The ”AI democratizes art” argument is always a disingenuous one. Art is already the most democratic form of human expression available. There's zero barrier of entry to just express yourself in any of the myriad ways humans have invented, music, drawing, painting, dancing, it's quintessential to humanity. There's no need to democratize something that is already, by definition, universal.

Depends on the country the computer is being sold in. Microsoft has different pricing structures per country and the OEM selling the computer pays down the line based on sales numbers. That's the main way MS Windows makes money. The price of Windows has always been part of the computer's price. It's a tiny minority of users who pay directly to MS for a windows license. Even businesses prefer the computer to come preinstalled with the OS.

No, you don't get a cheaper computer if windows is cheaper in your country, final numbers are decided at the accounting level, not the point of sale. But, if they don't have to pay MS anything, they can offer a cheaper laptop for you, the end user.

I gotta give it to US exceptionalism. Most countries take years or decades to construct the required web of madness that sustains autocracies and dictators in power. Trump managed to speed run authoritarianism in just couple of months.

What's that weird write out on their webpage? It reads like a super cringy AI generated Instagram ad.

Real hasta la muerte, is actually a phrase popular amongst reggaeton fans. It was popularized by Wisin and Yandel in the musical genre. It became a cultural definition of the attitude towards life of being always real, as in not fake. Not a poser, genuine legitimate, not pretending to be someone you're not. It was an attitude reactionary against the intrusiveness of north american record companies trying to comodify Puerto Rican music and artists. It also marks a social statement against rich white or privileged hispanic descendants who attempt to pose as members of a culture they don't belong to. And also pride about their Latin culture, as they don't need to pretend to be American or change their art to sell more and appease the anglo market either.

A more appropriate translation is "I'll be true to myself until I die".

It became a Puerto Rican music label, and is also the name of a popular album by reggaeton artist, Anuel. It has nothing to do with crime gangs. But it's also not about football. Hispanic fans rarely use "hasta la muerte" to express support, we have plenty of other more idiomatic expressions.

Samsung has had 7 (5 of updates and 2 security support) years support por flagships and 5 years (4 updates, 1 security) for the A series for over 5 years now. They've had their hiccups with updates, but so have all phone manufacturers.

Bazzite has never broke for me. One of the advantages of atomic immutable distros is that there's no rush to push a new image. Either the whole image is updated when it already works, or it doesn't get shipped. None of the issues of pushing a single package update without testing that later turns out to be incompatible with a different package update.

OpenSUSE is awesome, they're undergoing a restructuring and rebranding right now. Which means that promotion of use and updates could be slow or even pause. They were asked to return to the community for a new governance model. They should emerge the other side with a different name and branding, as SUSE asked them to stop using the name. It's a transition time for the distro.

Except, it isn't glitter. It's more like puking on a turd.

He managed to make it even uglier.

Find pictures and share, please. I want to gaze at the monstrousity and laugh with schadenfreude.

I remember before the plague it became fashionable to talk about "having your personal advisory board". It was just a friend group for socially stunted MBAs.

Have you ever heard of SAP? Salesforce? UI quality and UX workflows have never been the deciding factor for choosing a piece of software in a corpo setting. It's money and whose friend is pocketing it. That's all that CFO make decisions on. Windows became a standard because Microsoft literally paid schools to buy computers with it, in exchange all schools had to do was let them conduct their indoctrination workshop, disguised as a "how to use a computer" course. But of course they exclusively talked about Windows.

Whatever you do. Don't dualboot. It gives a wrong impression of what Linux is, and complexity is not inherently a part of it. Try Mint as a live USB OS first. That means the OS runs from a USB thumb drive. This will allow you to dip your toes before you dive in. Just like dipping toes, it's a no-compromise way of testing, but if you choose to install you already have 90% of what you need.

They were too busy signing checks to his campaign to get him elected.

It already knows which words are, statistically, more commonly rhymed with each other. From the massive list of training poems. This is what the massive data sets are for. One of the interesting things is that it's not predicting backwards, exactly. It's actually mathematically converging on the response text to the prompt, all the words at the same time.

Someone definitely thought this was stupid then decided not to bring it up. First because they likely were not allowed into the room were it was decided and b, they figured any push back would have them fired and they need the job.

Why not having an archive of exclusively warranties? Emails can be downloaded, indexed and compressed. I agree on keeping archives of old stuff. But emails used as cloud drives are a huge problem for IT and security reasons. A legal folder is better and facilitates backup, encryption and much more accessibility.

When was the last time you had to find a 20 year old email? Share your anecdotes.

Edit: I'm not being snarky, there are legitimate and more functional solutions.

Please archive shit. It's OK to save old data, but not on the service. There are ways. Even banks, the most obsessive and legally strapped data hoarders keep their 5+ year old data in deep cold storage, away from the active services. 99.9^% of information that old won't be looked at by anyone.