So will they be scanning the printed books to produce pdf files, or whatever input formats the AI bots need? Sounds like loads of work that would keep people busy

Those companies will flip on a dime. In the past, they'd own the GOP, but knew how to bribe the relevant people on the Dem side. However, since the last 10 years, when MAGA turned on them, making it clear that the GOP can no longer be taken for granted, their new strategy is tactical - compete for the patronage of whoever's in power

Larry was a Clinton guy in the 1990s. He became a Trump guy since 2016

Good question. So now we have to either buy phones based on our cars, if not cars based on our phones? I loved my ex 2014 Subaru Crosstrek, except that the Navigation Unit recognized iPods, and thereby iPhones, but it couldn't recognize either CarPlay nor Android Auto

NEXTSTEP was more of a custom project built for a unique opportunity, and then improvised. Later, when NEXT cubes turned out to be unaffordable by the market for what they offered, OpenStep was spawned out of them, while NEXTSTEP itself was ported to PA-RISC and Sparc. It's a pity that HP and Sun didn't run w/ those, at least for their workstations: they'd probably have done a lot better than the NEXT cubes

On Chromebooks, you can access other Android apps as well. I was thinking about something even more limited - where you only have a web browser and nothing else. So the only storage it will have is whatever is needed for the OS & browser, but no local or offline files

There is a whole bunch of shows, particularly from the 90s, that one can't find anywhere else - not on Netflix, not on Amazon Prime, not on Peacock... If one wants them, one can only get them on Apple TV

Aside from everything Apple, there are products like JuniperOS, OpenSense, pFsense, OpenNAS (although that is now migrating to Linux),...

It's also used by Netflix, Microsoft Azure, WhatsApp, and some others I forget

Yes, it is. The term "free" simply means that you are free to use it. What you are thinking about is "copyleft", where you are given a freedom but told to transmit that through anything you create downstream. The argument from the OSI people is that if you are forced to do something in order to use it, it's no longer free, is it?

It's a reason that many projects use the BSD license and even BSD distros instead of Linux. And within Linux itself, it's a reason that many of the userland parts are being re-written in Rust, to replace the GPL 3.0 parts of the userland completely

I would think it's mainly something w/ either a BSD or a BSD-compatible license. Something not as restrictive as GPL

From what I knew, Bash was the only GPL software in FreeBSD. So I just wonder - what is it now?

Only thing I want to know - how much coding would I need to know to have Claude maintain an OS for me? I'm looking at one of the abandoned BSDs out there, not at starting any from scratch. Although I might try things like GUIX on a BSD rather than a Linux, and so on

I wonder - does one need to get the paid version of an AI - be it Claude or anything else, or will the free version do it? I'd like to see PC-BSD resurrected, particularly the PBI installation system. Too bad their people went to OpenNAS, and that project has completely moved to Linux from BSD

If one is buying an Android, a 64GB storage phone is adequate, since one anyway gets only 15GB of free Google storage. On the storage front, just get that, and then check whether it has the other features one needs, be it NFC, camera resolutions, WiFi version,.... what else is there?

If one is buying an iPhone, it's harder to justify, since it comes only w/ 5GB, which is probably just the backup of your iPhone

That Apple died in the 2000s, when System 9.2 was retired, and the new OS-X based systems were no longer modular, where one could easily swap cards and do all sorts of upgrades and sidegrades. Now, it's almost a one-size-fits-all from Apple, where they own an entire ecosystem - computers, phones, tablets, watches,...

I happen to have one of each - a Mac M1, an iPhone SE3, an iPad Mini 4, an Apple Watch 3 and an iPod Nano (w/ a screen). I may buy a newer iPad at some point, but not planning to buy any of the other devices

Just like they used to sell X terminals back in the day, maybe now create a new type of computer that runs only one application - the web browser (be it Chrome or Edge or Safari or Brave - maybe different companies can create computers to run each different browser). Then sell that to people, who will then log into their Google or Outlook or iCloud or whatever other account, and just run things there

No owning real computers anymore, just these "appliance" devices