Rekall Incorporated

I hope this is satire, but this being Threadi I have my doubts.

much cheaper sodium-ion battery

To my understanding, these aren’t suitable for many use cases we associate with batteries (smartphones, EVs, laptops), but it has the potential to have a massive impact on utility scale battery systems and industrial use cases.

I don’t think they’ll bother, they get oil from the russians at a massive discount relative to world markets.

I wonder if the prediction that China will hit peak oil in 2027 will come true. This will have a massive impact on oil markets.

I stand corrected. :)

I live in Excel and PowerPoint, for games messing around with mods/config is fine, for work I cannot deal with random edge cases. PowerBI is Microsoft’s visualization platform, I am actually not a big fan of it (for the area where I work, I could see it being fine in other cases), but this is not something that’s going to change quickly.

There is indeed a version of Teams for Linux. I really need to get a new laptop and try dual boot, I am behind the times on desktop.

I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

Good to know, I only buy 17" inch laptops (thinking of going 18", but the selection is a lot worse), so I might even be able to get one with dual SSDs.

I am planning to do some experiments once I get a new laptop (which I will dual boot). I think gaming support has increased massively since I last tried it 5+ years ago (my usage of linux is via DIY SBC home server).

Office/PowerBI/Teams and some other business applications (where the web version does not cut it) is the real dealbreaker.

That being said, I am not moving to Windows11, so I have three year to prepare to move to Linux (and I suspect Win10 will be supported even after that).

I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.

Some older games that I still play regularly (Simcity 4 with heavy modding) also have problems when running Wine.

That being said, I will probably try dual booting when I get a new laptop, I am done with US platforms (this covers Android too).

It sounds like you will have a more stable experience on Windows 10 where they only release security fixes.

This is a “teenager just discovered speed” level of sophomoric writing.

It really is. It’s almost reads like a parody of a regressive oligarch.

There is a silver lining to all this, an opportunity for the rest of the world to embrace new models (open competitive markets, truly customer-focused services) that go beyond the American cult of the pompous, regressive oligarch. Not saying it will happen tomorrow or in an utopian fairy tale manner, but history tends to be cyclical.

To get to the next peak, you have to hit bottom first.

A side note, check out Marc Andreessen’s “manifesto”:

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

This is a “teenager just discovered speed” level of sophomoric writing.

This is a good thing, it means with the right kind of pressure he will fold as he doesn’t believe in what he is writing.

What were the planned use cases if you don’t mind me asking?

This is outdated, the Americans did a 180 because it was not economically viable:

US drops plan to restrict Chinese-made drones; Chinese expert says economic realities behind the change (Jan 10 2026)

I don’t have a bias against LLMs, I use them regularly albeit either for casual things (movie recommendation) or an automation tool in work areas where I can somewhat easily validate the output or the specific task is low impact.

I am just curious, do you respect robots.txt?

That website is really shit even by the low standards of most modern websites.

Government overreach (or corruption and enablement of oligarchs) is the responsibility of the citizens.

You can’t trust any American oligarchs or large American companies.

The “shadowy cabal” rhetoric is funny considering how there is zero real judicial overcite if US technology companies due to corruption in all three branches of the government.

Perhaps, but if anything they should have used this as a cover to ban twitter. I do not find American style ostentatious “freedom polemics” to be convincing, but on top of that Musk has been found to meddle in local politics to benefit the far right and promote UK criminals.

With US oligarchs “threats” and discussions do not work. Only action and the type of action that hurts them personally.