The only correct system is 0ver.

AI will always be tied to concentrated capital due to the cost of training state of the art models.

So will CPUs, trains and new medicines. Some sectors simply need a huge amount of capital.

It’s unlikely that the market will open up any time soon so that you can get your LLM from someone who isn’t a fascist billionaire tech bro.

But this I think is not just likely, but inevitable. As long as at least one company puts out open-source AI models, users will have the option of switching to it. So even if they don’t switch, they can use this leverage to keep AI access sellers in check. Eventually, the whole market of selling access to AI will collapse, and the only AI trainers will be people who want to give it out for free (governments, universities) or companies who use it as a loss leader to sell an actual product.

Lenovo Thinkpad. New ones are quite expensive. But they tend to last a decade and many companies sell off old ones, so you might get a used one for cheap. Don’t get the E or L series, though; those are cheaply made. T, X, etc. are good.

OP’s phone runs MiUI, so it would be easy to unlock. You register a Mi account with an active SIM and either wait 3-7 days as asked, or use one of those scripts that intercepts the unlock request and gives you the key.

Newer Xiaomi devices run HyperOS, which is much harder to unlock and there are no exploits as far as I know.

Only India as far as I know.

I guess we’re the world leaders in Linux use - Windows 78.4%, Linux 14.7%, MacOS 3.5%. US sanctions on Russia and people here not being able to afford Win11 compatible machines must have helped.

I’ve heard Google use Debian as gLinux and I feel many other giants also use it and sponsor it and I’m not comfortable choosing it as my distro.

They use Debian for the same reason all heavy industry is built using steel and not whatever flashy new composite is in the news today. It works. Debian is slightly harder than Ubuntu / Mint to install and set-up, but probably the easiest to maintain since it is extremely stable and forgiving. It will also work on just about any hardware.

And don’t worry about the sponsorships. Debian is run by the community; the sponsers don’t get to decide anything.

Sorry, my bad. So these people are software funding agencies?

While this is great, aren’t wealth funds required to get a return on investment? How does that work here?

As non_burglar said, RISC-V is so far mostly used for small chips for embedded systems. This could change in the future, of course, but you might not have a good RISC-V laptop by 2027-28. There is also a concern that the chips themselves need not be open-source, but there have been open-source designs such as XiangShan, which is comparable to A76.

Currently, your options are DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA, which uses a SpacemiT SoC K1, and Framework’s Laptop 13, which has a StarFive JH7110. Neither CPU is fully open.

On the software side, there is better news. Debian has accepted RISC-V as one of its main architectures.

A text editor shouldn’t be having security breaches.

What exactly is the point of rolling release?

Newer features. At the cost of a higher risk of stuff breaking.

Or is it for security?

No, point release OSs do have security updates. It’s feature updates that they avoid.

The Radxa Rock 5 series use RK3588s and have USB, ethernet and 4-32 GB RAM.

1. There’s an uptick in ‘Unknown’ (currently at 26%).

2. Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers’ unions, so I’m not sure what the govt’s long-term plan is.

One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we’ll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.

9% in India. But this is down from a peak of ~15% late last year when the govt was worried about US sanctions and was pushing for Linux adoption.

Isn’t it the one that shoots black holes?

Nagato Yuki moment

Definitely ask your principal for a recommendation.

Dust can also block connections. I remember a 64 GB RAM system becoming 128 GB when it was cleaned (two sticks; one was clogged).

Mint also gets rid of Snaps.