I’ve mostly stuck to SteamOS myself, since trying to install Wine manually (on Ubuntu) to run a couple of Windows apps went alarmingly badly. Command after command, and I could still only get it to start as root.

There’s definitely still room for a distro that loads, scans your drive for a Windows partition and Windows apps, and just lets you run them with minimal fuss.

What’s tatties, precious?

Just roll a tatty low end Android phone in gold glitter and burn a grand.

It’ll be classier and probably work better.

A millionaire nonce at that.

Nah, all the SEO nobheads poisoned search well before Google managed it.

The internet has been inventing nonsense based seemingly on your search queries for a long-ass time.

I’ll do it but it’s just me sitting stony-faced before going “load of wank” and turning it off halfway through.

And then I assume they’ll study a large packet of banknotes each and forget all about it.

Hating others and blaming them for the shit state of the world. See the rise of Trump in the US and Reform in the UK. Neither of which actually offer solutions for anything, but as long as somebody is getting treated worse, they’ll lap it up.

Or go on Facebook and see any of your country’s “patriotism” or “bring back the good old days” groups. Every single one a hotspot of people who were taught that fascism was a bad thing, but not what it actually is. Disagree with them and see how long it is before one of them calls you a traitor.

Or just see Starship Troopers, and see people taking it absolutely at face value. You can dress a guy literally as an SS commander and people still won’t pick up on it.

It’s just something basic within us, like a desire for sugary, fatty foods. Some of us fight it. Some of us give in.

Luckily, the future will provide not only AI titles, but the contents of said books as well.

Given the amount of utter drivel people are watching and reading of late, we’re probably already most of the way there.

Nvidia is just selling overpriced premium shovels in a gold rush. They don’t care if there’s gold there or not.

Enron went bust by hiding debts. Making a loss is one thing, but lying about it to shareholders (and getting found out) is a one way trip out of the stock exchange.

Also works with fascism, sadly.

I watched something on Netflix the other day.

It immediately then showed an ad for that same movie I’d just watched, telling me the last day to watch is in a few days.

But I don’t want my money to be lost when stolen. If I wanted that, I’d carry cash.

The merchant will often take a larger amount. For example Square charge 1.75% fees.

The 0.5% is the bit that goes to Mastercard/Visa iirc.

It’s never an enormous amount, and if they don’t have to let Mr Tax Man know then some small businesses won’t.

Can it also redact text from documents without allowing you to just copy and paste it back out again?

Asking for a friend.

Looks similar to the old Radofin TV game unit I used to have. 10 games, and most of them were Pong variants.

Makes sense. The Soviets cloned a few Western machines. They had a clone of the ZX Spectrum too.

They take both in the UK.

Yeah, I vaguely remember it from when it was originally reported on, and all the articles about it seem to be from 10 years ago.

Apparently the tech is still in use, but it’s very niche. They can embed it into e.g. sports TV intended for broadcast in bars, and physically go to the bar with a phone app to check to see if they’re using the expensive public broadcast version, or the cheaper home version and then fine the venue for non compliance.

In the UK, they just broadcast with a pint glass in the corner of the screen instead.

It kind of relies on the belief that phones are always listening, while the truth is much worse IMO. They don’t need to. They’re tracking enough about you already.

Yeah, I know it was touted.

But this one never really seemed to take off. The idea was they’d embed their listening tech into other apps, but as far as I can tell no other apps really wanted it because TV was already dying a death.

Plus if you’re going to record everything, why not voices. And on Android it tells you if an app access the microphone.

This is just one of those things that bigger tech killed.

This sounds like the kind of thing you’d hear from someone who smokes things off tin foil in their car.