You originally *posted* a whataboutism, and now you have the gall to complain about whataboutisms. Frigging hypocrite.

Actually had this conversation recently.

ios has pluggable keyboards. Why not have pluggable AI?

You know what they say: "Windows is only free if your time has no value".

Oops, I forgot. Windows isn't even free.

Every library/tool writer:

ChatGPT, write concise useful documentation for this tool/library.

Writing any docs (good or bad) used to take time. Writing any docs no longer really does. And if it's not already good at it, it'll probably continue to get better.

You'd have a point if Microsoft didn't already have a long history using semiannual updates to silently turn on features that users had disabled or were previously opt-in.

I don't know how many times I've had to go back and re-hide that goddamned Cortana circle, for example.

What is the lead time between a book being popular and it being made into a movie?

With a 5 year copyright, no author would ever be paid for their book becoming a movie. A year for it to be clear it's popular. A year to think about making a movie. 3 years to make the movie. It comes out 5 years and a day after publication and doesn't owe the author a cent.

And all the other edges for things that get rolled into other things.

That doesn't work for me. Does it really work for you?

So 5 years is too short.

5 years is too little. 95 years is too much. There is a happier medium.

But I'm excited that *anything* is making its way. I honestly did not think anything was going to age into the public domain in my lifetime. I'm hopeful that the fact the world does not end when these things go public domain may mean we might even get a shorter term some day.

Did I say he was a scientist?

Did he say that he is a scientist?

Are any of the clowns currently dictating of climate policy in this country scientists?

No, you fucking moron.

Those taxes should have been used to enforce building codes that say you don't build houses in a flood zone.

"But we didn't know sea levels were going to rise!!!"

Bullshit. Al Gore warned you about this 25 years ago. Edward Teller warned you about this almost 70 years ago.

Those of us who were smart enough to *not* buy a house that was built a few inches above sea level get to foot the bill.

You've just repeated the same fallacy.

The logical fallacy you are making is called "False choice".

I already said that in my original post.

Just what the fuck do you think I don't know?

Let me make this simple for you: Microsoft refuses to install Windows 11 the laptop. Support for Windows 10 is ended. I already told you I'm not jumping through stupid hoops to extend support for a mere 10 more months.

There may be shady workarounds for all of those known to MS MVPs, but this thread was supposed to be about the average Joe who allegedly can't figure out how to attach a printer to a Linux box.

So mount new radars on the most distant wind turbines. Then they'll get an even earlier warning on the incoming Belgian drones.