I’m sure they will. It’s Microsoft, so I’d expect nothing less than that.

Don’t get me wrong - this is awful and is just another misstep in a long line of missteps by Microsoft.

But I also can’t help but chuckle at this. It is so clear that “AI” as it has been developed today is hitting a peak of what it can do. These corporations are desperate to shove it in every product they possibly can to drive sales and valuations to make shareholders wet and yet the only things they ever advertise AI being capable of are crap like summaries, background removal, background insertion, grammar/typo checking, list making, web searching, etc. Most of it being crap that I have never once heard of a person being even remotely interested in… and why would they be? Why would someone want to edit their photos to add a different sky, new people, etc to create memories that never happened?

“Load up and play” is a very loaded statement. When I tried it, about a year ago, it was a buggy, glitchy, crash-prone mess that ran like deepfried garbage.

Buying a game post-launch:

• Better prices; often on sale.
• Fixed and patched up.
• Extra content often included.
• DRM often removed.

No brainer, imo.

Sorry, but I have to say it. What the heck does this have to do with technology? This is just US politics again.

This is what got me about the RTX 50 series cards from Nvidia. People with 4090’s getting upset at the prices and lack of supply as if they must purchase one.

It isn’t. Not yet, at least.

Most Americans still have jobs, can afford food, can find food, and have their cars and homes. Some have lost some of the former, it’s true, but not enough to ignite any real change.

Imagine a scenario of Trump enacting martial law and beginning to mass arrest and imprison US citizens in detention camps. Not immigrants, refugees, or tourists - actual US citizens taken from their homes. Imagine the US government gathering troops on the Canadian border. Imagine the government disappearing members of the Democrat party. Imagine the government enacting a China-styled internet blockade.

Those are the things that will likely spark some kind of call for change.

The guaranteed abuse of this technology far FAR outweighs the benefits, imo.

A better solution to combat those disorders would be to prevent their formation in the first place with early detection and improved medical sciences and procedures.

The human brain is one of the last places we have left that isn’t entirely owned and controlled by some corporation or state agency. I do not trust any government to regulate it properly and I do not trust a single corporation to develop it with good intentions. It would be abused instantly as shareholders pitch tents in their pants over selling it to law enforcement and advertisers.

The general populace isn’t going to switch to Linux. They’re just not.

The path of least resistance is to continue using Win10

Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.

This is by design. Decades of eroding education and critical thinking have produced a populace that is highly ignorant and extremely easy to manipulate.

There is a reason why attacking education is the first thing any right-wing government does.

The monster that is Infinite Growth can’t do that.

I’m sure if you follow the paper trail enough it’ll lead back to either Russia or the Heritage Foundation from the US.

It is yet another grifting disinformation factory.

That doesn’t sound like government efficiency.

Coolio. More technofascist-controlled social media. Nothing could possibly go wrong here.

I enabled the setting to hide bots in my user config. They’re annoying wastes of space on Reddit and the few I’ve seen here are the same.

Especially when he has basically admitted that it is stock market manipulation. Everyone knows the tariffs will return or potentially even something stupider.

Do you know how I can tell when I have an incoming call or message? My phone, which is in my pocket, makes a noise and vibrates. Why the absolute hell would I want my vacuum cleaner to notify me of a call?

And the washer too? Do they seriously think people just sit around at home taking calls every 5 minutes that they need every appliance to be able to make/take phonecalls?

There are. It’s just the US is a large car-centric country which makes travel difficult and the ruling party controls almost all of the media and thus there is a media blackout on protests.

She went into prison in 2023 so she will be there for a while yet.

I don’t think her wealth is known exactly but she and her company lost billions during the scandal.