Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
The one point against this is when you need a workstation laptop, because workstation laptops are WAY more expensive - especially the "workstation GPUs*. I know professionals who get gaming laptops all the time because it's cheaper, believe it or not. Like one of the lower tier Lenovo gaming laptops, say a $800 laptop? If you wanted a "pure workstation" laptop, that'd run you about $2300-ish. Anything with "military grade motherboard" or something like that.
Macs are excluded because Pro line is already expansive AF.
To further facilitate mental decease in society..? Then yes. But why would you want to do that?
14 bucks.. to make content for them and them also have to watch ads... why?
I shall remember for the next conversation someone thinks anti-abortion is a good thing.. I mean besides underground abortion parlors, the fostering of poverty, using it as a political tool against opposition and to persecute people for other reasons than abortion, which won't apply to the rich because they can always fly mistresses to some permissive western country and have a painfree vacation at the same time.
Seems policies are carved out by idiots worldwide.
I was being facetious.
Besides, BRICS is probably going to default to Yuans. Like would you pay in Brazilian pesos, Russian Rubles or Indian whatever the heck that currency/economy is?
I don't believe they'll conclude that dealing with 5 or more currencies at the same time as being effective, especially when said currencies come from dumpsterfire economies.
I can also tell you that they will not be going for the EURO, and with all the debt to China... where does that lead them?
Trade cannot stop. That was the point of SWIFT and that is the point of BRICS.
But now I'm being presumptuous, which one is want to do on the internet.
SWIFT will have to be broken up, where one becomes a European only with the EURO as it's trading currency.
I'd wish we could decentralise it even further, but that's going to defeat the purpose, isn't it?
I used to think SWIFT was just a transaction system, but we can see how economy on a global level is truly all about political power - ideals be damned.
The liberal dream truly is dead. Long live economic feudalism.
It's also very good for Xi Jinpeng. The central kingdom shall rise again.
Yeah? The republicans always do this. They hold the budget hostage to get what they want. No doubt there's a line of Russian oligarchs ready to line republican pockets with special interests money.
Because historically speaking republicans LOOOOOVE to feed their military industrial complex with money. In this case, there money goes directly to politicians, so it basically shows once more that the pubs can be bought.
Why is it antiquated when we live in a world where you need to pay rent? And why pay for work when you can just digitally copy the work?
What you say makes no sense. Like it could take you two decades to culminate a piece or body of work, just to have that taken away in one fell swoop. What incentive does one then have to work in arts and entrainment?
Forget independent artists, because they will fade away into the Woodworks as everything of artistic merit will suddenly be purely product - and that is not how the greatest works or body of works have been created, despite what some upper management types might tell you.
Now if you also then advocate for basic income or perhaps even some way to monetize non-copywrited work so I could pay rent... then I'm all ears.
But there's also the sneaking suspission that most people just wanna farm AI art and sell it off at the expense of independent artists, like the stupidly commodified property market makes more renters than buyers, and that is a degenerate world driven by egoism we could clean up quite nicely with some well placed nukes.. let the lizards take a stab at becoming higher reasoning beings instead.
Also, public domain has no requirement to contribute back. For that we have MIT and BSD license, supposed "copyright" licenses, whereas GNU is copy-left - because it demands contribution back... which is also why Microsoft, Google and Apple hate the GPL... but yeah, public domain is also awesome - and the scope that AI farmers should stick to.
Cost cutting from the west based off warfare experience in places that are dirt poor? Say it ain't so!
A desperate corporation that can't innovate anymore throwing things at the wall to see what sticks?
But yeah, I'm no lawyer. I have no idea how to legally solve this problem, but I suspect that eventually no law can solve the problem, once the works become so good at distinguishing itself, dropping the price so low that doing the real work manually becomes a non starter, or a hobby more or less.
Humans were meant to work with their hands and minds :( now it's all keyboards and screens. I tried to get away from that, but they all just keep pulling me back in!
We're being enslaved by our computers :(
Unfortunately, that is true - and also what everyone ignores because AI got them pumped for a bright future of working less, not knowing that people who spent the passed decade or so honing their craft can just throw all that in the trash.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Everyone has to use AI now =\ wether you like it or not... or come up with a format that just messes with AI and let's humans understand it due to some flaw in our senses that the AI can't make out... though that seems very unlikely.
Maybe a new anti-AI codec of some sort that prevents AI from interpreting audio, images or video... but that would be a stopgap solution, as it would almost certainly be circumvented.. unless the codec comes with a new strict license that promises to sue the ever loving crap out of tech companies who facilitate travel, distribution and recreation of works in said codecs.
Can't put the genie back in the bottle, I guess =\ seems the only real protected forms is modern art, because nobody understands that anyways ^^;
I'm thinking the problem of AI has to be solved by AI, that those decades need to be replaced with AI training - like you said, having it generally available.
But that too leaves an outlier, people who don't want to work with AI. Their only option is to never digitally publish and make all their work bounce light so that cameras can't capture it. It'd be physical DRM in a sense.
I don't really want to work with AI, because it takes away the process I love, but in the end we're sort of forced to do so =\ It's like the Industria and digital revolution all over again. Some people (like me) will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
All of that is true, but I mentioned all that - especially the predatory contracts. Now the general public seems to be missing the gist of copyright as well, probably since the likes of Disney has gamed copyright law.
But why should all that affect independent artists, who barely make enough as it is? With generative AI basing it's learning models, not on classical works or anything in the public domain, but directly off modern artist works, who spent maybe a decade or two of honing skills, finding stylistic angles and breathing new life into old formats, only for someone to swallow it all up, make a few tweaks, with a small payment given to some data centres? =\
How does that make sense?
Yeah, but it's also a Windows exclusive - so it's just usable on the Windows platform, but it's a package managed for windows! winget install gimp.GIMP installs gimp, no browser necessary =)
Check the link though. Microsoft might pull a sneaky in the future. "All Winget packages will be bundled with telemetry for security" or something like that.
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a bit more your speed.You also didn't get the gist =) Because you didn't want to. Ah well. Better luck next time.
Actually, I hid all that in the goop - but it went passed ya because you didn't want to read with your minds eye. You also weren't showing any sympathy, but false sympathy, because you just wanted to dismiss the person and not their concern. This is called an "as hominem". You argue the person rather than the points, and they did substantially tell you that it's a matter of being able to be paid for your labours.
A little hint: copyright is there to protect creators from over reach, which should be fairly obvious. Both mass consolidation of intellectual property and fuzzing of copyright through AI is also abuse of the very founding principles of copyright.
But sometimes people just want to dismiss, it becomes easier if someone is upset, cus then your can take the high road about stuff and people will be happy with it...
Ok, byyyyye~ _
Which is dumb. We want adoption, because there's no other way that software will be portrs to Linux. I'm all for a libre base operating system, but I REALLY want some commercial software to be officially supported under Linux.
That Bitwig is supported under Linux is a godsend for beatmakers and producers, but I want Ableton Live on Linux :( and also Affinity Designer. Inkscape is nice, and so is Krita, but there is no serious desktop publishing apps on Linux that focuses on usability AND productivity.
The more users there are though, the bigger the chance is...
So don't listen to those bastard's. A bunch of self-defeatists. May I suggest Vanilla 2.0 when it's finished? :) Then you can try to run some of that software using Wine Bottles...
...which doesn't work for Affinity Designer :(