Yikes, how Draconian. Id be fucking pissed if someone came in and forcibly open sourced a product I had invested millions in developing.

That would be amazingly impractical. May as well say “what if all website were forced to be .txt files”.

Most website template frameworks (Bootstrap/Foundation) etc rely on Javascript for basic UI features. Imagine having to wait for the server to toggle a simple CSS class on your page any time the user wants to view a menu, togle a button, or view a popup/modal/lightbox/whatever.

Apparently, you don’t.

All these authors and no one has mentioned the Known Space series by Larry Niven!

Personally I would start with Protector, then Crashlander, then head into Ringworld and the rest.

It’s a little dated in places and he’s not great at writing women, but it’s got some good heavy sci-fi ideas in. The Ringworld megastructure is a fun thing to contemplate.

I was using TechBench to download ISO’s from MS without having to change my useragent.

Sadly it looks like the project has been retired in favour of their Files project, but trawling through that to find entries that actually have download links is a royal pain in the ass.

If anyone has a tip on easily finding the latest download for each Windows version then I’d love to hear it.

Edit: Massgrave seems to be current best option: https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

Unpopular opinion but Wheatley from Portal 2 can go breathe vacuum.

Not a fan of Steven Merchant and felt his voice acting was of placeholder-quality. Made the game considerably less enjoyable to play through with him desperately trying to be funny.

I should look for a mod, because even Gilbert Gottfried would be less irritating.

“wHAt aRe yOu 12”

Be less of a cock. Everyone was 12 once.

I pay for it.

The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.

I don’t expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.

Possible, not practical.

I use substance painter and I need it to work. I don’t want to spend hours messing around trying to make it work and jumping through hoops.

Wine for DCC is great if you enjoy tinkering with pipelines rather than using them, but impractical for people who are trying to reliably get work done.

I still install klite out of habit.

You can in fact insure things that it is possible to steal. Cars, bikes, household posessions, you name it. It’s quite common.

You’re totally, technically correct and I apologise :)

Reading this back it seems I’ve had a kneejerk reaction to seeing the word “AI” slapped onto a basic chatbot. I appreciate that yes, by all metrics it’s an AI - yet it draws a parallel between this kind of Hello-World chat-bot and the current state of AI, which I felt is misleading. Like comparing a canoe to a cruise ship, you know?

Streaming usage per person is available via one of the stats plugins, but it is admittedly crude and missing some info (such as bandwidth used).

I’m using the android app without issues, which didn’t require side loading, but my experience with other platforms is zero.

Im not attempting to “gatekeep” anything. I’m pointing out that drawing a parallel between a keyword-based chat it script and a full LLM is disingenuous.

I did click your link. The accepted answer there states:

"The term artificial intelligence denotes behavior of a machine which, if a human behaves in the same way, is considered intelligent.

Again, I don’t think that selecting basic responses based on keywords found in the string meets the criteria for being qualified as an AI, as anyone with experience of a chat bot this simple knows it won’t hold up the illusion of “intelligence” for very long.

I did mean “equate”, you’re correct. The rest of my point remains - a very simple chat-bot like this is leaps and bounds from what would be termed an AI these days. To equate the two is misleading.

Selecting a canned-text response based on simple keywords is a long way from AI, and it’s foolish to equivocate equate the two of them.

Also, chill tf out, and don’t be so aggressively presumptious. I have enough experience with the topics in question to point out how misleading this statement is.

A bunch of IF statements don’t qualify as an AI. That’s not how that works.

Effort!

I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.

This is why I use Linux, the fingerprint device wouldn’t be supported so this wouldn’t be an issue /s

Try Deep Rock Galactic! It is neither a full time job or a money sink. Any purchases are purely cosmetic, seasons are entirely free and there are regular updates.