I’m imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.

It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it’s kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.

AI will replace workers. AI will replace people who make art and music, and write things.

This part made me think how I’ve commented recently that AI does the thing it was designed to do, but that the thing it was designed to do is generate something you could believe somebody wrote on the internet.

That doesn’t mean the answer is correct, of course. It’s often confidently wrong, just like real people online!

But when it comes to artistic expression, there is no clear right or wrong. Music, art, and the written word are some of the most human things we have, but you are absolutely right that they will be replaced. If a marketing director can pay Google a few dollars to generate a hundred concept drawings so they can do “I’ll know it when I see it” design, that’s a human artist job they won’t budget for.

Yep. My disdain for the combination of fascist government where everything is surveillance, and sociopathic corporations and billionaires where everything is a cynical cash grab, overcame me excitement for tech “products” a long time ago. I’m in the US so it’s especially bad.

I still have a smart phone that’s 4-5 years old, and I do of course use it every day, but I consciously avoid using it every hour. I love when I misplace it in my own house, to then not look for it for hours. The only person who is going to message me anything urgent is my wife and she knows where to find me.

Constant phone addiction is one of those situations where when you remove yourself from it you can more easily see it in others. It’s like there’s a new form of body language where when you see that slight forward tilt of the head you know they are in the Phone Zone without even seeing the rest of their body.

They are the starters for the entire Eastern United States!

If we work together comrades, maybe we can get the government’s new death ray to destroy the Orphan Crushing Machine that has been causing issues.

The point is less about those specific activities and more about how roads enable commerce, trade, services, and general economic activity that’s necessary for society.

Roads are not the only solution, of course, but at least where I live it’s the solution that was already built into the infrastructure and city/town layout.

I hear that if you super-upgrade to the enterprise plan, they will promise your legal department to be totally cool with ALL your data and prompts!

That’s the neat part when you blur the lines between the government and the private sector. So-called leaders who are interested in power, control, and “winning” more than upholding their oaths of office can just use the private sector to do the things the government is restricted from doing. Then when their businesses can’t compete on their own, they can lean on the legal + force options the government has.

I’m starting to think this habit we have of electing selfish sociopathic bad-faith actors to powerful positions of service is less than optimal.

One hand yeah. I fortunately run Linux at work and most of Microsoft’s fuckups are just fun Lemmy threads for me.

But the company is a Dell + M365 corporation like the last few places I’ve worked, so I DO get the privilege of using Teams and Outlook in a browser. Good lord has it been slow lately, but good on them at least for the functionality being there.

It seems like a pretty common thing for people to expect that the luxuries of modern technology include not having to do anything you don’t want to, including being present for your own life.

People make self-destructive choices every day. (insert “always have been” 🌏🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀)

You gotta have somebody with an established, honorable bloodline. Somebody like a Wormtongue!

HEADLINE: Millions die and economies implode in the bloody war to create the planet’s newest, poorest nation.

Now there’s a term I have to find a way to use at work tomorrow!

Why don’t presidents fight the war?

Well, if Apple is getting a new CEO then Microsoft should go all in and hire Xzibit to sell copilot.

Yeeep, this right here.

I’m a nerd and software engineer, sitting in front of 4 screens right now. I own a smart watch which I wore 23 hours a day for years on end.

I stopped wearing it several months ago and I literally do not know where it is right now. I assume it’s in my house somewhere. 🤷‍♂️

The greedy shits that run the tech world have taken it too far. The switch flipped in my brain and I just do no care about tech “products” any more. If it connects to the internet or has a screen then it’s almost guaranteed to be designed in a way that goes against my best interests.

Yeah, I’m a straight married bearded husky white guy who has taken up carpentry as a hobby, and I have no interest in being part of that industry. I have a relative who is a trumper plumber and the culture fits him perfectly, lol.

Super Mario Bros (NES) to Mario 64: 11 years.

It was pretty wild growing up while Moore’s Law was full steam ahead.

I can think of 3 different PCs I built and overclocked during college. Now, my everyday use computer is 8 years old and it’s still pretty dang good.

She’s not my type either, but I always thought she was super attractive.

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