Counteroffer - spend that $30 on a drink and turn them down. Just keep on using windows 10 and clog up their support tickets ^_

Hits buzzer

The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.

I’m richer than I’ve ever been, and I am far less spontaneous than I’ve ever been.

It’s not linear, it’s some weird polynomial equation!

Might be worth spinning up an external 1080ti on the lappy and see if the magic is finally there!

I’m not entirely sold - a lot of the time when troubleshooting games for my Ubuntu lappy I stumble across Nvidia issue threads.

The question isn’t really “ads or subs” these days, it’s “your data or your dollar”, and in this situation there is no good option (since your dollar is the perfect identifier for your data!).

Academia would like a word.

I need to put a vote in here for owlbears and owlcats, if only because of how excited they make my partner when encountered.

Prays that 2025 is the year for solid NVIDIA support for Linux

Don’t forget Nixon’s head!

So if the average price was $50 in 2000, and is about $70 today, assuming a linear rate of price increases, it would be $1663.33 in 4024.

This is a terrible model: it likely underestimates as inflation is geometric rather than arithmetic.

For a geometric model we have r=1.011329 over this period, thus extrapolating we get a price of…

$208,200,000,000

Which is insane, because it is so low for Nintendo!

You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

Spherical geometry - good times…

Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!

Oh I definitely believe they won’t make a wise decision - these past few years have been devastating when it comes to decisions.

Come visit academia some time… Copyright laws ensure we do all the work and get nothing in return;)

I rather think the point is being missed here. Copyright is already causing huge issues, such as the troubles faced by the internet archive, and the fact academics get nothing from their work.

Surely the argument here is that copyright law needs to change, as it acts as a barrier to education and human expression. Not, however, just for AI, but as a whole.

Copyright law needs to move with the times, as all laws do.

Ah, I see we’re burning the Library of Alexandria again… Just as with last time, the survival of texts will rely upon copies.

while(True):

staffNumbers-=1

staffWorkload*=1.1

staffWages*=0.95

executiveWages*=1.2

Control panel largely accrued content - it is generally navigated via left and right click which works great and is stable. Things don’t vanish.

Settings, on the other hand, is left click only navigation mostly. It also changed constantly (usually for the worst) - tutorials written 2 years ago are no longer valid because access to that setting was removed. This makes using settings to fix things a real nightmare.

That’s an impressively designed bit of kit.

Guess I have to go barter with the architecture department to use their 3d printer…