Copyright works like you said, because of Disney mostly. Patents last max 20 years from filing, by law. Unless the US patent law is a total shitshow compared to the rest of the world.

I don’t particularly like the direction that Nintendo has taken in recent years, but are you willing to ignore that they were the only company in the market for handheld gaming until very recently? It’s not just game exclusives.

I stopped expecting good book adaptations post LOTR. I have lost count how many of my favorite series have been ruined by Hollywood.

It’s the blue milk. That stuff rots your brain.

But the crash is the moment where the people with actual tech knowledge will have leverage to say them: “pay me 10 times my standard rate or get bent”

With a nice stereo system? There is also specialized hardware that can play and digitize any kind of retro media (cassettes, vinyl, disks)

Basically it’s an interface between your favourite LLM and a bunch of bots that can access your files, calendars, emails and so on.

What, have you never seen a man clone his dead wife into a half-angel, half-teenager?

(Yeah, weird stuff happens in NGE)

They are the most profitable company tech company per employee, of any tech company.

They are also known for not hiring in excess, which leads to company bloat and massive layoffs years down the road?

Meanwhile places like EA are a bastion of virtue?

Unless you are locked in by hardware or some very specific software, you can make a very compelling case on how much your company can save on MS licenses every year.

That’s the origin story of The Matrix. Only, we don’t have real AI but glorified chatbots.

They presented to you a reasonable use case (assisted learning) and your response was “lol, you’re just lazy. Do it on your own. I did it, so can you”.

I am in a similar position, networking is Martian to me and if I search guides on how to do stuff, it’s full of people that go “just use X to do a reverse proxy”, as if I have 200h of experience under my belt. I’d rather have a chatbot explain to me like I am 5 in some cases.

I have been a bit cautious because of the merge with Canva, but Affinity v3 works under Linux. There is a non-official project for helping with installation

https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

It is supposed to work with v2 also, but I couldn’t test it because the distro I use is not compatible (yet)

Software outside of gaming usually has native alternatives, so unless you are forced by your employer to use a specific program it is less of an issue (since you are probably also forced to use Windows)

Yes, it was the base tier in the episode (not free). You’ll forgive me, it’s been a some time since I watched it.

It’s not a 1:1 comparison, but you’ll admit that the resemblance is uncanny.

Literally that Black Mirror episode, where the woman has a brain implant to cure a brain trauma, and they put ads in her speech because she is on the free subscription tier.

I also found this project that tries to restore the old start menu and explorer:

https://openshellmenu.com/

Wouldn’t want to upset corporate overlords.

I was thinking of the Pillar Men.