Despotic Machine

Never used it, never will - and I see it as very negative. Getting questionable info for a metric shit-ton of real-world resource usage is not a good thing.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/ChatGPT-s-power-consumption-ten-times-more-than-Google-s-9852327.html

Redhat is not the original. Just of the ongoing projects, there is both Slackware and Debian, which are both older than Redhat. Redhat stands out because they are a commercial, for profit company, so they have more money and resources to invest in Linux development than most organizations, and they have a vested interest since it is their product base.

This movie is pretty well made:

Stare Into the Lights My Pretties

A documentary about the world of screens we are immersed in. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next and is it what we want?