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It’s totally achievable; he just glossed over the part where most of the world’s population is wiped out by global warming and the only people who survive are Elon and those he deems worthy.

Aliens (even illegal ones) are preferable to an asteroid strike, too.

Too bad they aren’t mutually exclusive.

ISPs route data packets between IP addresses; they don’t get to see the content of what I send/receive (it’s encrypted), and they don’t get domain info without deep packet inspection, because I don’t use their DNS servers.

It’s more like sometimes the city will put up speed cameras and ALPRs — but does that make them responsible for speeders?

You have a point about the DMCA though; I’ve had videos monetized by a third party because of music I wrote and performed myself — turned out, the company was stealing MY music and I got dinged for it.

Is that last 10% all about DRM and anti-cheat?

The writing was on the wall when Serif sold the product to Canva. We already knew Canva used a rent seeking model at the corporate level, so it didn’t really matter what promises they made about what they’d do with Affinity.

This frustrates me so much.

I paid for v1 and v2 of the suite precisely because I’m willing to pay for a tool that works for me, predictably and reliably and with no compromise in goals. Now I’ll have to switch platforms yet again, because they’re going to monetize somehow, and if it’s not by taking my money, it’ll be by taking something else.

Is Inkscape a reasonable replacement for Illustrator yet? Is there an equivalent for InDesign?

I don’t want to get stuck in a Canvas walled garden, and I’m not going to pay rent to use software.

I just checked; mine has a screw in the hole, and looks like it’s designed to come apart.

So I guess they aren’t all the same.

How long did your battery last?

I bought a Sonicare around 15 years ago, and it’s still on its first battery and working fine.

I was planning to do what you did to replace the battery when it finally goes, but I still get about a week’s charge on the current one.

And then there’s fabrication. Where are you going to build your components and assemble the products?

That’s optimistic.

In reality ot would make the people who control the government VERY rich.

Sounds good to me.

I get to keep the same salary and just use AI to make my work easier, right?

Right?

This explains RT’s hard pivot.

When I went to university, some professors were just starting to distribute material in postscript; TeX was brand new technology. PDF had just been accepted as a standard. The world wide web was still mostly local to NCSA, and Gopher was the preferred method of distributing electronic academic material.

Today? There’s no reason not to use PDF or ePub. There’s less and less that should require a trip to the library unless you’re studying pre-turn of the century literature of some sort.

The likes of Elsevier and HarperCollins Education should not exist in 2025. But they do, and so here we are.

Yes; the bigger question is: has Friendlybirdseggs heard of capitalization or abbreviation?

Only if you have hardware that can handle it.

Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.

But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.

It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.

Finally! Meta does something for the good of humanity!

YET?

Who’s Asap?