The post. The email in the screenshot.

I call bullshit. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this seems fake to me.

Edit: I initially assumed OP created the fake email deliberately for ragebait. But most other people are assuming OP thinks (or thought) this email was real, meaning it’s a scam email and OP’s friend might be actively falling for the scam. I now agree with this interpretation. Sorry my initial comments were a bit rude.

I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.

People still colloquially call it “BIOS” because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.

Even your title isn’t the true beginning. Before the terminal, there was just a printer. Teletype, was it?

February 32nd, 1765

I still don’t understand why and how this TV show ever existed

Like the other comments, you lost me at “designed” and somehow went even more downhill from there.

This is obvious trolling/ragebait.

Edit: reported to the mod team as this breaks Rule 5.

Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?

Oh, I hate a lot about Android/Google too. One particular pet peeve of mine is that WebAPKs are still exclusive to Chrome (and, on Samsung devices only, Samsung Internet) despite the FAQ promising that “We are working on it. We are committed to making this available to all browsers on Android and we will have more details soon.” (Last updated 2017-05-21)

There is no good option in smartphones, you have to choose the lesser evil. For me that’s Android. I can appreciate that for some people it would be iOS. What drives me up a wall is that people defend these awful practices.

It was just a snarky comment. Apple does a lot of things well. I just find their anticompetitive practices deplorable.

Nothing in Apple’s ecosystem is worth it.

I was going to say that this might actually be a good idea, but then I remembered how often AI summaries get key details completely the wrong way around.

I still think it’s a good idea in concept: modding is hard, or so I hear, and this could be a very valuable tool if it worked as it’s supposed to. I doubt it would.

There are some details that I’d have done differently too, if I was somehow forced to implement something like this. For example, for each point in the summary (e.g. “talks about US politics”) there should be a list of comments/posts by the user to exemplify what they say and how they write. It’s useless if the summary doesn’t show you what it’s based on.

Great question, very interested to hear the answer if anyone knows. Please mention me, future posters!

I expect the answer to be very different for Gaza and for the west bank.

My best guesses (NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE, JUST SPECULATION):

West Bank perhaps can connect to Israeli telecom service providers. I’m guessing that’s what Israeli settlements in the west bank do, so no reason why Palestinian cities wouldn’t do that too.

As for Gaza, again their only telecommunications have to be through Israel. It appears that Israel can literally just stop the internet service (and electricity and water for that matter), and Gaza would be in the dark. The fact that Israel isn’t doing this is a bit of an enigma to me - not because I think they should (I don’t), but because it’s very obvious the the Israeli government thinks it should. Some ministers have literally said as much.

You’re still free to NOT install other browsers.

is there a good video demonstrating it? I use Cinnamon on Linux Mint and want to know what I’m missing out on.

If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.

It’s more nature than what’s there now

I’m guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.

I think the main reason they didn’t make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w (“double u”) when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.

I see, that’s different from how I interpreted it. Thanks for clarifying.

I don’t really see it that way. To me it’s not downplaying anything. AI ‘hallucinations’ are often disastrous, and they can and do cause real harm. The use of the term in no way makes human hallucinations sound any less serious.

As a bit of a tangent, unless you experience hallucinations yourself, neither you nor I know how those people who do feel about the use of this term. If life has taught me anything, it’s that they won’t all have the same opinion or reaction anyway. Some would be opposed to the term being used this way, some would think it’s a perfect fit and should continue. At some point, changing language to accommodate a minority viewpoint just isn’t realistic.

I don’t mean this as a blanket statement though, there are definitely cases where I think a certain term is bad for whatever reason and agree it should change. It’s a case by case thing. The change from master to main as the default branch name in git springs to mind. In that case I actually think the term master is minimally offensive, but literally no meaning is lost if switching to main and that one is definitely not offensive so I support the switch. For ‘hallucination’ it’s just too good of a fit, and is also IMO not offensive. Confabulation isn’t quite as good.

I genuinely considered writing “confabulated” instead of “hallucinated” but decided to stick with the latter because everyone knows what it means by now. It also seems that ‘hallucination’ is the term of art for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

So while I appreciate pedantry and practice it myself, I do stand by my original phrasing in this case.