What the OP is really asking for is to switch from using Windows as his kernel+/desktop to using Linux but still be able to use the same kinds of apps that they are comfortable with. This is not a criminal offense; CLI is not for everyone. Vi (pick any fork/family) is nothing like the experience of using notepad++. Nor should it be!

But if your gut response is "learn VI or Emacs" what you are really saying is "stay on Windows, n00b". At some point in the past that would have been the right solution for "n00bs", and many of the rest of us. Sadly Microsoft has been hell bent on fucking Windows up so bad. The Linux Desktop* is actually far nicer than what MS ships; apparently what's keeping it from being the year of Linux on the desktop isn't the desktop but the apps, now.

* yes there are tons of options, so there isn't just one, but in fact many choices that are nicer than Win11's awful design + execution.

yes. However the results are almost always brain dead. it's far better to make your own continuation prompt.

And besides I've had to deal with compaction in sonnet 4.5, too. So, fake news all the way down, I think.

Still, sonnet is pretty good at a lot of tasks.

Or, just pee in some dirt.

Nobody will be able to deny the quality difference then. Especially if they see how much more expensive the flaked gold version is.

oh man, I didn't consider why bananas were chosen for this test until your comment. Brilliant.

the moderation system worked ok where there were more users, and it felt like more of an "honor" to be awarded it, even if it was random. Now there's barely anybody doing it, so yeah, I agree, just let everybody vote. Not sure that making it public will be an improvement, but given the incredibly low stakes, maybe no harm.

I'm sure that would be nice for her, now that her husband has passed away.

wow, slashdot really is just about dead if 2 hours late I can be "first post" (remember that!?).

Sad. And here I was hoping to see the regular linux/windows flame wars and maybe even a discussion of how usable wine is these days.

No need to speculate on the future, It's already quite good if you are willing to pay a tiny bit, and tons better than we have grown to expect from the text to speech built into our OS or phones.

I suspect the number one unintended consequence of this is to encourage AI from the start for almost all characters, so that there is no pesky contract issues like this.

But also, real actors in video games? Is that even a thing, today? (Other than for voice over, where gen-ai is fast approaching equal quality).

Gosh, remember when things of import actually happened in the tech world and not just graphical redesigns?

I used to "work" 8-10 hour days but tried an experiment of 4 hours, but really 4 hours, at max output. As far as I could tell I was equally productive under both regimes. I made the experiment permanent.

If you think you need 60 hours a week from your employees, maybe what you really need is 1.5x the number of employees.

The ribbon was never disable-able from the very start, presumably because they knew everybody would fight change. Myself perhaps to the extreme.

outlook 2003 is starting to be non-usable, however outlook 2007 does still work with most pop/imap servers, and didn't get the fresh coat of ribbon that the rest of the suite did. Yes, I'm currently using it.