You speak of him as if he had no agency.
There is something unsettling about how that keeps happening. When nothing is our fault, can even the accomplishments be claimed?
If this guy was elevated above others unfairly, consider that he may have played along knowingly, faking it till he made it. He is not a victim of the dredded white liberal, but of his own ethical failings.
And thatâ(TM)s only if the allegations are true.
I work with people who cannot touch-type. They hunt and peck. Some donâ(TM)t even understand file systems. Perpetuating that inability by restricting computer access for students is sure to encourage AI dependency later on.
That said, what students need to learn doesnâ(TM)t always require Internet access. Teach them file systems, basic troubleshooting, typing, word processing, and spreadsheets. Then have an internet class with special attention given to security threats and scams.
Outside of that, yeah, no computer. Issue stock basic TI 83 Plus calculators and teach students to write notes in shorthand.
I imagine we're conserving our energy.
People know what to do in November, and then after.
And at any point MS can just turn it back on during an update.
That won't be a real problem for you though, since your personal files probably aren't stored on C. I bet most users here put everything on a second drive (or partition) and leave the first to Windows and software. They also use File History or a high-quality third-party backup program and check on it semi-regularly. They also don't use Edge, nor have much interest in what's on the Microsoft store. They also have a unique password for their Microsoft account, since not doing that would invite trouble anyway. They also remembered to keep their 48digit recovery key in a safe place just in case.
The affected are everyone else, but the real danger to their data is themselves, not Microsoft. If anything, Windows (cloud) Backup behaving the way it does is a net positive. It won't capture everything. It'll need to be upgraded once full. And yeah, it's annoyingly on by default... but that is annoying to *us*, not them.
They love each other... almost too much... some might need therapy. But if you don't listen to them, you're silencing them. They don't like being silenced, so they're not satisfied running their own thing if it isn't popular.
It's ebbed and flowed since then, but you're basically right. In the '90s we had welfare work reform, don't ask don't tell, NAFTA/free trade, bipartisan fear of Satanism, and no legitimate talk about decriminalizing drugs. Everyone went to church, atheists were controversial, and you could still ruin your career in Hollywood by coming out.
It's understandable that people aren't super interested in returning to that, even if might mean winning back the South or keeping the Rust Belt. Still, you have to meet people where they are... and if you don't, something else - maybe something worse - will.
In the short term. I had the same answer over ten years ago. In the long term it could work out as profitable... but you can't know that for sure.
I don't like to gamble... so I don't.
The modding community was different. I won't say better - artists risk cheapening their work when they do it for free/cheap after all - but you wouldn't have had trouble finding an artist. Game engine communities were like that too. I can't speak to what it's like now though.
Just from an audience perspective, if something unexpectedly good comes out of it, I'm going to want to find the original work it's based on. The style isn't in the seed. It's not always explicitly stated in the prompt. The prompt is not always shared. AI's do not reliably reverse engineer prompts. Users are gamblers, and so too are the viewers. You never know what you're going to get, and you're never completely sure that you can repeat it.
You can not win the game, and you are not allowed to stop playing. -- The Third Law Of Thermodynamics
