But is there a reason to, other than you want to use a DE that doesn't support Wayland?

Apple typically provides mainstream support for a macOS release for a year, and then security patches for the two years following.

For example, macOS 13 (Ventura) was launched in the fall of 2022. It is receiving security patches until (at least) the fall of 2025.

And what a tragic mistake that was.

The idea is that you can boost a new product by tying it to an established brand. But it can also cause confusion and devalue the brand. You could say, for example, the PlayStation Portable is that done right, and the Xperia Play (aka "PlayStation Phone") is that done wrong.

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.

quietly request the READ_GSERVICES permission. This lets them grab your Google Services Framework ID, a persistent device ID that survives app reinstalls and SIM swaps. Translation: perfect for long-term tracking.

Given how critical that permission is, how are they even able to request it quietly? I would think Android would be screaming at the top of its lungs if that permission were requested.

Any connection between genii and jinn is dubious.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

This pluralization makes no sense as "genie" comes from Arabic, not Latin.

> it's been neither "stable" nor "reliable."

I was going to say the same thing. CenturyLink/Quantum's fiber service has been spotty pretty much since the beginning. Which tracks, since their DSL service wasn't much better.

AT&T may find new and interesting ways to screw things up. But Quantum residential customers have already been getting the short end of the stick for reliability.

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.

Look at Venezuela and North Korea. They were driven to poverty by mad rulers but the people still can't get rid of them.

The hype is so dead that they'd be better off cancelling it now.

I bet they could replace that with a floppy emulator, that'd load disk images from a flash drive instead.