If youve ever bought a laptop it likely came with a windows license. Custom pcs are exempt, but prebuilts also usually come with windows preinstalled and activated

A human cannot be responsible for AI written code.

Even if you personally vet every single line, you are still simply code reviewing an AI before you pass it to someone else.

A human did not write nor understand it, and thus cannot be responsible for it and thus should never submit it.

Not to mention the code review itself becomes a very tedious process: sifting through hundreds of lines of AI garbage and token expiry. It’s downright rude to expect a volunteer to check hundreds of lines of garbage you didnt even bother writing.

Signed, disgruntled software engineer who refuses to use my jobs “optional” ai feature

My wife and i sewed a pocket into our couch. We used to hold a TV remote there, now we have the laptop’s wireless mouse and charging cable in there.

It seems silly for all of a week, and then its just part of the routine

My magic desk rocks should not be telling ME what to do. I should tell THEM to delete my root partition.

Haven’t quite done that yet, but i did need to reinstall arch about 3 times before i got it right. About 5 years with no 15 minute+ issues thus far.

Guy who is willfully ignorant:

Right, but the core of that idea is that AI is what the water is being used for, thus hating AI. Yes, mayors/governors primarily, but AI is what it’s being used for and the water being stolen is the reason to hate.

Whats hot about it? This is the most obvious thing ever; most people hate AI.

If you dont hate it for personally inconveniencing you/ruining your favorite service/being shoved down your throat, you hate it for stealing your local water supply/increasing electricity costs/being loud as fuck/increasing computer costs/expediting climate change/stealing from artists.

That being said, liking AI is very right wing, and right wing people only understand memes, so memes are the best format to convert them

Nintendo’s tried arguing this for decades

Computer components being privatized is almost as stupid as privatizing grain in the 1500s. Sure, there are alternatives, but… Are there?

Doordash alone has proven that people will buy anything at any price. Someone with severe depression takes it as a mental health tax, someone with a bunch of money takes it as a convenience fee, and doordash laughs all the way to the bank

Recently? The last like 7 generations of “sport-year” games are all the same game.

Yeah let me find 20 million dollars to make that movie

Yeah. I highly suspect its mostly people who need Ubuntu for job purposes and have security policies or just the C-suite refusing to follow the times

People ask this for every boycott or nationwide movement. The real answer is that more people do it if more time is given.

Theres a reason those facebook posts or tiktoks of “We’re boycotting ___ right now indefinitely!” Never really gain traction. Having one day where normies get to join in too and the data gets a sharp spike in activity is how change is noticed and effective.

“5 flock cameras are cut down nationwide weekly” is much less evocative than “On Halloween, 50,000 flock cameras were taken down in 3 hours” or something

Sounds like my job at a small full-house IT company. We did anything IT related the customer wanted. We got paid $1.2k by a rich guy to fix his son’s Roblox account once.

Real answer: this is talking about computers with windows 11 installed that also run Ubuntu through a service called WSL, or Windows Subsystem for Linux; basically you have a windows 11 pc that can do linux stuff too.

A native Ubuntu machine would be installed directly to the hard drive and booted that way.

Also accidental hovering seems to count in my history like 50% of the time

Iirc it was mainly a novelty thing for playing video games. A DOTA2 tournament was one of their big breakthroughs

The business has to become profitable… To continue existing. There is absolutely no guarantee of that.

There is, however, overwhelming evidence that unless a major breakthrough is discovered within the next year, the well will dry up. They simply cannot afford to live off of investor hype and vibes forever.

I had a screen get burn in (forgot to turn it off, oops) removed it from the laptop, waited 3 days, put it back in and it was flawless again.

I had a laptop that refused ethernet and would only ever use wifi… When the ethernet was connected. No wifi unless that cord was connected. Confirmed it was, indeed, wifi by using a dummy connector.

Bought a 10tb hdd that refused to read anything at all, opened it for giggles/curiosity and found a piece of scotch tape stuck to one of the disks and one of 4 disks completely shattered. The disk was still factory sealed (by appearance, anyways; they still had the antitamper stickers)