When I bought a Windows license years ago, it was to setup a Steam machine. After the Win 10 EOL, I tried installing Linux to see how it does with Steam nowadays. My thinking is I would play what I could on Linux, and swap to Win 10 as necessary to play other games, even if I don't have all the security updates.

So far, I haven't found a game that doesn't work on Linux.

Good luck with this strategy of security bricking old devices.

If you don't pay, you just don't get the updates.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en...

Indeed. And it is not only Windows. Office is slowly getting worse and wastes more and more user time. Azure got hacked several times and has crass vulnerabilities only explainable by extreme incompetence.

Same hardware, same software on three systems that ran win10 before. No problems with Win10. Now I observe system, driver, gui and application crashes that never happened before. I get notification tones that I cannot identify or turn off. Things are harder to find. Log-in screen pictures vanish. Some things got slower. And other crap.

Win11 is a pretty seriously worse product than Win10. Fortunately, all my critical systems are Linux, but Microsoft is obviously going downhill.

A Japanese game developer has started making recruits draw in front of them because they had so many people sending in fake AI slop and a few slipped through.

the funny thing, I could see AI being a game changer for Manga. A lot of Manga is simple brute force work adding shading and the like that could be better done in software. Though I don't think you need AI for that, good software could do it.

But a lot of it's still done the old fashioned way, which is a shame because several of my favorite manga ended because the author was so overworked they almost killed themselves...

Then again the publishers could just not take all the money for themselves, that works too. Japan needs more worker protections, but they just elected Trump in a dress so that ain't happening.

but if you kill the dog it's just $100 bucks. Unless it's some kind of special dog.

If the dog lives I think you're right, they might be able to sue google in small claims court to recover damages and would probably win. Though it can be hard to collect on judgements like that.

as it stands Waymo won't even be held responsible for that. Those sorts of penalties are waived for self driving cars in the cities they operate.

They have to be because they commit traffic infractions so often that the cops would be pulling them over and ticketing them constantly.

Rules for thee but not for me.

Google has been doing AI since long before people thought AI meant LLM. It would be a major surprise if they don't come out as a top player.

Man, I need to lay off The Untouchables after midnight.

Also the mushrooms you were eating before the late night film session.

Syria says "Hi".

 

We're the United States. The world's most powerful country. Outside of Russia and China, all countries are "small".

And Russia and China... they have nukes. Attacking them means WWIII. If you think this is a good idea, by all means, run for President on your End Humanity platform.

Trying to deflect isn't going to change history.

The reason putin was able to start all these wars is the foreign policy of the Republican/Tea/Trump party that provided him with the money to do so.

Even if replacing it with a free alternative is possible, there's still the issue of testing that everything still works. Imagine a nice laid out document of some sort where time and effort has been made so that content breaks across pages nicely, captions fit appropriately, etc. such that it's a pleasing document to read. Now change the font and see if that document is still of the same quality. It may still be readable, but subtle shifts and changes will make some aspects of it worse.

A UI might be badly broken if text flows off screen or becomes obscured by some other component. All of that needs to be tested in order to make sure it doesn't cause problems or to fix those problems where they occur. The man hours required to do that will quickly wind up costing as much or more as the higher fees.

What will happen is that existing users will fork over the extra money while moving away from those fonts going forward. Replacement solutions will spring up to fill the gap.

Unleashed dog runs into street and get hit: not the driver's fault.

Driver completely ignores that and fails to stop: very much the driver's fault.

So yeah Waymo weren't the only problem here but they definitely a problem.

You wish. Try harder. Well, you probably cannot.

He's picking on small countries because politically he needs little, bloodless and victorious wars, and these tend to happen only when the opponents cannot defend themselves.

Against a formidable opponent putin will fold and run every time.

He ran from Ukraine in 2022, he ran from Turkey in Syria after 2015, he "pacified" the rebellious Chechens by buying them off.