Ludicrous0251

I mean just about every metric I've seen suggests most websites that see an increase in scraping see a decrease in actual human visitors. I doubt there's much distinction between chat and search users - the goal of these services is to drop click-through rates.

No. Just... No.

If Meta had somehow come out ahead in the AI arms race the message would have been "AI tools are too powerful, only megacorps that can afford to jump through regulatory hurdles should be allowed to control it, and we should pause new approvals until we can get congress to agree on something"

These will never have any meaningful effect unless you can convince an entire city of people they don't need to daylight their yards/streets/closed businesses at night "for safety", and until you can convince an entire planet of businesses their billboards and signs can fuck right off.

There's such an unbelievable amount of light pollution on this planet and 99% of the population is indifferent at best, and actively opposed because they think their lights are "pretty/tasteful/necessary" at worst.

Even if you had a community commit to these lights, all it takes is one distracted driver mowing down a pedestrian crossing the street to send neighbors into a tizzy to get a city council to bring back the 660000 lumen flood lights. Who cares that the car had headlights, the community needs something to blame and played the safety card. Game over.

/rant, sorry about that but I hate light pollution so much and feel like this is always a losing battle. It can be done but fuck people.

There are also tons of banks that let you bank through a web browser, banking apps are hardly critical if you have a sane bank

Except you skipped the part where IT is ridiculously underfunded and treated like crap ("We're a utility, not a tech company!")

With constant turnover, the person receiving the "Just make it work" call is about 6 layers removed from the person who originally set up the infrastructure, and probably completely unaware of all the previous security holes put in "because it's air-gapped, it doesn't matter."

You can also dual boot in a pinch, it's not too bad to setup

I'll let you know!

FWIW, touch works fine on Mint, and you can scale the UI up a bit to make it a little more touch friendly

My desktop has been running Linux for a while now, but I finally got tired enough with the repeated flops from Microslop™ that I switched my 6 year old Surface I use for surfing from the couch over to Mint.

Not looking back at this point.

Seems to be working for the American auto industry (for now).

Construction companies run pretty tight margins because it's an industry with a lot of competition. I'm sure they're not hurting, but the niche component suppliers are robbing the economy blind.

Realistically, they dont, but LG's PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc.

All bullshit so they can get more data from you.