I have. A few actually. It was on a music channel where the creator used AI to make imagery for her original music. It was tastefully done and clearly labeled as AI-generated imagery over original human-made music. It was also very easy to tell that it was AI generated.

Spanish, not French. In French, it would be "vive", not "viva". Unless that was part of the joke.

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

Brand recognition is a double-edged sword. I am less likely to consider a brand/product for purchase the more ads I see for it.

I've avoided all Ubisoft games after the DRM on one of them nearly broke my PC about 10-12 years ago.
Of course I don't assume that my drop missing in their ocean made any difference at all, but maybe I'm not the only one.

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

Yes; I did not say that it's impossible, only that it's very difficult. And then they never did it again, because it was easier to do with the conventional isotopes such as Pu239 and U235.
In all isotope chains there are candidates for use as fissile bomb material, but some are just not worth the effort to use.

The U233 produced in thorium reactors is mixed with U232, which is very difficult to separate and highly radioactive, which poses great obstacles to using it for bomb making purposes.

Try Pulsar instead for playing music. It does not behave like that and I find it more lightweight and with a better UI than VLC for this purpose. I still use VLC for video.

I played with svt-av1/ffmpeg about a year ago and my conclusions were about the same as yours or worse. Depending on the source material, the space/bandwidth savings were between about 15% and -10% (yes, 10% larger than the source material) while power consumption and CPU utilization was much larger that software h264/265

The main problem with perchlorates in dust isn't that they're oxidizers. They are directly poisonous to humans, they shut down the thyroid gland which regulates metabolism. Breathing martian dust = breathing poison.

BTW I run Arch.

They were right, at least in my case.
Very happy with Arch. :)