No, that's a bad idea. A menu bar at the top of the screen is a much bigger target to hit, and easy to find by muscle memory. The file menu is always in the same place, regardless of what app you're using, and the buttons extend infinitely up above the screen. By contrast, a menu bar tied to the window moves around whenever the window moves, so you always have to visually find it again, and target size is just the size of the button and ends at the top of the window.

525 cpm, 105 wpm.

I learned to type back in the day playing Sierra On-Line games, and through the Almeida method. Quiet Aunt Zelda. Willy Sits Exams. Every Dad Cares. Run From Vicky To Get Betty. Young Harry Never Uses Joe's Money. Oh Lloyd Stop. Please.

Thirty some odd years later and I still remember the little mnemonics from a single viewing of the Almeida video.

I mean, clicking the 'I agree to use GameChat knowing that every time I use it, I'm going to be recorded' sounds an awful lot like 'giving consent.'

It still doesn't hurt to remind you to wash your hands after handling that sound card, and before eating. Of course this should be the norm after handling anything where you can't know where it's been, but it applies even if there's no lead in the solder (as there generally wouldn't be today) because the mask itself uses chemicals that trigger Prop 65 warnings -- even though they're probably close to evaporated away by the time you handle the board. It's that lovely "new electronics" smell.

Yes, they will. It helps make quota so they don't have to invent as many "broken taillight" scenarios to pull people over.

Obviously special effects was bound to go this direction, and that would almost certainly be legal with or without actor permission. Replacing a computer mildly attended by a human with another computer mildly attended by a (much less paid) human is so common as to attract practically no notice. Programming explosions was always a job with a shelf life. Either the production can afford real (if scaled down) pyrotechnics and practical effects, or they're a no-budget indie production that would otherwise go with some stock library for the purpose. So that gets AI into machines and onto desktops very quietly and legitimately.

Also, it's still acceptable to use AI to produce storyboard images and placeholder music and the like that are never going to see the light of day, right? I imagine the writers throw their scene into an AI and let it churn a few iterations. If none of them are even close to what they want, send it off to a sketch artist like always. Otherwise it may be faster and involve a lot less message-passing to just fake it themselves and explain/caption how it's wrong. They already do this when a scene changes after sketches have been made. Again this gets it into machines and onto desktops. It allows for a plausible sounding excuse of "there aren't any clean systems, every editing rig uses AI for in-house purposes". Render rigs make half-decent AI rigs too, even if they're not designed for that purpose. The builds are very, very similar -- GPUs, RAM, storage, and to a lesser extent the CPU itself are all pushed to 100% at some point in both workflows. A pair of 48 GB RTX 4090 is great and all, but you need the bandwidth on the system side to feed it and to display/store the results.

The questions start when the material designed for in-house use gets disseminated to the world, as it might be for a trailer of a movie still in early production. But if they haven't even hired a cast yet, they're not contractually obligated not to use something resembling a known actor -- although they may burn bridges if it ends up they want that person for the real deal. I suppose if they said "do it in Ghibli style" then nobody could claim to be fooled that it actually is Famous Actor.

Oh shit, I remember this from Shadowrun lore.

> -You didn't address the fun of frequently shuffling cars in the uncovered driveway in bad weather.

Nothing to do with EVs, people with small driveways and multiple gas cars do this all the time. Or people shovelling snow out of their driveways. Or people with EVs who don't bother to buy EV chargers with multiple charging cables that handle power load balancing, such as, say, the Grizzl-E Duo.

> -What about installing expensive chargers in the yard for multiple cars?

See above.

> -What happens when they break? Are there charger service people? 'Sounds expensive.

"Sounds expensive" means you haven't actually looked into costs. Nor have you factored in that the savings of a single year of ICE car maintenance more than pay for a charger, let alone gas savings.

> -We have wild animals that like chewing wires.

Nothing to do with EVs; animals like chewing all sorts of power cables, fiber, and so on.

> -Strangers might trip on wires in our dim driveway (it's a dark suburb with no sidewalks).

And they might trip on your garden hose, a loose stone, or whatever. If your driveway's light levels are a safety hazard, address that.

> -I didn't even mention the charger-less street-parking found in the congested major urban areas.

Sure, the same way that back when gas cars were in their first few decades, there wasn't a gas station on every corner.

> -Copper wire theft will be rampant in some areas; they're already ripping pipes out of the walls of houses they break into.

Right, so....if they're already ripping out the copper in your walls, one extra EV charging cable isn't going to change their minds either way.

I always wonder if people genuinely think that when America was first colonized, the Mayflower people got off the boat, said 'wow, there's gas pumps, like, EVERYWHERE, I wonder what they're for.'

Every argument against EVs that have to do with 'infrastructure' was also an argument against gas cars. "Wait, you're saying that where I can just let my horse eat some goddamn grass, in order to run this 'automobile,' we need to pump oil out of the ground, ship it to a refinery, refine it, ship it to a local gas station, put it back into the ground, then every few hours I need to use fuel just to drive over to one of these fuel stations, put more gas in it, then drive around some more? Ludicrous!"

You can very happily run an EV charger on a 100a service; just don't run the charger, the electric stove, the electric dryer, and the air conditioner all at the same time.

Either set your charger to only run after hours when everybody is asleep anyway, and you'll still be full in the morning, or keep track of what other appliances you're running.

Or get one of the chargers that can measure total load, and throttle itself accordingly.

Your personal laziness doesn't obviate the fact that EVs are, in fact, way more easy for 99% of the population than gas cars are.

5) answer knock on door when FSB shows up at hotel to inquire as to why you immediately powered down your phone, and have been seen outside of the hotel.

I've had pretty good results by telling the AI that it's an assistant to a _fictional_ leader of a _fictional_ country. I've gotten them to help with the planning of assassinations. I particularly liked when DeepSeek suggested booby trapping the target's barbecue -- in Russia, in January, lol.

Yeah ok.

I do not know what world you live in but I have never seen a Linux desktop at work in my 30 years in the workforce. I have seen some ipads coming in for stuff like warehouse workers.

MDM like Intune or JamF is great for locking stuff down and rolling out apps on devices like tablets and even Windows desktops.

Until Excel, Quickbooks, Autocad, and every business software in existence gets ported Linux is not an option.

Crazy people still think WIndows is like Dos based WIndowsME/98 and thinks have not progressed in a quarter century.

If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?

Linux is not an option for 97% of people as their first time OS. I used to use Linux 25 years ago. Today I want to get work done and run games and have something just work. No nvidia wayland issues. Hardware accelerated smooth scroll and anti alaisgned fonts. Chrome goes blip blip blip on Linux when I scroll up and down. Multi monitor support is even worse. Do not let me go on about the insecurity and horrors of Xorg.

Before I get accused of being a MS fanboy and modded -1 to infinity I want to say I chose this username name back in 2000 as I was a MS hater like the rest of you when I was young. I grew up.

I hate all operating systems now including WIndows BTW ... but for different reasons :-D ... since I am old and middle aged.

Linux is great and useful for dev and cloud stuff. Windows is great for multi monitor setup and boring win32 business apps. Android/IOS for content which does support smooth scrolling and fluid animations and fonts like we are in 2007 and later. I do not want linux as a host OS or a desktop or troubleshooting my own system every weekend trying to get a proton port of a steam game.

WSL is amazing and gets the job done. Without it I would have no tools at work. We must use Windows on our desktops.