This already exists to some extent. We have Kids YouTube with "Pre School", "Younger", and "Older" content categories. The filters are pretty easy to get around, though. My daughter didn't have a lot of problems finding reuploads of things like uncensored music videos without parental settings on them.

I'm pretty sure that you can also block ads on Kids YouTube if you have a family Premium subscription, too.

You just conflated desktop environments with a specific application. Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.

Linux does not have a raster image program on par with Photoshop, but that is probably why you do not see any graphic designers using Linux. It is easy to take shots at GIMP because this community developed program cannot match up, feature for feature, with a multi-billion dollar Photoshop. But there are a great number of community led projects that blow their proprietary counterparts out of the water.

Cat videos? Nah. Sora was all about bringing dead actors back to life in dumb 10 second skit comedies.

I'll bet that they generated about 20 TB of just Wilford Brimley memes, he was like the patron saint of that service.

The joke is on you, the Cisco routers are also mostly made in China so they likely have backdoors for both countries!

With the exception of the proprietary routers that come with a Starlink dish, I can't think of a single major router manufacturer with a US manufacturing presence.

Not to sound rude, but I'm not sure that Leonid Radvinsky counts as a celebrity. Sure, he built a popular website, but up until today I had no who idea who he was. He's not exactly up there in terms of name recognition with a action movie GOAT like Chuck Norris, anyway.

Most billionaires like Bezos didn't get insanely wealthy by investing their own money into their businesses. They did it by getting other wealthy suckers... er... "qualified investors" to risk their money on their expansion gambles.

Sure, he's investing his own money into Blue Origin, but that's probably more like a hobby to him at this point.

I think that Microsoft saw the lines of people at the Apple Store picking up MacBook Neo's and realized that they're going to continue to lose customers in droves if don't fix Windows 11 ASAP. People are getting tired of their computers being used as billboards for selling XBox Live, Office, Onedrive, and CoPilot.

I'm pretty sure it was all his idea, including the smug marketing-driven leadership. Sounds like he had exactly the team he wanted working on this thing.

I love how we can't get reasonably priced video cards from NVidia right now, but now can get processors for AI data centers... in space. We're still at least 5 years away from launch costs being low enough for such a thing to be even practical, let alone profitable.

The law does not differentiate, which is why he has gone to great lengths to maintain his anonymity.

It's weird that you seem to think that, in order to be an act of rebellion, something must be legal. You also imply that a thing cannot be two things.

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, he committed a crime, an act of rebellion, and a murder.

Personally, if Banksy tagged my house, I would be so fucking happy. I could sell my house for a shitload if it had an original Banksy on the side. That would be like getting mad if you went on vacation and someone broke into your home, didn't steal any of your stuff, but completely remodeled everything so it was way better than before. Sure, they committed a crime, but it would be weird to complain about it.

You could have made the distinction between immersive games and casual games without the weird 'no true Scotsman' fallacy.

Yes, "gamer" traditionally refers to someone who plays a bunch of console or PC games, but you still sound ridiculous getting on your high horse about it as if gaming is some sort of noble pursuit.

The OP was wrong and pedantic. You're just pedantic. I roll my eyes at both of you.

I don't know if I'd want to invest in the Adobe Photoshop "monopoly" right now. Most people just have AI edit their photos now.

Sure, a talented human can do a better job, but for a dumb social media meme or a lame marketing portal picture.... who really cares? Just take a stock photo and change the background color to match your corporate approved color palette.

I understand the logic, though. The big tech companies want to get people hooked on cheap and easy AI, in the hopes that they get hooked on it and will pay for subscriptions once the free tier plans get neutered.

What they seem to be missing is that running an AI model locally is also becoming cheap and easy. Installing OpenClaw is basically as easy as copying and pasting an install command into a command line window and entering an API key. I'm sure that we'll soon have GUI installers that make that even easier soon.

Yeah... memory and storage prices are going through the roof right now.

The higher prices do not seem to be impacting the large PC manufacturers as much, though. Amusingly, you can get an entire Macbook Neo with the education discount ($499) than the price of 32 GB high speed DDR5 memory kit ($550-$600).