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Comment Re:LMFAO! (Score 2) 109

If it's a hallucinogenic program then what's the copyright infringement?

The training set is itself presumably typically infringing whether the output is or not.

I personally don't think the output is infringing, but there is a plausible legal argument to be made that it is if the output is similar enough to copyrighted input.

Comment Re:Wrong tool for the job anyway (Score 2) 10

I used to get pretty much all the cheap humble bundles unless I was completely uninterested in them, so I have a moderately sizable steam library, so I know there's plenty of games on steam which would run fine on a chromebook. They are all either old or indie (even vaguely modern versions of Bejeweled will cause the fans to spin up on your GPU at higher resolutions) but there's tons of games which would work fine.

Which then brings us to... there's way more than 99 of them. Probably most of them are visual novel type "games" by now, but those games wouldn't suffer at all for running on a very limited PC. Was someone (google or valve I guess) preventing those games from being used for fear some kid might see hentai on a google device or what?

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 59

The last time I had hands on, the video was monochrome and the mouse had one button. For me, even Windows 3.0 seemed miles more intuitive. Plus it had DOS underneath it, and I was quite comfortable with that.

That most likely was MacOS 6, unless it was an even older version. Few people installed 7 on B&W macintoshes, most software at the time would run on either or even ran better on 6 due to the lower resource use. I was familiar with other operating systems and found it to be the least impressive, but once you got used to it, it was pretty usable. My mother was an old school physical pasteup graphic artist, and she got a IIci and Pagemaker and was able to use the system with very little help from me. It came with System 6, and was upgraded to 7. Later I ran netbsd on it.

Comment Re:If it becomes too big it might be bad (Score 1) 59

Not really. I have been running Debian for about 25 years now and I never had systemd on it except a few time as an intermediate step during installation. Debian has had a page explaining how to stay with sysIV init for ages. I used that before Devuan became stable.

Yes, because I also did that, I know that it was a pain in the ass. Making the switch was easy enough, but then you had to fiddle with literally dozens of other things to make them work right because Debian didn't include enough of the other packages' config files etc to make them work properly with sysvinit.

What are the issues you identify with the Gentoo installation process?

I didn't commit to memory exactly where the process broke down, as it wasn't worth remembering.

Comment Re:Great hardware. Close to zero support. (Score 1) 24

Metal cases, fingerprint scanner on power button exactly where your thumb falls, nice performance, very good cameras and photo apps. Brilliant, fast, accurate GPS. But they are not even supported through two Android versions. They claim support for 2 versions and then don't do it,

Agreed. I had SEMC Xperia Play, came with gingerbread. They promised ICS and then never delivered. They did release a beta but it broke controller support (Xperia Play had a slide-out controller and came with a playstation game running in an emulator, and you could buy a few more titles.) The community got the controller working in ICS, but unreliably.

I learned my lesson in just one step and never bought another Sony device of any kind again, not even a receiver, those lying fucks. Byeeeee!

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 59

If that's the case, then I've never used an OS that doesn't have "something fundamentally wrong" with it.

Never used MacOS 6? You really didn't need a book for that. If you needed help with a reinstall or something you could call or visit your Apple store and they would tell you how to go about it, although the process was so simple that almost nobody should need help unless they didn't know the meaning of the word "Install" since all you had to do was boot from that disk and then follow the prompts.

With that said, MacOS 6 hardly did anything, so no surprise there.

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