I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
That’s great to hear. I’ve had mixed results with migrating Windows editions in the past, and I believe it’s still an officially unrecommended process due to hiccups that can occur during, and difficulties in diagnosing issues afterwards (can be a bit of a frankenstein as far as libraries WinSXS content, system logs, etc).
I love Linux and use it myself, but not everyone is ready to move.
For them, an extended Windows 10 EOL is a nice bridge to give them some more time to plan a main OS install (backup all their data, test replacement apps, etc) as OP said. It’s not about knowledge or capabilities it’s about options, time and many people waiting until they can afford a new PC build to move to linux.
Came to say this, I’ll add that its is a completely safe and free option.
Benefits over official methods:
Its FOSS so the entire script can be downloaded and read before you run it if you feel uncomfortable fetching some random script from the web and running it via terminal, as I did.
If your competitor can put out a model that functions really similarly to yours for $2 less per month, and your entire userbase can just leave and move to them… explain to me why investors would want to pump hundreds of billions into your business to be ‘first to market’? That’s a really dumb thing to admit for Anthropic.
Who is ‘first to 100 million users’ is utterly irrelevant under a business model where your sole value is Intellectual Property (IP) and that IP can be “illicitly extracted” by a clever competitor without ever hacking into your nextwork or doing anything explicitly illegal.
I’ve had to explain this to a lot of people who seem to think Anthropic/OpenAI are incredibly valuable companies because “they’ll make money long-term so long as they keep being pumped full of it investment cash to be the first to earn a big userbase”, but that just doesn’t make sense. OpenAI owns no datacenters…zero. Theyre 100% IP. Anthropic “is building” some datacenters, but they exist on paper only so far, so they’re also presently 100% IP.
Can this obvious scam just collapse already so I can upgrade my PC without a personal loan?
Ultimately AI is an unaffordable industry. It’ll crash in time, and there’ll hopefully be a whole lot of price drops on ram, graphics, etc. People will not want to stop playing games. The industry has had crashes before and always bounced back bigger than ever.
It will be bad for whoever’s economy is most dependent on it though… And any businesses really heavily invested in it. Won’t it, Microsoft.
And raise the general smoke level by 100% every time prescribed burns are being performed in various localities, all through the cooler months…
If a publisher cannot be legally compelled to provide access to a product you legally purchased, it stands to reason that people will decide legal purchase holds little value.
To the high seas, me hearties.
The elephant in the room is that if Antarctica’s ice cover entirely melts, ocean levels worldwide will rise by about 60m.
Scientists don’t currently believe this will happen anytime soon, predicting between 60cm and 1m by the year 2100, but they also keep saying things like:
[this heat in Antarctica is] "absolutely crazy”.
“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly".
Suggestions for where they should move the unused signage to?
“The Donald Trump and”…
The point about ‘educating users’ being dumb is itself incredibly stupid, because the largest element of hacking is social engineering: the letter from a nigerian prince, the zip file from an attractive person with ‘my hot photos enclosed’, to today’s calls from government impersonators (tax agency, immigration), and emergency requests from close known contacts that ‘urgently need money wired to them’.
Education has gone a long way to improving user response and caution against default trust of unverified contact, which is essentially what the first two points complain about from a technical aspect (default allow). Those complaints are at odds with one-another.
Lol, Lmao even.
But also… Meta has always favoured and elevated right wing shit, because it drives rage and ‘engagement’. This is who they’ve always been - including while he was there.
If only this only impacted them.
The flow on effects of a major market crash are never isolated to just the stupid assholes building the bubble.
Get ready for GFC #2.
This one will be a lot worse than the sub-prime mortgage crisis, as AI investment has left many major banks, index funds, and most of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world heavily exposed, and the world governments are already at historic levels of debt - meaning a bail-out even if desired by those in power, may not be possible as it was in 2008.
Just more subterfuge dressed up as genuine concern - always to drive the investor hype machine for fear there is no more money for investment.
Gosh… Who enabled this I wonder. What major informers of voters was a key proponent of ‘actually Trump is probably a better choice than Biden’.
Fuck… if only we had the capability to search the past for answers.
Nobody would have ever suspected those two of being tattoo artists while incognito
Oh right, I didn’t know they had a web version I only saw the local edition. Glad to be corrected.
I mean… I get that a lot of people choose military jobs because they are poor or have limited options, and her response in context is really tone deaf.
But there’s surely a lot of enlistees that choose for very stupid reasons. The US armed services in post-911 were frothing at the mouth to get over to the middle east and exact some vengeance. Bush Jr still holds the highest approval rating of any president since tracking began in 1945.
Did i say they needed it?
This may surprise you, but to your average person (or even your technical person who is time-poor for whatever reason), moving to a new OS is a frustrating or time consuming process, so they delay the move until they get (or build) a new PC.
Your average person stays on the same OS for the lifetime of the computer.