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Comment Re:Lol. I've already switched to Linux. (Score 3, Interesting) 68

Still hung up on a good alternative to Publisher

If it makes you feel any better, whether you're on Windows or Linux, you need to be looking for an alternative to Publisher... it's been deprecated and has an EOL about a year out. You can, of course, continue to run it, but I can't imagine running any MS software that doesn't get security updates anymore, especially one that's an Office component.

Comment Re:Oh....it's about... (Score 2) 47

What's soccer? Is that where you put socks on cars? We're talking about a sport played with a ball and feet. The fact you weirdos confuse it with handegg is your own problem.

There are at least half a dozen different games called "football," none of which are the One True Football(TM). Soccer is a shortening of Association Football (itself named to differentiate it from Rugby Football which was codified earlier), and was, in fact, used as slang shortly after the codification of Assocation Football around 150 years ago.

You can identify the condescending assholes that already know that because they use terms like "handegg" to feign ignorance of this when they demand you stop using a word that's been in use for a century and a half in favor of their preferred terminology.

Comment Re:Time to change the payment model. (Score 4, Insightful) 86

Instead, content producers should GET paid per web request. And the payor should be the person making the web request. ISPs would just skim off the top.

The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

Comment Re:Unless you own the company (Score 1) 48

Your job is not your life.

Agreed completely.

Your job is just a means to earn income to support your life.

Still with you.

Being "engaged" in your job means sacrificing part of your life for free to benefit the owners of the company.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

Comment Re:Because people work 12 hours a day (Score 2) 89

However, if you are in that shitty position, you should not own a dog.

My wife and I figured that out during covid. We were both "essential" employees and by the time we took care of work and our two children, we had no time for anything else. Our dogs were living shitty lives and it killed us to do it but we rehomed them. I was upset about it but after it was done, I was even more upset that we hadn't done it sooner... because we let them live those shitty lives while we kept on keeping on trying to figure things out.

Comment Re:Technology NOT AI (Score 3, Informative) 88

There is no sudden increase due to AI. There is a clear increase due to increased use of electronic equipment. Bitcoin, electric cars, etc. all contributed just as much as AI.

This is just plain incorrect.

The freaking summary points out that "Tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon plan to spend $80 billion, $85 billion, and $100 billion respectively this year on AI infrastructure." That's a quarter trillion dollars worth of infrastructure (that has not a thing to do with bitcoin or EVs) which is going to require a shit ton of power.

On a more personal and anecdotal note, I work for a company that serves the power industry and one of our customers (a gas turbine manufacturer) will be increasing their capacity by more than 3x over the next five years--this is not speculative, they have already taken the orders, their capacity is booked through the end of the decade, and the reason is the datacenter boom. Most of our other customers are dealing with similar growth and their stated reasoning is the same.

Comment Re:Use a burner when travelling (Score 1) 40

Mess with them: place triggering content on it like Tank Man, Taiwan-is-real-China meme, and Satanic Pooh Bear.

When they spot it just say, "It's a burner phone I bought on the street, I didn't put that on."

However, they'll still probably hold or harass you for a few days.

They won't hold or harass you. They'll simply say "Entry denied. Your flight home is at 2:00. Have a nice day." and your expensive vacation or business trip is now ended. Congratulations on the self-own.

Comment Re:500 word blurb without "losing money royalties" (Score 1) 215

Notice the number of re-masters coming out recently and how songs you play on streaming services from the 80s and 90s from big artists don't sound how you remember them? That's because the artists re-record them due to the copyright coming to an end making minor changes from the original so they can refresh the copyright to that song and continue to make royalties from it.

This is... utterly untrue.

Reperforming the song is not going to change the end date of the copyright of the work by a single day. The copyright term was fixed when it was created (if a corporate work) or when the author dies (typically 70 years from that date) for anything for the last half century or so.

As an example: Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury who died in 1991. The copyright is going to expire in 2061 and no amount of re-recording will change that.

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