If a purchase of a digital product looks like a sale, it is a sale,
Its how most of the western world sees it, and with natural-lifetime warranties for fitness of purpose, Its highly likely that they legally are supposed to refund purchases of these older products if they render them unfit for purpose.
The US are special snowflakes however and seem to have a different way of doing things however. But don't be suriprised of the europeans or australians get diabolical on microsofts ass if they try and impose this in the EU or Australia.
Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.
Obv not going to be great for folks who use the more powerful features of office. But I *believe* they are free.
And yeah Libreoffice is reasonably functional too, even if it does feel a little arcane at times.
How the fuck is it really going to know which meetings I want in my diary and which I don’t, which ones need an email to check with a colleague first before sending over, and which do not? I reckon people who use this will find their diaries stuffed silly with meetings that they did not need to attend, but will be too busy to start cancelling. It just seems totally misconceived to me as a concept. And what other tasks can it actually do? Book my travel? I’ll bet it will get that wrong, too, because the information I use to make decisions about which flights and which hotels I want is not written in any work documents. The tacit assumption in all of this is that enough of one’s inner life is exposed via one’s work documentation to enable automation of tasks, and that many tasks are mundane and also low-stakes. I think all of that is deeply questionable
Dunkelflaute is a problem but it’s not such a big problem, in that we can focus on dealing with the 90%+ of the problem that is not dunkelflaute storage, and keep the gas peakers just for that. It’s a more than big enough challenge for the next several years.
Hey, at least he's just "asking", for now anyway, and not whatever belligerence he usually displays.
So the first thing that jumps out at me is - in what sense is this an executive order? He's asking for voluntary compliance. There's no more weight behind this than there is one of his Truth Social posts.
But, in any case, I assume he is "asking" because one of his underlings pointed out that he can't actually force companies to comply with it, and he doesn't want yet another EO overturned by the courts.
Musk has no wife that I know of. Only contractual sperm recipients? Or maybe he's converted to one of those religions with the sister wives? But if you tried to film a Bond movie with the villain based on Musk, no one would believe it.
Why the FP brain fart? Or am I just reflecting too much.
I actually started using GitHub for a new project, but without the Copilot seasoning... Which somehow led me to these rants of the day?
So how do y'all feel about Microsoft's new Copilot websearches? It seems to me that the successes are minor and forgettable while many of the failures are spectacular far beyond merely being wrong. The better to sell more advertising? I wonder if some AI can explain to me how this makes economic sense as the stock markets tumble to new highs, TACO and NACHO notwithstanding. I'd websearch the google, but that has become even more ridiculous. And my last short question to DeepSeek apparently drove it insane?
Meanwhile, the people who appear most influential in today's world appear to be divided between a league of Bond villains and a gaggle of pompous puppets, with the biggest and most orange puppet playing with nuclear weapons... Not seeing a path to human survival in this mess.
So I should go for a joke? Something about no wife, but several contractural sperm recipients? Or how about the Bond villain who has sent his own family to Argentina to protect them from the mess he's making in the country where his money and influence comes from? These are the (negative) resolutions of the Fermi Paradox we have all been looking for? (With the usual spirited apology to the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi?)
"Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine"
Actual autopilots require constant oversight, whether you're on a yacht looking or for shipping containers, or in a plane watching for mountains. That's why it's a good name for Tesla's Almost Self Driving misfeature. On that basis it's actually sort of a good name for this, in that so will these AI agents, though they won't be getting it.
If they wanted to give an air of confidence, though, they would have named it more cleverly than this, and without using a name already in common use for a semi related product.
I suggest general operating LLM enterprise management, or GOLEM
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That's why we sign long-term supply agreements when we choose a hardware design.
That's great for you, but irrelevant to users buying laptops, which is the topic at hand.
Long term, there won't be many working on leading edge who deal with the USA government...
Have you seen Trumps plan to destroy research in the USA yet?
Trump has no idea whatâ(TM)s going on.
Yeah, but that's the normal state of affairs, you don't need to point it out.
Iâ(TM)m also curious how this could be considered âoeconservativeâ. Donâ(TM)t they hate the government meddling in their affairs?
BUT MUH NATIONAL SECURITY! OF COURSE TRUMP SHUD DO WHUTEVER HE WANTS FOR THAT!
It's not about whether I think they feel cheap. It's about whether sufficient numbers of consumers do, particularly head to head vs the Neo.
You will lose an important disk file.
