It’s true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that’s all they need. But as a “power user”, which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that’s all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more… good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.

“Take us to your leader!”

“Does that mean you’ll abduct them? If so, thanks!”

The AGI in Her actually existed. LLMs are just very good usually at imitating people and their works. Both are referred to as AI (thanks to marketing), but they are two ends of the spectrum.

If it’s very dry and not much vegetation, that’s a desert.

Screw Idiocracy. People reference it not understanding there were positives in the negatives. This is “Don’t Look Up”, that nailed our current corrupt leadership and techno-corporate lunacy, as well as ignoring what is right in front of us because shiny things are more interesting.

The other number should be the one that’s mind boggling. We see the number “million” so much and don’t grasp its scale.

Never apologize for giving your opinion. If you do it badly, then do what you did and expand on it. I don’t like olives either. Nasty things. :D But I get other people do, and probably don’t like things I do. I can appreciate why people may like them, even prefer them over lots of things, I just don’t myself. Can’t change that. And the olives are always there if I ever get a craving for them, just not my thing.

Don’t. Everyone has their preferences, which was the point.

Speaking as a straight guy, I can’t blame her for not finding men attractive.

Trying, but things are pretty stuck here now.

Copilot and Office 365 subscriptions

That’s redundant now. Next Microsoft will rename the company Copilot to push it even harder. And CopilotOS.

Absolutely.

Not so long ago… just don’t look up how long it’s been and not much has changed.

We never learn from history, do we?

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change,” - excerpt from the prologue of Douglas Adams’ “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”

Working as designed and built slowly for decades. The goal was always to create a voter block that would consistently keep the right in power, no matter what.

I’m not a huge fan of them either, but there are far more terrible things to wake up to.

Someone should write a poem to capture the point.

One could say he has been and more, given the state of things. Just a tariff/tax would be bad, but he’s hunting citizens.

At this point any pee-involving evidence is minor compared to the rest.