Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren’t found on Flathub. That’s a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person.

Today’s non-tech savvy persons usually want Chrome, VLC, and Steam. Yes, there are exceptions but I set up Linux PCs for a few people with unsupported Windows versions recently and they are just fine with that because all they do is to access web services from Chrome, playing back the occasional downloaded media file, and some games.

the seemingly endless random named things

When you dig down for a bit, you’ll even find out that Bazzite is merely the gaming flavor of “Universal Blue” and the generic desktop (without gaming stuff installed) is called Aurora.

I am always trying to steer new users away from Cinnamon, which means away from Mint.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu and its derivates in general (short version of the reason: Ubuntu continues to enshittify, its derivatives fight an increasingly harder battle to apply plasters to fix Ubuntu) and the reality since a few years is that an increasing number of people become familiar with SteamOS, its immutability and Flatpak use, so the old battle ground of .deb vs .rpm, where system config files are stored, etc. has just outlived itself. “A Ubuntu variant is the best because that’s what online tutorials are about” is no longer relevant for the vast majority of people.

As long as AMD and Intel continue their open source drivers, I’m fine with it.

And maybe you want to count in playstation and Xbox.

Xbox runs Windows.

To be fair, Windows has had standby issues forever

I have the same issues with my Intel MacBook. Maybe “background tasks can wake-up the system if needed” is not really needed on notebooks and actually a dumb concept for non-phone devices.

Modern Standby is the thing that causes your notebook to heat up when closing the lid and putting it into your backpack.

It only really works on my Surface, on my work’s ThinkPad it merely mostly works, on my private Asus gaming notebook it’s entirely broken.

Old standby on my Steam Deck is what works most reliable in my household.

If you only suspect then you never heard the entire quote and only know the memes.

This item is currently unavailable in your region.

Doesn’t look like I’m missing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwpb8S_ovs Everything about this looks terrible and no fun at all.

Nature is healing.

Nah, they’re lying. They’ll just cover their tracks better in the future.

Do you expect copyright laws to mention every single type of transformative work acceptable? You are being purposely ignorant.

I asked nicely to provide a quote that machine generation is also covered that you couldn’t provide and now feels the need to lash out.

And yes, I absolutely expect that machine generation is explicitly mentioned for the simple fact that right now machine generated anything is not copyrightable at all. A computer isn’t smart, a computer isn’t creative. Its output doesn’t pass the threshold of originality, as such there is no creative transformation happening, as there is with reinterpretations of songs.

What is copyrightable are the works that served as training set, therefore there absolutely has to be an explicit mention somewhere that machine generated works do not simply pass the original copyright into the generated work, just like how a human writes source code and the compiled executable is still the human author’s work.

Edit: Downvotes instead of arguments. Pathetic.

Not a single line in your comment offers anything that machine generation, which is not at all human creative work, falls under fair use.

Please quote me the line where this covers machine generation as well? I’d love to sell Google translated Harry Potter books for being transformative work. Maybe I can transform the lastest movie releases to MKV and sell those.

So it’s safe to assume all code generation was trained on GPL code from GitHub and therefore the game code is derived work of GPL code and therefore under GPL itself? So decompilation and cracking is fine?

Use your AI generation all you want but don’t enter a painting contest using machine generated content trained on other people’s work without their consent.

6 Nintendo GameCube and a PS 2

OCR and making this an accessible text post would have been easier.

What’s a phone bo?

More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?

Generative works cannot be copyrighted

While that is generally true, a derivative work of a copyrighted work is usually copyrighted by the original author (see remixes of music where the remixer only partially owns a copyright for the remix but the original artist does as well). That is what makes generative AI so risky. A court could order “This is a automated modification of work XY, thereby the full copyright lies with the author of work XY.”

Then use a free OFL-licensed font. Or cooperate to commission your own fonts to share among this consortium.

Really a non-issue if you’re not stupid.