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On 2026-07-10 3:42 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:29:57 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
>> On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
>>>> https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
>>>>
>>>> A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using their spandy-new
>>>> processors.
>>>>
>>>> Available as an installation option, along with Windows.  Smart AI
>>>> developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
>>>
>>> Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
>>
>> Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
>> AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
>> presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
>> would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past
>> because everything would run withing Edge.
>> <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
>>
>> It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that
>> replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
>> you next.
> 
> I finished Nadella's book 'Hit Refresh'. It was interesting if at times
> self-promotional. Note that it was published in 2017. In the final
> chapters he lays out his vision of the future, AI, mixed reality, and
> quantum computing all cloud based.
> 
> Times change. His example of where AI was going was Cortana, that
> Microsoft took out behind the barn and shot about 5 years ago to be
> replaced by CoPilot. Same idea, I guess, although Cortana never approached
> Alexa's popularity. Amazon is still trying to monetize that one. Alexa was
> supposed to be primarily used to order stuff from Amazon, not turn the
> lights on and cue up your playlist. It has been a net loss so far.
> 
> For mixed reality he talked about HoloLens. I don't know if it's still
> available.  The smart glasses type devices may become more popular but
> they're not mixed reality. I'm not a gamer but I don't think headsets like
> the Quest series are the mixed reality he envisioned either.
> 
> As for quantum computing maybe some distant day.
> 
> He does address job displacement by AI at length and suggests humans can
> be retrained for meaningful, productive jobs augmented by AI. That's where
> my cynicism kicks in. Nadella and his wife come from upper middle class
> Indian families and his entire career has been in well educated circles.
> He hasn't had much experience with the chaiwala who is at the extent of
> his abilities to make tea.
> 
> Still he was what Microsoft needed. He looked around in 2008. Amazon was
> building out the AWS cloud infrastructure and MS had nothing. Google was
> cornering the search engine revenue; MS had nada. Windows Mobile wasn't
> going anywhere. The fiefdoms were entrenched and wanted to stay with
> business as usual even though it was going down fast.
> 
> He also tried to steer them away from the Ballmer approach. He mentions
> getting up at one conference and pulling out an iPhone. Gasps. Then he
> shows the applications loaded on the phone are all Microsoft. Can't beat
> them, join them.
> 
> I don't have a crystal ball but I am aware many people will be dragged
> into the future kicking and screaming.

I don't doubt that Nadella has a better vision of the future than I do, 
but that doesn't mean that I'm going to allow to have my own life 
changed by what he believes the future should and will be. The 
transition from the command line to the GUI was an easy one when I was a 
teenager since DOS couldn't multitask and I spent a lot of time 
wondering how much fun it would have been to use an Amiga or a Mac. 
Adding the Internet to my computing experience was also a welcome 
transition as it was a natural evolution of hanging out on bulletin 
board systems. However, the transition to "you'll do nothing but tell 
artificial intelligence what to do for you" doesn't make computing 
better. Yes, I'm impressed by the images artificial intelligence can 
create and even more by the videos it manages to produce from nothing, 
but the knowledge that humans are no longer the ones being created with 
such production bothers me immensely.

-- 
CrudeSausage
M4 MacBook Air
"Derka, derka, Muhammad jihad!"

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"Rex" vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-07-07 01:00 +0000
  Re: "Rex" Distro Lackey <dl@lackey.com> - 2026-07-09 01:15 +0000
  Re: "Rex" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-07-10 07:23 +0000
    Re: "Rex" "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-07-10 03:44 -0400
    Re: "Rex" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-07-10 07:29 -0400
      Re: "Rex" "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-07-10 07:33 -0400
      Re: "Rex" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-10 19:42 +0000
        Re: "Rex" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-07-10 21:54 -0400
          Re: "Rex" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-11 04:13 +0000
          Re: "Rex" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-07-11 19:03 +0000
      Re: "Rex" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-07-11 18:59 +0000
        Re: "Rex" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-12 00:19 +0000
          Re: "Rex" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-07-13 06:53 +0000
            Re: "Rex" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-13 17:29 +0000
              Re: "Rex" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-07-15 08:36 +0000
                Re: "Rex" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-15 13:38 +0000

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