The only thing that the report sees for certain in the current situation is a quick division into winners and losers in the AI race. Big players who are able to absorb the costs will emerge as victors.

Victors in what? LLMs cost orders of magnitude more to operate than they generate in revenue and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon as costs keep going up.

Every other app seems like they’re going with Hardcover, I wonder what the differences are.

First of all, install this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean and never have to worry about a paywall ever again.

But also it’s odd because The Verge doesn’t do paywalls to my knowledge and when I tested the link in another browser I didn’t see a paywall either…

Finally, we’ve invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!

“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”

I’ve also used duck.com’s free email masks with great success

Not quite what OP is talking about but useful in most cases

Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

Last I checked “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” did not include electricity!

I know lol I had the same thought, I’m pretty sure it is.

Wow! That’s like, the opposite of how you ensure a grid is robust.

Not incorrect but we’re heading towards a future where the grid might be a backup option. Which benefits us all.

Because it doesn’t cost as much?

Damn, an inspiration to us all.

Wait why would someone do a terrorism when they could pay less than they are paying now?

A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.

Never would have guessed this. Common Valve W.

“RTF(thousand-page-pdf)M”

Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It’s great we have so many good options these days.

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…

That’s a great point, I suspect you’re right. Also the Internet wasn’t something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.

Granted there’s no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now…