The mag 7 is 1/3 of the S&P500, but that doesn’t mean the loss will be limited to 1/3. A those other companies are also dependent on AI and the success of those 7.

The Mag7 are the 7 giant tech companies currently propped up by the AI bubble. These companies represent upwards of 34% of the marketcap of the S&P500. The other 493 companies are also intimately tied to the success of AI and/or the Mag7. Not just everyone’s retirement accounts, but a huge amount of the world is invested in the US S&P500 thinking they’re diversified across 500 successful companies.

So to be clear, yes, we’re absolutely poised for a worldwide economic recession. I wouldn’t be surprised if smaller nations who rely on USD are completely bankrupted, but one thing is for certain: when AI pops, the fallout will not be limited to the US.

They use OpenVPN for some reason. Wireguard is superior in every way. In case you set up a VPN.

I was going to say you’ll probably be fine, but if you’re considering Mint you’ll definitely be fine.

Terminology you don’t need to know: Mint is still using x11, which Nvidia works fine with. I assume mint won’t switch to Wayland until it works smoothly on Nvidia too.

My partner is using mint on a 3080. I think she had one graphical bug in one game one time after an update. Mint has a program specifically used to roll back to a past Nvidia driver. She chose the driver from before the update, rebooted, and the bug was gone. Just gotta remember to switch back to using latest later when a new driver comes out.

Lol I definitely read the same thing twice. Assumed they were just repeating for emphasis. You’re right, my bad.

EoP, not PoE. Two different things.

Windows is constantly doing things I didn’t ask it to. I wanted something that didn’t do anything I didn’t ask it to.

I was going to make a joke about them selling a contraption to just strap a screen to your face so we could reach peak brain rot, but then I remembered the Quest exists.

He wouldn’t be a billionaire if he were a good person.

But…to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn’t want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it’s not to his own foundation.

No one rich enough to be in Trump’s vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They’re all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.

As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.

All of that can be publicly audited. When we talk about “trust” we’re referring to what happens server side, which we have to assume can never be publicly audited. The importance of e2e encryption is that what ever happens server side doesn’t matter. There’s a massive gulch between trusting a binary you’re able to inspect and trusting one you can’t.

What you said is valid though, if you want/need privacy, you need to put in effort, but you also have to assume there’s someone smarter than you who will be able to outsmart your own audit. The absolute best you can hope for is that at least the binary is publicly reviewable and that they’re not smarter than every pair of eyes who reviews it. That’s basically the backbone of open source security.

I sincerely apologize for taking you seriously. You tried to warn me with your alternating caps, so it’s my fault. Cheers.

That’s fair, though that’s more of a flaw with the email protocol. There’s no way around leaking that to the receiver’s email provider as well.

Good point, I hadn’t considered that.

For the record, if your security is based on “trust”, you’re going to have a bad time. The whole point of a cryptographically secure line of communication is that you don’t need to trust anyone except the recipient. Protonmail users choose it specifically because they don’t trust anyone, including Protonmail.

The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation

Yep, the market feels like it’s in max-greed mode. There was a taste of fear when the tariffs were first announced, but wallst was quick to token TACO to justify just ignoring everything. My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”

I assume it will take until a critical mass of those speculators start needing to liquidate. I don’t know what will trigger that, but at some point the profits come due.

I’m not a fan of having two definitions for “lint” in the tech world. Unnecessary ambiguity.

This should just work if your Android device’s USB mode is set to Mass Storage, no extra software needed on the PC. It’ll just show up like a thumb drive.

Note: Gaming performance is purely based on money spent. There’s no fundamental reason windows would have better gaming performance, it’s just that there is more money being paid to engineers and vendors to support DirectX and related tooling.

Then there’s the self-fulfilling aspect that, windows has the largest marketshare, so devs are going to spend the most money targeting it, so that they can get the most money in return, which means more people will use it, which leads to the high marketshare.

The ONLY reason Linux use is seeing the few percent blip in gaming is because Valve has dumped truckloads of cash into making it viable.

Ugh, can’t wait to post about how sick this is to my insta story…and tomorrow I’ll vlog my trip to the beach!