A boycott against ps6 would scare them much more.

I think saying drawn to hardship has an unintended implication that they choose to be trans. And therefore choose hardship. That's who they are, not what they choose. That's why it bristled for me.

People with their own community websites did this before reddit existed. Then yelp and google did it whole-scale. Then they enshittified it when those websites were gone/didn't rank.

Lol, I love the pun and the build really sells a story.

It may not be drawn to hardship, so much as ability to overcome difficult circumstances. Or persistence. Or patience. Or adaptability. Or resilience.

Let’s not jump to negative conclusions.

Bro on right went from Dutch to English.

It didn't do it on its own. It's not sentient. It did it because they are unable to control its actions despite guardrails.

Ratings have been falling, which makes them less profitable for the tv station showing them. For the movies and tv shows, it’s almost free publicity. For the actors and actresses, same.

Just being nominated for an Oscar leads to a bump in cinema revenues.

And publicity. The publicity generates money, so it won’t end, until enough people tire of it and it doesnt generate money.

I don't think the Linux foundation is the reason for Linus Torvalds saying AI is not excluded. This is not what you are claiming, but seems to be the onference of your post. The Linux foundation only spends a tiny fraction of their budget on the Linux kernel.

The whole point if open source is that anyone can contribute. Companies that see the value in Linux can donate. All these AI companies companies do so as it is in their interest to do so due the stability of Linux and its use in servers, now llms. It is the same reason nvidia are rapidly improving their Linux driver support. Web servers didn't need great support and Linux home users were a tiny fraction of their users. So they didn't give a toss. Then llms used graphics cards and they saw profit and opportunity. No different to these other companies, they invested where it suited them to, not where tje community wanted.

Limis is smart enough to not rock the boat with sponsorship, but not compromised enough by the reality of required sponsorship, in my view, to change ethos or dorection to chase said sponsorship. These donors, although largest, are worth much less than the thousands of free volunteers and many thousands of smaller donors that won't contribute to a compromised project.

I think AI is a bubble and is overhyped and I expect a financial crash due to it. I also foresee it is here for good, even though it won't be the revokution the investors hoped it to be. It is still revolutionary, but with severe flaws. I would like to be in a situation where ai continues to be best run on Linux and small home models are useful for most people rather than a dependence on cloud computing. We are seeing a transition to cloud based infrastructure for comoute, beyond what we've seen for storage of discrete consumer data, like photos. That is scary as once the power is gone from consumers to have alternative options from the big 7, the more the risk for society, in the same way that social media has had a terrible effect on data bubbles and personal conflict.

Phones have moved to iterative rather than revolutionary and their costs is going up rather than down. Likely people will choose to upgrade them less. Simolar for computers 10+ years ago unless you're a bleeding edge gamer. Even then there was the introduction of cloud gaming.

What we need is to continually have consumer options that respect privacy and user rights, which Linux is best placed to do. In doing so, it should offer all available options for computation, which includes ai. As linis says, ai is a tool. It would not make sense to categorically refuse it. Code should be approved based on merit. Already, we are seeing consumer pushback on ai. Spotify, for instance, now marks content as ai. Meta too. Xitter et al. And they all tried to initially pass off slop as content. They are recognising both the poorer quality and the customer resentment about that and adjusting accordingly.

Ai money is a bubble. I'm glad that some of that rich investor money is going to a good cause before the bubble bursts. Many of those companies were already donors before the launch of chatgpt which started the rollout of ai everywhere. Hopefully it continues afterwards. I hope their donations are partly what leads to their downfall, or at least the removal of their monopoly powers.

Subscription allows a lower cost of entry than outright purchase, so your market is bigger. The average user spends more over the lifetime of the product, so your profit per user is higher. Its all a out profits.

However, money is an analogue for power, so you could also say it's all about power and control too.

You shouldn't pick butts. You'll get a smelly finger.