If you are going to put Linux on a Laptop you must make sure its supported. Lenovo sells laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. Its a breeze with the right hardware.
Surprisingly, I managed to pay off a house early, retire early, and put kids through college, all without working for Meta. And I manged to build cool stuff that saves lives, instead of building an advertising engine that has made us more lonely, more isolated, and more divided.
"Operating profit" is a weasel word phrase. It doesn't include capital expenditures, financing, stock compensation dilution, or long-term infrastructure commitments.
I work in design services and see clients already being cost sensitive to AI bills. They have wait lists, rationing, push to lower tier / cheaper models. This is all with subsidized pricing.
People are going to decide its too expensive for everyone to use AI agents and un-subsidized pricing.