No, Effective Altruism is often interpreted by tech CEOs as being more effective to not donate anything short term so they can use that monetly to get a shitton more money that they can theoretically do more good with later.

Except they never explain what the criteria are for starting to donate, so they keep amassing more weath. It’s just used as a flimsy excuse to be greedy bastards.

the trend of only having mouse button integrated into the touchpad.

Then there are governments and companies in the world who suddenly switch lot of machines at the same time.

Yep. Both Germany and France’ governments are actively switching to Linux and open software as a matter of policy

They make their money elsewhere

They make a lot of money on Office365, which doesn’t work on Linux without WINE. With people switching to Linux, they’re going to start switching to LibreOffice and OpenOffice, killing one of MS’s cash cows.

Of course, I don’t expect C-suite execs to be capable of thinking that far ahead

It still can be a pain at times (complex chamfers and fillets dont have particularly rugged calcs), but yeah it’s gotten better over the years

Maybe vaguely in general, but you have to look at each show individually.

I’ve had conversations about One Piece before where the other person didn’t want to watch it solely because it had slavery in it, despite every depiction of slavery in the show being blatantly evil.

That was only a year ago. And collections were added way before the merger.

Honestly, I haven’t seen anything get added since the purchase. The main change I’ve seen is more pushing of vortex and collections when you go to the download page, there’s an extra page/window you have to click through now.

Also, splitting requirements and dependencies in different sections of mods’ description tabs. While they did need more differentiation, putting them in separate expansion buttons was too much and actually makes checking dependencies harder, especially with having pages instead of a long list

For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.

Another factor is if it’s the difference between getting expanded dialogue for a character with the same voice, or with a different VA that can significantly change the personality.

For example, Serana Dialogue Add-On vs Serana Dialogue Expansion. I personally can’t stand the new personality added with SDA.

That being said, I’m significantly less tolerant of dialogue expansion mods that have spotty quality for the voice or writing. If you’re taking a shortcut in one area (aka AI voice acting), you should be more scruitinizing for the other parts of the mod. AnBeeGod is guilty of this at times. He’s about 50/50 on whether it’s great or sub-par

Some of the hate for snaps is because it’s Cannonical trying to use its install base (Ubuntu) to push a particular format on the entire community as a vector for control

No idea. Also, my comment is mostly a joke

And the says a lot of random shit just to flame

So you admit he’s an asshole. Why should anyone waste their time on his videos then?

From the videos I’ve seen, he just does trial and error - no math or understanding involved. That’s not engineering - that’s called design. Didn’t stop him from bashing engineers in one of his videos saying that school was pointless. After that, I stopped watching his videos. Thankfully I only wasted time on 2-3 of them, including the swearing roomba.

Meanwhile I highly doubt he knows (or knew) anything about fatigue, trusses, or kinematics, things you have to have an understanding of in mechanical engineering. Maybe he learned after the fact, but I don’t really care.

As a mechanical engineer: if a software engineer completed school, they’re an engineer, deal with it. We’re not talking about someone that doesn’t know what they’re doing cobbing things together for 1-off demos like Michael Reeves

Yeah, this fits the bill. Thanks!

I’m skeptical. Isn’t the EU Commission the body that’s in the pockets of industry lobbyists?

Aka, pretend it’s Spanish, since it’s a word from pretend Spanish (specifically Esperanto, not Portuguese)

I feel bad for anyone you’ve ever had a relationship with. You act like an abuser.

Edit: Seriously? You downvoted all of my comments? You just keep getting more petty

1: I clearly established a boundary and you insisted on pushing it. Learn to take a fucking hint.

2: You know what’s even better? Not using AI at all.

You don’t have to use built-in AI

I don’t care. It’s bundled in with even the basic plan, which means you’re paying for it, even if you don’t use it. And no, it’s not magically better to use open models.

I don’t get how this concept is so hard to understand.

I don’t even want the fucking AI summaries. I don’t get how that’s so hard to understand.

The fact the AI is in even the basic plan means you’re paying for it, regardless of whether you use it. I don’t want AI, and I especially don’t want to give money to one.