We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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It is good software. But they are being short sighted. They are making for a smaller and smaller users group. Like production houses for which the monthly extortion is a rounding error. Not me and my type who are using it more casually - I do movies, run some web sites, create forms, and mess with audio, but not as a career.

After Adobe telling me that my academic credentials were expiring (weird because they've not changed) and that I was going to have to pay full price, which is double - I'm having my IT guys look into it. If Adobe insists, they aren't getting double, they're getting none of my money. Yes, they are fine products, but I'll get by. There is no real equal to Photoshop, but I can adapt. Premiere is easily replaceable by Final Cut Pro - even iMovie for at least half of my work. Final Cut Pro is $299, not certain if academic discounts will apply. That's around 4 months of creative Suite cost, but not a subscription, so that's good.

I'm a bit concerned about Dreamweaver - I'm just so used to it. I'll also have to check out which PDF alternative will allow me to create fillable forms.

So if my IT guys can't convince Adobe I'm still who I've always been, I'll free up the space on my computer.

All good methods, Chat groups too. You can set up for known people , or to meet others. Even getting out in the world to meet people in person. Groups.io is great. I have several groups I own, and belong to several special interest groups.

There are friends groups, or group chats. I have email groups I've put together that are free. At my present work, we use a lot of that.

If you want to meet new people to chat with, there are groups. I do suspect the ones without registrations might be honeypots for pervs, so avoiding those is a really good idea.

When I first joined Facebook for business about ten years ago, it had done its first transformation from millennial to older people. Aside from the work, it was fun to reconnect with old school friends and even an old lover or two, made some new friends. I could handle the politics, studied the algorithms that radicalized people - both leftwards and rightwards. Even some early fakies.

Now? It is a bit disturbing how some people have fallen for the AI Bullshit. It's getting downright weird. Today, aside from business, I don't use it for much. I do suspect that at some point - especially as older people exit this world, FB is going to lose most of its customers.

Speaking of solar, it seems like it would make more sense to cover as much of the roof as possible with it. Use reflection where you can't install PV or water heating.

If it's cheap and durable enough, maybe it could be used with solar as a reflector.

Lifestyle changes often follow significant weight loss via medication. The patient feels a lot better, has more energy, and tends to want to enjoy the opportunity.

There is a third scenario. They can't force you to update the warrant canary, but failure to do so would be the same as telling everyone you received a secret warrant.

A better solution is to have someone else periodically ask if you have received any secret warrants. You can simply stop answering. The law can't really expect you to do anything else, since it's not a situation that you created.

Maybe he thinks there will be a market for tourism.

Starship is a long way from landing on the Moon though. Far enough out that it's probably safe to assume that Elon has no clue what he is talking about, and even if he does by the time it's ready his priorities may have shifted.

Almost certainly the latter.

Likewise.

After all, they're awfully smart people to be making such a grand yet 'unimaginative' claim.

That depends on the seed. If the seed is truly random then a 'good' algorithm will output a truly random result.

I remember reading about a company that uses (a real time image of) Lava Lamps as their seeds. Feeding in the exact same parameters is impossible, which would seem like a counter to this class of objection...

I have to say - using LibreOffice is so much less painful than Office365 and its spawn from the depth of hell - Outlook. And trusting Microsoft for anything is like letting Jerry Sandusky babysit your 9 year old son.

At least Libre is cross platform compatible - Many people keep it on a computer even if they have to use Office 365, because it will load formats that 365 shits the bed on. But yeah... Microsoft - the standard in all matters.

I am considering Cudy products at the moment. They are well priced and seem like decent hardware. To some extent there isn't that much difference between many of the products now, they are all essentially a couple of reference designs for a handful of chips.

Might try one of their POE access points.

The is the OpenWRT One as well. The form factor is a bit awkward, with the ethernet ports and antenna jacks on the same side, and it could do with a cover for cosmetic reasons, but it has the big advantage of being reference hardware and thus extremely well supported. Maybe I could 3D print a case for it.

Yeah, that's a deal breaker for me. Web UI, ideally OpenWRT.

Ah, thanks, that's interesting. I will have another look at their stuff again then. I'm looking at access points. Looking for something WiFi 7 with tri-band and POE.