Harold

Fair point.

Although it does have the biggest exposure to Google addicts.

I have never met an expert programmer with this particular issue.

Git gud.

Yes, “I’m weak. And what’s wrong with that?” Weak - AJR

You mean the hand terminal?

It depends on how close to the fictional device you mean it to be. For instance, it would appear they are just “dumb terminals” without local processing power. So the offloading of the processing power to the cloud should be possible today, but there probably isn’t a use case for it yet.

Actually making it look like that shard of glass that shows you information on the screen? If you equip AR glasses it could potentially already be done, but again, I assume no one will build it as the use case isn’t there.

It’d be an awkward device as per today, so would not be a commercial succes as of yet.

Recently, a major ISP in the Netherlands was determined to be streaming metadata from within their customer’s networks to Lifemote, a Turkish AI company.

Here’s a report in Dutch: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/245620/odido-router-stuurde-analyticsdata-naar-turks-ai-bedrijf.html

This is just the latest one to get caught doing it, but determine how comfortable you are having your internal network exposed to a 3rd party.

I’ve used personal/non-ISP modems and routers for 25 years because I’m not comfortable with it it. At all… But hey, you do you.

The taste of tomatoes/ketchup is great.

The texture of tomatoes is horryfing and makes me shiver and gag.

They are not the same.

As others have commented, the article is a little misleading. Especially to those not familiar with NixOS:

• “The desktop stack is updated to GNOME 49.”
• “Under the hood, the release updates the Linux kernel to 6.17 (with 6.12 LTS also available).”

These changes have been made available through packages in the nixpkgs repo, branched to the 25.11 release.

However, NixOS doesn’t “stack” GNOME into it. Nor does it carry specific Linux kernels “under the hood”.

You can pin any version of any release of any listed package (including kernels) from the nixpkgs repo to your configuration. More specifically even with Flakes, but that’s not even required, if that isn’t your thing.

So for example, I am running a specific host with NixOS 25.11, and Linux kernel 6.17.58 (LTS). (There is a specific use case for me to do so on that particular host.) This runs out of the box due to how I’ve configured NixOS, which is precisely the point of Nix, you configure it how you want it.