Not for the people pushing for this Orwellian shit.

Most people will just comply, and “most people” is who they want to spy on and control.

If it’s durable and affordable, I can see the use for things like bags and tents.

Or more specialized stuff like a camera strap that can zip into a basic tripod.

Porn sites have been doing that for years now.

And that’s exactly what they want.

They made better phones before Google bought them so they could strip all their patents before dumping the remaining husk on Lenovo for 15% of its previous value.

Just start posting a bunch of political content they don’t agree with to get your account deleted.

Yes, but there also is a legitimate issue related to staffing.

Everyone should be in unions, but unions ARE going to fight this level of automation to the bitter, as it will result in job cuts. In this particular instance, I think if you cut the CRO compensation to 0 they’d still be in trouble against some of these factories that automate almost the entire process.

This is the kind of “machines coming for your jobs” that’s realistic. AI may be a bunch of vaporware, but this stuff is different.

Yeah. This is something I’ve been trying to explain for a while. Between the Steam Deck and the declining overall market share of PCs, there’s a huge jump in Linux as far as percentage of users goes, but it isn’t actually making significant waves in general usage. Regular users are sticking with Windows and Mac, but now there’s 1 Windows or Mac laptop in a household shared by everyone now versus multiple laptops and a desktop a few hardware cycles back.

Wine makes Windows applications work in Linux. Wine solved a lot of issues with translation, but most Windows games use DirectX for their graphics, which is proprietary to Windows.

DXVK translates DirectX to Vulcan (Open Source graphics API used in Linux), allowing GPUs on Linux to run DirectX games.

Photoshop and Lightroom are what keep me with Adobe. The Open Source stuff simply doesn’t cut it for my needs.

I actually prefer Inkscape over Illustrator. I also still have a lingering fondness for Corel Draw, but I think that’s mostly because I started using it back in 89 when it released.

I also sometimes miss the simple days of learning to use a mouse with Dr Halo.

Do you know if it was actually removed?

Yeah. Because Google would never keep the images anyway.

Try driving an RV sometime. People have a moral obligation to pass you I guess, because you can be driving warp 8 and people will pass you angrily before slowing down.

My best friend is a librarian, and they’ve stopped buying ebook licenses because the terms were awful.

The publishers only allowed an ebook to be checked out a few times before the library had to purchase a license extension. The argument was that pylhysical books face wear and tear and eventually have to be replaced, so ebooks should have to be replaced too.

Yes, but it also hurts their case when they’re demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.

Isreal stopping it’s assault on Lebanon was one of Iran’s conditions of the 10 point-plan to end the war in 2 weeks, so Israel decided to accelerate the bombing to wipe them out before the 2 weeks is up.

I swear to God that Word exists to make us feel better about Outlook.

You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.

There’s a lot of rot, but they’ve been depending on a cluster of personality. Those often collapse when the personality dies without a sucessor with popular support, which requires the cult leader to groom the public to their sucessor.

The thing with Trump is he has too much ego for that, and Vance doesn’t have the loyalty of the MAGA militant.

Claudius wasn’t 2nd in command. He was way down the list.

And the first thing he did as emperor was execute some of the Praetorians for being overzealous when cleaning house.

I mean… the first instance of that was replacing Caligula with Claudius. It just kinda went south after that.