Our near future

The signs show resemblance to the Industrial Revolution and it is disturbing...

I posted a video a month ago where Gary Stevenson also talked about Industrial Revolution in relation to AI and he also mentioned the very dark background of it.

Nobody really needs AI

A genius comedian, Matthew Steven Rife

How will AI influence people's life and livelihood?

 

It has begun...

This is why we shouldn't rely on AI too much.

It is just another service which is used by the wealthiest people on the planet to get even richer and therefor most of the world will get even poorer.

If they succeed and they can make profit on AI, it will be horribly expensive for us.
If they fail to make profit on AI, the global economy will collapse and we will take the hit, not them.
They have enough wealth and resources to overcome another global economy crisis.

Unreliable AI for (autonomous) military purposes?

No need to comment this:

30 years of Microsoft Windows

I started using Microsoft Windows in 1995.

Back then it was Windows 95.

I've used 12 other editions of Windows on my computers since then and a few other server editions at my workplaces.

There was some back and forth on how good or bad changes were implemented in them but I always managed.

I didn't mind Windows Me like many others, I even liked it.

Also rather used Windows Server 2003 instead of Windows XP because I appreciated the simplicity and minimalistic design and it could do 99% of what Windows XP could.

For me Windows Vista was also quite usable and I've seen the innovative effort they made there. It was a necessary experiment before Windows 7.

Despite the awful implementation of the tiles in Windows 8, it wasn't all bad either, but Windows 8.1 was definitely needed after that.

Windows 10 was a somewhat double-edged sword to me. It already changed many things I didn't really appreciate, but still quite usable.

Unfortunately Windows 11 is totally different story and I don't even start why and how bad it is because many talked about it. I just put here some clues: removed useful features, forced annoying features, difficult usage, less customization, lack of privacy and reliability.

So after 30 years I decided that I will try to switch to Linux.

I've tried quite a few distros, some of them I could run and use a little bit, some of them didn't even install, one of them didn't even get to the installer. So Linux isn't all rainbow and sunshine either. However there are so many different Linux distros that there is a high probability that we can find a good fit for ourselves. 

After checking approx. 10-15 distros and reading about 20-30 others, I settled with Manjaro. For now it seems this is the distro which can manage everything which I needed from Windows too. Of course some of these features needed a little tinkering but for an advanced user it can be handled. Yes, it has a learning curve and there is no quick switch from Windows to Linux but it's far less painful than it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. 

Every Windows edition I used at home for the last 30 years:

1995-2025 - Windows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11

2026 - Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro

The AI bubble

AI bubble in the center with OpenAI and nVidia including many tech giants. Debts between each other and revenues only on paper...

One tech company above all?

Amazon servers went down and half of the world went with them, even the competition.

And this is not only about businesses but private homes as well. Just think about Alexa and that's just the top of the iceberg.

The best part is that Amazon profits from an outage...

AI for healthcare decision making?

AI is already used in healthcare mainly by insurance companies and it denies treatments without real supervision...

AI is the End Game of the Internet?

The Internet has changed quite a bit in the last 20 years.

Google searches, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok became the largest traffic generators, and LinkedIn is not far behind either.

The main fuel of these sites are profit from ads and subscriptions so they need the engagement, spending as many hours on those sites as it is possible from as many people as possible.

Unfortunately partially because of the constant need for more profit, partially because of spreading and fueling conflicts and hatred, partially because of AI, these sites declined in terms of quality and usefulness a lot.

AI exponentially made the situation worse with AI-generated accounts, AI-bots in comment sections etc., flooding these sites with misinformation and fake data...