True. But by the same token, if you attain a similarly high level of knowledge about Windows, you can do much of the same stuff. Including debloating it.

I mainly say this because I would love nothing more than swapping my relatives machines to Linux, but when something breaks it can be BAD and they are missing that basic background thst 3+ decades on Windows has earned them.

A vee emm you say?

Can I get that on the app store?

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You gotta set the bar far, far lower. Hell being able to set up a VM easoly in a Windows home license machine is still something relatively recent, without using specialized software.

If Linux only appeals to tinkers then it will see about as much market share as 80s cars as well, and peak at single digits.

If you are someone technically inclined, I totally agree with you. But I think the newer distros in the past few years that are basically good to go after install, and feature application stores linked to reputable repos, etc, are the way forward. This takes a lot of the confusion and, frankly, fear out of attempting to use Linux for your average user.

There’s a reason welding is not a common skill.

If you’re trying to proliferate welding, maybe this is a bad approach?

I read about this, and it’s the ads. Full wall animated ads.

I also instantly predicted this obvious outcome. And hope it happens go any place that installs them. Fuck billboards invading every inch of our lives.

That is not how the animation industry works, at all. Most creative art positions require demo reels and portfolios. But sure would be nice if animators were that valued a recruiter would hunt usenet for their old pirate samples.

Also worth nothing, especially in animation, your cuts in an episode are often going to be various 10 second shots spread between multiple episodes across a season. That’s why demo reels make sense.

So you’re saying the example above does only one attempt at a time? And does not reinforce the correct performance via scoring? Is that not exactly what was said?

And yet, if you are being instructed to reproduce the Mona Lisa in explicit detail, billions of times as a computer is, 1 layer of abstraction in a digital training is not at all the same as your example with human artists.

Oh, and Bot 1 isn’t instructing Bot 2, it is instructing Bots 2-1,000,000, all at the same time. And each round it kills 999,998 of them, and births another 999,998 of them based on the best of them and goes again.

This is not like you example. It is more like brute forcing a password.

Tell me you don’t know how AI works, while sounding arrogant.

“literally has no memory” is a fun semantic argument against the actual reality that these models have been caught attempting to reproduce the signatures of artists they trained on, and in some cases reproducing the likeness of copyrighted photos from key phrases. Like the “Afghan Girl” fiasco that say them ban the phrase immediately.

This was with Midjourney https://youtu.be/kqPKNksl9hk?si=i9rFLHyg8ImRuTjb

Your argument is basically that if I type in “Mona Lisa” into a generative engine and get a copy of the Mona Lisa with slightly wavier hair, and some trees in the background are different, that it is not derivative. Which is a laugh.

They had to ban the phrase “Afghan Girl” from GPT models because they were reproducing a 1990s National Geographic cover, every time.

These could be good tools, but right now they are being trained to steal 9ther artists styles based on keywords, not to enhance the user’s work in their own style.

More accurately: Should we ban someone from launching a new TV show called Smashing Bad that stars Wally Witten, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to crime to make fentanyl and…

Yes I think we should. That is derivative work. The AI projects are not a tool, they are automated derivation made on models based on stolen art.

These tools need to be trained on data sets that were not stolen, first off. And the results need to be a tool, like generative fill in photoshop, that is based on the rest of the image. Not a replacement for the image itself.

Spoken like someone who doesn’t rely on that skill to eat. Well done.

Try again. Not that kind of clicker.

Oh, and no they do not need the latest version, at all.

The vault is interoperable between major versions, so this is just untrue.

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Save it in a cloud synced folder, or one synced with Syncthing.

And yes, not forgetting your master password is and will always be critical. Do… You want it to have back doors?

I mean, out the gate Firefox will import a huge chunk of that. Like, literally everything you listed.

You should install it and try.

That said, I will echo others that getting setup with something like KeePass is worthwhile. You set it up, add a browser extension to connect to it l, and now the passwords are REALLY secure and not limited to your browser and much more complex functions are available to you if you want to nerd out.

I’m a lifelong windows power user, and above average even in my industry for knowledge on technical expertise.

Nothing I know translates to Linux. Not the file structures, the commands, the permissions, the file systems.

You truly have to commit to learning an entirely parallel form of computing environment to become comfortable in Linux. And being frank, it is the most customizable and unique user experience out there, but it is also infinitely less user friendly. And for every time a 2 line terminal command fixes a problem and saves time compared with windows, there are dozens of instances where time is wasted for hours learning that command, its exact syntax and usage, and if it is the one you need for your circumstance.

Another user here recently said that it was when they were going through and compiling their own drivers to make their Webcam work and having to follow guides to make system specific tweaks that they just quit and went back to Windows for ease of use.

Linux is the OS of power users. Not even power users like me, but extreme power users who either have the time or training to learn that parallel system. All of which is easy if this is your job, but in many ways you are learning a second language of sorts.