KDE is highly customizable and themeable. It looks a little bland by default, but you can change that. That said, I always feel like KDE feels a little inconstant. Font sizes, padding, and other flourishes always feel off. That is probably a result of it's costumizability.
I gotta stand up for my boy TPM. I manage a lot of Windows systems, and TPM does a lot of heavy lifting. I'm an open source advocate, but I recognize that without TPM, most users wouldn't bother with encrypting their device.
And since Microsoft has strongly integrated it in their stack, it significantly reduces the need for regular signins and user focused security. Of course, this does require you to invest in their stack. There's little to no support for machine level authentication for Linux. But in business, it really does make a practical and useful difference in security.
You are right that local electricity might be in play. I've lived in the same house for 6 years and I've not had a single light fail. We replaced most bulbs when we moved in because they were mostly CFLs. It's been great. But I wouldn't put it past LED manufacturers, even name brand ones, from cheaping out on the bad power protections.
Do you use exclusively the backspace key when attempting to correct a mistake? I use the arrow keys a ton for moving through text fields. Most small keyboards have function keys to hit arrows, but I hit the arrow keys a lot. Seems like critical feature missing. I'm also a big user of page up/down/home/end. I can't see giving all that up.
I'd be fine with an isolated system. It would be nice to be able to store large amounts of data and do difficult calculations in my head. Those things don't need Internet access.
A brain machine interface could also be used in cases like blindness or deafness to provide alternatives to those senses, so that would be a huge boon.
But I agree with the others, floss or beat it. And no direct Internet connection.
Microsoft has been making hostile moves on licensing for on-prem/non subscription products for a while now. They want you to give up on local resources. Of course you could go to a competitor, but the only large competitor in the US is basically Google, and their offerings are not well tailored to business.
Captchas are a low bar to modern standards. All the advancements in AI are a problem for captchas. Machine vision tools have become abundant and simple. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what more you can do except require human review of access.
Sensor glitches, reflections on cockpit glass, small close up things that seem far away and large. There are so many explanations that make more sense than physics defying aliens that are naturally blurry.
It's important to note that the cost to make and the price to sell are too different things. I'm sure it costs more to make, but features like that are used to upsell. When they become a requirement, suddenly they can't be used to upsell and so the price comes down. It happened with backup cameras in cars. For a few years, it was a major upsell for a car to come with a backup camera. If you wanted a backup camera you had to buy the premium trim for thousands more. Then it became a requirement and it could nolonger be treated as a premium.
I'd have to pull out my kill-a-watt to get an accurate reading, but my house grid increases by about .2-.3kw when my PC is on. That doesn't count all my monitors and whatnot. It is a noticable drain on my houses grid at idle.
I use an LLM frequently in my work. It is for things that I used to Google, like PowerShell functions and where settings are in common products. That's a practical, real world use. I already said I agree that it is a bubble that will pop, but we don't need it to be profitable for other people. In my case I'm using a Llama variant locally, so every AI company out there could implode tomorrow and I'd still have the tool.
This is a bubble that will pop, no doubt about that, but it also is a huge step forward in practical, usable, AI systems. Both are true. LLMs have very hard limits right now, and unless someone radically changes them, they will keep those limits, but even within the limits they are useful. They aren't going to displace most of the work force, they aren't going to break the stock market, they aren't going to destroy humanity, but they are a very useful tool.
I've got a 7900xt and idle power draw and heat generation is off the charts, so I must agressively sleep my computer when not in use. I've been hoping for an update to fix it, but nothing yet. And this isn't really AMDs problem, but a lot of AI stuff just isn't possible on RDNA 3, because the python libraries don't support it. Some library updates have started supporting it, but often the tools to make the models work uses old library versions.
There is no one solution to climate change, but requiring lighter roofs for all new builds/replacements would be a simple step to start with. It doesn't just increase the amount of light reflected back out to space, but it also significantly reduces cooling requirements, meaning less power required during peak hours.
When it comes time to change my roof, I will be considering lighter shades.
If you are wanting reviews to take 6 months, there won't be any reviews of the phone until half way through their sales cycle. I agree things change over time. I have a Pixel 5 and on release it had horrible brightness sensing problems thanks to the under screen brightness sensor, and that got a lot better after a couple of months. But it is unrealistic to expect people to wait 6 months to see if a phone might be good. That was doubley true when most phones only had 2 years of support tops.
It's a little better now, but if you aren't buying a phone when it first hits the market you are shaving time off the life of the phone, if you are like me and camp on a phone for years. Heck, for a long time cell phone carriers were selling phones who's EOL had already come, it was bad.
KDE is highly customizable and themeable. It looks a little bland by default, but you can change that. That said, I always feel like KDE feels a little inconstant. Font sizes, padding, and other flourishes always feel off. That is probably a result of it's costumizability.