That approach isn’t all sunshine and rainbows though, it’ll undercut local businesses (the few remaining ones), and without ID of Nyc residents non-nyc ppl could take advantage of these stores to resell the goods for a higher price…

I’m not sure how NYC is going to sustain the costs as well, more taxes? Capital flight will be a problem. Not a musk fan here, but there’s two faces to this coin.

Mb autocorrected from archinstall and i didn’t notice X’)

Since archinstall is a thing, arch really isn’t that hard to install or use, but these days I favor nixos for the reproducibility.

Meh, I’m gen Z and can roll out my own cpu on fpga, and run my own Linux kernel on it, so don’t circlejerk too hard, millenials…

Don’t buy from companies that do this, should be obvious?

The Chinese are doing a good job with open source ai models, especially Z. Ai, qwen and minimax, Google also got us something decent with gemma4, but yeah we need commercial AI to fail so we can get affordable access to vram…