Yeah I don't think cousin fucker McHillbilly from Wyoming or wherever the fuck has anything to do with these
Also, these are statistical outliers which make great news headlines. In reality most scientific advancements happen in academia but you can't make good clickbait for wine aunts like that
Instead of using old proprietary shit you could use Linux or *BSD with a vintage desktop environment and have a blast
Something I noticed is that basic users (someone using a fucking 30 y/o OS is definitely one) have an easier time with *nix because most "technical" people are overfitted and brainwashed to the Micro$uck ecosystem
Meta's recent LLAMA models are a disaster and worse they only masquerade as open models. Meanwhile Europe has it's own AI research centers like Mistral who make really good models under the Apache 2 license.
Glass soda bottles just hit different™ I would pay extra if it's an option