“I have to get over this some time, why not now?”

~ Louis Wu, from Ringworld, written by Larry Niven.

“Because I’m not ready” is also a valid answer, but it gets your brain moving towards the goal I find.

Yikes, how Draconian. Id be fucking pissed if someone came in and forcibly open sourced a product I had invested millions in developing.

Explain?

Like the TV show Dead Like Me, although she was obliterated by a de-orbiting toilet from Mir space station breaking up

I was using TechBench to download ISO’s from MS without having to change my useragent.

Sadly it looks like the project has been retired in favour of their Files project, but trawling through that to find entries that actually have download links is a royal pain in the ass.

If anyone has a tip on easily finding the latest download for each Windows version then I’d love to hear it.

Edit: Massgrave seems to be current best option: https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

“wHAt aRe yOu 12”

Be less of a cock. Everyone was 12 once.

I pay for it.

The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.

I don’t expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.

Why?

I just hope it gets the same treatment that Stargate got, with a spin-off series to really explore the interesting ideas raised in an otherwise terrible movie

Moonfall is a masterpiece and I won’t hear a bad word said against it!

You can in fact insure things that it is possible to steal. Cars, bikes, household posessions, you name it. It’s quite common.

You’re totally, technically correct and I apologise :)

Reading this back it seems I’ve had a kneejerk reaction to seeing the word “AI” slapped onto a basic chatbot. I appreciate that yes, by all metrics it’s an AI - yet it draws a parallel between this kind of Hello-World chat-bot and the current state of AI, which I felt is misleading. Like comparing a canoe to a cruise ship, you know?

Streaming usage per person is available via one of the stats plugins, but it is admittedly crude and missing some info (such as bandwidth used).

I’m using the android app without issues, which didn’t require side loading, but my experience with other platforms is zero.

Im not attempting to “gatekeep” anything. I’m pointing out that drawing a parallel between a keyword-based chat it script and a full LLM is disingenuous.

I did click your link. The accepted answer there states:

"The term artificial intelligence denotes behavior of a machine which, if a human behaves in the same way, is considered intelligent.

Again, I don’t think that selecting basic responses based on keywords found in the string meets the criteria for being qualified as an AI, as anyone with experience of a chat bot this simple knows it won’t hold up the illusion of “intelligence” for very long.

I did mean “equate”, you’re correct. The rest of my point remains - a very simple chat-bot like this is leaps and bounds from what would be termed an AI these days. To equate the two is misleading.

Selecting a canned-text response based on simple keywords is a long way from AI, and it’s foolish to equivocate equate the two of them.

Also, chill tf out, and don’t be so aggressively presumptious. I have enough experience with the topics in question to point out how misleading this statement is.

A bunch of IF statements don’t qualify as an AI. That’s not how that works.

Effort!

I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.

This is why I use Linux, the fingerprint device wouldn’t be supported so this wouldn’t be an issue /s

Try Deep Rock Galactic! It is neither a full time job or a money sink. Any purchases are purely cosmetic, seasons are entirely free and there are regular updates.