It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.
Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.
And Putin with Ukraine. And Xi with Hong Kong.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
I skipped a game or two of League of Legends last night because I didn’t want to reboot into Windows. Played some Rocket League instead.
You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!
Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.
Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.
I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…
The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).
It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.
It could also be that they didn’t trust the regulars and installed trusted, inexperienced idiots to get it done.
Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.
You can not push the button that says AI.
You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.
That’s opt-in enough.
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
I wouldn’t go that far. I expect it was more allowed to happen and got out of hand, ended up worse than they expected.
But I don’t think they planned or participated in the attack.
Wrong country
It kind of amazes me they don’t have better infrastructure. It’s not like they’re shy about forced labor.
Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.
It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.
It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…
They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.
It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
the US continuing to … instigate conflicts between Russia and Ukraine.
You’re kidding, right? Your bias is showing. Right here.
Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.