Voytrekk

Its not the future of Linux, most likely a fad. The most it will be is a cult OS used by people on the far right.

The only thing good I can say about it is that it has interested some people into Linux because of how all of the components are unique compared to Mac and Windows. Cosmic could be the main stream option for those users once it becomes more stable.

It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.

Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a “we think this is the future of Linux” vibe investment.

Reasonable. I would most vibe coders are just on GitHub because they don’t understand git in general.

Swapping to a different operating system. Could be an Android fork like GrapheneOS, eOS, or something else. Could also be a Linux phone.

Only the former is ready for primetime, and it is the option that I chose. Fortunately we will be able to buy a phone that doesn’t give Google money in the future.

Every single search provider mentioned includes AI as an option. Fortunately, they all gave an option to just turn it off. It’s annoying, but if they find that users want these AI summaries, they need to add them as an option to compete.

I thought they were all in on AI? Why would you make more phones with that kind of strategy?

Seems it didn’t keep up with their requirements. You can see links to several discussions in the PR.

Copium

To address some of the author’s points.

1. MacOS vs OSX: to my understanding, safari reports the OS as OSX still, likely for compatibility reasons. 3rd party browsers such as chrome changed their agent to macOS, which explains the split. macOS users are more likely to use Safari in general.
2. Bots: Does the author really believe these sites aren’t capable of detecting bots? I’m sure some slip through, but if not traffic were included in general, then Linux would be at a 90% share or higher. They just consume way more page traffic than a human ever could.
3. Data corrections: Sure, the data may get corrected a bit to bring Linux numbers back down, but there is a clear trend that Linux numbers are rising. It also happens that Windows is where people are migrating from the most.
4. Official numbers from Microsoft: lol

I won’t be betting on them in the future.

Venues should not be allowed to have this level of surveillance for public events. The way the owner of MSG has uesd it is proof enough, banning people for unrelated reasons because the owner is a massive piece of shit.

I wouldn’t pick surfshark. Mullvad or Proton are probably the safest.