Either they conned the government org in charge of purchasing it, or that org just didn’t care enough to look deeper. They got a professional-looking demo that made it look like the tech worked, and signed the contract without a second thought.
AI = Actually Indians
The term “AI” has been misused and misrepresented so much that it’s more of an aesthetic than a technology now.
If H. R. Giger had directed Miracle on 34th Street…
Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.
TempleOS is the only correct answer.
It’s a good question and years ago I might have asked the same thing. I’m a minimalist and I really dislike all the extra crap that comes with all-in-one distros these days. Not just installed programs, but also daemons and services that start by default. I hate the idea that I have to go in and manually turn them all off on new installs. I used Ubuntu for a long time but slowly got more and more annoyed at the bloat. The snap situation was the final straw that pushed me to explore other distros. I landed on Arch and really liked it. A new Arch install can be incredibly clean, basically providing nothing more than a command prompt from which you can install what you need. The only stuff running on your machine is what you explicitly put on it. There are a couple things I get annoyed with in Arch, like some baked-in drivers for hardware I don’t have, however it’s minor enough that I can let it go. I also played with Gentoo but couldn’t get comfortable enough to make it my daily driver. Arch is my personal best-balance between cleanliness and effort.
That must have been a royal pain in the ass digging in a confined space like that. Good job.
In the words of Jamie Zawinski, “Linux is only free if your time has no value.”
My work allows RHEL, but it’s a specialized configuration that doesn’t get updated very often. I tried it for a while but it was so out of date that I couldn’t build half the tools I needed, so I ended up switching back to Windows. It was about 10-15 years ago when the C++ standard was undergoing a lot of changes, and the company-approved version of GCC was several years old and didn’t support any of the newest features.
Kazaam starring Shaquille O’Neal.
Same. Emil getting doused in toxic waste still haunts me.
Yeah, the only surprise any more is whether it’s just going to be the usual fraud, or some new creative type of scam I haven’t seen yet.