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If you want to make a literal 2025 bingo card, now would be a good time. That way when some crazy stuff happens next year, you can say "I didn't have that on my 2025 bingo card"... or that you did!

Think big.

- 7% inflation in the US (per gov numbers)

- war in (Insert Location Here)

- aliens

- Chicago Cubs win the World Series

- military deployed against protesters in (Country)

- taxes able to be paid in BTC

Whatever bold, unlikely thing you want to put down.

Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 1y ago

A bingo card? Aight, here's mine:

- Google is rescued at the last minute and does not have to sell Chrome.

- Google panics and spins Android off into a whole separate entity.

- Apple's walled garden is fully broken by the EU.

- iOS jailbreaking picks back up to mark iDevices as EU-based to enable sideloading.

- Microsoft blunders a Windows 11 upgrade so hard, they end up pushing ESU back and thus pushing back the win10 EOL.

- OpenAI is caught in so many lawsuits, that the free-tier ChatGPT sub will be no more sooner or later. Gotta pay that compute!

- AMD will flub their GPU launch, as much hope as I have for cheap GPUs...I think Intel is the way to go. (Look at the RX 9070 leaks...)

- NVIDIA's 50 series will crack the 3k price tag. And AI bros will buy it in bulk still.

- Accessibility on Linux will still suck at the end of the year. (Screen magnifiers that dont work properly and a screen reader that's stuck in the past...)

- Rust in the Linux Kernel will finally show some good contribution, in the form that this debate finally slows down...somewhat. The LKML is hell. x)

- RISC-V will march on, RV24 will be ratified and become an even bigger player, bit by bit.

- China will make larger advances towards Taiwan amidst the US/China trade wars to take TSMC away from the states. It's an ultra strategic move, let's be real.

- The SAG-AFTA strike will finally end - but at what cost? The resulting anti-AI-usage contracts ought to be ... a sight.

- Germany's government will be stuck biting itself forever and not go past coalition talks for four months. We're about to have a political crisis here, period.

- The conflict between north and south Korea will reach a new level. Trump and Kim are not buddies, friend. o.o

- In general, Trump. If he doesn't fuck up a single thing in the whole of 2025 and just be a "boring moving president", I'd be shocked XD. Elephant in a porcelan shop - something's outta break.

- Nostr will see more wallet- and payment interop, some apps may start a subscription model like Primal's. Meanwhile, the rate of new users will slow down.

- BlueSky will keep chipping away at the Fediverse. Like it or not, it's been chosen as the new alternative now, and it's doing considerably well.

- The Fediverse will run into it's biggest bottleneck; instances and their storage. ICMI: Each instance stores all the posts and media it comes across - and storage costs money. Some bigger instances may falter.

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