"You know, being a successful visual FX producer often times is someone who knows how to cheat... and also to spend the least amount of money." (Richard Edlund)

It's still possible to install Windows 11 with a local account and bypassing some hardware requirements using Rufus (first thing you should do after buying a computer with a preinstalled version of Windows 11: wipe it and replace it with a version from MS), or to switch from a remote account to a local account after the classic installation. Moreoever, for a few bucks, you can buy a licence for Office 2024 or so from a licence broker, which runs on your computer, not in the cloud. But yes, this is not a solution for Mr or Ms everybody...

Nintendo is the adult in the room here, and can't be blamed for trying to find a solution. Moreover, it sounds like a pretty good one.

...you get what you paid for

..."If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Kind of a stop condition.

This gave the computer illiterate the opportunity to learn what a cookie is. Moreover the CNIL is not stupid: it enforces broader privacy laws.

Before he turned...weird, Bryan Lunduke gave a funny talk at Linux Fest Northwest 2018, and spoke about Arkansas.

What happened to Godwin's law?

...with some Bender Bending Rodríguez pushing the button.

I agree. I test it on a quite long article I wrote about LLM and security, and the generated podcast was very impressive, including remarks I would have been happy to hear from readers.

...on the darkness of this firm.

There's an interesting interview of Simon Willison on TWIML. The guys really likes to use those tools. Quote: "I call it my weird intern, because it really does feel like you got this intern who is screamingly fast, and they read all the documentations on everything, and they massively are overconfident, and they make mistakes and they don’t realize them" but... "they never get tired and they never get upset, so you can basically keep on pushing them."

A darwinian attack...

...we shall hope