebook. I'll federate facebook whether they like it or not, and I'll do that by reverse engineering how facebook servers talk to each other. That wouldn't work because it takes you huge effort to pull off, and it takes facebook zero effort to change the interface in a tiny way that breaks everythign for you. (Ok the analogy isn't perfect, but hopefully you get the idea of diminishing something's value by forcefully opening it up)

But he hugely contributed to win a battle like this in the late 80s, then Linus Torvalds came in and finished the job in 1991 or so. RMS doesn't get the credit or even appreciation he deserves. I think he's one of the most tragic figures in the history of computers.

I'm actually impressed with windows 11. I've been using win since 3.11. 95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP (the dream), 7, and 10.

And finally after a lifetime of windows, 11 finally got me to switch my desktop OS to Ubuntu!

So 11 achieved something for me that no other Win release could: get me to abandon Microsoft OSs. Though, I admit to having a W10 VM instance with GPU passthrough.

I went through a 10 year Linux phase. Built a new PC about 5 years ago and decided I should get Windows 10 Pro, and use it for work and gaming. When EOL hit, Minecraft wouldn't update, so I switched to 11. The game installs just fine, but will not run unless you log into the Microsoft Store. Since I just wiped my drive any way, figured I'd just do it one more time with Arch instead. OK, maybe it took 3 more wipes to get it right, but it was well worth it. MC runs perfectly, and so do all the games I care about in Steam.

Cool! I didn't anticipate that. I look forward to seeing it. After SGU was cancelled I wasn't sure if anybody was going to give SG another serious go.

Specifically, we don't know the goals. Generally, we know it's about control and fear of losing power.

It's a stolen quote but rings true:

Those with power fear one thing above all else; losing said power.

That doesn't quite explain it. The internet has happily been a niche wild west for a long time that has threatened very little power. Besides generally "most people know how evil all rich people have to be to get where they are now"

I don't think most people know that.

As another aspect we're seeing governments and the system elites craving for more power and control than ever.

I know it's borderline conspiracy theorist but I fear that the COVID-19 lockdowns with the surveillance systems and control gained during them gave the elites worldwide a taste for new levels of power and control.

All in the name of doing it for our own good of course. But ultimately its for more power. What terrors man won't inflict on others for "their own good".

PHP has really come a long way since I used it in the 90s on my first little website.

They've got us addicted. They're going to squeeze us eventually. I know my company don't stop using agent driven development. It's increased our velocity too much.

You're right. But I easily round robin between Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini every day without noticing any friction whatsoever.

i got off that shit two years ago. you're a victim, i am not.