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Thursday, January 1, 2026

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

2026 - Linux

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

Saturday, December 13, 2025

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...

AI or Real?

You are watching a video
It has pretty low resolution/quality
Somehow it feels a little off but you don't really know why
However it's quite funny or at least interesting so you shrug off the feeling
Yes, that video was AI-generated

AI is a pretty useful tool for scammers.

Creating a funny video is not that harmful maybe just a little annoying when you realize that a quite high percentage of the online videos are already AI-generated.

However impersonating others, creating deep-fake videos, or just phone calls with someone else's voice aren't that funny if those cause any harm to anyone.

There are already many AI bots, AI-generated accounts and posts on social media platforms and those have many followers because most of the people can't recognize the difference between the real and the AI-generated accounts...

AI, ChatGPT and Brain Rot

Most of ChatGPT users use it instead of:

Google Search
Any other search
Asking others
Thinking...

Subscribe for everything and more!

Get a product/service
Use it for a while
Get used to it to the point you would miss it
The product/service suddenly isn't free anymore
There is a possibility to buy a lifetime license so you'll do it
After a year or so there is an update and the old version becomes obsolete
It turns out that your lifetime license is not valid for the new version
There is a monthly and yearly subscription possibility
At this point you are using the product/service for a few years and it would be too big effort to switch to something else, so you pay for the subscription
And now you're in the trap

This is the usual script but there is always something else which can be monetized by the companies...

You don't own the product/service, you don't have long-term access to it.

You can't be sure that it will still exist in a year or two or that the price will not be doubled.

This is the present and future of every product/service and you'll need to constantly adopt to the changes...