Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.

Someone had pointed out when all this started, this is a privateer, pirating with the sanction of a government. Not honest pirating. ;)

Yeah, him too.

Reply and runs are a dangerous thing.

Someone come up with a bingo card that has things still without his name on them. Won’t take long to call a winner.

Yet another thing with his name on it. I think there’s a pattern.

“Some of those that work forces…” is a bad metaphor too then, I guess.

If he tries to run for President, will the fly be his VP?

They didn’t light them, but I remember a Christmas tree of my grandparents’ that had candles in the early 70s. By that time we had the large incandescent lights for ours. Which were damn hot themselves, so tree fires were still a thing.

I always knew the rule about dry trees and fire, but you don’t understand it until you see last year’s tossed out tree in a field that’s being burned suddenly go WHHOOOFFF! That could have been inside a house… :O

Even a bad idea like this has its loyal supporters who are fine with a car company making DIYers jump through hoops. Probably pay more for the luxury of not being able to do basic service on your own car.

I honestly was expected it to be lug nuts connected to the cloud that self-destructed if a code isn’t given in time. If you want people to buy your cars and take them to the dealer for servicing, then build better cars and have better service at decent prices. It’s common sense to anyone else.

These are the first people who would die in a real collapse, probably killing others as they go. I loved Mad Max and Car Wars too, but I know it’s fiction.

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.”

A person of culture.

I’m considering it. The only reason being to get away from a corporate stance that could shift at any time, even though I don’t think it’s quite there yet.

However on issue of Firefox going the way of all the other browsers, I swear that the last update or so of Firefox asked me if I wanted to enable AI, I said no, and it told me how to turn it on if I ever wanted it. Much like when I first used DuckDuckGo. So wasn’t that opt in? Did it change how it prompts a new user?

Or other variants if Librefox is too locked down. Or just cut the AI off. You’re going to have to go through the Settings for any version you use anyway, or you should.

Mint is one of the more “Windows-like” versions of Linux. The deal breaker for Linux usually isn’t the OS, but what software you’ll run on the OS, and often a crucial one will be MS Office and compatibility with the proprietary junk that comes with it. If you need just a spreadsheet and word processor and they don’t have to be 100% MS compatible, then LibreOffice will work fine (even ON WIndows). If it’s other types of software, then see if they have a Linux option, or if there’s success in using Wine or Lutris to run it on Linux.

Linux won’t be without some learning curve, but it’s not nearly as steep as it used to be. I spent years occasionally playing with dual boots of different distros but not really using them, but last year found some things that would run better on Linux (I started by using WSL on Windows but it’s so slow because of what it is). Now I’ve all but completely remove my Windows partition, everything important is now moved over to my Ubuntu and I do not want to go back now.

Definitely a Turning Point, wasn’t it?

No, it’s not a paradox, as it’s both CEOs totally thinking it’s the next great thing, and it’s not good enough to replace people, but either way it’s a hell of a good reason to cut labor for that next quarter bonus.

I take it back, it may not be the CEO that’s the driving force usually, but the CTO/CIO who are trying to validate their existence.

Paramedics and EMTs see things in the setting in happened in. Same lack of shock training before doing it live.

No, it’s disappointment.

Power. At some point money stops being what it is to most people and becomes leverage to do things. The truly wealthy don’t have to worry about having the ability to buy things, they shift to being able to influence and control stuff. Now, that can certainly be used for good, so there’s the difference between the perceived good and bad billionaire.