mimo @lyncia@pixie.town

> Windows 12 soll ohne KI-Chip nicht voll funktionieren

there will be a lot of people from the Third World and from non-tech professions who will be forced to turn to Linux for sheer lack of options. there already was an upsurge with Windows 11 refusing to run on older computers and it will get worse. the Linux community is *not* up to the task of welcoming non-tech people and helping them figure out stuff. if we don't want ChatGPT to be the default Linux teacher, it is up to us Linux users on the margins of mainstream tech culture to be friendly to new users, and help them with this OS's gratuitous, excessive complexity to do things that are not programming computers.

*edit*: Microsoft is denying rumours of Windows 12 being AI-focused or coming out soon
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

they are currently in damage control mode over Win 11 but the damage control mode is about "reducing AI bloat", which shows even when trying to do PR they're out of touch with why people are angry with Win 11 ("reducing AI bloat" is like a paint manufacturer saying "we're making the lead paint easier to swallow"). given that Win 11 continues to only work with whitelisted CPUs, Secure Boot, a TPM 2.0 chip etc. and MS shows no sign of going back on *that*, the overall point still applies, but for Windows 11; we don't know yet how bad its successor will be, or when will it be out.

I was playing an original (delux) Space Invaders machine at a retro arcade. The music was thumping. I was tapping my foot and hitting fire to the rythm. And I was like "I get it now."