Indeed, that's why I ditched MacOS and Ubuntu. No, I don't want iCloud, no I don't want LibreOffice, stop bothering me with mandatory blocking updates, and I can decide for myself how secure my system or password scheme is, I don't need some OSS advocate from Iowa to decide that for me.

You must be working for Google - that feature doesn't actually work. Then number of times I disabled that feature is almost equal to the number of times i reject a site to send notifications. "Would you like clickbait.com to send you desktop notification? You can later disable that". The person who originally implemented that feature should be subjcted to a struggle session on global TV.

oops, I was too fast, found them. first distro that worked for me out of the box on my Zenbook A14, nice.

Where is the Arm64 support? It's easier to install Linux on a Macbook than on a modern arm64 Windows laptop. Canonical expects us to stick with x86 until the year of Linux Desktop arrives.

Creepiness isn't a crime, and neither is filming or recording in public spaces where privacy isn't expected. Assuming someone’s guilty just for seeming 'creepy' is outdated reasoning.

So they don't censor model output, they censor training data.

I could not disagree more. The ones who did nothing are the parents, leaving their kid with an experimental chatbot while it needed actual human attention and love. The parents are just pointing fingers to deflect the blame, but should be sued for gross negligence.

Meanwhile, management is pledging that "AI will only make us more productive, don't worry about your job!"

A search popularity index is just vanity. It signals which languages require the most web searches instead of being productive out of the box. Instead, languages should be weighted by user exposure; which languages dominate the software people use daily. I'd say ECMAscript/Typescript at #1, Java/Kotlin at #2, C/C++ at #3, then Swift/ObjC, then trailed by C#, PHP, SQL, and then a whole lot of nothing.

Not sure which desktop PC store is worse, Apple's or Microsoft's. I can't believe developers pay either to host their software in those graveyards. Search doesn't work, most products are scammy copies, reviews and ratings are doctored, and there is no guarantee any app will actually work as advertised.

Of the1.5 billion active Windows users, apparently 250 million visit the store once a month. Although, most get there by accidentally clicking the store icon on their taskbar once a month and are too lazy to remove that icon.

Gold's minimum price will always be the cost to mine it. Can't do that with Bitcoin as iit has no intrinsic value, only speculation.

You can call anyone a dickhead if you do it in the right setting and use some redirection. saying things like "that is a bit of a dickhead move", "people might call you a dickhead if you do that", or even more directly "pardon my language, mind if i call you a dickhead for that?", or my favorite "we used to have a coworker who would have shouted `dickhead!` at you for that" won't remotely get you fired.

Sure, but my subscription contract doesn't specify that you have location services enabled. Or that you should watch from your home only, your kids can't have sleepovers, you can't watch on vacation, at work, or anywhere they don't approve of, before labelling you as a pirate or a cheapskate.

The recent changes to streaming subscriptions - ads, crackdown on "sharing", shows that are either absurdly woke, or plain vulgar, cemented it: no more streaming subscriptions. I will pirate everything from now on, just like we did 25 years ago.

You don't seem to understand the copyright system and fair use. It was set up to give creators a temporary monopoly to reward their work while ensuring that, after a reasonable time, society gains free access to those works. Fair use allows limited uses like commentary, criticism, or analysis (such as breaking down a song’s structure) even before copyright expires.