Disclaimer: I'm in the VFX industry. MPC (the main studio owned by Technicolour) were famous for under bidding to win projects. They were also famous for being a junior meat grinder, throwing many young up-and-comers at a task to get it done. The only desire for most people who work at MPC is to get just enough experience to get out and get hired somewhere else.
This isn't the first time they have been in trouble, a string of incompetent CEOs have consistently failed worse than the previous one. The reason why they kept under bidding was to stave off the inevitable bankruptcy that everyone else in the industry knew was going to happen.

I have two computers that I use everyday at home, and one if them is still Windows 7, the other is Windows 10. I've had my Win7 box perfectly set up for years with everything I need, including the 3D and graphics programs and all the plugins and registry mods al perfectly tweaked. The hardware is out of date to be upgraded, but as a dual Xeon 32 core, it still packs a heavy punch even still today.

So I see no reason to get rid of it just to line M$ pockets.

It's got nothing to do with the price or even the content. It is the whole concept of VR/AR in general which has been tried many times over the years. No one wants to wear a clunky headset or even glasses just to get a floating countdown over their boiling egg. It seems like a solution looking for a problem.

Not to mention the multitude of people like me who already wear glasses, and don't want to wear glasses on top of glasses.

The fundamental problem of VR/AR headsets is that they are headsets.

I work in VFX, and a sizeable chunk of my contacts all cancelled their Adobe subscriptions this week, and are likely to not go back. I had moved off Adobe about 2 years ago and never looked back. I hate shilling for any company because I feel like I aught to be paid to do it, but talking purely fact based, I went to Affinity because for the price of 2 months of Adobe subscription, I was able to buy perpetual licenses of all three Affinity products.

When I was getting married to my wife, I reasoned that if she wanted a stone on her ring, that she should decide the colour and cut first. In the end, she chose an emerald cut pink sapphire, which as it turns out is way less common than a diamond.

At one point in time during the discussion, she brought up the word 'rare', and I suggested tanzanite (only found in one mine in the world, many orders of magnitude more rare than diamond), but she didn't like the colour.

Obligatory XKCD chart:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1732%2F

The major difference is that Biden self reported the callsified documents and willingly gave them up. Trump denied having them, then sand bagged the Feds every step of the way crying blue murder and obstructing the proper procedures. Trump was given multiple chances to hand them over, but ignored them all.
Also, Biden's documents were at his private home, Trump's documents were in Mar-a-Lago, a private club that can be accessed by other individuals.
Many people like to equate those two situations because they both use the words 'president' and 'classified documents', but in reality, they were handled vastly differently.

Fooocus for 100% local image ML generation, and Oobabooga and Silly Tavern for 100% local ML chat. They can all run on an RTX 3070, a card that is 4 years old.

Hey internet armchair "expert", it's summer in the southern hemisphere you lugnut.

Also, I can't believe we have to keep repeating this statement to all the neckbeards: weather != climate.

Also, one more time for the cheap seats in the back, yes the earth's temperature has gotten warmer and cooler in the long distant past, but over a tremendously longer timeline:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.xkcd.com%2F1732%2F

I do something similar. I have my LG TV connected to my LAN, but I use Pi-hole as my DHCP server, then block all traffic to and from my TV. I am amazed by how much data it wants to send.

Like another commentor, I can't tell if you are trolling or not. In case you are not, pictures are very good at illustrating what is currently happening. Yes global temperatures have swung back and forth before, but not over such a tiny time-scale as now with the vast quantities of CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere at such a fast speed:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1732%2F

So basically you are saying "if I have to suffer, so does everyone else." I hope that we can all strive to improve work conditions for ourselves and others, not drag everyone down to the person experiencing the most suffering.

Many 3D artists practice their skills by creating digital replicas of well known people including actors, then post the results on websites like Artstation. For example, here is one posted just 13 hours ago: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artstation.com%2Fart...

Would these artists be liable and/or prosecuted under this new bill? That would seem excessive...

Or quite simply, open a blank new file of the same resolution, flatten the image of the existing file, marque select all of the pixels, copy the selection, then paste into the new file. Metadata is not is not held in the copy buffer when coping the rgb value of each pixel in a selection.

The workers specifically cited in TFA are the on-set VFX team, they can not be outsourced.