Well, if I were the Blender people I'd happily take the money. I'd think of it as hastening, ever so slightly, the bursting of the AI bubble. Maybe Anthropic will go under five seconds faster because of this.

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Quoting: EWGGreat. Help me rename, tag, and sort all of my photos and other images.

Same with text files and other documents. Fix my Markdown mistakes. Convert MD to basic HTML to post on forums. Provide a TOC from headers on longer articles I've written.

Help me manage my workspaces and windows. Prompt me with sensible window rules automatically and nudge me to be organized. Take a look into which Librewolf profile I'm using and ensure it stays in the proper Activity.

There are simple, useful usecases for more advanced, personalized computer help tools.

Some of that is stuff I wouldn't do, and the rest sounds absolutely horrible. I do not want some idiot AI deciding how stuff gets named and sorted.

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Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well.

I bet you can also run it on electricity. I mean, some people can't get coal.

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More stuff Mint will have to rip out. Soon it might be time for them to look at making the Debian base the default.

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Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: kuhpunktPrice leaked via an early review: $99

Damn. I was hoping for closer to 70.

Wait for a Steam sale, I guess. 😃

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Quoting: ranger671I'm not sure why everyone is excited about the latest Ubuntu. The updated kernel has some very nice features, but the replacement of many of the basic utilities with RUST compiled versions leaves me very concerned. Heck, they couldn't even include the entirety of the suite of utilities that they wanted to replace due to security failures which have cropped up. They to want to recompile/recreate everything in GNU/Linux with RUST. I only ask you to wonder why? The fervor with which they seem to be moving and the control they are exerting on the direction of the GNU/Linux seems extreme. Most of the basic utilities (cp, rm, mv, df, du, ln, ....etc) have been in and working for years. They've been corrected and vetted repeatedly and are as stable as can even be possible, so, again, why replace them with new code written from scratch. The only benefit, I see, is to the corporations like Canonical and Red Hat, and that is to remove the GPL. I am an old IT fart and was around in the early days as I started in IT in 1985. GNU/Linux has become what it is due to the GPL being the way it is. By removing the need for the GPL, I can see a future where Linux will not be a truly free operating system. That corporations will come in and try to direct/mandate things and then eventually charge for aspects or even all of the OS. It will start with this change. Opening the door for copyrighted work to exist inside the core of the OS and an alternate licensing scenario that allows them to start charging. I encourage you to question everything. We've gotten to this point by keeping most of the development as projects of passion, but look at all the current developers which are actually employed by these corporations. They want to make money (what business doesn't), but the question is will it still be Linux? Will it still be a bastion of freedom to code what you want, to implement what you want moving forward, if we stand by and allow business needs and corporate greed to move Linux in the this direction?

What's the license on the RUST ones?

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: BrandonGiesing

Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

I mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.

I get your point, see this is more of an FYI:

Microsoft in the 90s were at their absolute worst. I grew up with this stuff too, of course, but once you learn the damage they caused it's hard to look back at it with love.

Multics (predecessor to unix) in the 60s had shared objects (dlls), filesystem permissions, multiple users, multiple processes etc, everything that is "modern" in windows. DOS in the 80s had nothing. Remember the viruses? Vista 35+ years after multics was the first windows to actually support multiple users.

They set back operating systems by decades. Maybe if Gates had actually stayed in school and took an OS course...

Gates taking OS courses might not have helped much--it's not as if Gates wrote DOS. With the big contract with IBM in hand, faced with the need to deliver a DOS, he bought one called QDOS (I believe for "Quick and Dirty OS"), not telling the guy what it was for. The guy who wrote it got peanuts, Gates got the millions, and that was the start of Bill Gates as the first of the modern tech oligarchs.

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Quoting: neolithI am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆

. . . Go play Vampire Survivors again?

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I see a lot of people here who are very sure they're right. In my opinion this is a very complex issue, and if you're sure you're right you're either a massive expert on the subject, or you are failing to realize that you don't understand it, or both. I mean, I have very strong opinions on quite a few subjects around political economy, and am pretty sure I understand them well enough to support those opinions.

But this stuff . . . it's too tangled for me. There's this intersection of a bunch of principles, the major problem that although some regulation is certainly desirable the people responsible for creating it, both the public and private ones, cannot be trusted, and on top of that very complex technical problems which can result in lots of unintended consequences for any attempted solutions. And yet, doing nothing is also a choice which also has consequences, such as having our digital environments controlled by a bunch of Peter Thiels and Elon Musks. I don't know what the answer is on this stuff, and I seriously lack confidence in anyone claiming they do know.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GerarderloperI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

Could be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?

One would hope that only happens in Nietzsche applications.

You know, the Jung people aren't going to understand these jokes.

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