You could always fork them. That’s one of the wonderful things about Linux and FOSS. Straight copy the code to a new project. That may be beyond your current skill set but it’s always an option.

I mean you only have three paths really. Distro-hop until you find something else. Start with a pre-built like mint or fedora and make it what you want or build from scratch.

I distro hopped for a long time, then ended up going through the basic arch install one weekend and omg it’s easy now with their archinstall script, I’ve gotten lazy and just use Fedora.

Tldr: I suggest investing the time to do the arch install on your side machine just as a learning experience, particularly by hand and without the script. It will be invaluable to you not just as a Linux user but as a computer user. Even if you end up on another OS you’ll be more capable and comfortable with the terminal. I really can’t emphasize how useful that will be and what doors it may unlock for you.

Small example is all the poorly written yet functional bash scripts I write for myself. How I used wget -r to scrape my university’s website and made a database of old solutions to homework and exams for myself.

First and foremost I can suggest meditation. You don’t have to personally save the world, do what you can when you can and that’s enough, honestly more than enough. I can suggest figures like Pema Chodron and Ram Dass, they’ve been extremely helpful for me in extreme moments of life. I think Pema’s book Welcoming the Unwelcomed is pure gold.

Also don’t mind taking a break from it all. The world will keep on ticking. One day the sun will run out of fuel and vaporize the earth, one day the last star will go dark, one day the last black hole will evaporate. Nothing is forever besides change. That’s not to say it’s all pointless, more so to say enjoy it and if you can even enjoy the unpleasant things along with the pleasant ones.

Left home with nothing but the clothes on my back. Thankfully my HS girlfriend and her parents let me stay with them. Had to buy clothes with the $400 I had and was riding my bike to my minimum wage job. It was simple times but good times.

If you’re technically inclined you could support some free and open source software project.

This is a whole new level of botnet. Enslave people’s AI. Would be useful if you’re trying to distill the model.

Actually now that it’s being brought up it would be interesting to see the allotment of funds and compute in relationship to types of neural nets. I really can’t confirm or deny what you are saying. That said different labs seem to have taken different approaches.

Yes and no. Some extremely impressive things have been accomplished already. Alpha fold was very successful just to name one smaller and older project. The recent proof of the planar unit distance problem is very notable. The list goes on and on. There’s some legitimate gold in those neural network hills, it’s just not consistent.

If all this data center building and investment is a bust aka their next super model doesn’t deliver on all the promises they’ve made it’s going to make the 2008 financial crisis look cute.

Scared they’re totally leveraged and people will call their bluff before their super compute is built or the super compute will have diminished returns aka the investment is a wash. If this goes bust it will make the 2008 global financial crisis look cute.

Yeah that’s what the large hadron collider is for, everyone knows that.

I wanted to research it myself since I didn’t know how Redbox flow batteries operate. It is two giant tanks of liquid energy. When there’s extra electricity from wind or solar, pumps move special vanadium-based liquids through a stack of cells, storing that energy as a chemical change. When electricity is needed later, the process runs in reverse and the liquids generate power for the grid. Unlike lithium batteries, the energy is stored in the liquid tanks, so making the battery bigger is mostly a matter of building larger tanks. The Swiss project will store about 2.1 GWh of energy—enough to help balance renewable power on a massive scale—and was chosen partly because redox-flow batteries are non-flammable, long-lasting, and can be cycled tens of thousands of times with little degradation

Funny enough, that line can also be interpreted as “thou shalt not murder” which really changes the meaning. I prefer the standard translation though as a pacifist.

I thought creating echo chambers and dopamine loops was the whole point. Kinda reminds me of this CGP Grey video