It’s not vague at all if you know Poettering and have watched his talks.

This is about securing the boot chain to ensure the integrity of the OS. Ie, someone hasn’t replaced your GRUB with one that looks exactly the same but secretly records your disk password.

It does so in a decentralized way, so anything like Play Integrity would not make sense in the slightest. It’s the TPM chip measuring values and ensuring they match previous recorded values (and the values to change, such as after updates, so after updates are run, the expected values are updated). It’s not a Secureboot-like system that would make it more feasible to have a Play Integrity-like system.

That’s not at all what this about. Poettering has given quite a few talks about this subject, that being Linux boot chain verification and integrity.

One of the core concepts is measured boot. The TPM on your CPU measures the values of various pieces of software in the boot chain. If a measurement does not match, then the system will not boot because it could be compromised.

And unlike secure boot, this is a decentralized system. It’s not some corporation like Microsoft saying “this software is signed with this approved key, so it may boot”. It’s your own system checking the software and recording the expected value so that when you boot up, it checks again to make sure they match.

It’s not about apps asking doing things like DRM checks or anything like that. In fact, it can’t. GrapheneOS implements a system just like this to ensure the OS has not been tampered with.

7-zip does have a linux CLI, which works well.

The most basic command you need to use is 7zz x archive-name to extract an archive. Building a GUI around it doesn’t seem like it would be too much trouble honestly, wonder if anyone has done that.

You shouldn’t do sudo pacman -Sy banana. That results in a “partial upgrade”, which Arch doesn’t support. Instead, you want to do sudo pacman -S banana.

Even then, what do you consider AI?

Some people don’t even consider LLMs to be AI because they don’t consider them smart enough and or because they lack sentience.

Before LLMs, machine learning has been considered “AI”. DDG/Bing likely uses machine learning for their page rankings, are they going to stop that because this poll said no to AI?

The poll is just too vague with what AI means. When people say they hate AI nowadays, they typically don’t literally mean that. They really mean they hate how things like how LLMs are shoved into services that don’t need them, tech bros non-nonchalantly talking about replacing humans entirely, environmental impact of LLMs, people using LLMs for too many things, etc. Outside of stuff like that, there’s plenty of good uses of “AI”.

I wish they were more clear on this. Is this about existing AI features? Future AI features? AI images?

My only real complaint is that I would prefer it to never show the AI answer by default, I would just like to see the button to get the AI answer. And to be clear, I know I can set DDG to behave that way, but I do a lot of searches in private tabs too.

I actually do find the AI summary helpful. When it comes to basic programming questions, like to remind me of syntax or arguments, it gives a useful answer most of the time.

But I don’t want to see AI images. And I’m hesitant to agree to future AI features because of how aggressively some companies push them in your face.

They share a few small visual elements, like a top panel and “dock”, but using them are completely different experiences.

MacOS is in reality closer to KDE than Gnome. That being said, almost every Linux desktop environment and Windows are closer to each other than MacOS. MacOS is quirky in comparison to all of them.