This is dope. Love to see any efforts to get Linux on the desktop more ready to use.

I used to think this but once you treat them as another path to get in they become really useful.

Yes, you still have your 2fa and password, but you create a fast path in addition to it when you get in.

It became even more useful once I stopped insisting they have to go into 1password

I'm pretty impressed how openai is both extremly verticalized but also building products across the whole depth of that stack.

Not sure if they're just trying to find what the abstractions are worth focusing, or if it will stay that way, but certainly cool to see how much they're trying out.

It certainly feels like they are throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

Makes sense to me. The cost of shipping products is lower than ever and they have lots of talented folks who want to ship things. No one knows what could be the next killer app.

They have everyone's attention. They have access to newest AI stuff. They can say, "we need ideas to make money, don't make mistakes, generate the code, make a marketing post".

However, reality is different and unpredictable.

They probably have a “low hanging fruit” agent that makes pitches to them during weekly update meetings based on potential ROI

How many PM's have they got? Each one justifies his or her existence.

Why does it have to be ad revenue though? A forecast of ad revenue alone being below expectations really doesn't say much about a company like openAi

So what's being proposed here? Why bother and just use US clouds?

Don't let 'perfect' be the enemy of 'progress'.

Exactly. Why bother and own yourself?

I always snarked at clueless CEOs bent on forcing me to sign NDAs while the entire infra _and_ data was living in US from the get go. Like, what's so sensitive I'm going to disclose that wasn't voluntarily disclosed by yourself already?

People are at least as concerned with who data is disclosed to as they are with what data is disclosed.

I am sure the US government has everything from my banking records to my biometrics to my medical history.

That does not mean I would be ok with all of those things being posted on the open web (yes, some / all may already be).

Employers are generally more concerned with disclosure to competitors than they are with possible collection by US intelligence.

Had a pixelbook and it was hands down one of the best laptops I ever had. Sure, ChromeOS is fairly boxed in but the Linux VM was reasonably good and the built quality was just something else.

I wish they'd just make ~ pixelbook with ubuntu... it'd be such a powermove, and they if anyone could pull it off

I was excited at first by this, but the "designed for gemini intelligence"... like what does that even mean

I mean even having linters and everything still creates a whole bunch of noise in their PR section, not to mention that a lot of the changes I make to stuff that's written by codex is not stuff that's caught by linters.

It's just bad/wrong/context lacking decisions and mental models it introduces, that if not carefull will just create a massive mess of a codebase. (I know, because I've tried, and had to deal with it)

And if someone vibecodes a PR and it works, why dont they just share the prompt so a repo owner could vibecode it themselves?

Vibe coding is often not a single prompt, it's an entire workflow (if you're doing it right).

Don't disagree, but the "if you're doing it right" is a big asterisk for an open source project with people you have no idea what quality bar they're at.

And in my experience it's quite hard to figure that out by quickly looking at it.

Not to mention that contributions on github (almost?) never include the prompt chain anyway, so the status quo is even worse

That's a fair point. I was just speaking generally.

> The price of that book could pay for months (and in some cases years) of tuition in EU countries.

To your later comment, the devices are provided. You dont need to buy them.

Also that's not actual price. the tuition fees are that, doesn't mean that's the price. It's just heavily subsizied by the government. Hard to find sources, but the actual price/student in Germany seems to be ~10k Euro/student/year.

Hard to find

> the devices are provided. You dont need to buy them.

I was talking about a textbook, not the devices. I think that was made pretty clear by my use of the word “textbook”.

> the tuition fees are that, doesn't mean that's the price.

Seeing as I’m talking about what people have to pay, that’s irrelevant. What even is your comment? You’re taking what I said and responding to entirely different things. That’s not how we have a productive, good faith conversation.

> Hard to find sources, but the actual price/student in Germany seems to be ~10k Euro/student/year.

There are more countries in the EU besides Germany. In some, you don’t pay at all.

Furthermore, each college has different costs, there’s not just a fixed cost for student for everything. The costs per student for philosophy are not the comparable to the costs per student for veterinary medicine.

You were responding to a comment about the price point being not that expensive, claiming that "200 usd for a college text book is very US centric", so I assumed you were arguing against that it's "worth the money".

So what are you arguing for? I genuinely cannot tell.