I'm not sure being beholden to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party is an iota better than the whims of proprietary megacorps, especially given this probably will become part of a megacorp anyway.

It seems you missed the point entirely once you saw the word "Chinese". The point isn't that the models are from China. It's that the weights are open. You can download the weights and finetune them yourself. Nobody is beholden to anything.

When YouTube is replacing translations with AI-generated ones or if Drive is using all your personal documents as training data, that can definitely drive people away.

Microsoft has done the worst of any Mag 7 stock since the day before ChatGPT's release: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/AAPL,MSFT,AMZN,GOOGL,META,TSL...

I mean, you're also telling them almost every site you visit. That's strictly worse from a privacy perspective than blocking ads outright.

It would just cut the rates they'll pay to account for the erroneous clicks. I guess that might just be limited to defunding the sites popular with the really techy group of people that use Adnauseam and instead shift to niches with better effectiveness.

It's actually down to $3.8B in profit now, and will be losing money within a year at the rate its been losing profitability.

Nobody was pressing (or even alleging) crimes by the sheriff AFAIK.

I literally cannot count the number of times I put my Linux computer to sleep and it just doesn't wake up, and I have to hard reset the power to get it to do anything. I would never leave anything unsaved open for an extended period of time on a graphical Linux system.

Happens 90% of the time on my standard Elitebook laptop when I run windows. It just crashes and has the fan going crazy. On Linux it's been fine since day one, some 5 years ago.

But this is a bug, and it's very different from the OS voluntarily rebooting without your consent.

The nice thing about Linux is not waking up from sleep is a bug. On windows, the restarts at inopportune times is a feature!

That's not nice to have unfixed bugs like that, but more to your point - not a sign of a serious OS

Actually no. Linux pretty closely follows the ACPI standard. The issue is that ACPI implementors specifically work around bugs in Windows, which does not follow the standard well and has its own quirks. Thus, in order to make Linux 'work' with the broken hardware, they'd have to add bugs. Again, we see the issue with Microsoft dominance. A serious OS would implement the standard as written, not demand that others follow its bugginess.

Criminals? I'm not sure what you're looking for.

"Criminals do the most crime" is a tautology

That's why it's a silly question.

Most Android devices also don't have aux ports. iPhones have USB now too.

Losing the ability to easily sideload apps is what we're talking about.

How do iPhones have worse security than Android???