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The company I work for pays horrors for the full MS suite. That alone should be enough to force some thinking.

But I digress.

I’m not a desk jokey but I have to fill a sheet daily and occasionally a few other documents. I only use LibreOffice.

When I first received the models, they were filled with errors and bad formatting. And printing the sheet always put out shrunk versions of the document, hard to read. I got printed copies along with the digital files, “in case I couldn’t open the files”.

My spreadsheet jailbroke the document, allowing me to rectify the errors and the prints come out using the entire sheet, with better end results than the official version.

Someone, very well paid, is wasting a lot of money.

You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.

The usual lot says Excel is better. Haven’t found a difference yet.

In practical terms, there is nothing stopping you nor anyone else. To be cold and scynical, someone will clean up the mess afterwards.

But in what form do we want to see such right come into full fruition?

And I am not against the right to dispose of our life as we see fit; I’ve been too close to human misery in sickness and age to be that calous.

A single ticket sold is already one ticket too much.

That is a very poor equivalence.

Powertools and machinery still require knowledge on how to do the work properly, account for future maintenance, test for leaks, etc.

Which is not what everyone is trying to do with “AI”. The “tool” is supposed to replace all necessity of trained and knowleadgeable workers and at some point the workers themselves.

Brave should not be recommended under any light. Telemetry, their own advertising, crypto, data mining, etc. I used it for some time and I do not recommend it.

So, essentially, the screws are being turned, only slower.

How come? The way you’re explaining it, it seems the situation is being exagerated.

You’re referring to the 24h waiting window.

But what is being stressed is that no unregistered developer will be able to supply software for Android. The people behind NewPipe are adamant on not complying, hence, the program ceasing to function on registered devices.

A slight high-jack to your post: NewPipe will stop working with the Google lockdown in September.

I personally think it will be a plus for me, as I keep YT open too much time but for those who rely on it for entertainment, info and whatnot, what alternatives will remain?

A Pavlovian response is an automated reaction triggered by a given event, that regardless of context, the individual can not withhold.

The classical example is about dogs being fed after the ringing of a bell. This created the association that food always followed the bell ringing. At some point, only the bell ringing made the dogs salivate, in expectation of the food.

In the real world, how can this influence people?

Imagine you get exposed to something - sight, sound, feeling - and that stimulus is followed by a reaction, be it voluntary, involuntary or even coerced. Give it enough repetitions or a very strong impression and a very hard to overcome association is made, that can stay for a life time.

Give them the AI! All of it! And then we just wait.

Whatever small communities still existing that rely heavily on hunting for sustenance and survival practice this concept.

If an animal must be killed, then all parts will be used in some fashion.

I used Aurora for a while and noticed several applications were unavailble, returned download error or if installed would invoke a google account login to run.

Age restriction still applies and NewPipe can no longer circumvent it. Restricted videos get flagged as such and will not play.

That does not sound bad.

I really want to see if the requirements for new games will go down or continue rising.

The machines are better at repeating a task with no down time but even then quality will degrade. That is why quality verification exists.

Hand made cars - or anything, by extension - are so expensive because of the human attention going into it. A specialized worker, technician, engineer, etc, makes sure their job is the best because they are specialists at what they do.

Taxes are the price of civilization.

Being cynical, if you do not want to take part of a modern society, remove yourself from it and live completely on your own. You will achieve complete authonomy and have full power over your resources. But you, individually, will be fully responsible for yourself and your needs.

There was a couple of failed experiments of fully libertarian towns and all failed miserably. I’ll update this reply if I can find some articles on it.

Now, for your concern with the infamous ballroom: there should be a proper addressing of the situation, with publicly accessible and auditable proposals for the alteration, renewal or expansion of a public building and people should be able to voice their concerns about such matters. Which is not the case at hand.

The waste and innapropriate use of public funds emerges from a system - and it exists everywhere! - that allows polititians to act unconcerned of immediate consequences of their actions. If people in public offices had the threat of ousting for failling to comply with their functions, in a hasty fashion, little abuse would happen. Instead, we get “representative” democracy with its election cycles.

The system itself is wrong, not taxation. Taxation accrues funds to develop services that hold a civilization functional that otherwise would be completely off limits for an individual to access.