Oh yeah baby, Kristi is back on the market! How YOU doin’?

Oh yeah baby, Kristi is back on the market! How YOU doin’?

The only “lesson” we are taught so far is to actively boycott anything US-made or US-adjacent. Hopefully we will never again sign up for any sort of “trade deal” of the size of NAFTA/CUSMA either, choosing to partner with friendlier and more trustworthy nations. So - thanks, Donald - you strengthened our national unity and helped us become even more resilient and independent than we’ve ever been.
In the world full of Ed Sheerans, be James Blunt. 😬
There is more to this story, of course:
https://apnews.com/article/china-anthropic-ai-us-amodei-3da458d2c078da3e60900728d59f1ae8
it’s not that he is concerned about AI threat in general, he is mostly concerned about being trampled over by evil foreign AI.
Anthropic = Good, Qwen and DeepSeek = Eveeeeel!
This too shall pass.
Bill Gates is in the Epstein Files. That is all.
Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.
Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.
The answer is always black metal, as raw as you can bear.
…..And nothing of value was lost…..