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You don't need AI to create a fake person. Scammers have been doing that for decades, or stealing people's identity. Even a video can be made with an actor.

I had to look it up because I thought it was about "making boom and shoot".

Also it's a bit weird because I don't know any boomer who played a shooter. Actually I don't think I know any boomer who played video games, others than mobile word games.

The only people I know who played shooters in the 90's were Gen X kids like me.

Anyway, I guess I'm a grumpy old man now but it's a bit annoying that "boomer" has become synonym with "old people" and "millennial" with young people, while Gen X are close to retirement and millennials are clearly no longer young.

Really? What's left of the Internet beyond the web?

How many people use Usenet today, rather than forums or social media on the web?

How many people use IRC, rather than Slack? (Either on the web or in a Chromium-backed desktop app)

How many people use an email client, rather than webmail?

Because content owners don't need cable providers to stream over the internet.

HBO doesn't need Comcast for streaming, they can (and do) stream themselves with HBO Go.

I agree with him, and it baffles me that people this day still go out of their way to play Smash Bros on Switch with a GameCube controller instead of the superior Switch Pro Controller.

I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find keyboards with a different icon that the ugly copilot, and then you can map it to whatever you want.

The Windows key turning into "super" and getting some use on Linux was just Linux DE finding a use for that key nobody asked for.

I guess we'll have to find a use for that new key on Linux, and Linux laptop vendors will end up with some alternative symbol for it...

Of course everyone knows how to drive an automatic, there is nothing to learn if you already know how to drive a manual. You just push the pedal and the car moves.

You can still buy a cheap basic keyboard, or a decent Logitech at a reasonable price. You can totally ignore the "niche custom keyboard" market. Most people don't even know it exists.

What's annoying is that laptop will now come with that stupid key.

Some countries don't have roundabouts

It uses the Linux kernel but the user space is so different that is has nothing in common with a regular Linux distribution.

Also it strongly depends on Google proprietary apps (and Play Store, Play Services...).

Yes you can have a de-Googled Android, but it's still very different from a typical Linux install.

Nice, at this pace we'll reach 50% in less than 50 years!

He did ask them to make the rocket pointy so it looks like the rocket in Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator".

And they complied.

This is still a problem when there is not enough charging spots for peak days.

In France most people go to summer vacation at the same time, and on those days when all the charging spots are taken and you have to wait 20 minutes for one of the owner to finish his break it's a real problem. (Also you're one of 10 cars waiting!)

You can, it's up to the software vendor to make it simple.

Most of the software are FOSS and can be installed directly from your package manager. That works like the iOS app store/Android Play Store except it existed 10 years before mobile stores.

Google Chrome is an example of proprietary software (so not in distributions repos) that is as easy to install on Linux than Windows. Because Google managed to get a deb that will also update your repos.

Bottom line, most of the time it's way easier to install software on Linux than Windows (as easy as on iOS) but occasionally it's slightly more complex.

People are not equal with sleep.

Some people don't need as much sleep as others.

It says a lot about that "journalist" knowledge of the topic

Also it is very annoying when people say "I wish X was usable but it's not".

That's dismissing something while at the same time posing as a supporter of the product you're dismissing... Pretty much closing yourself to any response.