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I think it’s Rinoa from FF8 which released earlier in 1999.

Regarding the idea of IP theft, I think it’s more complicated.

Let’s say you buy a book, learn from it, and use that knowledge to your benefit. We don’t think of this as stealing, even though you didn’t buy the knowledge, you only bought the text.

If you borrow a book, likewise the knowledge is yours, not just while you’ve borrowed the book. Even if you pirate or steal the book (please don’t), the knowledge is still yours regardless.

So I don’t think there should be an issue of an AI learning freely from content.

However, I would agree that when it reproduces a work without attribution that it becomes a problem. The problem that we as a society have even when AI is not involved is defining where that line is. Because there are cases where some kinds of reproduction are ok (parody, homage, etc.). We as a society do not have clear rules for these things because it is hard to define those rules. That’s our problem, not a problem with AI. Using AI just makes it too easy for someone to cross that line and therefore I find it risky to use it for the production of that kind of material.

But I do not think it’s an issue for me to ask the AI how to do some unusual thing in the terminal or to refactor a part of my code to work a little differently. There is no harm in asking it to create a GUI version of the cli program that I made.

As for putting people out of jobs, we may be at an inflection point in our productivity curve. Historically, these have caused short term job loss but ultimately lead to improvements generally once we’ve had time to adjust once people learn how to leverage these tools effectively. Likely, it will create more jobs in new areas.

Humans will always use more resources, especially energy. Until the last few decades the source of thst energy wasn’t concerning. Now it is and we need to find more ways to produce more energy cleanly. Arguing for less energy use is never going to work. We will always use more energy.

AI is a tool, just like a hammer. You could use a rock, but that doesn’t give you the leverage that a hammer does.

AI is also a machine, it can get you to your destination faster, like a car or train.

Evil people have used hammers, cars, and trains to do evil and horrible things. These things can also be used for useless stupid things, like advertising.

But they can also be used for good, like an ambulance or to transport food. They also make us more efficient and can be used to save resources and effort. It depends on who uses it and how they use it.

You can’t control how other people may misuse these things, but you can control how much you know, how you use it, and what you use it for.

They are a private company, so they don’t have to disclose that.

This is revenue not profit. They need to pay their operating costs with these funds. Their operating costs are probably pretty high considering their global network and distribution. Hiring more people would likely have a minimal impact on their operating costs and each new person may not contribute much to their revenue considering their business model.

I recently got a think pad from the prior generation, so like 2-3 years old. It’s been good for most things, but I’m not trying to play the latest graphics heavy game on it either.

This is multiple articles mushed together. I suggest separating into articles that each have a specific purpose and message. The windows/Microsoft discussion can be on, the intro to Linux another (the burger shop stuff), the distros another, and lastly the installation stuff.

That said, having switched to Linux about a year ago for exactly the reasons you mentioned, I would not have found this article useful. There are many other resources that cover each of these topics in more helpful and friendly ways. This article is both too broad and lacking depth where needed. It sounds a little bit like your personal journal and a narrative of your path. It may be helpful for you personally to write that down, but I’m struggling to see how this helps a potential reader.

Some questions to consider:

What do think a reader would do next after reading your article?

What value or message would they take away from it?

Who is your audience and what new knowledge should they have after reading this?

If you don’t have adhesive backed sand paper, you can also get a can of spray adhesive. Doesn’t need to be the super strong stuff.

You don’t need a granite stone, we’ll at least you don’t need to invest in a super flat one.

Get large format glass or porcelain tile from a big box, or find a company that installs counter tops and does the cutting for stone counters. Ask if you can have an offcut piece of quartz counter top.

Having a cheap, flat surface is great for lots of tool sharpening, and it definitely does not need to be expensive or an investment.

Any replacements? I’m looking for a traditional launcher that let’s me put apps and widgets on screens, let’s me choose the grid size, and which let’s me set a search bar that is not chrome.

The minamalist ones or the ones with everything in a list aren’t what I need.

Absolutely, there’s no way I’m leaving the 3 buttons by choice. The navy gestures conflict with too many other actions.

I’m on a pixel 9 now and still have problems, it’s inherent to Android. They are less on this phone, but the 3 buttons are longer part of Google vision for how to use our phones. They are going the Apple direction.

I had this problem on a pixel 6 and was advised by Google support to switch to a 3rd party launcher.

Because people have rights, even felons.

Won’t be long until she’s leading the newly created Ministry of Truth.

I should have been more clear, they can no longer implement temporary injunctions. These were used by judges to stop further action while the case was proceeding in their court.

Once the trial has been conducted and the judge makes a decision, they can decide that a nationwide law is not valid and therefore stop it’s application everywhere.

I thought SCOTUS stopped nationwide injunctions. This sounds like a ruling.

Isn’t this a bit like saying that NASA has Mars in its sights, not New Jersey? Sure there are more people in NJ, but arriving in NJ isn’t really an accomplishment. Likewise, being able to beat a piece of hardware that was out of date when it was first announced over a year ago (switch 2) obviously isn’t their goal. Additionally, Valve already has superior hardware and distribution, so they are clearly the competitor to beat.

Is this just going to be Black Flag using the Skull and Bones platform? The snake is eating it’s own tail now.

I generally agree, but to mention Elden Ring amd not Sekiro makes me wonder if the author has actually played these types of games seriously.