(A) AI output has no copyright. There may be copyright from stolen training data still in place though if the AI produces too verbatim. The latter may beg worse with numerous pending lawsuits.

Indeed. And that gives at the absolute least gross negligence. That would make them liable for all damage done. But I suspect more is possible.

Hahaha, no. Microsoft, Google, etc. though that as well until the first really large fines came rolling in.

Well, we may get lucky as the manipulators may do to things on the cheap. Oligarchs may simply be incompetent as fascists. Will definitely be interesting to watch.

Why do assholes like you stipulate an emotional stance?

Systemd is simply bad software, so it has no place on my systems.

Actually I learned how to solve the halting problem in practice (in Operating Systems 101, no less): Just pull the plug.

Yes, very much so. Unfortunately, a rather large part of the human race is very easy to manipulate and does not get this at all.

And, incidentally, the EU already has pretty reasonable regulation. Copy that.

That's the sort of curious thing about this announcement: at least in theory(I assume things are uglier in practice) the X1 parts that they shipped for windows-on-ARM/Copilot PCs already use UEFI/ACPI in line with what MS wants for booting Windows.

That obviously doesn't mean that there's a working GPU driver; or that naive power management doesn't cause the system to run at 90% of maximum power and hammer the battery flat; but the theory was that the last gen was already doing the "big kid ARM that has embraced PC standards" thing; very similar to the 'standards base' that ARM encourages ARM server part vendors to use.

I'm always a little curious what the thinking/strategy is with the Chinese outfits. I don't necessarily expect much from the OrangePi guys; they ship a surprising number of different SoCs, including multiple architectures and multiple vendors, for their size, so are likely to be mostly at the mercy of the SoC vendors; but is the situation for someone like Allwinner such that people who want linux to work on their stuff could be a resource for them and they are just not taking advantage of that very well; or are they actively annoyed by GPL-related claims and really just want to shove minimum-viable android out the door as cheaply as possible to win cheap tablet tenders and really do not want to hear from SBC hobbyists.

SOP at Qualcomm. It has been literal years of hammering on them by Google and basically every Android handset OEM to even keep parts that ship with android support in support for more than a few years(I think the current timeline, at least for 'snapdragon 8 elite' flagship parts, is a princely 8 years from release; and that is with the 'project treble' stuff that attempts to reduce the number of changes that might potentially need to be supported). Especially with the, um, raging success, of Copilot+ AI PCs they are probably ready to pretend that X1 never happened and call it good. I'm not even sure how long the windows support on X1 is expected to last.

Seriously.

The intent is what would make it a criminal act, obviously.

What? You statement makes no sense.

Yes, exactly.