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I like that they hold the updates back. Manjaro is as reliable as any other desktop Linux I've used.

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No.

Whenever a company addresses a something like this, like insisting a thing that is rumoured to be happening isn't happening, it is almost certainly happening.

I love, lamp.

TIHI. I love science but stuff like this is creepy AF, and unethical. It's torture in the name of science.

I do believe you but I've only used Nvidia cards for over 20 years with Linux. Idk where all these difficulties people have with Nvidia on Linux come from. Every issue I've ever had with a GPU was from a hardware failure. Maybe something is busted.

Idk how old your mother is but my dad is 80 (I'm 53) and he doesn't understand windowing at all. I always thought it strange he has never figured it out. Even phone UIs baffle him. Older generations inability to grasp the concepts behind computer interfaces seems so strange to me. I wonder if a command line interface would make more sense. I know that sounds crazy, but using bash, for example, is more straightforward, in a way. You can list what folder you're in, execute commands without any images or windows or other distractions. Mainly, it's memorisation, as opposed to the more abstract concepts behind desktop interfaces. Sorry, I'm rambling now lol.

They actually said that? I'm not even going to bother watching that nonsense.

I love the smiling chameleon (I always thought of it as a female chameleon named "Susie", this is before I learned the actual pronunciation), I hope they don't replace it with some lame reblanding.

It would be a signal that MS is throwing in the towel as far as Windows as a separate OS. However, I suspect they already have some kind of Windows compatibility layer of their own that they've been working on. It would probably have some sort of limited source availability, as opposed to a full open source FOSS licence. If that is the case, it could actually undermine WINE. If MS could save face somehow and fully embrace Linux, they might do it, but I doubt it will happen. Who knows.

with some of the money making its way back into society as a whole.

I'd laugh, but it hurts too much.

Barely adequate, or even incompetent, is perfectly fine as long as they can make money. I'm not even sure a major AI fuckup would stop the adoption of these technologies, especially because they show no sign of slowing down development. Mechanical Turks have limitations. Sure, now they are cheaper, but as soon as a barely functional (but still functional) "AI" comes along that is cheaper to use, you can wave goodbye to the digital sweatshops.

Did The Economist ever have a grasp on reality?

That's not just a problem in academia. If you can't make connections in any social or professional environment, you're fucked.

Now you're just being a jerk.

Having experimented with AI heavily for the last couple of years, I will concede, it has some serious limitations. And people largely use it to make the artistic equivalent of cheese puffs, tasty but mostly full of fluff and unsatisfying. But it can also produce some very weird and cool things, if you learn to either accept, or work around its limitations. But as with any art, you have to understand the tool isn't the art. Anyway, ultimately it's the viewer that decides if art is important. That goes for AI imagery as well.

That really depends on who you're asking. I don't like the word "disruptive", it's loaded and way overused, even beyond its connotations concerning art. Art historians and critics inflate their contributions to culture and actual historical impact. Impressionism (this is aside from its actual impact, I'm not saying it isn't) is considered important, partially because self-appointed experts said it was so. That goes for any art movement. It's all very synthetic and self-fulling. As you can see, I have a rather low opinion of art historians and critics.

I wasn't saying Dada was surrealist, I was comparing them and being dismissive of the surrealist manifesto. It's pretentious and tied to Freudian baloney.

Who said I wasn't insulting all post-modernism? You can call that infantile, I don't care. I'm far past critique and anyway, I'm a nobody with an incomplete art history education. Dismiss me if you wish. But note, I won't say post-modernism isn't art. It's just largely trash art. I maintain Dada was the first and last word on what post-modernism continues to do, just without any of the self-awareness. They took the joke seriously.