I have them on my keyboard. I use them in documents and email.
mykeyboard.xkb:
key {
        symbols[Group1]= [ minus, underscore, endash, emdash ],

My X11 initialization script does:
xkbcomp ~/mykeyboard.xkb :0.0

I'm not saying it's easy, not even doable, but we're reducing the problem from 1 paperclip to orient itself and shoot signal 25 ly from Earth, to a paperclips orienting itself and shooting signal to 0.3 AU from each other (17 min at a average speed 0.15 c). Presumably they see signal from more than one forward paperclip (since they're not that far apart), so we're not in a single-point-of-failure situation. They only need enough energy to relay each other a number of times for the measurements, but not continuously over 80 years.
Then the challenge (as noted by Retired Chemist) is to keep funding to shine laser beams continuously for 80 years (and we need the black hole to be constantly visible from a place with constant clear sky e.g. from the Atacama).

The laser is only needed for the initial launch of 17 minutes. We could be shipping a relatively inexpensive paperclip spacecraft every day and they will relay each other using little energy.

I think this argument is the least of the problems. We're still listening to the Voyager 1/2 after 47 years. After the paperclip mission reaches 50 years, every year gets it closer to the final destination and it will be reminded on whatever communication medium exists. Whoever paid for the 1 trillion euro laser is going to set reminders.

One hundred years is a lot, but still reasonable. Some people born a decade or two after the launch will know about it and be well alive when it gets close to the black hole. They will also tell their kids and grand-children constantly, like we do with the wars from the past.

Our society does follow up for very long time. Ninety-nine year leases are a thing. We're still looking to arrest surviving WWII nazis (here the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). Some particular steam locomotives have been used for 100 years. The Millau Viaduct (tallest bridge in the world, built 2004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) came with a warranty of 120 years.

Since W95 they had a menu thing that worked ok.

What's the connection? 1) No consumer at all will be in contact with Linus. Consumers don't even know he exists. 2) How is your rationale consistent with the fact that linux is the dominant OS in many professional applications?

The word offensive was a euphemism. It's not about what you (or a judge) "finds" offensive such as a "yo mamma" joke you didn't find funny. There are thresholds and threats of a mass shooting is clearly beyond.

Now of course I don't support the surveillance and jailing a 13 year old but don't pretend this was about a joke. When read literally, these were serious words. Apparently the context enables to understand that the words were not to be taken seriously, and that's the duty of a child psychiatrist to find out. So at least that part of the response was necessary.

The very idea of this distro is that it uses very little resources. Typical distros spend their efforts in packaging. KDE Linux only manages an infrastructure, the distro works on its own with packages and bug reports managed upstream.

Talking about 16 generations. Those people if they build a stable society won't have more connection to any planet other than old legend that there used to be a world beyond the spacecraft. They'll be native "spacecraftians", they'll just keep living there. Until their resources are exhausted, that is.

I personally don't believe the travel is possible with so few people. To support advanced machinery, one needs a population in the several millions and huge mining resources. Otherwise no steel mills, no concrete, no microchips. Also no engineers, medical doctors, university professors without a large enough population to pick the best.

The particular problem of telling recipes for dangerous things is not hard to solve, OpenAI needs to make a list of censored words and grep them out of the training dataset. They can leave some domains uncensored e.g. Wikipedia so the model knows the thing exists, but can't tell more specific details than what Wikipedia already says.

It was essentially a factoid. You argued China is seen as the next world leader since the 90s, I mention that this had been speculated by one clever person in the 70s. The premise was that China only needed technology, which in the meantime they acquired, explaining why our discussion is happening right now.

Regarding your new arguments, in my view as a simple person, "high trust" is a vowed priority of the Chinese government. China does exactly what it says it wants to do (in the matters relevant to countries outside of China), our leaders worldwide know it. (They just don't like it because they're becoming richer and more powerful than us, but that's another matter.) In this sense they're of trust. It is hardly surprising as reliability and stability have been the selling point of authoritarian regimes in the past century.

The idea that the population and resources of China will make it a world leader as soon as it reaches enough technology, is the main thesis of the essay "When China awakes, the world will tremble" (Alain Peyrefitte, 1973). Though it sold 800k copies in the original French, this particular essay was apparently not translated. [His later work The Immobile Empire (1989), more critic against China, was read in numerous countries.]

Maybe it's still too recent. The 10 IV has LineageOS https://xdaforums.com/f/sony-x... and EvoX https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-un..., and the older Xperia X has LineageOS, eXistenZ, OminROM, Ubuntu Touch several ROM https://xdaforums.com/f/sony-x... I just had a quick look, there's probably more.

Another wild guess is the AI enabled them to open new languages so their product suddenly became interesting to a whole new set of people.

They already did not sell them in your area for some years, that's why you didn't know. Xperias have the advantage of being an open platform, with Sony providing official support and software tools for installing other OSes https://developer.sony.com/ope...