This only happens in Russia!?

This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard from you.

Same. Didn't first get whiff that DOS 4.01 was a shitty one until sometime in the 90s. Also remember PC mags going out of their way to defend the removal of the dosshell when dos6 came out. Sure it wasn't the greatest but it had a menu for your programs and a file manager.

We were able to run Windows 3.0, lots of games, and wordperfect just fine before I learned enough to deal with memory issues so it couldn't have been too bad especially since our vendor had smartdrive and a mouse driver installed by default and we did everything from dosshell at the time.

Obviously there was some problem because they had to release .01 but i suspect they fixed it and DOS 4 was never able to live it down.

DRDOS supported multitasking in some versions, yes actual real multitasking where threads ran in the background.
I believe DOS 4 supported task switching through dosshell but maybe that was a dosshell 5 feature. I don't think many people used it.

Lol you're misremembering the ram there old timer.
Maybe a 64mb hard drive or 640kb of ram.

I dont want AI bullshit shoved down my throat

That makes sense. It's talking about just the chatbot, which was trained on plain text.

Image and video generators are the ones with petabyte grade training sets.

Should've been Florida man.

Onion went politically correct about five years ago and all but died as a result. "Safe edgy" competes with mainstream, and that just doesn't work for Onion's niche.

If you still want anglo edgy counterculture predicting future insanity, Babylon Bee is probably the closest thing you'll get to Onion from over a decade ago. But it has all the weird hang ups of US Christians, since it's a Christian site. So not quite the same thing.

Literally everything else. Bing is meh but works. Yandex post split into the Dutch company for the West and Russian for the East has been better than google on the Western side. Even Ecosia doesn't suck all that bad any more.

It's much worse than that. Google's main strategy has somewhat recently become to look into your search (including all the data they have on you), see what ad they can pitch to you based on that search and deliver that instead of a search result.

And for a while you used to be able to just go to page 3 or so and still find that search result you wanted. Nowadays, they don't even let you see the "billions of results" they quote. They just give you a few pages of mostly pitching things to you, and that's that.

I find it hilarious how accurate my description of your behaviour was. Yup, accusations of looking into primary sources over spin doctors being a "conspiracy theory" immediately follow.

For a moment, you made me entertain trying to get you to also state that this is a threat to our democracy. That's usually the next mantra in your cult after the conspiracy theory one. But honestly, I just can't be bothered. If looking into primary sources is "suspect" and "a conspiracy theory", so be it. It's not like I'm going to convince a man of faith over the internet that his God is not real.

I have no specialist skills to reverse engineer the specific knowledge of software that he used from a sound clip. That would require extreme level of knowledge in field of generative audio models and comprehensive data analysis.

I'm not sure how that's relevant which specific generative model he used either. There are quite a few that are open to all.

This is my point. You don't care about what happened. If you did, you'd go to readily available primary sources.

Instead you decided to attack me for referencing primary sources, because spin doctors you're comfortable with didn't mention them. Essentially, your attack on me is an act of maintenance of your ideological bubble against the reality that is more than willing to stare you in the face. It just takes one search on the subject and going on from there.

But you're telling me, straight up with full honesty that you won't do that, because that is something that is associated with primordial horror and death for you. It's a reaction of a cultist sensing something that might damage his faith.

You can take the horse to the water. You can't make it drink. One look at the man's social media accounts and then listening to the AI generated speech will tell you exactly how BLM features into it. It's literally one search away. From where you'll probably quickly run into the local far left militant cells perpetrator successfully mobilized appealing to black lives mattering to attack the white principal.

But you won't do it. Because "ghosts", the feature of a primordial death and destruction awaits should you do that.

There was a massive increase in demand for cloud services as well, because of all of the "masses working from home" novelty. So there would be a lot of demand for enterprise as well.

I suspect this is more of it being a long lead product. Or the story is just generally inaccurate on everything, since it also seems to imply that entire chatGPT training data set could fit on two hard drives, and yet that is somehow causing a shortage of hard drives.